Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Michael Mulhern, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: End of line

To the extent that you have physical objects, intellectual properties, accounts that host archives, what kind of plans do you have for when you are (possibly unexpectedly) no longer around? Or, what kind of plans do you plan to have? What kind of considerations are there? Does anyone but you in your local real-life circle know what the stuff is, who to talk to, how to access things?

Topic/Feedback links:

• Open Apple #81: Remembering Tony Diaz
• Atari 8-bit port of Prince of Persia
• Prince of Persia Source Code: Saved (Tony Diaz, KansasFest 2012)

Retro Computing News:

• Call For Yellowstone Beta Testers
• Apple VideoPad 2 prototype sells at auction
• TNMOC, 40th anniversary of the BBC Micro. Nov 30
• 217: THE VERTICAL PLANE PART 1 (Astonishing Legends podcast)
• The 100MHz 6502
• MCLFast : Apple II as a shield
• ’80s software was expensive

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• Polaroid Swinger (1965)
• Sinclair calculators at DG Leisure Centre

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppy Disk costume

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • Dynex Exerciser DE-5020
  • See also: Dynex series 600 disk drive manual
  • CSC Hard Drive Bible 7th edition
  • See also: Hard Drive Bible 8th edition on archive.org
• Carrington:
  • Commodore 64 on MaxSold
  • Big Swinger camera
• Michael:
  • NatGeo on CD
• Paul:
  • Multicolored C64 keyboard
  • See also: Darth Skalmar’s Retro Garage
  • Apple II series WillMaker
  • Sinclair Cambridge calculator kit

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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Topic: Lacking future relevance

Sunk time – times you’ve spent learning (or learning how to do) something that has no future relevance. What did you do, what were you THINKING?

Topic/Feedback links:

• Foone Turing explores the updated Twitter image posting/processing rules, for a very good reason
• The reason

Retro Computing News:

• Corecursive: The Original Remove Developer, Paul Lutus
• Mountain Hermit Makes ‘Apples’ Sing In Simple English
• The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk (Hackaday)
• The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk (YouTube)
• The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
• The 100 MHz 6502
• The 100 MHz 6502 (Hackaday)
• Swatch 1984 Revisited
• The Source (GitHub, historical source)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• IBM 5100 (First Portable Computer) commercial 1977

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Lovelace and Babbage board game

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  • Apple Super Bowl cushion
  • Memphis Design mouse pad
• Earl:
  • Atari 400 computer keyboard
• Paul:
  • Edison Voicewriter
  • Wax cylinders
  • See also: Edison Voicewriter
  • Mystery House
  • Laser 50
  • Laser 50
  • Spaceball
  • ADAM power supply

Topic/Feedback links:

• A People’s History of Computing in the United States
• The Soul of a New Machine
• ?Next Without For 006 – SNOBOL

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, and Earl Evans

Topic: Networking keeps us all connec

We continue to talk about networking in the context of old computers, in the days before everything was TCP/IP, when certain things were case-sensitive.

Retro Computing News:

• A SAM Coupé spotted in the wild
• SAM Coupé on eBay
• RMC – The Cave, building a classic software/games store
• MCE2VGA
• StrangeCart dual core coprocessor for TI-99/4A
• In Depth: Dragon’s Lair for TI-99/4A
• NanoPEB
• Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller updates software and hardware

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• Where is Newton?
• Big Trak

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Commodore socks

Auction Picks:

• Earl:
  • Franklin ACE 500 Computer
• Ian:
  • Scooter computer flash cards
  • See also: Photos from prior auction of the flash cards
  • PAL Microsoft Premium Softcard
  • Gravis Advanced Gamepad for Macintosh
• Paul:
  • Newton faxmodem
  • Axlon Andy
  • Farallon AirDock

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
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Topic: Retro networking, episode 1

We talk about things the word “networking” evokes in the context of old computers. Transferring files between computers, reaching (sort of) the modern internet, networking socially, etc.

