Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host topic: “Will this retro-computing hobby last?” revisited
• KansasFest
• Reading the newspaper on your computer in 1981
• Cambridge Centre of Computing History opens
  • ComputingHistory.co.uk
  • SiliconDreams.org.ui
• The Dying Art of Computer Viruses
• TRS8BIT quarterly Tandy newsletter
• A History of the Information Machine
• The Computer: An Illustrated History From its Origins to the Present Day
• Computer Chess (the movie)
• Electronic Plastic

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Mario Bros. Atari 2600 & 5200
• 1970s Electronic Quarterback game
• 1988 Radio Shack Tandy 286 PC Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Mattel Classic Football 2

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Mystery House for Apple II (sealed!)
  • Alt: Infocom Starcross flying saucer
• Earl: Vintage Apple II Plus
• David: DEC PDP 11/70 console board

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Jeff Salzman

Topics:

• Host topic: The future of retrocomputing
• New Video Game Book: Collecting For Dragons Lair and SpaceAce
• Google Powers Cambridge Computing Initiative
• 10 cool analog computers
• Upcoming vintage computing shows:
  • KansasFest
  • CommVex (Commodore Vegas Expo)
  • Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 8.0
  • Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention
  • Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1
• When Gadgets Were Huge: The Great 80s Computers of “Computer Chess”
• Retrochallenge
• Jobs movie coming to theaters
• David’s book available at PDF eBook

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Family Computing Magazine

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

Auction Picks:

• David: S-100 Computer System with Cromemco ZPU Cards
• Jeff: Heathkit ET-3400a microcomputer
• Earl: IMSAI 8080with cards plus the 8080A Bug Book

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Panelists: David Greelish (hosting) and Syd Bolton from The Personal Computer Museum

Topics:

• Douglas Engelbart, Early Developer of the Computer Mouse, Dead at 88
• Commodore VIC-20 prepares for first-ever tweet
• WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again)
  • The WarGames IMSAI
• 12 Badass American Inventions That Changed History
• Yahoo closes one-time Google rival Alta Vista
• Fire Sale! Last copies of David’s book on sale

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Mid 90’s Intel Pentium Commercial
• Intel Pentium 1 Advert 1995

Auction Picks:

• David: 1970s Royal V-64 Apple II copy
• Syd: Commodore CBM B128 Vintage Computer System
• Carrington: Micotek Mice II 8bit CPU emulation system

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Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom (twitter.com/yesterbits) and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host topic: Reproduction vs. The Real Thing?
• Interview with Mike Douglas, creator of the new Altair 8800 Clone
• Steve Wozniak test-drives Apple 1 computers
• Steve Jobs video from 1994 – he expected to be forgotten by history
• KansasFest and OZ KFest
• KansasFest 2013
• Retrochallenge 2013
• New podcast! ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast
• The Turbo Entabulator (3D printed mechanical computer)
• Prince Of Persia source code in depth examination
• Terry Ritter’s memoir of building a Mark-8 in 1974
• Early Apple II A2S1-0047 sells for $23,099
• First Apple computer could fetch $500,000 or more
• Vintage Apple-1 Sells for $671,000

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Mac Apple Computer Commercial 1980s
• AT&T Computer commercial 1984

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Evolution of Video Game Controllers
• The Insanely Great History of Apple

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Mark 8 computer kit
• Earl: IBM C/2 development language
• Paul: Compaq Portable III
  • Alt: Open House H650
• David: Poqet PC model PQ0164

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Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting) and Earl Evans (hosting)

Topics:

• Host topic: Unfinished Business: Games and projects we keep telling ourselves we’ll finish
• RISC OS from the dawn of ARM, now on Raspberry Pi
• Documentary on the early UK video games industry
• PDP-8/E is alive
• Fun 5 minute video with Amiga co-designer Dave Needle
• E.T. game excavation confirmed
• How to set up CC65 to create Apple II software on Mac OS X

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Panasonic 3DO Commercial 1995
• Atari Jaguar Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Apple Lisa 1 converted to Lisa 2
• Carrington: Apple II CPM kit (I think)

