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

Host’s Topic: Wherefore Art Thou Retro?

Why bother to use or collect retro computers? Other than for nostalgia, what good are these old computers when you could buy a modern PC for the price of an Apple II on eBay?

Retro Computing News:

• Retrochallenge 2014SC
• Vintage Computer Faire
• Mac512K to Netatalk Server
• Apple Crate with 25 units
  • AppleCrate II
  • NadaNet
• Wearable submarine to hunt for 2000-year-old computer
  • The Antikythera Mechanism
  • Antikythera Mechanism in LEGO
• Object-Oriented Program … from 1965!
  • The SIMULA programming language
  • The Mother of All Demos
• Z80PACK Z80 simulator
• Lode Runner ported to the Tandy CoCo
• Looking back at 30 years of Tetris with Alexey Pajitnov
  • Tetris: From Russia With Love (BBC, 2004)
• Long lost Sharp X68000 game found
  • Sharp X68000
• History of Computers and the World Cup
• Escape Games Toronto

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Celebrate the World Cup by building a Video Soccer game:
  • The TV Game Construction Kit
  • AY-3-8500 Pong-on-a-chip
  • DIY Pong-but-better instructions
  • Vintage make-it-yourself Pong ads

Auction Picks:

• Earl: STRTRK (Startrek) on paper tape
• Paul: Tandy Paladin
• Michael: Bumper Sticker
• Carrington: Macintosh SE/30
  • Related: IIsi ColorPivot II card hack for SE/30
  • Related: Long torx bit (Toaster Mac case opening tool

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