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

Host’s Topic: Getting done

Projects – so easy to start, so difficult to complete! What techniques have you found to cross the finish line? What stands in your way? Should we adopt a more businesslike approach to our hobby endeavors – would that take the fun out of it, or add to the fun when the final result appears?

Feedback notes

• RWAP ZX81 keyboard membrane replacements
• Moleman 4 movie
• The Convex C220 arrives at the Vaxbarn

Retro Computing News:

• Radiohead hides vintage computer game in OK Computer reissue
• VCF West
• Ready Player One preview
  • Ready Player One first look photo
• Microsoft Paint is gone
  • No it’s not
  • Impressive MS Paint art
• Magnetic Scrolls source tapes recovered
• Class Apples, the world’s first all Apple II music based album
  • 8 Bit Weapon
  • Apple II DMS Music and DMS Drummer
• The forgotten world of teletype games (Benj Edwards)
• The NASA computer in the basement
• Modern day Gopher history
  • The Rise and Fall of the Gopher protocol
  • See also RCR episode 135
  • OverbiteFF Firefox plugin for Gopher protocol
• Apple II Festival France 2017, Aug 3-6
• VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L.

Vintage Computer Commercial

• Sperry Computer Ad 1978

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 2038: The Final Countdown shirt

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: 1976 MOS KIM-1 Computer System
• Earl: VINTAGE 1985 MICROSOFT FORTRAN COMPILER W/DISCS, MANUALS, & PLEXIGLASS CASE
• Michael: Clear/Prototype Mouse
  • IBM Card Punch, but not quite what you’d think
• Paul: Silent Service T-shirt
  • Sub Battle hat
  • Datamost T-shirt
  • HP 5036A Microprocessor Lab (8085)
  • TeleType 43 terminal

Closing notes:

• RetroMacCast 444 (MacAttic tour)
• Mpls City Pages story on Oregon Trail origins
• Philip Bouchard (Jan 2016), You Have Died of Dysentery (book)
• See also: How I managed to design the most successful educational computer game of all time

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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