Monday
Room 2
13:40 - 14:40
(UTC+01)
Talk (60 min)
The Great Circle: From Altair to Azure
In 1975, the Altair 8800 promised to liberate us from mainframe tyranny by putting computing power directly into our hands. Fifty years later, we've come full circle—we're all mainframe users again, and that's brilliant.
Join Scott Hanselman for a journey through computing's great circle, featuring live demos with a working Altair 8800 mini alongside modern Azure cloud services. We'll explore how toggle switches evolved into REST APIs, why terminals are having a renaissance, and how the patterns of 1975 illuminate 2025's biggest trends.
Scott Hanselman
Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, hanselminutes.com for tech talk, thisdeveloperslife.com on developers' lives and loves, and ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.