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host’s topic: Curmudgeon time: Is newer always better?
  • GUI versus command line
  • INI files versus the registry
  • Web versus GUI
  • Mobile apps versus web
  • Wirth’s Law: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
• David’s two secret eBay resources:
  • http://www.collectorsweekly.com/electronics/computers
  • http://vintagecomputersale.com/
• Komputer Kindergarden with Kim Komando
• TRS-80 hard drive emulator
  • Terry Stewart (Tezza) TRS-80 Model 4
• Intel CEO Paul Otellini: History of the Computer Industry in 1 Chart
• Atari Breakout in Google Images
• A New 68000 CPU Board for the S-100 Bus

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Radio Shack TRS-80 Commercial 1979 1980
• Acorn Computers TV advert UK 1991

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Tenth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver

Auction Picks:

• David: Zenith Minisport ZL-1 1MB Laptop
• Earl: DEC Digital Equipment Corp Vintage Programming Template
• Carrington: 1979 Mini Labs Astro War electronic game

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Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), David Greelish and Earl Evans

Topics:

• Host topic: “What shoved you down the slippery slope?”
• Amiga Forever Essentials for Android
• Kodable
• Programming Primer
• First website evah
  • http://info.cern.ch/
• Al Lowe releases vintage games for free download
  • Al Lowe’s game design documents
• Italian computer history site
• Forgotten QuickTime Demo Videos
• Alexander Graham Bell’s voice recovered from ‘unplayable’ record
• Ivan Drucker’s Magic Gosub
• David needs to sell books!
• David also needs to sell FIGnitions!

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Ballmer sells windows 1.0
• Windows 3.1 Commercial 1993

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Halo for Atari 2600
  • Play Halo 2600 online

Auction Picks:

• David: Columbia All-In-OnePortable Computer
• Earl: CDI 1206 Miniterm Pro portable computer
• Carrington: Philips Videopac Computer plus 25 games

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Topics:

• Host topic: “What shoved you down the slippery slope?”
• Podcasting live from VCFSE
• iSteve movie on Funny Or Die
• PDP-11 software engineering job in 2013? Yep!
• Project Unity: one box that plays 18 different retro game console formats
• TRS8BIT March 2013
• A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Overnight Bag

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Keypunch card printing plates
• David: Vintage Faceplate IBM 360/50 ser #12067
• Earl: Quattro Pro 1.0 for DOS
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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen recreate classic 1981 Microsoft photo
• A Talk With Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland
• The 22nd Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
• KansasFest 2013 opens for registration
• Disney shuts down LucasArts
• History of the modern graphics processor (1 of 4)
• Vintage computers made out of LEGO:
  • Apple II by Chiu-Kueng Tsang
  • Commodore 64 by Chris McVeigh
  • Macintosh by Chris McVeigh
• VCFSE
  • http://www.youtube.com/vcfse1
• Announcing 2 new members of the Retrobits Podcast family:
  • “Chicken Lips Radio” podcast
  • “Next Without For” podcast

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Comdex
• Laptop 89′ Convention

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Book: Atari Inc., Business Is Fun

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Infocom Suspended (mask box)
• David: Rare Original Unassembled Altair 8800 Computer Kit
• Earl: TeleVideo 950

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Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Steven Weyhrich (apple2history.org/), Jeff Salzman (vintagevolts.com/)

Topics:

• Host’s topic: The genesis of collecting – what made you start?
• OzKFest in Brisbane, Australia, July 27-28, coinciding with part of KFest (which runs from July 23-28)
• Vintage software, including games, find a home in archives
• The Twiggy Macintosh prototype is alive…
• David Schmenk’s QuickCam on an Apple IIe – lo-res and hi-res!
• The First Literary Work Produced With a Word Processor
• The Centre for Computing History is moving to Cambridge

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Old Boise Computer Store Spot
• Funny Computer Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• David: Six Digit Nixie Tube Clock The “Pinecrest”
  • TubeClock.com
• Steve: USB Plasma Ball
• Jeff: Bluetooth Ericophone (Cobra)

Auction Picks:

• David: Exidy Sorcerer Computer w/ S-100 bus adapter carts manuals and more
• Steve: Apple II Europlus built in Cork, Ireland
• Jeff: Vintage Wang 600 14TP Advanced Prog. Calculator 1973 S#CC3623 in good condition

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