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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