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

Topic: Re: recapping

How dangerous is it to keep our heads in the sand about failing capacitors on our vintage computers? How hard is it to fix them? Do we all need to learn how to do this?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Let’s talk about capacitor failure (ByteCellar)




• Experiences with capacitor failure (Hackaday)
• ReativeMicro universal PSU kit for Apple II/III
• MacCaps
• Building the System/360 nearly destroyed IBM.
• TekGear’s Twiddler
• Remembrance agent
• Wearable computing, remembrance agent and privacy
• Hashtag Softg
• July 1984 issue of A+ magazine (article about Douglas Englebart and the mouse)

Retro Computing News:

• Teardown of a 50 Year Old Modem
• Neon816 MiniTX Retro System
• Retroshield for Arduino Mega
• Emulating an Altair 8800 on an Apple II
• Building a homebrew video game console
• BASIC 10Liners 2019 results
• IMSAI 8080 papercraft

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

• Computer Conservation Society lecture series, Manchester and London
• VCF Southeast, Roswell, GA, April 27-28
• 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 Commercials:

• Apple II (1979)
• Windows 95 Crowd Control (Macintosh)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Apple IIGS Cap

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Trio of vintage Apples: SE, LC475, and IIc
  • BENQ BL702A Monitor for Apple IIgs
• Earl: PDP-8/S, serial number 0
• Paul: Magic floppy endensificator
  • General Magic DataRover 840
  • Tulip System 1
  • HX-20 with ribbons, BASIC, case
  • Softgraf
  • JR 01 computer kit
  • Thunder Mountain software collection
  • ZX-80 kit
  • Compaticard I
  • Windows 95 Sucks Less

Paul: Kaypro II showed up on Miracle Workers. Oh I saw Kevin too at the People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction meeting.

Closing comments:

• Miracle Workers show
• People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction

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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