Panelists: Michael Mulhurn (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: User Groups – Are they still Important to the Retro Enthusiasts Experience?

In this age of the internet, are face-to-face User Group Meetings as important as they used to be? Do you go (or try to go) to regular User Group Meetings?

Retro Computing News:

• Digibarn’s Audrey
• HP calculator repair kit
• Raster Blaster Reloaded
• Report on building Christopher Haberer’s GMC-4 replica (in German)
  • GMC-4 replica build report in English via Google Translate
  • Github repository for GMC-4 replica code
  • Kim Uno KIM-1 replica kit
• Chicken Lips Radio, now with as many episodes as co-hosts! Now with twice as many episodes as before!
• Ken reviews: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
• /r/retrobattlestations BASIC week 5
• Mike Willegal’s SCELBI reproduction
  • Mike’s 8008-related blog entries
• The iBookGuy’s videos on “How ‘oldschool’ graphics worked”
  • Part 1. Commodore and Nintendo
  • Part 2. Apple and Atari
• Daffy Duck and the Great Paint Caper, recovered for C64
• Vote for Oscar’s PiDP-8, one of Hackaday’s 10 finalists.
  • Hackaday Finalists
  • PiDP-8 Project Entry
• Nuts and Volts magazine, September 2015 issue with cover story on adding color to your PET.

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1989 Celebrities consult with Tommy and his Commodore Amiga

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Tetris Stackable LED Desk Lamp

Auction Picks:

• Jack: Atari 2600 clone
  • PDP8/e
• Ken: Atarisoft lot
• Michael: The Giant Book of Microcomputer Projects
• Paul: Interact
  • If the community is starting to seem too small
  • IBM 5155 at whatever market dictates
  • CBM 8050 disk drive
  • Just one Star Raider
  • CPT 8100

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