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

Host’s Topic:

What is the best way to get into the retrocomputing hobby if you wanted to start with nothing?

Retro Computing News:

• Buy new 5.25 and 3.5 floppy disks
• CraigsWatch
• SearchTempest
• Modern kids react to retro computers
• Teens react to 90s Internet
• Sharp PC-1403 calculator playing some music
  • Outline 2014 results
• AT&T Archives: Unix in 1982
  • Dennis M. Ritchie
  • AT&T Archives
• Computer Terminal Corporation 2200 Data Point terminal video
• ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Talking to a vintage computer…in space
  • GNU Radio
• MTU-130 for sale
  • MTU-130: Compute Magazine Dec 1981
  • MTU Support
• Flapple Bird for Apple
• Plasma 123: compiler assembler for Apple-1, II, and ///
• Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
• 2014 Summer Retro Challenge
• The Computer Magazine Archives

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM: Introducing the Personal Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• USB Typewriter

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Prodigy kit
• Michael: Acorn Archimedes A3000
• Carrington: Apple II HDMI & VGA adaptor

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Host’s Topic:

How far have you gone to personally pick-up a retro thingie?

Retro Computing News:

• Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1974)
  • Get a reprint
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Bletchley Park vs TNMOC
• Drop /// Inches podcast
• George R. R. Martin: “Why I still use DOS”
• Tezza’s Classic Mac capacitor replacement
  • Further info and photos
  • Dallas DS 1287 battery/real-time-clock fix
• Born With Curiosity: The Grace Hopper Documentary
• MS Gong Ride
  • Michael’s donation page
• Another Apple IIe that still has a day job
• TRS-80 Model 4P
• FreHD disk emulator (works on the 4P and others)
• Radio Shack Disk/Video Interface for Model 100
• Club100 (The Model 100 Users Group)

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Tandy 1000: “Clearly Superior”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Voyager Space Probe Golden Record Cover Replica

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Amdahl Corporation Emergency Power Off Button
• Paul: TRS-80 Model 4P
  • Alt: YAPX8
• Michael: 2 original Apple building signs
• Steve: IBM keypunch card printing plate
• Carrington: Heathkit Hero 2000 robot
  • Alt: Myra Burg Apple Wall Art Rug

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Host’s Topic:

Archiving physical media. Is it too late to copy that floppy?

• Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
• Rescuing Floppy Disks
• Kryoflux
• Software Preservation Society
• KeirF’s Disk-Utilities
• DiscFerret
• EDD+ card
• I’m fEDD Up
• Catweasel
• Supercard Pro

Retro Computing News:

• VCF SE behind-scenes photos
• Celebrate BASIC with a mini OS for Raspberry Pi
• Basic 10-line contest
• Jupiter ACE for sale
• Apple IIe still making player piano rolls
• Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
• Jimmy Maher’s The Digital Antiquarian blog
• Viscious: SID chip audio prototype for Apple-1
• Recreating the Deep Note
• Homebrew IBM System/370
• Time article on finding old computer games
• Oregon Trail nerdery

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Univac predicts the weather

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Raspberry Pi case shaped like Apple II
  • Melissa Barron’s Oregon Trail glitch art

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Canon CA2000 Japanese Pocket PC
• Paul: Commodore SD2IEC drive
• Carrington: Apple Studio Display M4551

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Host’s Topic:

Happy 50th Birthdays
Both BASIC and the IBM System/360 are turning 50. We discuss the impact and importance of both.

Retro Computing News:

