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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