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

Topic: Screensavers

Avoid burn-in, and sometimes end relationships, with the help of flying toasters, fireworks, and 3D pipes.

Topic/Feedback Links:

• MiniPET 40/80 kit build and review
• MiniPET 40/80 kit
• Strange Commodore replacement keyboard?
• Emulating IBM PC on an ESP32

Retro Computing News:

• Applecorn: run Acorn BBC language ROMs on Apple IIe
• 576NUC+ – AtariProjects
• 576NUC+ – new computer compatible with Atari 800/XL/XE (Brewing Academy)
• 576NUC+ – reference guide thread
• Atari64
• 8-bit Show and Tell showing Atari64 going on Atari 1200XL
• Tech Interactive Museum
• Tech Interactive Museum doesn’t feature old tech, isn’t a museum

Vintage Computer commercial:

• iOMEGA Zip drive
• INPUT magazine

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer’s Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  • MSI Source 2001 portable data terminal with Source 2300 telephone interface
  • See also: Apple II Manual for $787,484
  • See also: MSI Source in The Tennessean article, Nov 1971
  • See also: Computerworld, Feb 1976, mentions MSI Source 2001 and 2300 used by Holiday Drugs for Electronic Ordering System
• Earl:
  • DEC F-11 USSR Soviet Russian Clone 46-pin MCM MultyChip Module Family 1811 SET
• Paul:
  • PDP-12, take 1
  • PDP-12, take 2
  • Voice Chess
  • Twister/Spectrum for 2068
  • Timex-Sinclair 2068
  • iOMEGA rearview mirror
  • Vic Forth
  • Asante Ethernet to localtalk bridge
  • TOP SECRET CIA document. Multi-Function Switching Matrix Operator’s Manual Volume 1

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
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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Tim Colegrove, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: The BYTE Shop

We chat with Tim Colegrove, who has just opened The BYTE Shop, a computer history museum and electronics repair shop in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. We discuss his collection, his journey, plans, and hopes for bringing history and inspiration to those who visit.

Topic/Feedback Links:

• The BYTE Shop Jamaica Plain [Boston], MA
• The original Defender source code (Eugene Jarvis) (GitHub)

Retro Computing News:

• BuGS v2.0.1 (Apple IIgs game) Released
• Use the Print Shop online
• Alternative History: what if Apple had partnered with Xerox in the 1980s

Vintage Computer commercial:

• Defender (Atari)
• Atari 1040ST: Myth

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Classic Apple Hardware calendar

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • COMMODORE 64 / 128 Wifi Modem
  • NEC PC M580 teletex terminal
  • See also: @foone’s discussion of the NEC PC M580
• Carrington:
  • Fortran board game
  • See also: Fortran board game at Computer History Museum
  • See also: Fortran board game at Board Game Geek
• Paul:
  • Maccessories swivel
  • Apple DuoDisk
  • Taxan TV tuner

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
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