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Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn"t know where we"re ending up at the end.

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All Episodes

14:46

The TEAC Drive Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/31

The TEAC Drive Episode: A Little Drive Kerfuffle, The New Difficult Life of Floppy Drives, Sustaining the Flux, Circuit Boards, Jumpers and Software Configurations. Plus: A Dream of a Future Superfluxer. Some thoughts on the TEAC drives that make up the vast majority of the dozen-plus floppy drives I use for imaging disks with my Applesauce DOS work. (TEAC stands for "Toyko Electro-Acoustic Company", I recently found out.) Applesauce FDC covering DOS disks has been a major new chapter for me -

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15:54

The Streaming Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/27

The Streaming Episode: A Try at Streaming, Winamp, Shoutcast, College Radio, Bifurcated Timing, The Manager Phone, Top Of The Hour, Justin, Twitch, The Running Mind, Streaming Forever. I'm streaming a lot of days at this point, at twitch.tv/textfiles and twitch.tv/sketchthecow. Services are so transient and changes come so quickly, I don't expect these to last forever, but for now, they're neat.

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14:23

The Paul Andrew Mitchell Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/24

The Paul Andrew Mitchell Episode : A Relatively Infamous Presentation, Lifetimes Ago, A Quick Recap, What's Happened Since, What P.A.M. Represents, Podcast Fuel, A Bit Player, The Most Important Lesson. A little revisiting of that awesome time I was sued for two billion dollars. The presentation, if you've missed it, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY

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15:38

The DOS Applesauce Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/20

The DOS Applesauce Episode: A Package Arrives, The Difficulty of DOS, The Rolls Royce of Drives, The Variations, The Extra Steps Applesauce Takes, Reading Directories, The Cog in the Machine, The Software Future. Some words appreciating the release of the newest Applesauce utility disk reader, now capable of reading DOS disks, which make up the vast majority of my backlog. Applesauce FDC: https://www.applesaucefdc.com

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19:24

The Death Threats Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/17

The Death Threats Episode: A Favorite Co-Worker, Stairs and a Truck, The Ease of Communication, Wikipedia Real Names, A Threat Through a Window, BBS and MUD and Internet, The Vintage of Threats for Internet Archive, Homeless With a Phone, 13 Years of Mail, A Price Worth Paying. Plus: A Matter of a Bill Death threats I've gotten over the years, plus some thoughts regarding my opinion of them and how it's shifted over time.

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11:28

The Music Tour Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/13

The Music Tour Episode: Visiting the Music House, Waiting Outside, Tour by Tom, The Saloon and the General Store, The Magic of Tour Guides, The Missing Archive Tour Guide, A Moment With Tom. The Music House, in Traverse City, MI: https://musichouse.org/

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12:59

The Wires and Sleeping Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/10

The Wires and Sleeping Episode: Decades Among a Bed of Wires, The Connection To My Work, The Secret Sleeping Place At Work, A Low Hum, An Experiment to Split the Wires. I have taken on a separate office to do my archive and history work, and it is paying dividends, but I look back on a lifetime of living like a cross between a hacker and a raccoon.

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11:43

The Stolen Account Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/06

The Stolen Account Episode: A Need to Get Online, TERMINUS, Harvard Square, Harvard, A Machine Room, A Useful Utility, A Ghost Among the Terminals, My Musician Buddy, What Did We Learn. A sordid tale of internet access acquisition representing times in need of more of a hustle. Terminus is long dead, but someone kept the name for a text adventure: https://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html

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17:59

The Carousel of Nightmares Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/12/03

The Carousel of Nightmares Episode: Rocks and Mineral Apertif, The House on the Rock, My 30 Year Wait, Roadside Obscurity Lost, The House, The Rooms, The Collections of Collections of Collections, Was I Always In The House, A Bonus Dream The House on the Rock: https://www.thehouseontherock.com/

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10:12

The Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/10/20

The Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Episode. A strongest recommendation for a cure of one of my biggest problems.

