Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Carrington Vanston (not hosting)

Topic: But the menus won’t stay open

Calmer days. Running old Mac OS software in an emulator, a reminder of how much extra whizzbang is distracting us now without necessarily adding much to the quality of the experience or production. Might it actually be useful to try to work in a retro environment?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Using the old Mac OS is pure Zen
• ET-PEB does MIDI
• Fazic.io
• Database: How to send email (1984)
• Bits & Bytes
• Hilarious House of Frightenstein (ep 1)
• LGR on Avon Beauty Vision Personal Color Computer

Retro Computing News:

• The 76477 sound effects chip reverse engineered
• Rick Dickinson, industrial designer of Sinclair home computers, passed away
• Rick Dickinson prototypes on Flickr
• New games:
  • Timepilot for ATARI XL/XE
  • Helicommander for Atari XL/XE
  • Nixy The Glade Sprite for ZX Spectrum
  • Quahappy for ZX Spectrum
  • Mine Sweep Mini for VIC-20
• Colossal vintage game/computing auction in NJ

Vintage Computer Commercial

• Sir Clive Sinclair’s Quantum Leap
• Fidelity Electronics Chess Challanger

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Knit Heart Floppy Disk

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Fidelity Electronics original 1977 Chess Challenger
  • Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess
  • The Overtom Chess Computer Museum
• Paul: IMSAI 8080 with drives
  • IMSAI 8080 owned by Don Kneller
  • IBM PC/AT set
  • IBM 5155
  • White phosphor Monitor III
  • Recreated ZX Spectrum, sort of
  • New Quadra 700 feet
  • Sinclair QL set

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

Topic: Shipwrecks

eBay has gotten big enough that collectors with too little space, as well as non-experts, heirs, estate sale pickers, etc. can make rare and interesting vintage computer items available to those of us who are interested in them. Being good at finding things at estate sales is not the same as being good at packing things for shipment. What’s the worst eBay/general shipping experience you’ve had?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Mimeo-1
• Jupiter Ace emulator for iPad
• Wolfenstein 3D, DOS, Apple IIGS
• Nova: The KGB, Computer, and Me (Nova, Clifford Stoll)
• Play retro baseball games in your browser

Retro Computing News:

• NASA dusts off FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede
• Kickstarter for Brian Bagnall’s “Commodore – The Final Years”
• TransWarp GS pre-orders
• Oregon Trail:
  • How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time
  • “You Have Died of Dysentery” book
  • Article on original development of Oregon Trail
• New Commodore 128 motherboard
• List of C128 software
• BBSing on an Epson PX-8
• BBSing on an emulated NeXT cube
• WiFi232
• WiModem232
• Kiba of Akiba: Party @ The BBS
• Kiba of Akiba: Oh My Personal Computer is Dead

Vintage Computer Commercial

• Commodore 128

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Atari joystick keychain
• Atari 2600 keychain

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple II tape collection barn find
• Earl: Apple 2gs Computer with System Saver
• Paul: Web-It internet computer
  • Apple luggage tag
  • Computer Shopper issue
  • TRS-80 Model I set
  • Norland Speed Term
  • iMac DV/SE

Closing notes:

• Long Long Man

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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