Retro-computing: Lessons from Vintage Tech

About this episode

The episode discusses lessons learned from restoring vintage technology with guest Mark Price.

In this episode, we talk to Mark Price (Co-founder of NetActuate) about restoring old hardware and what we lessons we can learn from working with old equipments. Serial Port YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport Kramden Institute: https://kramden.org/ Dorton Arena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorton_Arena If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com. ————————— About PingCAP and TiDB ————————— Ping...

People in this episode

Hosts: Brian Foster, Daniel van Eeden, Ray Paik

Guest: Mark Price

Topics covered

• retro-computing
• vintage technology
• hardware restoration
• lessons from old tech
• interview

Keywords

• retro-computing
• vintage tech
• hardware restoration
• old equipment
• technology lessons

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NetActuate, Kramden Institute, PingCAP

Products: TiDB

Places: Dorton Arena

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