Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: When is “Retro” Retro?

After 12 years, Windows XP is about to go out of support; is XP now retro, or is retrocity in the eye of the nostalgic beholder?

Retro Computing News:

• Microsoft have releases source for MS-DOS and Word for Windows
  • Computer History Museum press release
• Arniga project: ARM-based Amiga 500
• Minimig
• The Next “Briel Thing” prototype board S/N #1
  • OldComputers.net: Ohio Scientific
  • Wikipedia: Ohio Scientific
• Raspberry Pi built into Ultratec teletype machine
• Stick a Beaglebone inside your VT100!
• Lord British’s Apple II running Akalabeth
• James Tauber detokenizes the Akalabeth source
• Nano Vic20
• Internet Archive to digitize 40,000 VHS & Betamax tapes
• 30th anniversary edition of Hitchhiker’s Guide text adventure game released

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Arthur C. Clarke: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Star Trek Pyjamas

Auction Picks:

• Earl: BNIB Atari CX85 keypad
• Paul: Many new TI 99/4a things
  • Nanopeb
  • Photo of highly expanded TI 99/4a
• Michael: Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative
• Carrington: Maxx flight control yolk for Apple II

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Mike Whalen

Host’s Topic: Stock or Tricked-Out?
What’s your view of expanding vintage machines? Is it better, and is it worth it?

Retro Computing News:

• 64tass
  • 64tass manual
• Geoff Edwards (final host of Starcade) passes away
  • Starcade
  • Interview with Geoff Edwards, part 1
  • Interview with Geoff Edwards, part 2
  • No Quarter podcast #64: Starcade special
• Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1
• C64: A Visual Compendium
  • Related video
• PC Jr. History by Michael Brutman
  • The PC Jr. server
• Who stole the graphics? Board Games meet the computer:
  • Tanktics
  • Virtual Apple: Tanktics disk image
  • Dneiper River Line
  • Virtual Apple: Dneiper River Line disk image
• Aquarius runs Portal? (Not quite)
• 1 BIT Sigma Delta Modulator:
  • Chris Martin’s YouTube channel
  • Atari Age post
• Michael’s ‘new’ Dick Smith VZ200: It’s not an Apple II, it doesn’t even run on a 6502

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Hawkeye predicts that the Atari may make the typewriter obsolete

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Fortran Coloring Book:
  • Amazon
  • Roger Kaufman’s own retrospective page

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Fortran Coloring Book
• Michael: SSG (Amiga) “Reach for the Stars”
• Mike: Casio Databank DBC 600
  • Timex Data Link watch demo

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Host’s Topic: Good Old Golden Rule Days

What was your first exposure to a computer in school? Did you take computer classes in grade school?

Retro Computing News:

• Dear Educator, we live in exciting times!
• Apple /// emulation in MESS leaps forward
• Flappy Bird for C64
• Meet the Unitron: the first Mac clone
• Archive.org: The Business Case
• Almost Perfect: How a Bunch of Regular Guys Built WordPerfect Corporation
• Gary Kildall and the Birth of the PC Operating System
• Computer Chronicles: Gary Kildall Special
• BBC to launch refreshed Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Game
• Margot Comstock to keynote KansasFest 2014
• The return of Humongous games
• A question for listeners: What do you do with your vintage computers?

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• The Enterprise 128

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• It’s Behind You: the making of a computer game by Bob Pape

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215 Plotter
  • Alt: Core memory
• Paul: Enterprise 128
• Carrington: Modern power adaptor for Apple IIc
  • Related: iFixit guide: Apple IIc device repair

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