Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, and Jack Nutting

Topic: 2017

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Topic and feedback notes:

• Edladdin
• Retro_gaming (Instagram)
• “The Great Apple II BBS Tour” contest:
  • telnet://a80sappleiibbs.ddns.net:6502 (A 80’s Apple II BBS)
  • telnet://cqbbs.ddns.net:6502 (Captain’s Quarters)
  • telnet://dura-bbs.net:6359 (Dura-Europas)
• PDP-8/L renovation (page in Swedish)
• ABC80 archive (page in Swedish)

Retro Computing News:

• Doug Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos excerpts from a lecture from 1986
  • Vintage excerpts begin at 25:33
  • Full 1968 video
• Chris Osborn (FozzTexx) plays the Lucy & Linus song on an IMSAI 8080 via AM radio interference




• BMOW working on Apple II FPGA disk controller card
• The story of Tetris Max
• BMOW RetroUSB/Wombat (ADB-USB)
• Joe’s Computer Museum (Joe Strosnider) review of Retro USB
• Carte Blanche II
• OPL2LPT AdLib compatible parallel port board
  • OPLL2LPT review on The 8-bit Guy’s youtube channel
• Blake Patterson’s 8-bit holiday demos for 2017
  • Santa demo from The Voice (MUSE, Apple II)
  • Cows are cool (Paul as a kid recording his voice with The Voice)
• Dave Cheney dives into C. Gordon Bell’s “What Have We Learned from the PDP-11 paper” from 1976
• Olivetti Programma 101 early computer, nunmber game being played
• Ken Shirriff gets an IBM 1401 mainframe to create a Christmas card
  • The IBM 1401 wishes you a Merry Christmas (video)
  • Bitcoin mining on IBM 1401
• Skool Daze ported to Atari 8-bit

Some upcoming shows/gatherings:

• Retrogathering 2018 Vintage Computer Edition, January 27 2018, Västerås, Sweden
• VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L
• Retrocomputing devroom CfP for FOSDEM, February 3-4, 2018, Brussels, Belgium

Vintage Computer Commercial

• Olivetti Programma 101

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 5.25-inch floppy pillow

Auction Picks:

• Ian: Fujitsu FM-8
  • Byte Magazine May 1982 issue review of Japanese personal computers
• Paul: 3COM Audrey (Ocean)
  • Big orange DEC VMS manuals
  • LOBO MAX-80
  • Trockball
  • S-100 paper tape reader pre-order

Closing notes:

• C64 Cynthcart
• Funko Pop! figures staged on a NeXTstation TurboColor, punnilly captioned for an exceedingly narrow audience
• Kevin scanned an Apple brochure in which the colors are weird
• Large version of original Apple II ad
• The evolution and history of the Apple logo

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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