• 50 years of BASIC
  • History/Timeline of programming languages
  • Chipmunk BASIC
  • BASIC variants still popular today
  • Wikibooks: BASIC Programming
• IBM System/360 turns 50
  • Computer History Museum: System/360
  • Why won’t you DIE? IBM’s S/360 and its legacy at 50
  • The mainframe that helped send men to the Moon
  • Previous auction pick: System/360 faceplate — sold for over $1,750!
  • Have your very own mainframe at home with Hercules Emulator
  • How-To Install OS/360 on Hercules
• Fun with 3D printers:
  • Mario Andrioletti: Sinclair ZX80
  • Charles Mangin: Disk II (And video)
  • Charles Mangin: iPod nano dock
• NitrOS-9 v3.3.0: CoCo and Dragon operating system
  • NitrOS-9 Wiki
• British Pathé newsreel clips
  • British Pathé
  • Pathé News
  • Mid-Atlantic English
• Atari dig in Alamogordo
  • Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600
• Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy
  • Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
  • Rescuing Floppy Disks
• Right On The Button: IRS video introducing computers
  • Videos of the US National Archives
• Retro Computer Museum Easter Weekend Walkthrough
• VCF Southeast 2.0: May 3-4, 2014
  • VCF SE Kickstarter
• The Mother of All Demos: Douglas Engelbart, 1968
  • The Mother of All Demos

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Don’t Copy That Floppy

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Rubber Stamp Floppy

Auction Picks:

• Michael: Where is my mainframe?
• Carrington: Apple IIc battery portability kit
• Earl: Sinclair ZX81 with Kayde keyboard
• Paul: Kaypro II
  • Alt: DuoDock Plus

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Host’s Topic:

What do people actually do with retro computers?
We discuss feedback and ideas from our listeners about how they use (and abuse) their retro computer collections.

Retro Computing News:

• Commodore 64: a visual Compendium by Bitmap Books
• TNMOC digitally recreates Bletchley Park Maze for Easter Bytes Festival
  • Video: Bletchley Park Turing Quiz Maze in Minecraft
• Books by “that” Chris Crawford
• Vassal: the open source board game engine
  • Tanktics on Vassal
  • Erasmatazz: Chris Crawford videos
• Michael J. Mahon’s donation to the Apple II community
• RESET Magazine
• Gallery of Graphical User Interfaces
• VCF Southeast 2.0: May 3-4, 2014
• The 23rd Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST
  • Get a booth
  • Photos
  • Newsletters
• KansasFest 2014 opens for registration
• Clear Light Superstar appears on eBay
  • Eric Anderson’s bio page
  • Japanese collector’s page
  • Translated
• Coursera

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Oric Atmos 48K Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Commodore 64 socks

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Coleco Adam Family Computer
• Paul: Heathkit festival with ETA-3400
• Michael: Battlestar Galactica Box Set
• Carrington: Ballyhoo (sealed) for Apple II

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Host’s Topic: When is “Retro” Retro?

After 12 years, Windows XP is about to go out of support; is XP now retro, or is retrocity in the eye of the nostalgic beholder?

Retro Computing News:

• Microsoft have releases source for MS-DOS and Word for Windows
  • Computer History Museum press release
• Arniga project: ARM-based Amiga 500
• Minimig
• The Next “Briel Thing” prototype board S/N #1
  • OldComputers.net: Ohio Scientific
  • Wikipedia: Ohio Scientific
• Raspberry Pi built into Ultratec teletype machine
• Stick a Beaglebone inside your VT100!
• Lord British’s Apple II running Akalabeth
• James Tauber detokenizes the Akalabeth source
• Nano Vic20
• Internet Archive to digitize 40,000 VHS & Betamax tapes
• 30th anniversary edition of Hitchhiker’s Guide text adventure game released

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Arthur C. Clarke: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Star Trek Pyjamas

Auction Picks:

• Earl: BNIB Atari CX85 keypad
• Paul: Many new TI 99/4a things
  • Nanopeb
  • Photo of highly expanded TI 99/4a
• Michael: Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative
• Carrington: Maxx flight control yolk for Apple II

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Host’s Topic: Stock or Tricked-Out?
What’s your view of expanding vintage machines? Is it better, and is it worth it?

