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

Host’s Topic: Mandatory downgrade

If you had to use a legacy operating system as your daily driver, which one would you pick and why?

Retro Computing News:

• ProDOS 2.4.1 released
  • ProDOS 2.4 released
  • ProDOS 2.4.1 in-browser emulation at archive.org
  • Direct link to disk image
  • Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year
• Mitchell Waite interview on ANTIC
  • also, Michael Boucher, MECC interview
  • ANTIC, The Atari 8-Bit Podcast
• Recovering Atari ST ASIC designs
• Bill Atkinson’s Polaroids of early OS milestones
• No new CFFA3000s for a while
• PacCommEx, Summer 2017
• Apple adds to vintage software collection via eBay
• Apple IIGS turned 30
• Teardown: same product, fifty years apart
• OSEPP Motor Driver
• NodeMCU dev board, includes ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller
• Dara O Briain’s Go 8 bit on Dave
• IT Crowd DVD has subtitles in 1337

Vintage Computer Commercials

• Apple II GS – “Experts”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• PocketCHIP

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Dust cover for Apple II
  • The Alien for Apple II (sealed)
  • Tandy Color Computer 1 with odd keyboard
• Earl: RARE Vintage Apple III Computer /w 256k ram!
• Jack: Gramd Priks Atari 2600
  • Related: David Crane talks about writing Grand Prix
• Paul: New VIC-20 Datasette drives, almost gone
  • Robot arm
  • Epson QX-16
  • Pencil II
  • SVI 328
  • Mac Memory Disk
  • Review: Macworld March 1985: Memory Disk review (p. 72)

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

Host’s Topic: Old computers de-composing

Dr. Peter Thorne stopped by TNMOC and talked about CSIRAC, Australia’s oldest computer, and indeed the world’s oldest existing computer—and also explained that it will almost certainly not be restored, but kept instead in original, but non-working, condition. Discuss.

Retro Computing News:

• CSIRAC won’t work again
• RCR YouTube channel
• RetroGathering
• RetroChallenge
• 2015 megapodcast (RCR 105)
• CoCo Crew
• How Australia played the world’s first music on a computer (Australian Geographic)
• CSIRAC – the first computer to play music (ABC Science)
• Trevor Pearcey interview (1996)
• A timeline of 1-bit music (1-bit forum)
• The hacker, the scrapheap, and the first Apollo computer
• Lode Runner Total Recall (HTML5)
• Omnivore, Jumpman Level Design contest
• Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
  • Chris Klimas interview (Polygamer #50)
• “Multimedia LPs” on the RCR Facebook group
• Vinyl Data (kempa.com)
• CloudT Model 100 emulator in a web page
• VirtualT Model 100 emulator
• Sierra classics now on Steam
• GOG.com
• PocketChip
• Music excerpts from:
  • CSIRAC music, including samples
  • Apple II Electric Duet
  • Altair 8800

Vintage Computer Commercials

• The computer “CSIRAC” (1965)
• CocoFest (April 22-23, 2017)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• QWERKYWRITER

Auction Picks:

• Jack: Enterprise 128
  • See also: Enterprise on Wikipedia
  • See also: RCR 69 for one earlier mention
• Michael: When Computers meet Vinyl
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers LP
  • Music From Mathematics (played by IBM7090)
  • 8-Bit Weapon, Silo64 Soundtrack
  • Also: Greatest baseball game never played
  • And: Drop /// Inches episode 15
• Paul: ORIC-1
  • ACE Discovery 500
  • See also: ACE Discovery 500 ads

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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