{"id":461,"date":"2016-03-21T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=461"},"modified":"2016-06-19T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T00:43:56","slug":"special-episode-interview-with-oscar-vermeulen-creator-of-pidp-8i","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/podcast\/special-episode-interview-with-oscar-vermeulen-creator-of-pidp-8i\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Episode: Interview with Oscar Vermeulen, creator of PiDP-8\/I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to a special interview segment of the History of Personal Computing podcast!\u00a0In this episode, David and Jeff\u00a0are speaking to <b>Oscar Vermeulen<\/b> from <b><i>Obsolescence Guaranteed<\/i><\/b> and creator of the <b>PiDP-8\/I<\/b>, a modern replica of the 1968 PDP-8\/I computer. 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