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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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12:56

The Cybersmith Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/03/24

The Cybersmith Episode: The Shining Moment of the Cybersmith, Paperback Booksmith, Mall Chains, Harvard Square, The Last Mile, Rabbit Warrens, Cybersmith's Luxury, The Fade, The Memory of a Promise. Here's everything I could find easily mentioning Cybersmith: An article about visiting Cybersmith in 1995: http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/jason.html CS Monitor on Same: https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0217/17032.html NY Times:

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20:26

The Apple Cassette Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/03/23

The Apple Cassette Episode: My Silly Reputation, A Witness To A Wonder, Two Cassettes and 3 Hours of Scrutiny, Ciderpress, A Car With No Gas, Apple Cassette Protection Schemes, 16k, Custom Cards, Vertical Monitor. The author of Ciderpress gave a great overview of Apple Cassette schemes here: https://fadden.com/apple2/cassette-protect.html Ciderpress' home page is at https://a2ciderpress.com/ I mention these awesome sites: http://www.hackzapple.com/INDEX0.HTM https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/

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13:55

The Hazy View Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/03/15

The Hazy View Episode: A Single Moment and a Single Feeling, Realism and Unrealism, Graphics Efforts, The Forgotten Moment, The Melancholy Wish, An Older Person With an Older Memory, Childhood's Haze. A simple fetch quest turns into a forgotten childhood memory. The single-best overview of the amount of technical effort and calculation behind every frame of Grand Theft Auto V is probably http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/ - while others are out there, the use of

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22:53

The Dad Question Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/02/27

The Dad Question Episode: A Simple Question, Why Did The Internet Archive Even Happen, What Even Is All This, The Infinite Growth, What Data Really Is, The Handfuls Taken From The Ocean, Towards the Future. A simple question from my Dad forces me to explain how we got into this mess and how we're going to have to keep in it, even in the face of impossibility. The URL https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg is not the most perfect page and not set up for easy understanding of what it's talking about, but it

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19:13

The Other Arcade Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/02/18

The Other Arcade Episode: The Dream Machine, Bad Real Estate, What Happened to Arcades, The Places I'd Seek, Lake George, Childhood Gone, Quassy Park, My Short-Lived Vending Machine Idea, Organized Crime, Barcadians, No Documentary, Except a Documentary, Dream Machine. Another episode covering arcades, but I wanted to approach this important-to-me subject through an alternate thread. I wanted people to know that http://arcadedocumentary.com now points to a project called ARCADIA, which I'm

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17:07

Forever.

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/02/07

Forever.

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16:49

The Ingestion and Loss Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/02/02

The Ingestion and Loss Episode: Winter Floppy Boxes, Kansasfest 2019 Flux Party, The Levels of Floppies, Screen Shotgun has Menu Awareness, Why Even, The Death of the Artist, Randy Suess, Laughing Squid's Photo Policy. A few thoughts on imaging floppies, and never knowing who will take care of your stuff after you. I couldn't begin to list everyone who helped with the Kansasfest flux efforts, and we had multiple people who spent hours, days even, making it go down. It's still my favorite place to

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21:48

On The Occasion of Chest Pains

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/01/22

On the Occasion of Chest Pains: Stent Number Three, Poor Notes in the Symphany, Arguing For Myself, Feelings, Operation, The Talking Car, In and Out, Different the Third Time Around, A Message About Support. A short side-path into getting a procedure done and what it's like when it's not a new thing anymore. Been resting and doing nicely, don't worry, and things look very good. (And not as expensive as previous procedures were.) The patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/textfiles

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18:21

The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/01/17

The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode: My Pal Kyle, Halo Doubles, A Halo Outpost, Chicago, The Idea of a Halo Convention, Mortal Kombat Side Quest, How It Was Done in Chicago, An Empty Hall, Corners and Booths and Stages, Vendors and Library, VIP Access, AR Halo, Caddyshack and the Murray Family, Goth Caddyshack, Halo Fun, Final Thoughts, You Ruined Doubles 343. This year I attended a Halo-themed convention being held at various times around the country, and now you know how it was like. I call it Halo

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20:42

The RTTY Art Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/01/11

The RTTY Art Episode: A Word About Loss. Meeting John Sheetz. RTTYs. RTTY Artwork. The Magic of RTTY Art. Sunday Nights. Interviewing John Sheetz. Gone Before the End. Typewriter Art. A Living Room of Artwork. Overstrike and Multi-Column. Epson MX-80. A Fading Work. After John is Gone. Timeless RTTY. A Printer As Easel. I may have mentioned John Sheetz in an episode before, but I certainly didn't go into all the elements of the RTTY artwork and world he was a part of. It was nice to finally get all

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17:04

The CPC Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/12/26

The CPC Episode: Amstrad CPC Joins the Fray, A Platform Unknown to Me, The Problems CPC Had, Getting it Going, Auto-Boot, An Ugly Thing, Graphics and Sound, Isometric, Multiple Markets, Thousands of Programs, A Helpful Discord, A New Platform, Nearly the Last. Upon the event of the Amstrad CPC joining the emulation family at the Internet Archive and what that might mean. To journey among the newly added titles at the Archive, just browse from this URL:

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13:29

The Server Cage Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/12/21

The Server Cage Episode: An ISP Ends, But Hosting Never Stops, Don't Forget the Fiber, The Other Half, I Know How The Caged Server Beeps, The Arrangement, Dual 486, Stickers, Too Much Bandwidth, The Worst Way to Page Me, Goodbye, What We Have Lost. I'm happy to say that there are photos of the arrangement described in this episode. They're browsable here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157653792998936

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18:32

The Rubi-Con Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/11/29

The Rubi-Con Episode: Smokey the Police Dog, Rubi-Con, Detroit Not Detroit, Off-Kilter, Duct Tape, Drunkeness, The Adult in the Room, Fire, The Raid, Another Year and Another Name, $100 Towels, What Is Destruction For, Hacker Cons, The Real Jewel. I captured the Rubi-Con site from way back then: http://cow.net/rubicon/decaffeinated/navigation.html To listen to audio from Rubi-Con 5: http://audio.textfiles.com/cons/rubicon/rubicon5/

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19:26

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It - Episode 81

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/11/22

The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books, A Lesson On Japanese Internment, Company Culture, Six Weeks or Six Years, Unlike Anything Else, An Elephant Costume and a Hospital Visit. The 2019 October Event's livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4BpuVrOhI (Things start happening around the ten minute mark)Wendy Hanamura's collected library of Japanese Incarceration is here:

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17:17

The Raytracing Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/11/13

The Raytracing Episode: A Confession, What Raytracing Is, DKBTrace, The Overnight Render, DKB and POVRay, The Pac-Man, Anything for a UNIX Prompt, Gandalf, Supermarket Gang, Pixar's Tools, A Missed Boat With No Regrets. DKBTrace/POVRay has a website here: http://www.povray.org/ The original creator of the POVRay Pac-Man Render: http://vs.iki.fi/raytrace/ Here's the Pixar Presto demonstration I'm talking about (I was in the back of the room): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFSVx7NhmM The

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18:40

The NAID Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/10/26

The NAID Episode: Jim Says It's Happening, North American International Demo Party, A Very Ill-Advised Travel, Border, Exchange Rate, The Actual NAID, Classrooms, Jacket for Blanket, Cow Suit, Walking the Halls, Font Throwing, The Competitions, A New Idea about Conferences, A Wild Success, Synchrony, Thanks. A mirror of NAIDorabilia: http://cd.textfiles.com/naidorabilia/ Memories of NAID: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2012/06/06/memories-of-naid/ Who Killed the American Demoscene? (Stupid

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20:36

The Electric Stories Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/10/10

The Electric Stories Episode: A VAX in Need of a Home, The Lady of the VAX, A Very Heavy 3/280, MFM Drives, 20 Amps, Electrical Cyberpunk Nightmares, Don't Do It Again, Mainframes, Pavl, The Underside of Conferences, 220 Drop, A May December Romance. Three stories of me and electricity. This presentation by Joe Grand includes pictures (in the PDF) of the vax: http://www.grandideastudio.com/perspectives-from-the-l0pht/ Images of a Sun 3/280: http://www.obsolyte.com/sunPICS/3_280/ I can't find any

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19:06

The Music Tracker Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/09/29

The Music Tracker Episode: Carousel, Cards and Belts, Piano Rolls, Notches and Points, My Magical Amiga, Music Disks, Tiny Sizes, Spreadsheets and Waveforms, Making My Own, Tracker Battles, CDROM.COM, Making My Fastrackers, Sketch the Cow, Saving the MODs, The Time I Got Flattened. In this episode, I talk about music tracking, which has such a deep part of my life for years on end. The beautiful sub-300k song I mention is called Klisje paa Klisje (English: Cliche' after Cliche') by Walkman

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22:10

Mr. Hernandez

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/09/22

Mr. Hernandez: Kit Computers, Plastic Cases, Malls, Computer Stores. Brewster's dim days, Mr. Hernandez' Store, Plastic Bags, The Rules of Talking, Preppie! Avalon Hill, Scott Adams Adventures. The Bright Line. Flaking Out, Fading Away. Preppie! is playable at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Preppie_1982_Adventure_International_US Preppie's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preppie!_(video_game) The original book that started the preppie craze was "The Official

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14:41

All Debt, All the Time

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2019/09/21

All Debt, All The Time: The Current Debt Status, The Black Shadow, I Blame Myself, The First Credit Card, A $1100/$2000 Flight, No Shame in an Accountant, Your Two Important Homework Assignments. 75 episodes in! Time to talk about that whole debt issue the podcast was created for, and my current thoughts on debt in general.

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