Topics:

• Host's topic: Curmudgeon time: Is newer always better?
  
  • GUI versus command line
  • INI files versus the registry
  • Web versus GUI
  • Mobile apps versus web
  • Wirth's Law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
• David's two secret eBay resources:
  • http://www.collectorsweekly.com/electronics/computers
  • http://vintagecomputersale.com/
• Komputer Kindergarden with Kim Komando
• TRS-80 hard drive emulator
  
  • Terry Stewart (Tezza) TRS-80 Model 4
• Intel CEO Paul Otellini: History of the Computer Industry in 1 Chart
• Atari Breakout in Google Images
• A New 68000 CPU Board for the S-100 Bus

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Radio Shack TRS-80 Commercial 1979 1980
• Acorn Computers TV advert UK 1991

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

Auction Picks:

• David: Zenith Minisport ZL-1 1MB Laptop
• Earl: DEC Digital Equipment Corp Vintage Programming Template
• Carrington: 1979 Mini Labs Astro War electronic game

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• Host topic: "What shoved you down the slippery slope?"
• Amiga Forever Essentials for Android
• Kodable
• Programming Primer
• First website evah
  
  • http://info.cern.ch/
• Al Lowe releases vintage games for free download
  
  • Al Lowe's game design documents
• Italian computer history site
• Forgotten QuickTime Demo Videos
• Alexander Graham Bell's voice recovered from 'unplayable' record
• Ivan Drucker’s Magic Gosub
• David needs to sell books!
• David also needs to sell FIGnitions!

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Ballmer sells windows 1.0
• Windows 3.1 Commercial 1993

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Halo for Atari 2600
  
  • Play Halo 2600 online

Auction Picks:

• David: Columbia All-In-OnePortable Computer
• Earl: CDI 1206 Miniterm Pro portable computer
• Carrington: Philips Videopac Computer plus 25 games

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• Host topic: "What shoved you down the slippery slope?"
• Podcasting live from VCFSE
• iSteve movie on Funny Or Die
• PDP-11 software engineering job in 2013? Yep!
• Project Unity: one box that plays 18 different retro game console formats
• TRS8BIT March 2013
• A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Overnight Bag

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Keypunch card printing plates
• David: Vintage Faceplate IBM 360/50 ser #12067
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• Bill Gates and Paul Allen recreate classic 1981 Microsoft photo
• A Talk With Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland
• The 22nd Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!
• KansasFest 2013 opens for registration
• Disney shuts down LucasArts
• History of the modern graphics processor (1 of 4)
• Vintage computers made out of LEGO:
  
  • Apple II by Chiu-Kueng Tsang
  • Commodore 64 by Chris McVeigh
  • Macintosh by Chris McVeigh
• VCFSE
  
  • http://www.youtube.com/vcfse1
• Announcing 2 new members of the Retrobits Podcast family:
  
  • "Chicken Lips Radio" podcast
  • "Next Without For" podcast

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Comdex
• Laptop 89' Convention

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Book: Atari Inc., Business Is Fun

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Infocom Suspended (mask box)
• David: Rare Original Unassembled Altair 8800 Computer Kit
• Earl: TeleVideo 950

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• Host's topic: The genesis of collecting - what made you start?
• OzKFest in Brisbane, Australia, July 27-28, coinciding with part of KFest (which runs from July 22-28)
• Vintage software, including games, find a home in archives
• The Twiggy Macintosh prototype is alive...
• David Schmenk’s QuickCam on an Apple IIe - lo-res and hi-res!
• The First Literary Work Produced With a Word Processor
• The Centre for Computing History is moving to Cambridge

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Old Boise Computer Store Spot
• Funny Computer Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• David: Six Digit Nixie Tube Clock The "Pinecrest"
  • TubeClock.com
• Steve: USB Plasma Ball
• Jeff: Bluetooth Ericophone (Cobra)

Auction Picks:

