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

Host’s Topic:

How far have you gone to personally pick-up a retro thingie?

Retro Computing News:

• Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1974)
  • Get a reprint
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Bletchley Park vs TNMOC
• Drop /// Inches podcast
• George R. R. Martin: “Why I still use DOS”
• Tezza’s Classic Mac capacitor replacement
  • Further info and photos
  • Dallas DS 1287 battery/real-time-clock fix
• Born With Curiosity: The Grace Hopper Documentary
• MS Gong Ride
  • Michael’s donation page
• Another Apple IIe that still has a day job
• TRS-80 Model 4P
• FreHD disk emulator (works on the 4P and others)
• Radio Shack Disk/Video Interface for Model 100
• Club100 (The Model 100 Users Group)

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Tandy 1000: “Clearly Superior”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Voyager Space Probe Golden Record Cover Replica

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Amdahl Corporation Emergency Power Off Button
• Paul: TRS-80 Model 4P
  • Alt: YAPX8
• Michael: 2 original Apple building signs
• Steve: IBM keypunch card printing plate
• Carrington: Heathkit Hero 2000 robot
  • Alt: Myra Burg Apple Wall Art Rug

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic:

Archiving physical media. Is it too late to copy that floppy?

• Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
• Rescuing Floppy Disks
• Kryoflux
• Software Preservation Society
• KeirF’s Disk-Utilities
• DiscFerret
• EDD+ card
• I’m fEDD Up
• Catweasel
• Supercard Pro

Retro Computing News:

• VCF SE behind-scenes photos
• Celebrate BASIC with a mini OS for Raspberry Pi
• Basic 10-line contest
• Jupiter ACE for sale
• Apple IIe still making player piano rolls
• Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
• Jimmy Maher’s The Digital Antiquarian blog
• Viscious: SID chip audio prototype for Apple-1
• Recreating the Deep Note
• Homebrew IBM System/370
• Time article on finding old computer games
• Oregon Trail nerdery

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Univac predicts the weather

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Raspberry Pi case shaped like Apple II
  • Melissa Barron’s Oregon Trail glitch art

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Canon CA2000 Japanese Pocket PC
• Paul: Commodore SD2IEC drive
• Carrington: Apple Studio Display M4551

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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