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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