Mentioned 4 times on 1 show. Most recently heard 26/08/2026.
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“extrapolate what nine months from now is going to look like. When two years from now, it's going to look like. But as an intellectual experiment, I think the first computer I used was a Commodore 64. Me too. Cool. It had one megahertz CPU and 64K of memory.”
“And it came off the fact that the benchmarking had been screwed so out of whack. You talked about the Commodore 64 being your first computer, right? When you unwrap that Commodore 64 and you hit the on button, in I think about less than one second, the basic interpreter was ready to accept your command.”
“We have the technology. We've had the technology since like 1981 when the Commodore 64 first came out. The fact that we now have a computer that's a trillion times faster and you have to spend 42 minutes or an hour and a half setting it up before it's ready to use is so infuriating to me that it became a passion.”
“Yes. This is how computers were always meant to be. This is how computers started. The Commodore 64. You turn it on. First of all, it boots in a second. Amazing. Second of all, it boots straight into basic. It was the malleable computer from the get-go. It just so happened that you needed to know hieroglyphs to be able to take advantage of that.”