Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Blake Patterson

Topic: Unexpected Bonuses

Along the way as we collect things, strange things turn up in what we get. We talk a bit about unexpected bonuses in amongst our finds.

Topic/Feedback links:

• Charles finds whimsical characters on chips
• TRS-80 Model I (article, Nuts and Volts, May 2002)
• Adding Color to the Commodore PET (preview, Nuts and Volts, Sep 2015)

Retro Computing News:

• Total Replay v4.0-alpha 3
• Septandy
• Ample MAME launcher
• Crash and Burn: The Amiga ST Story
• The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart (YouTube)
• The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart (Amazon)
• Curt Vendel (VintageIsTheNewOld)
• Curt Vendel (Jason Scott, Twitter thread)

Vintage Computer-related commercial:

• Tandy PC from 1988

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Making Games for the Atari 2600
• See also: 8bitworkshop.com

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Olympia EX 100 Typewriter Extension CP/M Computer Word Processor
  • Atari PC4
  • IBM 9331-011 8″ External Floppy Drive
  • See also: IBM 9331-012 5.25 External Floppy Disk Drive – AS/400 (Walmart)
• Earl: Osborne 1 with monitor
• Paul: IBM PC/AT
  • Mac LC 475, with ethernet
  • DCA IRMAprint
  • See also: AppleLine and Apple Cluster Controller sales reference guide (on bitsavers.org)
  • See also: AppleLine (on vintagecomputing.com)

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), Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson

Topic: Terminals

For episode 220 (Think: VT-220), we talk about our various experiences with terminals.

Topic/Feedback links:

• VirtualColussus is working on a 3D simulation
• Intel 8080 ICE development system
• ZX Spectrum Next 2nd kickstarter

Retro Computing News:

• Game Controller – H.A.L. Labs Gizmo – Cloning the Cloner
• Super Taxman 2 video
• Taxman video
• The Infinity Modules Player: Never Turn Off Your Amiga Again
• Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies in his Portland home at age 91
• High Score (Netflix)
• ESP32 Altair Emulator improvement
• C74 project

Vintage Computer-related commercial:

• BBC Tomorrow’s World Home Computer Terminal 20 Sep 1967

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• C-Jump Computer Programming Board Game

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Fairchild Video Entertainment System
  • NEC PC M580 teletex terminal 1986
  • Maxed out Apple IIGS computer
• Paul: Apple BASIC Programming manual (printed in Korea)
  • See also: Apple BASIC Programming manual (on archive.org)
  • See also: Apple IIe User Interface Guidelines
  • Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?
  • See also: WINDICS (on archive.org)
  • See also: Article about WINDICS from gamehistory.org
  • Apple Computer Inc. faux friendmaking bag
  • Dithertizer II PCB only
  • VT-220 fixer-upper
  • Atari Portfolio with all the extras
  • IBM Think Pad

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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