Host’s Topic: Future nostalgists

We’re nostalgic for our formative computing years now, but lots of that old cool stuff got discarded or broken or traded along the way. D’oh! If only we’d been thinking of now then. But the kids of today will be our age at some point. Are we doing any better for their generation? What will they want back? Or, maybe easier: What do we wish our parents or former selves had hung onto?

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

Feedback notes

• Mike Willegal demos his SCELBI-8B reproduction
• A ZX81 Keyboard Adventure
• Scott’s RC2017/4 “Andy Project”
• MIT Flea
• Stockholm nördloppis
• Awesome Space
• Home-built computers web ring
• Mike Harrison’s (mikeselectricstuff) BBC Micro video

Retro Computing News:

• 8-bit workshop, now with more platforms!
  • Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C (book, Steven Hugg)
  • History of the machines in 8-bit workshop
• 55,000 Reasons to love FORTRAN
• WiFi232
• Steve Furber Interview – Centre for Computing History
  • Steve Furber on Wikipedia
• Debugging Applesoft code from Airwolf
• Tandy Assembly. October 7-8 in Chillicothe, OH.

Vintage Computer Commercial

• Hayes marketing from 1984

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Mouse Mats (Rhayader Computers)

Auction Picks:

• Jack: Atari wallet
• Michael: ETI 631 keyboard and 632 VDU
  • LCD Projection Panel
  • Computer Plus Modular 200 (Australian made PDP-11)
• Paul: BYTE Spectrum clone
  • Don Lancaster classics USB v1.03
  • TRS-80 Model III, red
  • ZX80.5
  • OSI Superboard II set
    • See also: Briel Computers Superboard III:

Closing notes:

• Citizens of Tech episode 69 on retrocomputing
• WOzFest recap/galleries

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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