Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: What we’ve done on our summer vacations

This time we talk a bit about what we saw on our various recent excursions, primarily KansasFest, also a little bit more from the college reunion that was the backdrop for episode 174.

Topic and feedback notes:

• KansasFest YouTube channel

Retro Computing News:

• 51nb motherboards for ThinkPad notebooks
• ThinkPad 25th anniversary model
• MITS Altair in-browser simulator
• Two histories of Myst
• General Magic documentary (article, FastCompany)
• General Magic documentary (official movie site)
• A developer’s introduction to General Magic and Magic Cap

Vintage Computer Commercial

• IBM ThinkPad

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retro AirPods

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Applesoft source printout
  • Mac OS 10.2 Jaguar magnets
• Jack: Atari trucker cap with a difference
• Paul: DOS New Complete Reference book, searchable
  • Apple III Plus
  • TRS-80 IQ Builder cassettes
  • SGI Indy Case
  • Commodore phone
  • TRS-80 Model 16

Closing discussion notes:

• Apple ][ and early PC in Lego

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), Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Schmopic

Happy July.

Topic and feedback notes:

• Using the Macintosh IIsi today
• Andy Hertzfeld interview, Tools & Craft series premiere
• Technomoan covers the OMNI Entertainment System
• Ken Shirriff reverse engineers the Sinclair Scientific
• Extreme refurbishing of an Atari 800XL:
  • Extreme Refurbishing of Atari 800XL: Part One
  • Extreme Refurbishing of Atari 800XL: Part Two
• Syd Bolton, founder of the Personal Computer Museum in Brandtford, Ontario, passed away

Retro Computing News:

• BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive
• Evan’s Lego Robotics Virtual Museum
• LEGO Logo, LEGO’s first programmable product
• Computer Museum AR, Android app
• Homebrew Club, iOS AR app
• How Apple’s Advanced Technology Group changed our world:
  • Fastcompany article
  • MacObserver article that mentions it
  • Fastcompany article on archive.org
• Animated retrocomputer gifs
• Papercraft Commodore 64
• Applesauce unit assembly under way, shipping soon

Vintage (Computer) Commercial(s)

• Atari 800XL
• Sinclair calculators

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• TRS-80 Model I Raspberry Pi case

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: A Collector’s Guide to Personal Computers
  • ACGtPC on abebooks
• Michael: LEGO interface card and sealed software
  • LEGO Interface A box, or, well, never mind.
  • IBM FNB 1410 System Scale Model
• Paul: Coleco ADAM disk drive
  • VIC-20 with unusual keyboard
  • Data tracker RS232
  • Perkins Elmer Fox terminal
  • Teletype ASR 35
  • Inside the Personal Computer
  • ItPC on abebooks
  • Great Plains Software pin
  • DEC mug

Topic and feedback notes:

• Silicon Cowboys documentary
• Magnetostrictive delay line unit in a tweet
• Magnetostrictive delay line unit on eBay
• Custom Oregon Trail arcade cabinet at High Scores Arcades in San Francisco




• This Is America video animated using MacPaint and MacroMind Director on vintage Macintosh SE.
• CEC “Basic Skills Software Resource Collection”

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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