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

Host’s Topic: Choices of a New Generation

Host’s Topic: There has been much discussion lately among retro enthusiasts about introducing the “next generation” (i.e. our kids) to the computers and software of our youth. If the machines we love are going to live on after we die, it will have to be in the hands of people who never had them growing up, and therefore have no real nostalgia for them. My question is this: What were your parents nostalgic for, that they tried to instill in you a nostalgia for? Did it work?

Retro Computing News:

• ESA deems modding retro games for preservation is illegal
• Jimmy Maher on the “68000 wars”
  • 1st half
  • 2nd half
  • 3rd half
  • The Future Was Here
• Wander (1974), lost mainframe game found
  • Wander source code
  • Terry Winograd’s SHRDLU
• Kaboom! game released for Apple IIgs
• George at InfoAge/VCF East X
• VCF SE 3.0
• Steve Furber on Computerphile, designing the ARM
  • The Path toward ARM and BBC B

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM 5100

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retrory memory game

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Stratos SE/30 Dual Slot PDS Adapter
• Jack: “Atari-style” USB joystick with blue LED lighting effects
• Paul: Apple-Vision Source
• Paul: Letter from Bruce Tognazzini
• Paul: Three-Dimensional Microcomputer Graphics
  • Scan of what appears to be this manual

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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Panelists: Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern

Host’s Topic: Programming tools

One of the things we like to do with old computers is program them. With modern computers, running editors and emulators, we can do some things a lot more easily than we could when dealing directly with the classic machines. Do you have any favorite tools and tips for doing this sort of thing?

Retro Computing News:

• Apple2BuildPipeline
• WUDSN
• cc65
• OCM – Oldenburger Computer Museum
• The PiDP-8/I – Recreating the 1968 PDP-8/I
• Restoration of a PDP-11/04, running CAPS-11 operating system and BASIC, loading from cassette tape
  • video
• How to turn your whole car into a vintage driving game
• Matt Parker: The Imitation Archive – a teaser
  • talk announcement, with photo
• 8088MPH demo on IBM PC
• French Touch demos on Apple II
• Moleman 2 movie
• KansasFest 2015
• VCF East X
  • Guru Meditation team gets their Amigas ready
• VCF SE 3.0
• OzKfest
• ANTIC interviews Al Alcorn
• Turing Notebook
  • controversy over the UK granting of export licence
• Apple II Watch
• Designing an Apple II on an Arduino Uno

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Alan Alda on typing and Atari

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retro classic computer mug

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Electronika BK0010-01 PDP-11 compatible
• Earl: Microsoft FoxPro 2.6 for MS-DOS
• Jack: Vintage Retro Computer Bookends
• Michael: Atari belt buckle
• Michael: Atari cap
• Michael: Battlezone button
• Paul: Commodore Power Monitor
• Paul: IBM 5155
• Paul: Amdek Color-I

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