Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: Surprises

A volunteer at TNMOC found a Lorenz cipher machine keyboard on eBay for £9.50. What has been your most unexpected find on eBay, at garage sale, or even at a flea market?

Retro Computing News:

• Writing a Game in Assembly for an Old Computer Taught Me Lessons Relevant Today
• CP/M forever!
  • 8 bit computer from scratch (blog)
  • Microbee “Classic Plus Kit Computer”
  • RC 2014 Z80 computer on Google Groups
  • RC 2014 Z80 computer on Tindie
• A new retro computing stackexchange site
• Hacking Archive at TNMOC
• Beginning of “Apple II first ships” week?
• Chuck Moore’s FORTH processor designs (CPUShack Museum)
  • Part two
  • GreenArrays chips for sale
• Factor
• First digital computer, by country
• Ferut
• LEGO models from Chris McVeigh/PowerPig:
  • My Old Desktop (Pre-order)
  • IBM PC
  • Rotary phone
• DB-19: Resurrecting an obsolete connector
• Canada b-boy cypher

Vintage Computer Commercials (sort of)

• What’s all this?
• 1985 Car of the Year
• They’re waggling

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• K.I.T.T. USB Car Charger
  • Instructables write-up on LED scanner for your car

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Full Throttle for Macintosh
  • ScummVM
• Earl: Digital Server 5000 AlphaServer 1200
• Michael: Commodore themed mouse pads:
  • Datasette
  • C64
  • READY
• Jack: Atari Falcon
• Paul: Apple-1
  • Apple II
  • IBM 360 faceplate
  • Acorn Electron Plus 1 complete in box
  • Footmouse
  • Thumbs Up Music Modem keyboard

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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