• David: Exidy Sorcerer Computer w/ S-100 bus adapter carts manuals and more
• Steve: Apple II Europlus built in Cork, Ireland
• Jeff: Vintage Wang 600 14TP Advanced Prog. Calculator 1973 S#CC3623 in good condition

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• Host's topic: All-in-one office ("works") suites
• Atari founder to publish book about finding the next Steve Jobs
• The Strange Beauty of Historic Computers Brought Back From the Dead
• iCapture! for iPhone
• The return of square monitors
• Raspberry Pi Gets RISC OS
• Tablets, Mice, and Trackpads: The evolution of Apple pointing devices

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM 5100 commercial 1977

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• CARDIAC - Cardboard Illustrative Aid To Computation
• Unboxing the CARDIAC computer

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Multitech Microprofessor MPF-II
• Earl: IBM RISC System/6000 paperweight
• David: 1996 Hewlett Packard 200LX Palmtop

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• Our first computers vs. our real first computers
• Project Genesis
• SBC6120 single board PDP-8 replica
• SEGA to releae retro gaming inspired SEGA Note laptops
  
  • Classic Sega Consoles Reinvented as Gaming Laptops
• Terry Stewart
• Mike Willegal powers up his reproduction SCELBI for first time
• New vintage computing podcast: Floppy Days by Randy Kindig
• Dr. Bruce’s Levity Zone podcast

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 2XL Talking Computer
• Playskool Alphie Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Turning Monopoly

Auction Picks:

• David: Atari Stacy 2 Computer
• Earl: Atari 800XL with 1050 Drive, 1027 Printer, Commodore 1701 Monitor, Covers
• Carrington: VisiCalc for DOS (sealed)

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• Retrochallenge 2013 Winter Warmup
  
  • PedalBox by Shelldozer
  • Simon game with rotary controller
  • Cassette storage system for 6502 homebrew
• Carrington gets a Gravitar arcade cabinet
• What do check/do first when you receive vintage computers
• Streaming is replacing the web as we know it
• Another run of SBC6120 PDP-8 replica systems possible
  
  • http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120-2.htm
• Vintage Computer Museum opens in Katowice, Poland
  
  • ITN Source article (in English) about museum
• Vintage Computer Festival news:
  • Retro computing events
  • VCF East cancelled!
  • VCF GB
  • VCF GB Facebook page
  • VCF Southeast
• Poor Atari goes bankrupt again
• KansasFest 2013 logo
• Only a handful of copies of David's book remain!
• Batmobile photos from Myles Wakeham:

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Apple IIgs Dual Mind
• Atari 400/800 Home Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Electronics/microcontroller starter kits:
  • BASIC Stamp Activity Kit
  • The Aztec MCU starter kit
  • Other starter kits based on Arduino or Raspberry Pi

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Account.System: Apple II personal finance software new for 2013
• David: Rare Vintage Zilog Z-80 Microcomputer System
• Earl: Commodore 65 prototype

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  • PedalBox by Shelldozer
  • Simon game with rotary controller
  • Cassette storage system for 6502 homebrew
• Carrington gets a Gravitar arcade cabinet
• What do check/do first when you receive vintage computers
• Streaming is replacing the web as we know it
• Another run of SBC6120 PDP-8 replica systems possible
  
  • http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120-2.htm
• Vintage Computer Museum opens in Katowice, Poland
  
  • ITN Source article (in English) about museum
• Vintage Computer Festival news:
  • Retro computing events
  • VCF East cancelled!
  • VCF GB
  • VCF GB Facebook page
  • VCF Southeast
• Poor Atari goes bankrupt again
• KansasFest 2013 logo
• Only a handful of copies of David's book remain!

