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ComputerTalk with Dave Mason
The official archive of all available ComputerTalk with Dave Mason radio shows. Spend some time with Dave. Listen to a full show or explore clips by topic.
3,475 unique clips. Each clip appears in one section. Historical conversations, not current advice. Full episodes remain available separately by date.
562 clips, strongest first.
Ambrosio explains how replacing a lamp and color wheel with red, green and blue laser light could improve consistency and reproduce far more colors than conventional displays. The two-part passage documents the promise surrounding laser television in 2006 without treating the forecast as an outcome.
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Dr. Dave interviews Palm executive Paige Murray on the tenth anniversary of the first Palm Pilot. They discuss the collapse of earlier PDA efforts, Palm’s belief that personal computing would become mobile, the discipline of defining a product by what is removed, cooperation with Microsoft and a future in which messaging, corporate data and entertainment converge on increasingly capable smartphones.
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Dr. Dave reacts to Amazon’s announcement that paid Kindle titles had begun outselling hardcover and paperback books, then connects the shift to falling device prices and the company’s long investment in infrastructure.
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Dr. Dave captures an early stage of the solid-state transition, balancing SSD speed and durability promises against price, write-cycle limits and the practical value conventional drives still offered most buyers in 2011.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve give an extended early tour of Windows Vista Beta 1, carefully separating unfinished plumbing from features expected in the final system. Their strongest interest is virtual folders, which use saved searches and multiple categories to present the same documents in different useful arrangements without creating duplicate files.
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Dr. Dave rejects launch-week “Google killer” hype and describes Wolfram Alpha as a geekier information-processing tool whose importance remains to be seen. The continuation after the break helps distinguish it from an ordinary search engine.
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Palm senior product manager Matt Crowley joins Dr. Dave and Evil Steve on release day to discuss Palm's history, webOS, multitasking, launch inventory, applications and Touchstone charging. Dr. Dave openly states his long affinity for Palm while still asking about shortages and the company's future.
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Ethernet's fortieth anniversary takes the brothers from early office networks to inexpensive home connections. Dr. Dave recalls installing the technology as they explore its origins at Xerox PARC and the story behind its name.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve trace Microsoft's hardware history from the Z80 SoftCard for the Apple II through the first PC mouse, Natural Keyboard, Xbox, Zune, Courier, Kin, Kinect and both generations of Surface. The discussion mixes Dr. Dave's historical knowledge, memories of hardware he owned and his skepticism about products that generate excitement before they exist.
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Days after Google introduced its Chrome OS pilot notebook, Dr. Dave praises the discipline of radical simplicity but argues that the prototype removes so much familiar capability that he cannot yet see the feature that makes its future compelling.
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442 proposed broadcast dates, plus 2 undated entries. Dates are based on archive filenames and may be approximate. Some broadcasts survive as separate parts or incomplete recordings.
