Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Michael Mulhern

Host’s Topic: 2016, Here We Come

What are your big retro plans for 2016? Writing something, building something, fixing something, selling something?

Retro Computing News:

• MIST FPGA
• Pictures from World of Commodore 2015
  • Pictures from World of Commodore 2015
• EDSAC Update – Two new videos
  • BBC News article on the EDSAC Project
• (Largely complete) Star Raiders II released
  • Star Raiders source code
• S100 Z80-based single board computer
• The Internet Archive Telethon
  • Internet Archive donations
• Teensy-based 6502 Logic analyzer
  • Teensy logic analyzer highlighted on Hackaday
• Jingle Disk comparison

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM PCjr

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Tesla Watch

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Z80 Microprocessor Kit
  • PDP 8/I
• Michael: C64 Diagnostic Dead Test Cartridge
• Paul: BASIS 108
  • Something
  • Mac Color Classic, ready for Mystic Upgrade
  • Dark Forces (Mac)

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: The great acquisitions of 2015

Looking back on 2015, what was your favorite retrocomputing acquisition?

Retro Computing News:

• C64 Preservation Project
  • 10th anniversary collection on archive.org
• Getting a 1992 Sparc Classic running in 2004
• Interview with Tom Persky of floppydisk.com
• Building Tetris on the C64 in 6502 assembler, DevDef blog series
• C64 WiFi modem
  • C64 WiFi, video
• The Infocom Cabinet
  • A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities
  • The Rest of the Infocom Cabinet
  • Open Apple show 47 (Jason Scott)
• Raspberry Pi Zero
• Pis…In…Space!
• Kickstarter for LattePanda
• The Telharmonium
  • Coverage in McClure’s Magazine, July 1906
• Oscar Vermeulen on Hacakday: Experiences in Developing an Electronics Kit
  • Video of Oscar’s talk

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Commodore Plus 4 Commercial 1986

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Pixel Vision, hand-crafted handheld videogame emulator (Kickstarter) (4000 SEK, 470 USD)

Auction Picks:

• Paul: HERO 1
  • Educator 64
  • TI 99ER Virginia license plate
  • Old Datasette (black)
• Earl: Apple III Plus with monitor (Seattle pickup only)
• Jack: Melty, crafty, costly Atari 800
• Paul: Timex-Sinclair 1000 set for those with superfluous money
• Michael: Tandy MC-10
  • Matra Alice 90
  • Jim Gerrie’s MC-10 blog
  • Screenshots of and downloadable BASIC programs

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