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Apple IIgs Dual Mind
• Commodore 128 computer 1985 TV ad

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Electronics/microcontroller starter kits:
  • BASIC Stamp Activity Kit
  • The Aztec MCU starter kit
  • Other starter kits based on Arduino or Raspberry Pi

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Account.System: Apple II personal finance software new for 2013
• David: Rare Vintage Zilog Z-80 Microcomputer System
• Earl: Commodore 65 prototype

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• Videos from the World of Commodore 2012
• Multiple ECB board special from N8VEM homebrew SBC project
• Hartmut Esslinger's new design book
• Esslinger's early Apple designs
• David posts to the Internet Archive
• Starring The Computer: computers in movies and TV
• TIME’s Machine of the Year, 30 years later
• CNET unboxes the TRS-80 Color Computer 2
• Ivan Drucker's Apple II development tools
• Kevin Savetz "Terrible Nerd"

Vintage Computer TV clip:

• 1977 Texas Instruments Dataman and TI-30 calculators
• Commodore VIC-20

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• QuickJoy SV-129 Foot Pedal Controller for Atari 2600
• Atari Hot Wheels cars

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Commodore MAX Machine (AKA "Ultimax")
• David: Cray T94 Super Computer
  
  • Alt choice: Replica 1 signed by Woz and Vince Briel
• Earl: 1950-60 UNIVAC Remingtion Rand Sperry factory collection

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• Carrington snags a Fix-It Felix, Jr. arcade cabinet
• Randy Wigginton, Apple employee #6 and engineer, to keynote KansasFest 2013
• Athana is a source for floppy disks and other media
• ZX Spectrum wouldn’t pass modern radio frequency regs
• It began with 'Spacewar!' A history of science fiction in video games
• An explanation of timesharing from MIT in 1969

Vintage Computer TV clip:

• Black Friday 1983: What To Get A Hacker For Christmas

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Retro phone handset for cellphones

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: "Toaster Mac" case opening tool
• David: 1960's Livermore Data Systems Acoustic Coupler Modem
  
  • Live Demo
• Earl: Industrial PET
  
  • Alt choice: 1966 UNIVAC Wright Line portable data card punch

Other Topics:

• New VCFSE dates
• MFORTH
• Retrochallenge

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• Macintosh Folklore Radio
• Ideographix breakthrough in Chinese computing is preserved in Silicon Valley
• This Piece of Cardboard Launched a Trillion-Dollar Industry
• Coming Soon: PC-Retro Motherboard Kit
• Original Apple I computer sells for record $630,000 at auction
• Tez's continuing series on YouTube on his retro computer collection
• Retrochallenge Winter Warmup 2013
• Record Breaking Price Paid At Auction For First Apple Computer - But This Collector Owns Two Of Them!

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1991 Sears Packard Bell Christmas commercial
• Dell Commercial "All I want for Christmas"

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• David: Arcadie iPhone and iPod Desktop Arcade
• David: IRIS 9000 voice control module for iPhone & Siri

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Epson HX-20 Vintage Handheld
• David: 1980 Coleco Quiz Wiz with 8 games

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• Introducing… the Lo-tech XT-CFv2!
• Cathode: vintage terminal app for Macs
• SX-64 party!
  
  • Berry de Jager
• Two tonne Witch computer gets reactivated
• JavaScript Machines IBM PC Model 5150
• George the Robot
• VICE 2.4 Commodore multi-system emulator released

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Commodore 64 (Australian ad) 1984

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Model arcade cabinet replicals

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Loaded 386-40/DX AT computer system
• Carrington: HyperCard IIgs (sealed)

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• David taking a break from RCR.
• PC World: How to optimize Windows 8 on old hardware
• Living Computer Museum opens to the public
  
  • Geekwire-includes link to KING 5 TV coverage
  • Keep in mind: you can still request a login account
• Internet judged to be a First Amendment right
  
  • Kevin Mitnick
  • MafiaBoy
  • Samy Kamkar
• P112 single board computer Kickstarter down to the wire
• KansasFest dates announced: July 23-28, 2013
• Wreck-It Ralph
• No Quarter classic coin-op arcade game podcast
• Computer History Simulation Project
• OpenVMS! It’s the greatest!