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14:35

The ZX-81 Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/10/13

The ZX-81 Episode: A New Old Machine is Reborn, A Giggling Child, A Beige Beauty, Rampack Wobble and Cassette Loads, The Process of Booting, C64 Cassettes, The Keystrokes, Scroll Lock and F2, Everything Works, Thanks Aschmitz and Trumad, Screenshots and Zen, The Cup of Tea, Well Worth The Search. We added ZX-81 emulation to the archive, something that probably made no sense to do years ago, but why not. If you want to visit the collection as it stands:

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15:04

The Liminal Spaces Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/10/06

The Liminal Spaces Episode: A Late-Stage Discovery, Transitions, Hallways, Contrasts, Checkerboards, Trees in Light, Gateways, Emulation as Transition, Pantone, Your Own Late-Stage Discovery. Plus: A Dead End. A musing on the concept of liminal spaces, the strings that have guided my dances in the theater of life.

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15:18

The PCs I Have Known Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/09/29

The PCs I Have Known Episode: Emotion vs. PCs, Our First IBM 5150, Dining Room, Word Processing, Dawn Surprise, Two Room Perfection, Out of the House, Focus PC, Hand-Delivered BIOS, More Plastic, LAN Party, DEFCON PC, A Faithful Set of Horses. Some thoughts on PCs that have been a part of my life. I definitely use them until they barely function, and I sense the changes in my life reflected in them.

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12:08

The Directions Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/09/22

The Directions Episode: Possibilities, A Monster, Where It Goes Wrong, The Choices Made and the Hardest Choice of All, Why Patreon Works, Why Youtube Wouldn't, A Likely Mentor. I've made this offer in various ways before, but I am always up for being a voice in a project for anyone working on something that you think would benefit from my assistance. Silent or quiet awesome folks helped me with all my projects, and the least I can do is help others in the same way.

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13:09

The Individual Incorporated Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/09/15

The Individual Incorporated Episode: A Simple Temp Job, A Strange Office, Off-White Shirt, Packed to the Gills, Postage Paid Envelopes, The Business, Two Full Shifts, Personalized News, Rubber Gloves. One of my shorter temp jobs gives me insight into a world before it becomes commonplace (and before machines do all the work), along with learning a general hatred of bored people with envelopes.

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19:18

The Multi-Culti-Level Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/09/08

The Multi-Culti-Level Episode: Two Boxes of Tapes, Concentrated Evil, Organized Groups and Our Nature, A Concert and a Phone Call, Innoculation, Cynical Forever, What I Look Out For, A Hard-Won Allegance, The Tapes, The Fundamental Pitch, What We Gain, What the World Will Be. That time that two large boxes of multi-level marketing tapes showed up in my possession and what that all means to me. My pal (in the story) is doing fine and is a home renovator.

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14:18

The Limited Time and Structure Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/09/04

The Limited Time and Structure Episode: Aching Muscles, Third Time's the Charm, Statins, Liver, Changes, Unlimited Resources to Limited, Choices, Discordant and Structured Living, No More Documentaries, Counting Pennies, Every Moment. A meditation on how structure affects my life differently than it used to.

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13:19

The Art of Noise Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/09/01

The Art of Noise Episode: A Video On A Television, Punk Girl and Destroyed Instruments, Record Store and Tabs, Cassette, Who's Afraid, Later Albums, Favorite Band, An Unexpected Tour, Paul Morley Artistic Expansiveness, The Band. Some thoughts on my favorite band, Art of Noise. The music video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU

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10:16

The Waterfall of Plastic Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/08/29

The Waterfall of Plastic Episode: A Most Impressive Uploading, The Various Focused Uploaders, ShivaShaw, Walnut Creek and Wayzata, Niche, Rental Prices, Gigabytes, Half of all CDs, The Obscure Ones, Tireless Effort, A Small Portal. An episode shouting out Shiva Shaw, an unprecedented uploader of CD-ROMs. A listing of the CD-ROMs is at https://archive.org/details/@shivashaw

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12:20

The Deep Appreciation Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/08/27

The Deep Appreciation Episode: The Flow Of Items, The Modern Day Miracle, The Fun We Have, The Momentary Life of SItes, Inevitable Doom, Thanks and Correspondence, Drama and Decay, The Good in That, BBS Title Screen, A Day But Also Forever. An episode about appreciating the day and the things we have instead of the things we don't.

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