Computer History
February 26, 1996 - SGI Buys Cray Research
February 27, 1976  - National Security Agency’s Harvest Computer Retires
February 28, 1956  - MIT's Forrester Receives Patent on "Core" Memory
March 1, 1960  - John McCarthy's LISP Programmer's Manual Released
March 3, 1975  - Homebrew Computer Club Holds First Meeting

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Frackberts coffee from - Thanks to SciFi Surplus for the Futuremercial

New and Interesting
- From Show 043: "Tweet Me, Baby" , Steven Murawski from The Mind of Root left us a link to an awesome Twitter PowerShell Script. It will tell you about people who follow you that you aren't following back, or people you are following that aren't following you. Thanks a bunch Steven!
- Vista 64 - My good friend Keith is running Vista 64 bit. Lots of people seem to be doing that. I was also helping some poor soul having network issues with Vista 64.
- Twittering during surgery? CNN
- Some talk about no CISCO client for Vista 64 - Sharepoint go Boom

- Some questions from the last part of the show - Kindle DRM stuff. Can I use the files elsewhere? Can I put my own files on it? - Amazon maintains your library forever, and you can put PDFs on the kindle, with a little conversion. Maybe I can talk the company into buying me one so I don't have to print off all of those DPM manuals.

- My good friend Keith just bought a machine with 64 Bit Vista on it. I'm interested in hearing his experiences. Keith mentioned Start 64, a 64 bit web site as a great resource.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Brains Matter - Promo
Beretta Online - Say Hello to my little friend - Promo

The Segmentish Type Thing
Following the Purse Strings - Who's paying for Twitter and why?

- Twitter receives $55 million Huh?
Mike is pretty sure that the thing that got blogs popular was the fact that everyone in silicon valley was out of work, and they had nothing better to do than write and read what others are writing. Is twitter going to get the same thing?

The post linked above goes on to say that Twitter's audience is what justifies the money, well how does that explain Yahoo?

Combatting Piracy - Valve gets it
Valve understands that to effectively combat piracy, you need to give people what they want at a fair price. They recently decreased L4D 75%, and they made 15% more than when the game launched. - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090219/1124433835.shtml