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

Host’s Topic: Venturing down the retro upgrade path

How far should we go down the upgrade path toward modernity? If you have a, say, 68030 Mac, would you want to put a third-party 68040 accelerator in it? You would have in 1993. But what is the point today?

Retro Computing News:

• Vintage computer game code wheels online
• EEVblog teardown of an OCC-1
• Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?
• Future Shocked: reverse engineering the FuturePad controller for the Apple IIgs
• Kickstarter: “The Commodore Story – Changing the World 8 Bits at a Time.”
• Internal Apple memos on SSAFE
• Upcoming festival/convention/show roundup:
  • Mar 31-Apr 2: VCF East XII. Wall, NJ
  • Apr 22-23: 26th annual Last Chicago CoCoFest. Lombard, IL
  • Apr 29-30: VCF Southeast 5.0. Roswell, GA
  • Apr 29-May 1: VCF Europa 18.0. Munich, Germany
  • Jun 10-11: Pacific Commodore Expo Northwest. Seattle, WA, LCM+L
  • Jul 18-23: KansasFest. Kansas City, MO (and golden tickets)
  • Jul 29-30: CommVEx v13. Las Vegas, NV
  • Aug 5-6: VCF West XII. Mountain View, CA
  • Dec?: World of Commodore. Toronto, Canada
• Tony Diaz on Retroblasting
• Affinity Designer
• Silicon Valley Revolution (trailer)

Vintage Computer Commercial

• IBM Quietwriter typewriter

Retro Computing Gift Idea: Rasberry Pi Zero W

• Official page
• Adafruit page
• Micro Center page

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Power Macintosh 8500
  • IBM Quietwriter
  • Apple Studio Display (NOS)
• Earl: Siemens TS100 Teletype Machine
• Paul: Lisa 1 bezel
  • Lisa 1 (“Twiggy”) drives
  • PDP-8/S
  • Expando-vision
  • Epson HX-20
  • Etherwave adapter

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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