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I am Ned Utzig, a lifelong computer gamer, hacker, maker, and engineer. I grew up in a mainframe world of the 1970s, and in 1979 built my first home computer from a kit in the back of a magazine. I publish the Mad Ned Memo, a newsletter on computing history and trends: http://madned.substack.com
  1. Nerd Noir Theater Presents: ASCII Double-Murder (madned.substack.com)
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  2. ASCII Double Murder (madned.substack.com)
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  3. The sunny side of firing someone (madned.substack.com)
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  4. My 9-Bit CPU project, part 3: Timing Woes (madned.substack.com)
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  5. My Nine-Bit Computer, part 000 000 010 (madned.substack.com)
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  6. Nine-Bit CPU, Part 000 000 010 (madned.substack.com)
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  7. I decided to build a nine-bit computer (madned.substack.com)
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  8. The Merits of Internal Success Before External Success (madned.substack.com)
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  9. Always Mount a Scratch Monkey (madned.substack.com)
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  10. The Eternal Joy of “Hello, World” (madned.substack.com)
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  11. Good Cragile: Crappy Agile that works (madned.substack.com)
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  12. Good Cragile: Crappy Agile That Works (madned.substack.com)
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  13. The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams (madned.substack.com)
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  14. Two Things I Learned When I Crash Landed at a Startup (madned.substack.com)
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  15. Two Things I Learned When I Crash Landed at a Startup (madned.substack.com)
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  16. When The “R” Goes Missing From R&D (madned.substack.com)
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  17. What Heathkit Taught Me About Good UX Design (madned.substack.com)
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  18. What Heathkit Taught Me About Good UX Design (madned.substack.com)
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  19. I Miss Working in the Crappiest Places (madned.substack.com)
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  20. I Miss Working in the Crappiest Places (madned.substack.com)
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  21. A talk with Walter Bright about Empire (madned.substack.com)
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  22. Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet (madned.substack.com)
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  23. Wardialing, and Other Phoney Stuff (madned.substack.com)
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  24. The Early Days of Computer Magnetic Storage (madned.substack.com)
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  25. The Weird History of Magnetic Storage Systems (madned.substack.com)
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