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Input Magazine

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Giant LED Table Lamp on ThinkGeek

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Symbolics 3640 Artificial Intelligence Work Station
• Carrington: Macintosh Cube with monitor, speakers, upgrades

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• Project Kiwi: Simon Ferber’s 68000 homebrew computer
  
  • Project web site
  • Project forum
  • YouTube channel
  • Hack A Day feature 1
  • Hack A Day feature 2
• Not another Apple 1 coming to auction?!
• Minitel network shuts down after long run (from James)
• New ZX Spectrum game: Encyclopedia Galactica by Jonathan Cauldwell
• Digital Equipment Corp "Industrial 8" minicomputer goes for $4,600 on eBay
• Flossie: the 5-ton movie star computer restored, but at risk
  
  • Save Flossie
  • ICT 1301 computers

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• OS/2 Warp TV Commercial
• Currys Christmas Advert: ZX Spectrum

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Give the gift of a Good Old Game

Current Auctions:

• Earl: 2000 DD-5081 80 Column Computer Punch Cards
• Carrington: Systron Donner 3500
• David: NeXT Cube (N1000)

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• The CD player turns 30
• Bell Labs tribute to Dennis Ritchie on YouTube
• Kickstarter: P112 Single Board Computer Kit
• Retro City Rampage released
• Introducing the Lo-tech XT-CFv2
• Apple 1 fails to sell at Christie's auction
• Mimeo 1 kits on sale again
• Ken Gagne steps down from KansasFest Committee

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Crazy Eddie's gone Computer Crazy!!
• "I Need A Vacation!" John Cleese Compaq Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• David: Miniature iMac computer radio toy

Current Auctions:

• Earl: Coleco Adam Home Computer with accessories
  
  • Alt choice: Mac Mini in Disk II enclosure
• Carrington: Key Tronic dual RJ-11/ADB keyboard for original and later Macs
• David: Vintage 1979 Mattel Electronics horse race analyzer handheld computer

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• RC-3 Relay Computer from Stephen Torrence, Museum of Computer Culture
  
  • Harry Porter’s Relay Computer at Portland State University
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_%28computer%29
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarvardMarkI
• Apple II prototype hardware sold on eBay:
  • Prototype RAMWORKS VGA interface
  • Prototype Apple IIc VGA adapter
• Report from the Portland Retro Gaming Expo
• 101 Classic Computer Ads, from David's brother Keith
• MultipleClassicComputer
• "VCFMW7 Happened. It was a good time! Pic links here:"
• Internet Archive adding issues of Byte magazine, via fan Roman
• Original Apple 1 Headed to Auction
• Melissa Baron’s glitch screenprints
  
  • Baron's presentation at KansasFest 2010

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Minecraft Foam Sword & Pickaxe Combo Set Of 2

Current Auctions:

• Carrington: IMSAI 8080
• David: Mini Apple II computer handmade Flash drive
• Earl: DEC Digital MicroVAX II w/ SCSI OpenVMS 7.3 VAX

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• Last Call for the VCFMW!
• X11 turns 25. Hey, you don't look a day over 20
• Apple 1 replica sells for $1,525
  
  • Michael Ng's Newton 1
  • Mike Willegal's Mimeo
  • Steve Gabaly's Obtronix (not official site)
  • Controversy over replica design sources
  • Vince Briel's Replica 1
  • Apple 1 Replica Creation book
• Benj Edwards: "Is the iPad a PC? Tell me what you think."
• Commodore C64SSD epic case mod, from one of our listeners!
• Crippled by Nostalgia: The Fraud of Retro Gaming
• Shameless plug for upcoming Retrobits
• Cypher: Cyberpunk Text Adventure

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• MacBook Air NOT the First (Aired in 1994)
• Apple Powerbook Classic Commercial 1993

