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

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars

Listen/Download:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed