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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff Works dot com. Hello, everybody,

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Speaker 1: welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Polette. I'm

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Speaker 1: an editor here and how Stuff Works dot Com. And

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Speaker 1: sitting next to me, as usual, is senior writer Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and you know, didn't we have a podcast

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Speaker 1: like the one we were going to do? Now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we we did, but um and it actually went live.

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Speaker 1: But this is a different one. Oh okay, Well, whatever

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Speaker 1: happened to that? It went live? It went live. It

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Speaker 1: is live because it was it was what the heck

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Speaker 1: happened to the future? Well, yeah, which is similar to

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Speaker 1: this one, yes, which, and today we decided this one

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Speaker 1: would be whatever happened to dot dot dot? So who

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Speaker 1: wants to start? I think you need to start. You've

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Speaker 1: got a very impressive one that you want to go.

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Speaker 1: It's the love of your life, I would say, technological life.

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Speaker 1: And well with with the last podcast, we were wondering

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Speaker 1: least the thing that he's talking about that I'm so

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Speaker 1: to start with is my very first computer, the Commodore Amiga.

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Speaker 1: And those of you who have been in tech stuff

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Speaker 1: was the brainchild of somebody named J. Minor Um. They

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Speaker 1: Jack Tramiel then at Atari gave them a million dollars

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Speaker 1: the very very first Macintosh or the atari xt computers,

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Speaker 1: I should also mention our listener Dean Kidd also wrote

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