Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: Acquisitions of 2016

Acquisitions of 2016 – What were your favourite finds for the 2016? Any surprises, good or bad? Are you looking for anything in particular for 2017?

Retro Computing News:

• AtariCrypt magazine
• MAGIC-1 TTL-based computer
• LNW-80 L2 BASIC ROM
• Rare M4 Enigma machine sells for £367,000
• German Navy 4-rotor Enigma
• Atari 2600 emulator, in Minecraft
• Apple II web server written in BASIC
• Apple II web server write-up on Hackaday
• Open Apple podcast
• Buckshot: Apple II image converter tool
• Restoration of an Australian IBM 5160
• ASM-80
• Open Apple podcast
• Testing raisin bran
• Steve Wozniak was my computer teacher in 1995
• Eaten by a Grue podcast

Vintage Computer Commercials

• IBM Wangaratta

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Millennium Falcon Multi-Tool

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Macintosh Quadra 840AV
  • Quadra 605 (non-)prototype
• Michael: One Handed Keyboard
  • Twiddler 2
  • One Handed Mouse and Keyboard
  • One GB IDE SSD
• Paul: Russian “DIALOG”
  • TOPO
  • Microsoft BASIC-80 manual
  • Carton o’ disks
  • TI 99/4

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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