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Adventure shirt

Current Auctions:

• David: Macintosh 128k vintage computer
• Earl: WordPerfect and dBase III Plus new in box
• Carrington: Heath HTX-10 keyboard terminal

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• Atari Arcade: play "re-imagined" classics in a web browsers
• From Altair to iPad: 35 years of personal computer market share
• S100 mini front panel project
• AtGames announces Atari Flashback 4 and Arcade Classic
  
  • Flashback 4 review
• Tetris World Championship coming to PRGE, Sept 29-30
• Mike's Hobby Pages podcast
• David Crane’s Jungle Adventure Kickstarter
• Another Apple 1 to be auctioned by Christies
• Captain 8BIT & The Game Chasers

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• Exclusive interview with Adam Rosen, of the Vintage Mac Museum

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• David: Nixie Clock Electronic Kit K8099

Current Auctions:

• Carrington: NeXTSTEP 3.2 Operating System and Developer Kit
• Earl: PET "Fat 40" 4032
• David: Jeff Raskin's Complete Canon Cat System

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• A movie of a world populated by old Macs! Teaser online at:
  
  • www.projectgenesismovie.com
  • vimeo.com/46094886
• Air Raid (rarest cartridge for Atari 2600) appears on eBay
  
  • Air Raid on Wikipedia
• The Ridiculously Overpriced ‘Vintage’ Tech of eBay
• Vintage Computer Festival SW 3.0 report by Michael Sternberg
  
  • pictures
• What’s Where in the Apple eBook
  
  • Previous funding campaign on Kickstarter was unsuccessful
• Nick Gentry art
• Compiling a list of retro computer shows
• Neo Geo to return as a handheld: Neo Geo X Gold
• Vintage Computer Festival MW and Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention
  
  • Lombard, IL, 9/22 - 9/23

Retro Computer Commercial - Apple Newton ad - Who is Newton?

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Pins, earrings, etc. from Pixel Party

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: EA Adventure Construction Set prototype
• David: Vintage Portable Trans PC LCD -286 Computer Works
• Earl: Sinclair ZX80

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Topics:

• KansasFest 2012 Recap
• Book: The New Apple II User’s Guide
• Time: The TRS-80 Model I turns 35
• C64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?
• RegHardware: Basic instinct--the way we used to code
• Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 3.0
• Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 7.0
• Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention 2012

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Convert old disks to new media
  • Thanks to listener Jake Lampe for the idea

Auction Picks:

• David: 1981 Silicon Gultch Gazette Newspaper
• Earl: Mattel Aquarius Computer
• Carrington: Star Saga: One

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• Live from KansasFest 2012
• Acorn Archimedes turns 25
• Clamshell! The Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time
  • Dynamac
• Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 3.0

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington: 8-Bit Glasses
• David: Tin Robot 2008
• Earl: 8-Bit Tablet Sleeve

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Ultima II large box
• Earl: Apple II Plus
• David: Apple IIc Plus with monitor, printer, etc.

Additional Links:

• Star Saga: One

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• Howard Cantin interview--Woz’s reaction
• Apple 1 results
  
  • Ken Gagne's article
  • Sothebys listin
• Retrochallenge
• Computer History Museum Inducts Ford Sync
  
  • Computer History Museum exhibit on Google Street View
  • J D Power quality survey results
• Sweet16 starter kit
  
  • Sweet16
  • Virtual][
• Pocket Mini Computer
• Microsoft Has A Long And Tortured History In Tablets
• Microsoft's Surface Tablets: What Experts are Saying
• Lee Felsenstein Lecture in New Jersey, July 1
• Malcolm Gladwell: History will exalt Bill Gates, forget Steve Jobs
• KansasFest 2012
  
  • Inform7
  • Briel Computers KansasFest workshops
  • KFest mailing list

Old Computer Commercial:

