Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• 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

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Derek Warren

Topics:

• 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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