176: Phone Blasters in DOS Land

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🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Tech news is getting a little too surreal for us lately, so we're taking a brief trip back to a simpler time. This week we go through the very first issue of Boot (later Maximum PC) from 1996, which has everything from Jean-Louis Gassée on the launch of the BeBox to Bill Gates on the x86 PC's murder of SGI, the very first cable modem service, a motorized (?) Panasonic laptop, some shocking secrets about the first Dream Machine and the letters section, the Will Smith byline that almost was, and a bunch 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

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0:00.0	Do you remember where you got your computer information in the 90s?
0:05.5	Probably from the Sugar Shack.
0:09.6	I definitely got like, I definitely like by the late 90s for sure, maybe even mid.
0:14.5	I remember I used to get PC magazine.
0:17.2	Like that came to the house.
0:18.8	Yes.
0:19.3	Okay.
0:19.6	Sorry.
0:20.0	I'm, I'm jumping the gun a little bit here.
0:22.4	Sugar Shack.
0:23.1	That stuff would have been,
0:24.2	let me,
0:24.4	Quaid didn't even come out to 96.
0:25.6	I think it was the Quake Holyo also.
0:27.9	Yes.
0:28.2	I started on the Quake Holio,
0:29.6	but I figured most people would know it by its later moniker.
0:33.5	But yeah,
0:34.0	you're right.
0:34.4	Yeah, it was probably more magazines in 96. We got our first internet connection in 96, but it was a lot of computer shopper and probably PC magazine or PC World. Okay, so I'm enough of a nerd that I saw a computer shopper when I was at like the barn, the, the, the, the, the, the, the B. Dalton, I guess was our bookstore in town. And I was like, I flipped through and I was
0:55.5	like, this is all ads. I don't want this. So I just put it back on the shelf and never bought one.
0:59.6	But I got, I signed up. I'm going to go and tell you a secret. If you told PC magazine that you
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