March 17, 2012
The March 17, 2012 broadcast catches Computer Talk in the middle of real life: an unstable connection threatens the show, a cable technician arrives at the wrong time and birds outside the bunker repeatedly derail an Apple story. Dr. Dave says the program is a weekly therapy session that he and Evil Steve would keep doing even if they were speaking only to each other. He also walks listeners through the original DaveMason.com archive and continuous stream, making this episode an unusually valuable record of how the old site served the radio audience. Technology discussions turn the new iPad into a lesson against chasing every product release and the Windows 8 preview into a demonstration of how design can conflict with the way people naturally expect a computer to work.
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8 parts, 95:09 total. All preserved transcript parts in this selection have been reviewed for content and sequence. The archive includes show breaks; this is not a verified uninterrupted recording. The air date remains proposed.
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Regular show: hour recordings
2 recordings · 108:08 total within this version.
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Regular show: segments
8 recordings · 95:09 total within this version.
Numbered positions are present in sequence. This alone does not prove the show is complete.