Back in the producers chair. . .
I've been offline as a podcaster for about a month now. Events in my business and personal life along with the effort involved in being part of the group that produced the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference kept me quite busy.
October 2nd was the 1 year anniversary of Podcasting from Softwareland and I'm now ready and eager to get back into "nearly daily" production.
Blast from the past . . .
As I was relating my software industry history to a new manager earlier this week he suggested that there were probably many interesting nuggets I could mine for the Manic Minute so I'm going to try to make "Blast From The Past" a regular "nearly weekly" feature.
This week's Blast From The Past is about CP/M. I bought and built, from a kit, the 7th IMSAI 8080 computer from the second production run in early 1976. In late 1976 I got access to an prototype of the Western Digital 1771 floppy disk controller chip and built a S-100 controller board and bought two 8-inch floppy drives. In early 1977, Just as I was ready to write an operating system, I saw a small advertisement in Electronic Engineering Times offering "The CP/M Operating System, only $70, mail to PO Box 579, Pacific Grove, California". I sent off my $70 and about a week later received two floppy diskettes, serial number 72, and 3 xeroxed manuals with instructions on how to write a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) to adapt CP/M for my hardware configuration. I wrote the BIOS and was up-and-going in about a day.
That was the first of about 50 BIOS implementations I did during 1977 through 1983.
Podcast of the day. . .
ASP.Net Podcast
I've been, among many other things, an ASP.Net developer for the past 4 years and while it used to be possible for one person to know almost everything about ASP.Net it's getting harder and harder as more and more features are added. This podcast features interviews that keep you up-to-date on all the latest developments.
http://aspnet.libsyn.com/
And that's your Manic Minute for October 19th, 2005!
12:09:47 PM 
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