Retro Computing News:

• Sir Clive Sinclair (Guardian)
• Arctic Adventure
• Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures
• Disk imaging with an oscilloscope (VCF Midwest)
• PAL-1, a KIM-1 clone kit
• Yellowstone: Ready for Takeoff
• Apple drive compatibility chart
• BlueSCSI
• RaSCSI
• Defender for the CoCo 3
• Glen Hewlett’s video of Defender on the CoCo 3

Vintage Computer commercial:

• MCI Mail
• Sinclair QL

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• BackBit chip tester

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • Time Bandit for the Sanyo MBC-550/555 by MichTron
  • See also: Bytecellar post about Time Bandit on the MBC 550
  • Tandy 10 Business Computer System
  • See also: Tandy 10 Business Computer System (Wikipedia)
  • See also: Tandy 10 Business Computer System (trs-80.org)
• Carrington:
  • Apple ethernet NB card
  • Vintage computer logo edge-lit signs: Acorn
  • Vintage computer logo edge-lit signs: Apple II
• Ian:
  • 3.5 Floppy Drive Cleaner
  • TRS-80 Model III and IV equipment, including newly designed power supplies
  • SWTP tapes
  • See also: Look Mum No Computer (this particular video features SWTP)
  • San Diego user group zines
• Paul:
  • G4 Cube power supply
  • Copy IIPC Option Board
  • Sidereal Corp. Micronet 12 message terminal
  • See also: Review of Micronet 12 in Data Communications, Dec 1983

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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Topic: Every Septandy is Like the First Septandy

We rediscover the Tandy enthusiasts event, talk about simulators and emulators, wind-up computers, and board games.

Retro Computing News:

• Septandy
• Virtual Data Center, IBM 1401
• Tiny load card assembler in Virtual IBM 1401
• Upgrade Board Adds GPIO Pins To Your Replica PDP-11
• CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware For A Classic OS
• RMC MiSTer Multisystem
• Spacewar-1 and the beginnings of video game aesthetics
• Motorola 68000 SBC Runs Again With A Raspberry Pi On Top
• Baking old magenetic scrolls
• VCF East. Fri-Sun Oct 8-10. Wall, NJ.
• RetroChallenge 2021/10

Vintage Computer commercial:

• Radio Shack Model 100 1984 TV commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 1600X USB Digital Microscope

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  • King Chip 1986 computer trivia game
  • Computer Rage 1977 board game by Creative Computing
• Earl:
  • Intel C1702A memory chips
• Paul:
  • Telecompaq
  • See also: Mention of Telecompaq in InfoWorld, Apr 8, 1985
  • Switched power
  • Computer Cars, Weinermobile edition
  • See also: LGR reviews Computer Cars
  • Catch-a-call
  • Barbie Wind-up PC

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
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Topic: Screensavers

Avoid burn-in, and sometimes end relationships, with the help of flying toasters, fireworks, and 3D pipes.

Topic/Feedback Links:

• MiniPET 40/80 kit build and review
• MiniPET 40/80 kit
• Strange Commodore replacement keyboard?
• Emulating IBM PC on an ESP32

Retro Computing News:

• Applecorn: run Acorn BBC language ROMs on Apple IIe
• 576NUC+ – AtariProjects
• 576NUC+ – new computer compatible with Atari 800/XL/XE (Brewing Academy)
• 576NUC+ – reference guide thread
• Atari64
• 8-bit Show and Tell showing Atari64 going on Atari 1200XL
• Tech Interactive Museum
• Tech Interactive Museum doesn’t feature old tech, isn’t a museum

Vintage Computer commercial:

• iOMEGA Zip drive
• INPUT magazine

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer’s Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  • MSI Source 2001 portable data terminal with Source 2300 telephone interface
  • See also: Apple II Manual for $787,484
  • See also: MSI Source in The Tennessean article, Nov 1971
  • See also: Computerworld, Feb 1976, mentions MSI Source 2001 and 2300 used by Holiday Drugs for Electronic Ordering System
• Earl:
  • DEC F-11 USSR Soviet Russian Clone 46-pin MCM MultyChip Module Family 1811 SET
• Paul:
  • PDP-12, take 1
  • PDP-12, take 2
  • Voice Chess
  • Twister/Spectrum for 2068
  • Timex-Sinclair 2068
  • iOMEGA rearview mirror
  • Vic Forth
  • Asante Ethernet to localtalk bridge
  • TOP SECRET CIA document. Multi-Function Switching Matrix Operator’s Manual Volume 1

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Tim Colegrove, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: The BYTE Shop

We chat with Tim Colegrove, who has just opened The BYTE Shop, a computer history museum and electronics repair shop in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. We discuss his collection, his journey, plans, and hopes for bringing history and inspiration to those who visit.

