Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast
Hosted by Randy Kindig · Randy Kindig
4.8from 41 ratings
- 171
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 41
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
About Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast
- Publisher
- Randy Kindig
- Category
- history · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Feb 2013
- Latest episode
- 28 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 171 episodes have a transcript.
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Floppy Days 167 - Interview with Peter Jennings, Microchess and VisiCorp
29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Floppy Days 166 - Interview with David Pogue, Tech Journalist and Author
31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Floppy Days 165 - The Sphere, Part 2, with Ben Zotto
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Floppy Days 167 - Interview with Peter Jennings, Microchess and VisiCorp
Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So you wrote the program on a Kim-1, which had 1K of RAM, right? Yes. So that's pretty impressive. How in the heck did you fit the logic for a chess program in 1K of RAM? I doubt if I could do it today. A lot of very careful work and a lot of hand coding of assembler, a lot of tricks to minimize the use of memory, minimizing the space used to store the board and the positions, a lot of recursive algorithms and tricks like entering subroutines at multiple places and exiting from one spot so you can get one subroutine that did multiple things and save on bytes here and bytes there. I mean, you're literally down to saving every single byte to get it into that kind of space. […]
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- Peter Jennings
- David Pogue
- Ben Zotto
- Charles Pfister
- Steve Wozniak
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 39 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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