{"podcast":{"title":"Advent of Computing","slug":"advent-of-computing-497186","podcast_index_feed_id":497186,"rss_url":"https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://adventofcomputing.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/e/2/5/4e25bc8089f88907/logo5.png","author":"Sean S Haas","episode_count":199,"summary":"Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 166 - Beyond the PDP-11","slug":"episode-166-beyond-the-pdp-11","published_at":"2025-10-05T23:24:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186/episode-166-beyond-the-pdp-11","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186","url":"https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-166-beyond-the-pdp-11","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/adventofcomputing/ep166_beyond_the_pdp_11.mp3?dest-id=1206722","summary":"My trilogy on the PDP-11 concludes with a look at the far flung places this computer can take us. In this episode we look at some issues with claims of the PDP-11's linage, smuggling, Hungarian-made microcode, and much more. Along the way we answer the question: if the PDP-11 was such a good design then where was it during the home computing boom of the 80s?","meta_description":"My trilogy on the PDP-11 concludes with a look at the far flung places this computer can take us. In this episode we look at some issues with claims of th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3610,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/advent-of-computing-497186/episodes/episode-166-beyond-the-pdp-11/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186/episode-166-beyond-the-pdp-11.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}