Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Jack Nutting

Topic: Feedback

Lots of feedback (mostly links people sent in), so we go through some of that.

Topic and feedback notes:

• PC Classic
• Doors and Dungeons Gaming Podcast
• TRS-80 Prototype tape system
• If PHP were British
• GuruNet for the Amiga
• Stagecast Creator
• The Coming Crisis in Home Computers
• How to design an 8-bit Z-80 computer, part 1
• How to design an 8-bit Z-80 computer, part 2

Retro Computing News:

• Walk Around an 80s City with LASERDISC! The Domesday Project
• Mini vMac for iPad
• ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space
• Mac Portable ejects a disk in space
• No Such Thing as a Fish, episode 243
• 1987 Ardent Titan Graphics Supercomputer
• COBOL all the way down
• Bill Godbout, early power in S-100 design, passed away
• George Keremedjiev, founder of Bozeman, MT’s American Computer Museum passed away
  • See also: Floppy Days episode 5
  • See also: Retrocomputing Roundtable episode 177 (Aug 26, 2018)

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• Prodigy

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• TRS-80 shirt (Radio Shack)
• The Almighty C shirt (Commodore)

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Commodore 2031 Computer Single Disk Drive
• Paul: Slomo ZX Spctrum Pacesetter
  • CoCo mini disk drive with poncho
  • Miniature PowerMac 8500
  • CompuServe Starter Kit
  • PDP 11/35 system
  • Turtle Tot Educational robot
  • SEGA SC-3000
  • See also: SEGA SC-3000 survivors

Closing discussion notes:

• #tweetcart
• VidHD orders open

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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

Topic: OK. OK. What’s next?

How do you pick what to do next with your retro computer hobby and collection? Free time can be unpredictable, and sometimes projects get started and then stuck in limbo. Also, related – what is your “white whale” project that you’d like to do “someday” but you know in reality you might never get to it.

Topic and feedback notes:

• GATE (in modern macOS, try Gate.app/Contents/MacOS/Gate\ Release from Terminal to run)
• Robot Odyssey I emulated online
• The Hardest Computer Game of All Time
• Let It Beep (Welcome to Macintosh podcast)
• 1995 One More Thing interview with Jim Reekes

Retro Computing News:

• How many computers are in your computer?
• Atariprojects.org
• Eric Raymond’s Things Every Hacker Once Knew document
• KbooHK WDrive floppy emulator
• Call-A.P.P.L.E. review of KbooHK WDrive
• How big is the Atari 8-bit community?
• Sonore Model 100 software arcive
• Apple II disk server
• Apple II game server

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

• Honeywell Computers – Automated Office
• Prime Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Digirule2

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple II Interface Accessory Function Strip
• Earl: Commodore calculator
  • Much cheaper Commodore calculator
• Paul: ET-3400, EWA-3400
  • Sears Telegames System heavy 6 with box and everything
  • Exidy Sorcerer lot
  • Tandy 200
  • Mailstation Mivo 100
  • Mailstation 150
  • See also: Mailstation info pages
  • See also: Mailstation Yahoo group
  • See also: The Only 8 Gadgets You Need (Forbes)

Closing discussion notes:

• Mosaic 1.0 turned 25 years old

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Getting and Regretting

What vintage computer did you get… and regret?

Topic and feedback notes:

• LowEndMac’s Road Apples
• Our Founder
• Docubyte
• Macs in Austria need a home

Retro Computing News:

• The Adventures of Captain Midnight: an Early History of Pay TV Scrambling (Paleotronic)
• Ken Sherriff – Fixing an IBM 1401 printer
• Paul Allen obituary
• Virtual BASIC
• Magic GOTO (for Apple II)
• Slammer (for Apple II)
• VIC20 full motion video (192×160 12fps)
• Jan Derogee’s page
• Internet Archive now does Commodore PET
• Retrochallenge results
• Inside NeXT book

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Apple Macintosh Quadra
• Palm VII
• I’m a Mac

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppy disk clocks
• Floppy disk note pads

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Macintosh Quadra 630
• Michael: Fujitsu FM R-30 FD
• Paul: Megabucks from your microcomputer
  • See also: Megabucks from your Microcomputer (review)
  • Not actually a TAM
  • “Sinclair ZX Spectrum”
  • Alcatel Telic
  • Apple’s best cable ever

Closing discussion notes:

• Judge John Hodgman talked a little bit about Dark Castle

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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

Topic: Playing today’s games in 1000 years

To what extent should “we” expect to be able to play the games of today in 1000 years.
What challenges might there be? To what extent can the experience survive? Is there anything
we can do to make this work?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Playing today’s games in a thousand years
• Crypt of Civilization
• The Long Now
• Oldenburger Computer Museum
• HCC computer club

Retro Computing News:

• Conserve the Sound
• CHIP-maker NTC now defunct
• Gigatron, TTL microcomputer
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• 1959 Wurlitzer Sideman
• Mr Wonderful helped kill the educational computer games industry [AV Club]
• The rise and fall of The Learning Company [Theoutline.com]
• Apple Logo source code on github (within the PDP-10 ITS repository)
• Tweet: Lars Brinkhoff found the source code and compiled it.
• Tweet: Lars announces GitHub location.

Vintage Computer-related Commercial

• 3M Diskettes

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Cubetto: Screenless Coding Toy

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Basic BASIC-English Dictionary for the Apple, PET, & TRS-80
  • Or buy it on AbeBooks for $1100.99
• Paul: Romantic Robot Multiface 1 for ZX Spectrum
  • Interview 20 plus network tester
  • Calmpute for the IBM PC
  • People Didn’t Punch this tape
  • New Apple II clone case
  • Hot Wheels PC
  • See also: PowerBook 170 JLPGA
  • 8” 3M diskettes

Closing discussion notes:

• Assembly Lines video podcast
• Michael Harrison 1982 interview with Steve Wozniak

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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