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The program doesn't predate Morse Code, but telegraphy was still heavily used in the shipping industry when the program first went on the air.
High Tech. Plain English is the tag line I used back then, sometime in the mid 1980s when Technology Corner became a part of WTVN Radio's Sunday morning line-up. My computer was a Zenith Z-150 with two floppy disk drives and a 12-inch monochrome monitor.
At the office, a DEC VT100 terminal was connected to a DEC PDP-11/70 minicomputer, one of the units in the computer room, which also housed a Honeywell 200 with no disk drive.
Today we can carry 30,000 CDs, thousands of books, and even several full-length movies in a pocket-size computer that also lets us take pictures, surf the internet, and send email or text messages. Some people even use these devices to make phone calls.
The name changed to TechByter Worldwide in 2006 when the podcast premiered. Instead of hearing from people in Ohio and several surrounding states, I began to receive feedback from readers and listeners around the world. So far, though, there's been no feedback from South America or Antarctica. If you're in one of those locations, please let me know!
ListenThe weekly podcast offers an hour's worth of technology news in about 20 minutes. Really!
As an old radio guy, I know that commercials, jingles, news headlines, weather, and sports consume most of the hour. The average "hour" actually contains only 17 to 22 minutes of what you tuned in for.
TechByter Worldwide eliminates the stuff you're not interested in and gives you what you want in about one third of the time.
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The programs once carried Sunday dates because that's when the radio program used to air, but this has been changed to Friday and both the program update and the podcast are usually on the website no later then 5pm (Eastern time) on Thursday prior to the publication date.
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ExploreLots of useful, reliable sources exist for news about hardware, software, and on-line services. You'll find references to these kinds of resources in the Spare Parts section of the weekly program.