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

Topic: Jack, the Wimpy Time Travel Genie

You get to command a wimpy time travel genie, who can be sent back in time, once, to advise your former self about something (retrocomputing related) to buy or not buy. What do you instruct this genie to do?

Topic and Feedback links:

• John Romero interviewed on Dev Game Club podcast

Retro Computing News:

• A Love Letter to My Website
• CoCo port of The Oregon Trail
• TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) Facebook page
• RetroGameDev
• RetroGameDev Patreon
• Canonical list of vintage and obsolete Apple computers
• TRS-80 Model III Papercraft
• Lisa 1 Papercraft
• Zaxxon for the TRS-80 Model I

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

• WOzFest 14.25045 MHz. Sat Nov 23, 2019. Sydney.
• VCF Pacific Northwest. March 21-22, Seattle. Living Computer Museum + Labs.
• VCF East. April 24-26, 2020. InfoAge. Wall, NJ..

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

• Oregon Trail parody trailer
• US Robotics 56K modem commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Space Invaders board game
• Space Invaders board game Kickstarter details

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple 1
  • Mountain Computer Expansion Chassis for Apple II
  • Worst SE/30 ad ever
• Earl: Black Case Atari 800 Computer
  • Atari Joytyper 400
• Paul: Amiga 500/1200 Gotek Extension board
  • TG Select-A-Port
  • Sharp PC-1250A and CE-125
  • IIc bag
  • Potentially cheap Audrey
  • Potentially cheap Adam
  • US Robotics Visual Nostalgia Trigger

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), Earl Evans, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: To mod or not to mod

To mod, or not to mod, vintage hardware. People downvote videos where people do a non-reversible mods. Should you care? Should you do such mods? How about Retrobrite? Video hacks? Etc.

Topic and Feedback links:

• Pro(c) Atari Magazine
• AtariAge 8-bit high score club
• T2point1 Sega Menacer light gun replacement

Retro Computing News:

• SpellWielder, new game for Apple II
• Team 6502
• Acorn DOOM
• NuType mechanical keyboard for MacBook
• 35-year-old C64 program hidden on a vinyl LP as an easter egg
• XKCD Emulation
• KansasFest 2014 – Mark Pilgrim – Emulator detection

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

• WOzFest 14.25045 MHz. Sat Nov 23, 2019. Sydney.
• VCF Pacific Northwest. March 21-22, Seattle. Living Computer Museum + Labs.
• VCF East. April 24-26, 2020. InfoAge. Wall, NJ.

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

• Radio Shack CueCat
• BBC Micro Electron

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• MOS 6502 tote bag

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Macintosh SE with stand
  • New (maybe) Macintosh Quadra 650
  • Original CueCat Reader (from WIRED)
  • MITS Altair 680 case
  • MITS Altair 680 case with switches and lights
  • Museum Graphic: Gavilan Computer
  • Gavilan Computer ML5
  • See also: What Ever Happened to the Gavilan Computer?
  • IBM Mainframe Control Panel
• Earl: Commodore 64 keyboard (colored GREEN) from DS Retro Garage
• Paul: Four Apple-related magazines
  • Apple II system specification
  • See also: Pascal Spoke Here shirt ad
  • Contact 5 sample
  • Apple II Business Graphics
  • Instant infestation (many mice)
  • LogoWriter, probably for the IBM PC
  • Apple MIDI interface
  • DEC Pro 350
  • A large lot of yellow things

Closing comments:

• Calamityware
• The RetoReads podcast
• Downcast
• Plex

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: Computer store memories

What memories do you have of computers stores of the past? Places to browse, to hang out, to get new information? How has all of this changed?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Paul’s TV database about page

Retro Computing News:

• Video Games Then and Now
• The Air Force has finally stopped using 8-inch floppies to store the nuclear launch codes
• Paul’s tweet about 8″ disks
• The Earliest Unix code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
• Apple II machines are still ticking at the heart of the Lenin Museum in Russia

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

• WOzFest 14.25045 MHz. Sat Nov 23, 2019. Sydney.
• VCF Pacific Northwest. March 21-22, Seattle. Living Computer Museum + Labs.
• VCF East. April 24-26, 2020. InfoAge. Wall, NJ..

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• ThinkPad 701
• Doom II

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Vintage Computer Cufflinks

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Sharp MZ-811
  • Silhouette Trackball in box
  • Kodak Displaymaker
  • Could’ve had it for $10
  • LGR of Kodak Displaymaker
• Paul: VIC-1211M super expander
  • Quadport IEC bus
  • Apple Network Server
  • Cassette A-Letter
  • Atari Portfolio
  • Epson HX-20 in case
  • ThinkPad 701C
  • See also: Video of ThinkPad 701C keyboard

Closing comments:

• Obscure Atari 8-bit Halloween games

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), Bill Degnan, David Greelish, Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting

Topic: Bicentepisodial review

This is episode 200 of a podcast whose first episode was almost exactly 9 years ago (October 23, 2010). A lot has changed since then, but also not much has changed since then. But we are now almost a decade wiser (and, yes, maybe we’ll do another milestone episode in a year, when the podcast itself becomes, by some definitions, “retro”). So, this might be an opportune time to look back on what has happened in the past nine years in the retrocomputing endeavor. How has your own relationship to it changed personally? What advances have had the most impact? What does it portend for the future?

Topic and feedback notes:

• RCR epiosde 001

Retro Computing News:

• Big Mess O Wires – Floppy Emu
• Retro Innovations, Glitchworks, XT-IDE
• What was the first computer?
• Atanasoff–Berry Computer
• Adam Rosen obituary
• Cult of Mac remembers Adam Rosen
• Still talking about the ABC vs ENIAC, 199 episodes later
• 8-Bit Guy and Commander X16: (Part 1)
• 8-Bit Guy and Commander X16: (Part 2)
• RetroChallenge RC2019/10
• CHIP-8

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

• Honey Nut Cheerios / TI 99/4a
• Apple Lisa (1983)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• AdaBox subscription

Auction Picks:

• Bill: CFFA3000 for Apple II computer
• David: Apple Lisa 2/10
• Earl: Commodore Bildschirmtext BTX Decoder Cartridge
• Michael: MOS KIM-1
• Paul: Exatron stringy floppy for TRS-80
  • MBX expansion system from TI 99/4a

Closing comments:

• Kennett Classic
• Before Macintosh – The Apple Lisa documentary

Feedback/Discussion:

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

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