Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Michael Mulhern

Host’s Topic: Making money

What’s the first program you got paid to write?

Retro Computing News:

• Retrocomputing site on StackExchange
• Bonami Spelcomputermuseum
• Dick Smith Electronics to close
  • Dick Smith Super-80
• TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast
  • FreHD
  • M3SE
  • MISE
• The Conversation with Alex Malley – Nolan Bushnell
  • news.com.au report on interview
  • BrainRush
• FCC documents show Raspberry Pi 3 containing WiFi and Bluetooth
• Bugbook Museum to move to Computer Museum of America
  • Apple-1 arrives
  • Selling an Apple-1 in 1996
  • VCF SE 4.0 April 2-3, 2016
• Vintage Computer Forum, new home

Vintage Computer “Commercial” (sort of):

• Radio Shack Tandy 102

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• NeXT Raspberry Pi 2 case

Auction Picks:

• Jack: Amiga/AtariST PS2 mouse adaptor
• Michael: More than just a clackity click keyboard
  • Trackball
  • See also: Typewriter conversion kit
• Paul: Another TI 99/4
  • Sidecar disk controller
  • Disk drive
  • See also: Marvelous photo of TI 99/4 setup

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
  • Throwback Network on Facebook

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

Host’s Topic: We Heart Retrocomputing

It’s Valentine’s Day! So, we heart retrocomputing? First love, current love, secret love? As a side note, does Carrington secretly long for a Commodore 64?
Retro Computing News:

• CHM, 60th anniversary of the birth of Silicon Valley
• KansasFest 2016 registration is now open
• Babbage Difference Engine moving from CHM to Seattle
• Carston Tonn-Petersen’s AIM-65+++ with Forth
• Sinclair might-have-beens: Loki, LC3, Pandora
• Secret Weapons of Commodore
• Amstrad cross-development on Windows or Linux using Docker container
  • CPC Wiki forums
  • docker-amstrad-crossdev on github
• Free books from Usborne
• OS/2 Blue Lion – modern upgrade for OS/2
  • Blue Lion
• The Malware Museum on archive.org
  • Malware Museum write-up at ars technica
  • Malware Museum write-up at BBC news
• Retrochallenge Winter Warmup Winners
• Woz gets mad
• Win95 in web browser (Andrea Faulds)
  • Write-up at PCWorld
  • Write-up on TheNextWeb
• Internet Archive does Windows 3.1
  • IA blog post introducing Win 3.x collection

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Amstrad 464 Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retro Computer Code Scarf

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Terminal w/ keyboard – Direct 831
• Michael: Creepy Programming book
• Paul: Commodore S-video cable for SX-64 etc.
  • DK’Tronics keyboard for Sinclair ZX Spectrum
  • info about DK’Tronics keyboard at WorldOfSpectrum
  • TI 99/4 (sold immediately)
  • SYM-1 in box

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