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

Topic: Most innovative / forward-looking technology in the 60s/70s/80s

Mostly, an excuse to talk about Douglas Englebart’s “mother of all demos.” But other topics are welcome too.

Topic and feedback notes:

• The Mother of All Demos, Douglas Englebart (1968)
• Retrobits Podcast episode reviewing What the Dormouse Said (covering events of the era)
• Lisa slideshow
• Merlin in a browser (and links to other IXO things)
• Byte 1982 article on IXO telecomputer
• Paul’s Retrochallenge 2014 WW on IXO
• AmigaOS 3.1.4
• Kano (Raspberry Pi-based programming kits for kids)
• Ad for the Portbubble terminal
• X-keys XK-16 Stick
• Pac-Man: The untold story of how we really played the game
• HN discussion on arcade cabinet restoration

Retro Computing News:

• Kickstarter: Transparent toaster Mac case
• Beto O’Rourke’s history with Cult of the Dead Cow
  • Twitter thread from author with further details
• Creating new LCD displays for repairs
• 8-bit symphony
• Anti-M (pre-boot for protected Apple II disks)

Upcoming Shows:

• Computer Conservation Society lecture series, Manchester and London
• VCF Pacific Northwest, Living Computers: Museum+Labs, Seattle, WA, Mar 23-24, 2019
• VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ, May 3-5, 2019
• GORF (The Great Oz-stralian Retro-technology Festival), Melbourne, Apr 24-28, 2019
• CoCoFest, Lombard, IL, May 4-5, 2019
• WOzFest 12:00, Sydney, May 25, 2019
• QFest 12, Brisbane, May 25, 2019
• KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019
• Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• IBM 5100 (1977)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 1977 Pillow

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Vintage Burroughs B 9974-5 Disk Pack
• Jack: eMate 300 with all its stuff
• Paul: IBM Microsoft Adventure
  • New Old Computer
  • See also: Electronika KR-03
  • See also: @Foone discussing one on Twitter
  • ORA RedGuard Data Protection
  • Osborne car adapter
  • Maxell 10-minute cassette
  • Quazon Quik-Link 300
  • CP+ Telecoupler

Closing comments:

• Scooping the Soviets

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: Revoking end of life status

There have been a few modern updates to operating systems that were long done with development, e.g., ProDOS, GS/OS, DOS 4.1 in the Apple world. And new plugins and things made for old systems. Um. Thoughts?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Sheep who love Car Talk
• DOS 4.1 for the Apple II
• DOS 4.1 announcement
• ProDOS 8. Covers updates to ProDOS 8. for the Apple II
• GS/OS System 6.0.4
• SpartaDOS X
• NitrOS-9
• FreeDOS
• Fixing the IIc Plus Beep
• Apple IIc Plus accelerator control
• Book: ZX Spectrum Games Code Club
• Why 80’s BASIC still matters
• Altair-duino
• Commodore PET mini
• A look at the short-lived 3” compact floppy disk.

Retro Computing News:

• Jim Henson technology films
  • Paperwork Explosion, 1963 film about MT/ST word processor
  • Robot
  • Charlie Magnetico
  • Rowlf the dog meets an IBM typewriter
  • Cookie Monster for IBM
  • AT&T Archives
• RetroChallenge 2019/03 is underway
• TimeOut Edit BASIC
  • Call-A.P.P.L.E. announcement of TimeOut Edit BASIC
• The Atari Accountant
• Spectrum Addict 2.5 documentary kickstarter
• The Sparkstone: Tales of Florb
• Sinclair ZX Spectrum prototype donated to Centre for Computing History
• Javascript: the good parts

Upcoming Shows:

• Computer Conservation Society lecture series, Manchester and London
• VCF Pacific Northwest, Living Computers: Museum+Labs, Seattle, WA, Mar 23-24, 2019
• VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ, May 3-5, 2019
• GORF (The Great Oz-stralian Retro-technology Festival), Melbourne, Apr 24-28, 2019
• WOzFest 12:00, Sydney, Apr 27, 2019
• QFest 12, Brisbane, Apr 27, 2019
• CoCoFest, Lombard, IL, May 4-5, 2019
• KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019
• Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• My Talking Computer
• Lemon Pledge (1966)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Lemon clock kit

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: New ImageWriter colour ribbons
• Earl: IBM Model 5150 Collection
• Paul: My Talking Computer
  • BacPac 100 HD
  • Teleram Portabubble™/81
  • DASCO Word Processing catalog
  • Commodore 264
  • TI 9900 book

Closing comments:

• Nybbles & Bytes

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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