Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Teaching Old Data New Tricks

Host’s Topic: What can/should/do you do with the data you find on newly acquired vintage computers?

Retro Computing News:

• The Magnavox Odyssey on What’s My Line?
• Jeff Minter v. zombie Atari re: Tempest
• Doctor Who, Prime Computer ads
• 12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe
• Ready Player one picked up
• Chris Osborne assembles MC-10 128K RAM kit
• How One Man Invented the Console Adventure Game
• The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Prime Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retrode 2 USB game cart adaptor

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Bob Bishop’s Dung Beetles for Apple II (sealed)
• Carrington: TRS-80 Mega Bug cartridge for Tandy CoCo
• Jack: An incredibly clean and shiny Atari 800XL plus printer and disk drive
• Paul: Laser 200 set
• Paul: Coco 2 x2, box, cartridges
• Paul: Some cables, from clean sale, to be delivered someday

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Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Printers, with Lasers

Host’s Topic: 30 years ago HP and Apple released their first Laser printers, both based on a Canon engine. When did you first use a laser printer instead of an impact or thermal printer? What was the drove you to use lasers, and how hard/easy were they to use?

• How Steve Jobs helped launch the desktop publishing revolution
• Senator Obama on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me

Retro Computing News:

• Warren Robinett (Adventure) and Howard Scott Warshaw (Yars Revenge) postmortems at GDC
• Kickstarter: Newly molded Commodore 64c cases from original molds
• Ancient Atari goodies from Videogame History Museum
• BBC Micro Bit
  • BBC Micro Bit and Colossus
  • the original BBC Micro
• Al Lowe, one Sierra history
• [Digitized VHS marketing tapes]
  • ComputerLand Business Computing System
  • Apple 1988 marketing video: The Mainstreet Workgroup
  • Apple 1988 marketing video: The Macintosh Advantage
  • Apple 1988 marketing video: Hambrecht & Quist
  • ComputerLand/Apple “Moving Up”

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• ComputerLand/Apple “Moving Up”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• ZX Spectrum Keyboard

Auction Picks:

• Jack: Atari trackball controller “for parts”
• Michael: Witty Mouse
• Michael: Sinclair QL Tool Kit
• Michael: //c Playing Cards
• Paul: Broken Apple Cats

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

Host’s Topic: The gear left behind outweighs the needs of the few, or the one

There will come a time when whatever we have in our collection becomes somebody else’s responsibility. What should we be doing? Those of us collecting now have certainly all seen this happen, when we pick up piles of treasure from someone clearing out dearly departed grampa’s incomprehensible stuff from the attic, or from the lady down the street who did Apples in her garage. Is there a time to downsize? Information to write down for others? Are there organizations to contact for assistance, or should there be?

Retro Computing News:

• John Carmack teaches his kids programming on an Apple IIc
  • Like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness
• Cargo-Bot for iOS
• PDP8 emulator in progress for iPad (Codea/Lua)
• Sir Clive Sinclair unimpressed with modern computing
• The machines that defined British computing
• John Von Neumann documentary
• Inventive Britain stamp, Colossus
• IMAGEDISK
• 22DISK

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1981 Magnavox Odyssey2
• Dimension PBX computer at Wisconsin Telephone

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 8080 Octal Code Card

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: The Journey Inside: The Computer Intel Education Kit
  • About The Journey Inside: The Computer kits
• Carrington: Complete Set of Apple II and Macintosh Technical Notes
• Carrington: Every Sinclair brand ZX81 software title
• Earl: Oak Technology VGA Monitor Adapter for XT/AT
• Paul: Best of Creative Computing vol. 1
  • May/June 1975 Creative Computing at archive.org
  • Dave Haynie and Amiga 2000

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