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

Host’s Topic:

Preserving the Wild Retroalope: Recreations are great. Repairs are great. But what actions can we take now to ensure that our vintage computers, peripherals or media don’t fail in the first place?

Retro Computing News:

• Athana (vendor of floppy disks)
• Preserving Computing’s Past: Restoration and Simulation
• EDD+ Card
• I’m feDD Up
• RocketChip
• Altair 8800 instructional videos
• Altair 8800 Clone
• EDSAC diagrams
  • EDSAC Project Overview
  • EDSAC video
• Cray-1 Introduction, by Seymour Cray
• LM323K replacement
• Selling The Computer Revolution
• Retrochallenge has busiest first week ever
• Miniature Apple II monitor
• New C64 motherboards and Tatung Einsteins (via Andy)
• IBM 1401: The Dawn of a New Era (via Hamik)
• Potentially very long term DVD/BDs (via Matt)
• Floppy emulator for the Mac 400K crowd (via Jason)

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Commodore Amiga

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 80s music to compute by

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Intellivision Computer Keyboard
• Paul: 475 Atarisoft Moon Patrols
  • Alt: 350 Atarisoft Jungle Hunts
  • Alt: 240 Atarisoft Galaxians
• Michael: Amstrad CPC 464
• Carrington: The Video Wizard and Video Tape File System
  • Alt: Mosaic in a Box
  • Alt: Boxed TI-99s as far as the eye can see

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