Episode 174 - The Bell Model I

We are getting back to the actual digital family tree. In 1937 George Stibitz built a tiny binary adding circuit on his kitchen table using scraps he "liberated" from his job at Bell Labs. In 1940 he demonstrated a machine he called a computer. That research forms one of the foundations of modern computing. It also forms a weird temporal phenomenon that I have yet to name. Maybe the Curse of '37? Selected Sources: Zeroth Generation by George Stibitz (NOW WITH A 2nd EDITION!) - Stibitz in Datamation

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Episode 174 - The Bell Model I is an episode from Advent of Computing by Sean S Haas.

This episode is 01:02:50 long.

This episode was published on Jan 12, 2026.

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