• CompUSA commercial

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington: Chocolate Spectrum keyboard
• David: ZX1 Red LED Watch Drivers Retro 70s Style Digital Display
  
  • Alt: Green version from Amazon.com, $79.99)
• Earl: Tony Stark Light up LED Iron Man Shirt from ThinkGeek

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Franklin Ace 100 Plus
• David: IBM 5155 portable personal computer

• Earl: Netronics Research ELF II

• Mainframes on Ebay

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• 6502 emulated in Minecraft
• 44 videos from KansasFest, 1995-2011
• Arkeg: arcade cabinet + beer keg
• Play Wolfenstein 3D online
• 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web
• Apple 1 auctions at both eBay and Sotheby's
• Retrobits video of 2011 Portland Retro Gaming Expo
  
  • 2012 event info
• 2012 Classic Console and Arcade Gaming show, June 12)
• Byte magazine reprints Woz's 1977 Apple II system description

Old Computer Commercials:

• Apple II Forever

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• David: My First Laptop Computer Plush Play Set By Gund
• Earl: Subscription to local hackerspace, e.g. Portland's BrainSilo
• Carrington: Arcade Button Light Switch

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: IMSAI: A key early Apple artifact
• Earl: Vintage IBM Punched Card Gauge
• David: Working Apple Lisa 2 Computer

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• Please comment in iTunes
• Our "Show and Tell" anniversary videos
• Computing fossils: Old tech holding on for dear life
• Project WALTR
  
  • Parallax Scribbler 2
• Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2012
• ZX Spectrum's chief designers reunited 30 years on
  
  • ZX Spectrum puzzle game Head Over Heels ported to iOS
  • Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS'
• Microbee: Australian 8-bit computer makes a comeback
• What Google would have looked like in the 80s

Books:

• The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
• Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story
• Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

Old Computer Commercials:

• Apple - Think Different - Full Version

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington: Geek love hand soap dispenser
• David: FIGnition
• Ear: The "Sojourner" Keyboard
  
  • Warehouse 13

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple IIgs System 6 in box
  
  • Also available for $15 from 16sector.com
• David: HP 620 Color Palmtop PC with Desk Dock
• Ear: KIM-1 Single Board Computer, Enclosure, and some docs

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• R.I.P. Jack Tramiel:
  • Improbable PC Pioneer: Commodore's Jack Tramiel, 1928-2012...
  • YouTube: Commodore 64 - 25th Anniversary Celebration
  • Book: Commodore: A Company on the Edge
• Apple ][ turns 35:
  • 1977 West Coast Computer Faire program
  • Wikipedia: Apple ][
• Book: The Best of Creative Computing: Volume 3
  • http://www.atariarchives.org/ by Kevin Savetz
• Wasteland 2 beats funding target by $2 million
• Who's talking to us?
  • Rikki from Glasgow sends us shopping:
    • new old stock Commodore LED watches on eBay.
  • James sends us some great TI-99/4A links:
    • TI-99/4A User Group
    • The TI-99/4A Home Computer Page
    • Win994a-TI-99/4A Simulator for Windows
    • TI-99/4A Home Computer Book Archive
    • WHTECH --real big repository of files
    • TI-99/4A Gameshelf
    • ATARIAGE TI-99/4A programming forum
• Prince of Persia source code posted
• Don't forget upcoming vintage computing events!
  • VCF East
  • International Classic Video Game Tournament
  • KansasFest
  • VCF Midwest and the ECCC
• Auction prices are getting out of hand:
  • $100,000 Mac prototype
  • Related forum thread
• New Apple II User's Guide coming soon
• Video Games Live coming to Canada, eh?

Old Computer Commercials:

• YouTube: Radio Shack TRS-80 Commercial 1979 1980
• YouTube: First Apple Commercial 1977 by High Technology, Inc.

