Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Kay Savetz

Topic: 1990

1990 saw a decline of various personal computer magazines, as well as the introduction of the Video Toaster. Apple started misting the market with computer variants.

Topic/Feedback links:

• RCR episode 90
• Macintosh LC 
• Macintosh Classic 
• Macintosh IIfx 
• Macintosh IIsi
• Computer mags in 1990 were an interesting mix of modern and dying (Compute’s Gazette, BBC Acorn, Atari Explorer, the last issue of Antic) and MSX which was both.
• MiniDisc  (actually 1992)
• MiniDisc.wiki (home of Web MiniDisc Pro)
• MZ-RH1 MiniDisc player/recorder with USB data export support
• Photoshop 1.0 
• Video Toaster

Retro Computing News:

• Interim Computer Museum
• Intellivision: How a videogame battled Atari and almost bankrupted Barbie
• Adventures in Videoland
• Adventures in Videoland playthrough
• 2-XL

Vintage Computer/discussion-related commercials:

• MiniDisc system infomercial
• Minute Rice
• Family Computing magazine 
• 2-XL by Mego
• Keeping up with the Commodore
• Super Breakout
• Various 1980s ads (The Clapper)
• Lotus 123

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• PBTfans 1984 R2 keycaps
  • See also: Big Mac at CHM

Auction Picks:

• Paul:
  • CORE remote
    • CL 9 (company)
    • Celadon PIC-100 (rebranded CORE, post CL 9)
    • MagicLink PIC-1000 (no relation, but had IR remote capability)
  • Oric-1
    • Oric-1 (Wikipedia)
  • Pravetz 8D (Oric-1 clone)
  • Elizabethan typing
  • Sargon II
  • MC-10
  • Chaos the software
  • Three tiny Apple programs
  • Lisa floppies

Closing notes:

• Kay’s 2025 Wrapped
• Softalk for the IBM PC
• Enter magazine (at time of recording)
• Teaching and Computers

Other ways to experience this episode:

• a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr290.a2stream
• YouTube episode 290

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• feedback@rcrpodcast.com
• rcrpodcast@podcast.social on Mastodon
• rcrpodcast.com on bluesky
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X

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