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Floppy Days 100 - Ed Smith, Developer of APF MP1000 and IM-1
Floppy Days 100 - Ed Smith, Developer of APF MP1000 and IM-1
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61 minutes
Released:
Jun 30, 2020
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Ed Smith, developer of the Imagination Machine Ed Smith is an African American was born in 1954 in Brownsville Brooklyn, NY. Ed studied electrical engineering at Westinghouse High School, then computer science and marketing at Pace University. Ed is one of only two African Americans to develop a video game system in the 1970s and the first African American to work in the design of a personal computer – The Imagination Machine. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Floppy Days that covered the MP1000 and IM-1 back in 2014 (episode 22) - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-22-the-apf-imagination-machine New Acquisitions/What I’ve Been Up To book - Commodore the Final Years by Brian Bagnall - https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Final-Years-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0994031033/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=flodaypod-20&linkId=2145a99d3cb6c0a9d26dc08ee0b9394f&language=en_US MagPi Magazine - https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ Pi4 8GB - https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ Fusion Magazine - Amiga special - https://fusiongamemag.com/collections/magazine/products/fusion-amiga Current Notes magazines - collection at Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/@allan52 Next Without For Podcast - http://www.nextwithoutfor.org/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20Next%20Without%20For&text=Next%20Without%20For%20is%20a,or%20(b)... Upcoming Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20 to register August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ - going virtual Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/ - No word on the Website yet Interview Ed’s Website - https://www.imaginethat2.com/ article on Ed Smith, Black Enterprise, Dec. 1982 - http://books.google.com/books?id=N6pacvfrf0wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.fastcompany.com/3063298/ed-smith-and-the-imagination-machine-the-untold-story-of-a-black-vid by Benj Edwards, Fast Company, 9/2/16 “Imagine That!” by Ed Smith and Benj Edwards - https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-That-Americans-personal-computers-ebook/dp/B0846535TR
Released:
Jun 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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