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Love of the worlds created by video game designers and personalities drives Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum (history, law, CS degrees) to provide a scholarly yet light-hearted discussion of how arcade, home console, and PC games merged into a Video Game Industry. Emphasis is on the combination of business and creative elements needed for financial success. Interviews of Atari, EA, Activision, & other execs with detailed source evaluations produce the insights you hear in these 140+ hours!
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Thursday Aug 01, 2019
Thursday Aug 01, 2019
TCW Podcast Episode 095 - Hello Little Blue
A sorted history involving scams, monopolies, and acts of petty revenge predate the company the world would see dominate the computer industry in the 70's and 80's. What started as an umbrella company became, under Tom Watson St's leadership, a tabulating company that grew to prominence in the great depression. Later on his son Tom Watson Jr would lead the company forward in the transition from punch card tabulation machines into computers that IBM would become famous for!
Herman Hollerith Punch Card Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUK2_vXqQk
Conductor Punching Tickets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxu97ZM5XM
IBM Once Upon a Punch Card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUWg2nxCz0
History of Looms and Punch Cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-4lMoXgI
Harvard Mark I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ObouwCHk8w
Harvard Mark I Original Video and Pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN7AdQmd8So
IBM 650 Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nq-rxYHXk
Demo of the IBM 1401: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQueCt114Gk
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds
Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Alex's book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1
Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode - Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode
Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love
Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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