Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Ken Gagne (eventually), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: Books!

Books! Do we need them for our retro addiction hobby? Are PDFs better, or do you prefer dead tree flesh? How do you store and use them? Can you have too many? (No! I need more books) Reprints, new editions, or are you after the 30+ year old originals? And what are the best places to get even more?

Retro Computing News:

• AmigaOS
• Commodore at the CES … thirty years ago
• Happy 40th Birthday 8080!
• MS-DOS games on archive.org
• Modern slim take on the original Mac design
  • Video of Curved Mac
• Dial-up Internet is Dead
  • Dial-up plans in the US
  • FoxValley plans
• Commodore Vegas Expo (CommVEX) v11, July 2015, Las Vegas
• You Are Now Earthbound convention in Tucson July 18–19
  • Buy Earthbound
• ANSI parallax scrolling
• Sinclair Spectrum Vega manufacturing site selected
  • Local news report on the selection
  • Spectrum Vega Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign
  • Tasword Two the movie
• Commodore 64, world record sales
• PAX East (featuring Ken’s “Reboot Your Roots” panel)
  • AGD Interactive versions of King’s Quest games
• Apple Graphics & Arcade Design book
• SIO2SD for Atari 8-bit

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Microbee

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Red Shirt Eau de Toilette

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: MAC: Mechanical Analog Computer for flight simulation
• Carrington: Sealed NES Stadium Events
  • NES Stadium Events found at a yard sale
• Paul: Электроника БК (Electronica) BK-0010-01, PDP-11 compatible Russian home computer
• Paul: TRS-80 I/III/CoCo Plug’n Power controller
  • More complete, pricier controller auction
• Michael: Commodore C16
  • Another C16 auction in US
• Jack: Boy Scouts of America Computer-Knowledge badge

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