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

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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