136: The Hubble-ub

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Technology, Tech, Android, Ios, Google, Society & Culture, Electric Car, Smart Phone, Apple, Microsoft, Videogame, Space, Phone, Techpod, Tesla, Science, Video Game, Smartphone, Tech Pod, Games, Amazon

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Part two of our 1993 retrospective is here, with our consideration of the following: Power Computing's Macintosh clones, Apple's first Newton, the proving of Fermat's last theorem, happenings in SPAAAAACE including the Hubble mirror kerfuffle, the loss of Mars Observer, and the discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, computing miscellany from Lua to UTF-8 to the SGI Onyx to the creation of the .rar, the sheer spectacle that was Biosphere 2, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Brad, I've been playing with my play date a lot.
0:02.3	I'm sorry, you've been playing with your what?
0:04.3	I've been playing with my play date a lot.
0:06.4	Oh, your play date.
0:07.2	Okay.
0:08.5	What did you think I said?
0:10.6	What's up with your play date?
0:13.6	Well, I haven't been playing the games as much as.
0:17.1	Okay.
0:17.6	That sounds like a handheld portable device. I mean, look, you know, I haven't, I haven't been, I expected to be cranking it more,
0:23.8	although I have enjoyed the, the time travel adventure and, um, and the, uh, the bird watching game.
0:30.6	I'm only on week three.
0:31.8	So, so I don't have that many games, which is, there's a lovely feeling on like Sunday night, Monday morning when I come out and I see
0:39.4	the play date there and the little purple light flashing. It's like, yo, you got new games.
0:43.1	That is, that purple LED is, first of all, I think that's the first time I've ever seen an LED,
0:47.3	that particular shade of purple. It's something there's, there's something so pleasant about it.
0:51.2	There's, it's like, it looks like candy. Yeah, it's like, it's like all of the brightness of a blue
0:56.1	LED without any of the my eyes wanting to bleed.
0:59.6	It's, it's like a lavender, I guess I would say.
1:02.1	It's like, it's like comforting in a weird way.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.1	So yeah, you're having, you're having the experience I did not, which is the actual like week by
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nice Segue, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nice Segue, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.