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

Host’s Topic:

What is the best way to get into the retrocomputing hobby if you wanted to start with nothing?

Retro Computing News:

• Buy new 5.25 and 3.5 floppy disks
• CraigsWatch
• SearchTempest
• Modern kids react to retro computers
• Teens react to 90s Internet
• Sharp PC-1403 calculator playing some music
  • Outline 2014 results
• AT&T Archives: Unix in 1982
  • Dennis M. Ritchie
  • AT&T Archives
• Computer Terminal Corporation 2200 Data Point terminal video
• ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Talking to a vintage computer…in space
  • GNU Radio
• MTU-130 for sale
  • MTU-130: Compute Magazine Dec 1981
  • MTU Support
• Flapple Bird for Apple
• Plasma 123: compiler assembler for Apple-1, II, and ///
• Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
• 2014 Summer Retro Challenge
• The Computer Magazine Archives

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM: Introducing the Personal Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• USB Typewriter

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Prodigy kit
• Michael: Acorn Archimedes A3000
• Carrington: Apple II HDMI & VGA adaptor

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