Computer Talk Radio Broadcast 02-28-2026

Computer Talk Radio

Benjamin Rockwell

Tech News, Leisure, News, Hobbies, Technology

4.7 • 11 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week's full broadcast of Computer Talk Radio includes - 00:00 - Nerd news for the normal world - Microsoft, printers, Netflix, Warner Bros, Block, DJI, coding - 11:00 - Women's History Month in tech - Dr Doreen Galli looks at a long history of women in technology - 22:00 - Apple forecast for next 10 years - Keith looks at what Apple might be aiming at for next 10 years - 31:00 - Marty Winston's Wisdom - Marty updates on frozen drip lines from tankless water heater - 39:00 - Scam Series - Courtesy Call Con - Benjamin tells about how the bad guys are learning to be polite - 44:00 - Keske on communication changes - Steve shares how we have changed communication methods - 56:00 - Listener Q&A - mechanical - Howard asks why people like expensive mechanical keyboards - 1:07:00 - Listener Q&A - changing freqs - Brian asks why frequencies on devices keep changing - 1:16:00 - IT Professional Series - 368 - Benjamin tells that your work even at home needs digital doors - 1:24:00 - Business computers are different - Marty shares how business level computers are different

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0:00.0	Yeah, he's our favorite nerd.
0:18.3	Keeping your technology running smoothly, here's Benjamin Rockwell
0:22.5	with Computer Talk Radio. Let's take a look at all the things for this week's Computer
0:27.7	Talk Radio. Marty Winston's going to be talking about a problem, frozen drip lines from his
0:36.1	tankless water heater, and actually it's more of an update.
0:39.5	Dr. Doreen Galley, she's going to join me and talk about how we can kick off women's history
0:45.0	month with a look at women in tech. Steve Keske, he'll give thoughts on how we've changed our
0:51.5	communications via tech over the years. On the scam series,
0:57.5	I'll cover the courtesy call con, which is lowering your guard by being polite. Yeah. On the IT
1:06.2	pro series, your workday, especially working from home, needs a digital door.
1:12.9	Marty's also going to talk to us about how business computers are different and things to
1:16.8	think about there.
1:17.6	And I've got listener questions from Howard, who asks, why do people prefer mechanical keyboards?
1:24.0	And Brian, why do some devices on my home network randomly switch between 2.4
1:30.2	gigahertz and 5 gigahertz? All of that on this week's computer talk radio.
1:35.7	Of course, you can check out to the website at computer talk radio.com. You can grab the
1:42.4	podcast there or you can contact me.
1:46.3	Just scroll down to where it says contact us today, and I will get back to you with answers
1:51.2	to your computer questions and your technology concerns. You can also phone me anytime at
1:57.4	888 Nerd 888. That's 88863738888. And if I don't answer, that's okay. Leave a message.
2:10.6	Now let's dive into the news from the last week and we go back actually two weeks for a brief moment because Microsoft had implied previously
2:21.5	to last week's computer talk radio that the Windows roadmap was to end support for older
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