Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), and Michael Mulhern

Host’s Topic: A veritable plethora

Continuing to wonder about modern recreations as ever more appear on the scene. Are we cheating? Should we just get over it? Does this mean more people are coming? How do you choose which Apple IIGS RAM card to get?

Retro Computing News:

• Floppy Emu
• The End of Things (DB-19 connector)
• Apollo 11 program alarms
• Neil Armstrong, the 1201 alarm, and greatness personified
• IBM 2321 Data Cell
• Mike Willegal’s LUNAR in SCELBAL
• David H. Ahl’s LUNAR
• StackExchange Retrocomputing site
• “From Mainframes to Smartphones” book
• “Abacus to smartphone” book
• Bill Landreth and the Inner Circle, today
• Tynemouth Software, retro machines as USB keyboards
• TheFutureWas8Bit’s C64 SD2IEC from recycled plastic
• DragonBox Pyra handheld
• The 64 computer and handheld console, Indiegogo campaign
• The 64 on Facebook
• Dick Smith Electronics, closing in 1 week
• Programming the Micro-KIM tutorial
• WOzFest ///

Vintage Computer “Commercial” (sort of):

• Acorn Electron

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Apple /// case for iPhone 6(s)(plus)
  • The original painting on etsy

Auction Picks:

• Michael: Dick Smith VZ200
• Paul: NEC PC-8201A, box and all
  • Acorn Electron, plus 3, plus 1
  • Laffer Utilities

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), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Lunar landistry

SpaceX successfully blasted off a rocket, which they’ve done before – but this time, the rocket’s stage one came back down and landed itself safely! In celebration of their accomplishment, we wanted to look back on the game Lunar Lander, and its various incarnations.

• Forty Years of Lunar Lander
• Lunar Lander variants on Mobygames

Retro Computing News:

• Digibarn newsletter reboot
  • Voice of America video re: Apple turns 40
  • Levity Zone 46: Woz at Digibarn
  • Levity Zone 47: Apple 30th panel
  • YouTube portions of Apple 30th panel
• Inside Spacebar! at mass:werk
• Google60
• Connor Krukosky presents at SHARE (“Here’s what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe”)
  • Connor’s presentation on YouTube
• 8bit Generation movie
• Retroist interviews National Videogame Museum co-founder Joe Santulli
• 8-bit Weapon interviewed about their creative process
• Art of Atari
  • USA Today Article on Art of Atari
• VIC-20 book kickstarter, 2 weeks and a ways to go
• Britain’s first mass-produced commercial computer
• Bletchley Park podcast
• Ultimem VIC-20 expansion card
  • Retro Innovations store link
• PolyMold Moldable Plastic
• Sugru
• Inc. magazine, January 1982
  • Software Arts wrote the first best-seller (Inc.com)
  • The birth of an industry (Inc.com)

Vintage Computer “Commercial” (sort of):

• The Eagle Has Landed

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Fascinations Apollo Lunar Module 3D Model Kit
  • Fascinations site

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Commodore Amiga 1200
• Jack: Atari 8-bit Lunar Lander
• Michael: When retro computers collide
  • Before you print it, you have to scan it
  • Thunderscan story on folklore.org
• Paul: eProbe set
  • Laser expansion box
  • Byte Cellar article on the Laser expansion box
  • A-MAx II Plus Mac emulator for Amiga 2000
  • A-Max information page
  • HP 85 set
  • Whole Internet Calendar for 1997/2031

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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