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington: Trip to the American Classic Arcade Museum
• David: Atari Arcade 04-0002EN Atari Arcade iPad Device
• Ear: Modern day buckling spring keyboard from Unicomp

Current Auctions:

• Carrington: Infocom poster from Zork Users Group
• David: Byte Shop Byt-8 Early S-100 Personal Computer
  • Alt choice: BYT-8 S-100 Mini Micro System
• Earl: Lear Siegler ADM-3A Terminal

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• Original Apple II source code for Prince of Persia found in closet
• The PET serial registry project
• Apple Corporate Museum article @ ClassicComputing.com
  
  • @ forbes.com
  • @ cultofmac.com
  • Apple Archives Stored in Secret Stanford Warehouse
• Mozilla announces BrowerQuest
• Our new website and blog!
• Retro Show Announcements:
  • VCF East
  • KansasFest
  • CoCoFest (related video)
• Google maps goes 8-bit (click on "Quest")
• Toronto PET Users Group YouTube Channel
• Bits and Bytes: tech TV from 1983
  • Luba Goy on YouTube
  • Billy Van, "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" on YouTube
• Penny Arcade: the art of modern retro
• Classic video games were NP-Hard
• Kevin Savetz's atarimagazines.com posts Canadian Atari magazine ROM

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• David: Star Trek Electronic Door Chime
  • Alt choice: The Authentic James T. Kirk Captain's Chair
• Earl: EasyFlash 3 for Commodore 64
• Carrington: A vintage calculator

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• David: Zorba Personal Computer
• Earl: Commodore 64/128 VIC REL Relay Cartridge by Handic
• Carrington: Programmer combo for Atari 800/400
  • Alt choice: Atari Heavy Sixer

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Topics:

• Retro Show Announcements:
  • Vintage Computer Festival East, May 5 - 6
  • KansasFest, July 17 - 22
• Apple museum opens in Moscow
• Happy 20th birthday to a trillion MIMEs
• Mapstalgia: drawing video game maps from memory
• Did Microsoft's BASIC licensing kill the Apple IIe?
• Space Invaders couch
• 8-bit beer from Tallgrass Brewing
• Wasteland 2
• Dogfighters of Mars by Brian Picchi

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington - NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter
• Earl - Raspberry Pi
• David - Atari Flashback 3

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• Carrington: Smith Corona Messenger Module
• David: Compaq Portable III Model 2660
• Earl: Vintage Epson QX-10 Computer System

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Topics:

• Retrode 2: Play SNES and Genesis game carts on your Mac or PC
• Spacewar! Turns 50
• Sponsor a Valve on Colossus!
• F18A brings VGA output to TI-99/4A, ColecoVision, and more!
• http://www.commodoreserver.com/
• Retrochallenge Competition
• Howard Scott Warshaw (of Atari E.T. infamy) on AVGN: The Movie
• Retro computers in LEGO
• Andrew Stephen's Altair 8800micro
• Alker33 vintage YouTube channel and blog
• Altair 8800 emulator with lots of info including PDFs of the manual
• Zeta SBC, a Zilog Z80 based single board computer
• The N8VEM Home Brew Computer Project
• The new Retro Computing Podcast Forum

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• Carrington: Zip Chip 8000
• David: Processor Technology SOL-20 S-100 computer
• Earl: Vintage Epson QX-10 Computer System

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Topics:

• Bob Cook from Sun Remarketing interview
• David does a guest spot on the Open Apple podcast
• 6502 in 40-pin DIP package relaunched
• Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
• CRAVCon 2012
• KansasFest 2012
• Audio feedback from Ken Gagne of Open Apple
• Commodore in the Movies
• Old school computer remix of House of the Rising Sun
• Abobo's Big Adventure

Retro Computing Gift Guide:

• David: Briel Computers
• Earl: Retro Innovations
• Carrington: Subscription to Juiced.GS

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• David: Vintage Sharp Expert Pad
• David: Apple Newton MessagePad 100
• Earl: Kaypro 2
• Carrington: Apple II collection starter kit

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