From Dave’s Garage. Dave takes you through the computers behind the scenes in the movie WarGames! Comments with question marks get answered on our weekly ShopTalk!: https://youtu.be/iT0T52OV9B8

From Dave’s Garage. What are the origins of the 6502 assembly code that you see onscreen through the Terminator’s vision? Dave traces its origins and explains its purpose. Comments with question marks get answered on our weekly ShopTalk!: https://youtu.be/iT0T52OV9B8

From Dave’s Garage. Dave uses a PDP-11 to train a real Neural Network complete with Transformers and Attention so you can see them at their most basic. Don’t forget: if you have a good question about this episode, please use a question mark! And then watch for your question to be answered on Friday’s Shop…

From Dave’s Garage. Dave explains the techniques and principles that made the original Windows Task Manager so small and lean, and what modern programmers can learn from it.

From Dave’s Garage. Dave explains why your new computer feels slower today than your old one did back then, and what can be done about it! Get the shirt! https://amzn.to/4dtdiS9

From Dave’s Garage. From the history of early ABS systems to the latest complex vehicle stability controls, Dave takes you on a journey from 1970 to the present, covering how and why ABS brakes work.

From Dave’s Garage. Tech News for Smart People – The whole week in seven minutes! That’s like a minute per day… but can you absorb it all that fast? Find out! Check out full episodes on the ShopTalk Channel! https://youtu.be/5Cu3FutvlJg

From Dave’s Garage. When rumors of a 12,000 mile survivor Lincoln Mark III surfaced on the Internet, Dave jumped into action to find the car.

From Dave’s Garage. When rumors of a 12,000 mile survivor Lincoln Mark III surfaced on the Internet, Dave jumped into action to find the car.

From Dave’s Garage. After teaching an AI to dominate Tempest, I pointed it at Robotron: 2084… and things got gloriously out of control. Robotron isn’t just another classic arcade game. It’s one of the most chaotic, punishing, brilliantly engineered games of the golden age—an all-direction, twin-stick panic attack running on a Motorola 6809, custom Williams…

From Dave’s Garage. I spent a year building an AI to master the hardest version of Tempest ever made… and yesterday it beat my official world record. What started as a stubborn engineering experiment turned into a full-blown machine learning breakthrough, complete with 15 million frames of gameplay, a custom MAME socket bridge, prioritized replay,…

From Dave’s Garage. Dave installs 1TB of RAM in our 45Drives Storinator and uses it to explain how virtualization works, and what the difference between hypervisors, virtual machines, and docker containers are using real world examples. 45Drives Servers: https://www.45drives.com/products/hardware-storage-and-virtualization-servers/

From Dave’s Garage. Dave details the HP1345A display used to make the famous scens in the movie War Games.

From Dave’s Garage. Dave reviews and explains the GL.iNet Comet Pro Remote KVM which allows you to remotely connect to any PC or device that has HDMI and USB. Comet Pro: https://link.gl-inet.com/rm10-davesgarage-260123 This episode is sponsored in part by GL.iNet, but as always, episode sponsors do not get editorial input, control, or advance showing.

From Dave’s Garage. Curious how to run ethernet more than 100 yards? Find out!

From Dave’s Garage. An Edge Supercomputer… So I did what I always do: I tried to make one actually earn its keep. On the bench today is Dell’s GB10 — a compact Grace-Blackwell system that claims petaflop-class AI performance without a datacenter, a cloud bill, or a breaker panel upgrade. Specs are easy. Real usefulness…

From Dave’s Garage. Dave adds virtual networking to the Ubibone project, enabling a 1980s PDP-11/44 to connect to the Internet for the first time in 40 years!

From Dave’s Garage. Dave explains how the Cloud exposes us to aggregated, correlated risks rather than the types of failures we have become accustomed to in the PC age. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Rapid Fix: https://amzn.to/48WkG4x For the Slate 7 Router: https://amzn.to/4pJfZ4Q For the Slate AX 1800: https://amzn.to/49hKPt2 Check out…

From Dave’s Garage. Dave chronicles the destruction and restoration of a rare PDP-11/44 system. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Rapid Fix: https://amzn.to/48WkG4x Affiliate Links!! Save on the Slate 7: https://amzn.to/4pJfZ4Q For the Slate AX 1800: https://amzn.to/49hKPt2 Check out ShopTalk, our weekly podcast, every Friday! https://www.youtube.com/@davepl

From Dave’s Garage. Dave uses OpenAI Codex to create a complete implementation of Microsoft’s CBM BASIC v2 for the Commodore 64. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM The code: https://github.com/davepl/pdpsrc/tree/main/bsd/basic Black Friday Affiliate Links!! Save on the Slate 7: https://amzn.to/4pJfZ4Q For the Slate AX 1800: https://amzn.to/49hKPt2 Check out ShopTalk, our weekly podcast,…

From Dave’s Garage. The amazing story behind the hunt for the only known 1969 Pontiac 2+2 convertible to leave the factory with a Corvette-spec 427 and a four-speed—born in Canada, hiding Chevy bones under Pontiac skin, and scattered across an Alberta farm in coffee cans. We follow the trail from my Dad’s bubble-top Parisienne to…

From Dave’s Garage. Dave uses GPT Codex Max 5.1 in Extra High mode to generate a perfect clone of Notepad that brings back everything you missed about it. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Code: https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/retropad Black Friday Affiliate Links!! Save on the Slate 7: https://amzn.to/4pJfZ4Q For the Slate AX 1800: https://amzn.to/49hKPt2…

From Dave’s Garage. Stuck on awful hotel Wi-Fi? Watching ads just to check your email? In this episode, I show you how a pocket travel router can completely change the way you connect on the road – including how I accidentally became the official Wi-Fi provider for an entire car show out of the trunk…