How about a Computer Science Lesson for a future phpBB Weekl

[Highway of Life]

One of my coworkers is a brilliant Network Engineer. -- He worked on some of the very first computers that were ever built and used at TSU (Texas State University) as well as several other large universities in the US and Europe.
He has some awesome stories to tell about how computers were made back then, how they operated and how technology has progressed since then.
Many times, Handyman, some of the other office works and myself find ourselves mesmerized by his stories of the old archaic machines that were in operation before we were even born. It?s quite fascinating.
I had an idea of bringing him on for a future phpBB Weekly Podcast to change it up a bit and fascinate [especially] our young computer users and older computer users as well, since your average computer user didn't come into contact with these machines until the Atari came out, yet he was at the cutting edge of this technology and helped develop it to what computers are now today.

What do you guys think?

[Techie-Micheal]

Oooh, yez! I habs some questions. *sly grin*

[Highway of Life]

Okay, Jim agreed to do the podcast, I'll have to get Douglas' consent and work out a time with him. It won?t be this Saturday though, and probably not the next, since I?m moving back to Nashville, I?ll do the show while driving again or I?ll have to skip next week.

What questions did you have for him? I could work out a topic list.

[Forty-Two]

Blah.

[Techie-Micheal]

o_O

At any rate, here's a couple. I'll post some more later.

What can you tell us about ENIAC and its beginnings?
Do you think Clifford Stoll's story has changed how people react to security incidents? Should it have?

[jdh]

Sounds great to me!

I think it'd be cool to hear a bit about the operating systems way back then ... That and user interface and how its changed over the years. I know that isn't really ... well... Nevermind. Let others ask questions that actually know what they are talking about!