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

Host’s Topic: The gear left behind outweighs the needs of the few, or the one

There will come a time when whatever we have in our collection becomes somebody else’s responsibility. What should we be doing? Those of us collecting now have certainly all seen this happen, when we pick up piles of treasure from someone clearing out dearly departed grampa’s incomprehensible stuff from the attic, or from the lady down the street who did Apples in her garage. Is there a time to downsize? Information to write down for others? Are there organizations to contact for assistance, or should there be?

Retro Computing News:

• John Carmack teaches his kids programming on an Apple IIc
  • Like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness
• Cargo-Bot for iOS
• PDP8 emulator in progress for iPad (Codea/Lua)
• Sir Clive Sinclair unimpressed with modern computing
• The machines that defined British computing
• John Von Neumann documentary
• Inventive Britain stamp, Colossus
• IMAGEDISK
• 22DISK

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1981 Magnavox Odyssey2
• Dimension PBX computer at Wisconsin Telephone

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 8080 Octal Code Card

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: The Journey Inside: The Computer Intel Education Kit
  • About The Journey Inside: The Computer kits
• Carrington: Complete Set of Apple II and Macintosh Technical Notes
• Carrington: Every Sinclair brand ZX81 software title
• Earl: Oak Technology VGA Monitor Adapter for XT/AT
• Paul: Best of Creative Computing vol. 1
  • May/June 1975 Creative Computing at archive.org
  • Dave Haynie and Amiga 2000

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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