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
- Al Lowe, one Sierra history
- [Digitized VHS marketing tapes]
Vintage Computer Commercial:
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Jack: Atari trackball controller “for parts”
- Michael: Witty Mouse
- Michael: Sinclair QL Tool Kit
- Michael: //c Playing Cards
- Paul: Broken Apple Cats
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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