Episode 33 •Memory Lane is Full of Old Computers
Scott balances out a bad beer with a good beer. Peter cuts his own hair. Peter sets up Auto-GPT and Chat-GPT in a cage match, the guys talk about text editors and IDEs, and then both Peter and Scott drone on for almost an hour about the old days of computing.
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The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- GPT showdown – Auto-GPT vs. Chat-GPT
- Text editors
- Visual Studio Code
- Notepad++
- TextMate
- Panic Nova
- Formative computing experiences
- CHM – Computer History Museum
- Peter
- Timex Sinclair
- Tandy Color Computer
- Tandy 1000sx
- Leading Edge Products computer
- Zeos
- OS/2
- Scott
The Links
- Cascade Lakes Pineapple IPA
- Cascade Lakes Salted Caramel Porter
- Schöfferhofer Pomegranate
- CHM – Computer History Museum
- Leading Edge Products
- Zeos
- OS/2
- Macintosh 128k
- Today in Apple history: Macintosh 512K, aka ‘Fat Mac,’ brings 4x memory
- Mac Plus
- Packard Bell Pentium 60 PC
- Netcom Netcruiser
- NETCOM NetCruiser (Version 2.0) : Netcom On-Line Communication Services : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Windows 95
- Windows 95 Turns 25: When Windows Went Mainstream
- Mac mini
- OS X 10.4 Tiger
- MacBook Pro
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast


