Stray Pointers
by Jim Lawless
Latest episode
Horror Novelist Angela Sylvaine Rejoins Us For Our 50th Podcast!
Horror Novelist Angela Sylvaine Rejoins Us For Our 50th Podcast!
About this podcast
Stray Pointers is a podcast where seemingly ordinary people join us for extraordinary discussions.
There are a lot of amazing people out there. I thought that it would be interesting to interview people accomplishing or having accomplished amazing things in a variety of subject areas including computing, BBS's, hacking, health care, music, comic books, writing, illustration, education, journalism, podcasting, startups, electronics, video games, astronomy, agriculture ... you name it.
For more information about the podcast, please see Jim Lawless' Stray Pointers page at:
https://straypointers.com
Illustration is © 2023 by Rick J. Lundeen. Please visit Rick's sites :
https://rickjlundeen.wordpress.com/
https://www.teepublic.com/user/rick-lundeen
Episodes
The newest 20 of 53 episodes
- Horror Novelist Angela Sylvaine Rejoins Us For Our 50th Podcast! · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 2The YouTube (audio only) version of this episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/oxz77qF6HtQ Angela Sylvaine makes her fifth appearance on our 50th podcast! We discuss her…
- 2025 Advent of Code Follow-Up · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 1Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning rejoin the show to discuss how we fared with the 2025 Advent of Code competition. Website for the Advent of Code competition…
- Forth Systems Creator Tom Zimmer Joins the Show · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 12Tom Zimmer has implemented a variety of Forth compiler systems ranging from 8-bit commercial Forths to more modern implementations. Tom discusses his background with electronics…
- Advent of Code 2025 Pregame Show · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 11Cameron Cunning and Juan Vazquez rejoin the show to discuss our approaches to the forthcoming Advent of Code 2025 coding competition in December. #rust #elixirlang #dlang…
- Horror Novelist Angela Sylvaine Returns to the Show · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 10Angela Sylvaine returns for her fourth appearance on the show. She and Jim recap the story of her first three novels and her future works including her forthcoming book Cold…
- Nick Andrew Discusses the System-80 Including His Zeta BBS · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 9Telecommunications and BBS pioneer Nick Andrew talks about the TRS-80 Model I workalike known as the System-80. With many hardware modifications, Nick wrote and operated his own…
- Leor Zolman, Creator of the First Commercial C Compiler for Microcomputers Joins the Show · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 8Leor Zolman, creator of the BDS (Brain Damage Software) C compiler for CP/M ... the first commercial C compiler for microcomputers ... joins the show. We discuss his compiler…
- International Tech Speaker Christine Seeman Joins the Show · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 7June 25, 2025 ( recorded on February 13th, 2024) This episode is a reissue of an earlier audio-only episode with added video. Christine Seeman joins the show to discuss a…
- Text Adventure Author and Paleontologist Mike Taylor Joins the Show · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 6May 16, 2025 Mike Taylor, author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show. We talk about those…
- Atari BBSing with Rob Sherman · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 5Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear. Rob's telnet BBS's are as…
- Gunnar Gustafson Discusses Audio Synthesizers · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 4Gunnar Gustafson rejoins the show to discuss audio synthesis in musical gear. He discusses family ties to some very early audio gear and he draws parallels to the evolution of…
- Interview with Synchronet BBS Creator Rob Swindell · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 3This is a video-added re-release of my interview with Rob Swindell. Rob is the author and sysop of the MS-DOS and telnet versions of the Synchronet BBS. He joined the show to…
- Interview with Jeff Duntemann · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 2This is a re-release (with video!) of my interview with software engineer, writer, and publishing entrepreneur Jeff Duntemann. Jeff was the first editor of Borland's In-House…
- 6502, Z-80, and Forth in the 1970's · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 1Bruce Hoyt and his son Ben Hoyt discuss 70's-era home computing including the MOS KIM-1, The Ohio Scientific Superboard II, and the Ferguson Big Board CP/M machine, BASIC…
- Rick Lundeen discusses his comic books "The Bombardier" and "The Daleks' Master Plan" · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 21Writer/illustrator Rick Lundeen rejoins the show to discuss his comic book series "The Bombardier" and his graphic novel adaptation of the classic Doctor Who story "The Daleks'…
- Wrapping up the 2024 Advent of Code with Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 20With video! Software engineers Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning rejoin the show to discuss the 2024 Advent of Code, an annual programming competition. Website for the Advent of…
- The Hosts of "ANTIC - The Atari 8-Bit Podcast" Join the Show · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 19Brad Arnold, Randy Kindig, and Kay Savetz join the show to discuss their long-running podcast "ANTIC - The Atari 8-bit Podcast" ANTIC web site: https://AtariPodcast.com Kay's…
- Niels Haedecke discusses BBS software, Forth, and the RC2014 System · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 18Retrocomputing enthusiast Niels Haedecke joins the show. We talk about his telnet/SSH access Wintermute BBS, FidoNet, the RC2014 Z-80 CP/M computer and the telnet BBS he's…
- Discussing Perl with Jay Hannah · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 17Jay Hannah joins the show to discuss his long-time use of the Perl programming language. We also discuss Jay's prominence in several Omaha-based programming groups including the…
- Preparing for the 2024 Advent of Code programming competition with Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 16Software engineers Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning join the show to discuss the Advent of Code, an annual programming competition that takes place every December through the…