Retro Computing News:

• 64tass
  • 64tass manual
• Geoff Edwards (final host of Starcade) passes away
  • Starcade
  • Interview with Geoff Edwards, part 1
  • Interview with Geoff Edwards, part 2
  • No Quarter podcast #64: Starcade special
• Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1
• C64: A Visual Compendium
  • Related video
• PC Jr. History by Michael Brutman
  • The PC Jr. server
• Who stole the graphics? Board Games meet the computer:
  • Tanktics
  • Virtual Apple: Tanktics disk image
  • Dneiper River Line
  • Virtual Apple: Dneiper River Line disk image
• Aquarius runs Portal? (Not quite)
• 1 BIT Sigma Delta Modulator:
  • Chris Martin’s YouTube channel
  • Atari Age post
• Michael’s ‘new’ Dick Smith VZ200: It’s not an Apple II, it doesn’t even run on a 6502

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Hawkeye predicts that the Atari may make the typewriter obsolete

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Fortran Coloring Book:
  • Amazon
  • Roger Kaufman’s own retrospective page

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Fortran Coloring Book
• Michael: SSG (Amiga) “Reach for the Stars”
• Mike: Casio Databank DBC 600
  • Timex Data Link watch demo

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Host’s Topic: Good Old Golden Rule Days

What was your first exposure to a computer in school? Did you take computer classes in grade school?

Retro Computing News:

• Dear Educator, we live in exciting times!
• Apple /// emulation in MESS leaps forward
• Flappy Bird for C64
• Meet the Unitron: the first Mac clone
• Archive.org: The Business Case
• Almost Perfect: How a Bunch of Regular Guys Built WordPerfect Corporation
• Gary Kildall and the Birth of the PC Operating System
• Computer Chronicles: Gary Kildall Special
• BBC to launch refreshed Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Game
• Margot Comstock to keynote KansasFest 2014
• The return of Humongous games
• A question for listeners: What do you do with your vintage computers?

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• The Enterprise 128

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• It’s Behind You: the making of a computer game by Bob Pape

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215 Plotter
  • Alt: Core memory
• Paul: Enterprise 128
• Carrington: Modern power adaptor for Apple IIc
  • Related: iFixit guide: Apple IIc device repair

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Host’s Topic:

What items, tools, techniques and resources are good for repairing vintage computers?

• The Retr0bright Project
• iFixit Store

Retro Computing News:

• Maximite BasicBoxX (BBX) Kickstarter
• CGCOLORMAX2: Colour Maximite
• Geoff Graham
• March 2011 Silicon Chip Magazine
• Firmware update for GoTek Floppy Emulator
• The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art
• Compuserve PDP-10 SC-40 Boot Up
• ICE/ISEE-3
• Sarcastic Rover
• Colossus Needs You!
• Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Code-breaking Computers
• Reconditioning a Model M keyboard
• VTech Laser VZ200 computer:
  • VTech Laser VZ200 on Wikipedia
  • VZ200.org
  • Dick Smith VZ200 Personal Colour Computer
• Beginnings of PowerPoint by Dennis Austin

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Xerox 1970s Experimental Office

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Something Geeky women programmer tshirt

Auction Picks:

• Earl: AT&T 2503 Exclusion Set telephone
• Paul: Capitol BBS S-100 machine
• Michael: Dick Smith VZ200 and VZ300
• Steve: Pravetz 82 Bulgarian Apple II clone

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Host’s Topic:

Does programming 8-bit computers make you a better programmer of modern systems?

Retro Computing News:

• A.P.P.L.E. Posts First Year of Australian Apple Review
• The Australian Apple Review
• The Mac Turns 30:
  • Apple’s Macintosh Turns 30: Did You Know It Almost Failed?
  • Mac 30: Thirty Years of Innovation
  • Macintosh originals celebrate the Mac’s 30th anniversary
  • Macintosh 30th Celebration Kickstarter
  • First “Stevenote”: BCS Mac intro video with team Q&A
  • Scans of Softalk.Mac
  • Softalk Forever!!! Facebook group
• PDP-12 sells for over USD$16K on eBay
• Steve Chamberlin updates Mac Floppy Emulator
• VCFSE 2.0
• RetroChallenge 2014 Winter Warmup ends
• The Complete Historically Brewed PDF

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Macintosh: The Computer for the Rest of Us

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Hakko FX-888D soldering station

Auction Picks:

• Paul: PQ the Party Quiz game for Apple II
  • Alt: Mimic Spartan
• Michael: Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons
• David: Mac Plus and accessories, in boxes
• Earl: 1802 Membership Cards: Cosmac Elf Replicas
  • Lee Hart’s 1802 “Membership Card”

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