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RCR Episode 97: Teaching old data new tricks

March 29, 2015PodcastsThe RCR Crew

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

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