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

Host’s Topic: Retrocomputing TMI

It seems like the retrocomputing hobby is gaining traction. Hooray! Except now it’s so easy to scan things, post things, take videos—information is coming in at a rate that’s too hard to manage. How do you keep up?

Retro Computing News:

• BCS videos posted by CHM
• Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict trailer
• John Calhoun releases source code to his classic Macintosh shareware games
• Continuum 1.04 download and source
• Macross 6502, an assembler for people who hate assembly language
  • Macross on github
• Marvin Minsky obituary
  • Minskytron at masswerk.at
  • Most useless machine at Web of Stories
• Bill Fernandez: Apple employee #4, on Triangulation
• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
• VCF East Exhibitor Registration opens
  • VCF East XI, April 15-17, 2016
• 25th annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFest (event April 23-24, 2016)
• PoC||GTFO
• FlippyBit for Atari VCS source
• Quinn Dunki decelerates the IIc Plus on Blondihacks

Vintage Computer “Commercial” (sort of):

• Um.

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Amiga boing beachball
  • Perry Bible Fellowship, Beach Closing

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Back panel cover for Mac Color Classic “Mystic”
  • John Dvorak (then contributing editor with PC magazine) demonstrates how easy the modular IBM PS/2 is to take apart, on Computer Chronicles
• Jack: True Vintage 80s ATARI Puffer Vest Nylon
• Paul: Tandy 6000
  • VIC-Relay

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