Topic/Feedback Links:

• The BYTE Shop Jamaica Plain [Boston], MA
• The original Defender source code (Eugene Jarvis) (GitHub)

Retro Computing News:

• BuGS v2.0.1 (Apple IIgs game) Released
• Use the Print Shop online
• Alternative History: what if Apple had partnered with Xerox in the 1980s

Vintage Computer commercial:

• Defender (Atari)
• Atari 1040ST: Myth

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Classic Apple Hardware calendar

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • COMMODORE 64 / 128 Wifi Modem
  • NEC PC M580 teletex terminal
  • See also: @foone’s discussion of the NEC PC M580
• Carrington:
  • Fortran board game
  • See also: Fortran board game at Computer History Museum
  • See also: Fortran board game at Board Game Geek
• Paul:
  • Maccessories swivel
  • Apple DuoDisk
  • Taxan TV tuner

Feedback/Discussion:

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Topic: Commodore 1541GS

We continue yet again a conversation about computers as they arrived in schools, but also spend some time marveling at a Commodore 1541 drive that also produces music and video.

Topic/Feedback Links:

• Handheld 64 (Gameboy-sized C64, Hackaday)
• PCBs to build your Handheld 64
• Color covers for your Handheld 64
• Mattias’ Patreon (creator of Handheld 64, Tube64, etc.)
• Tube64
• Modular64

Retro Computing News:

• Over 40 Years Ago, It Was Possible To Download Video Games Over The Radio
• Freespin: A C64 demo without the C64 (YouTube)
• Freespin project page
• Fresspin video explanation
• Bradley the Parts Seller (Vice)
• Interview: Brad Koda of Best Electronics (ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast)
• The Wild Spread of Drug Wars
• KansasFest 2021 schedule

Vintage Computer commercial:

• Commodore mouse

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppytable

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  • Famous red powerbook
  • Beehive B100 terminal
• Earl:
  • Ashton Tate MultiMate Word Processing
• Paul:
  • Happy Forth of July (Handic Forth cartridge, C64)
  • After Dark for Windows
  • Amiga 500 RGB to HDMI adapter
  • General Magic DataRover 840
  • Another General Magic DataRover 840
  • See also: What Magic Cap should have been all along (DataRover 840 review)
  • See also: Data Rover 840 at Buxton connection
  • See also: General Magic (The Movie)
  • Blue SCSI
  • See also: Places to get Blue SCSI
  • See also: Blue SCSI on GitHub
• Quinn:
  • Amiga 3000 prototype
  • Amiga PC XT Sidecar

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
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Topic: 18-bit Space Computers

We continue a conversation about computers in school, but also mention an 18-bit space computer along the way.

Topic/Feedback Links:

• Crosscountry Canada
• Quazar’s history of the Sam Coupé
• ICON computer (old-computers.com)
• ICON computer (wikipedia)
• Reddit thread about ICON
• Growin’ Up 80s, talking about ICON (podcast)

Retro Computing News:

• NASA struggles to fix Hubble Space Telescope’s 1980s computer
• Multi-platform floppy
• A2IO
• Reactive Micro announces licensed CFFA3000
• ASCIIdent
• Mockingboard 4c+
• List of Mockingboard software
• Vince Weaver’s ZX Spectrum (PT3) tracker for Mockingboard

Vintage Computer commercial:

• IBM PS/2

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Sam Coupé shirt

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Entex MAC from 1980
  • See also: Entex at Electronic Plastic
  • Bungie for charity
  • RIP PCjr button
• Paul: TI 99/4a in box
  • See also: TI 99/4a turns 40
  • Tapuino in case for C64/VIC20/PET
  • Quadram Quadlink
  • IXO telecomputing system TC-102

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Lasers Smoking in the PET Room

We start a conversation about computers in school. For many of us, computers were only just becoming available in our school years, so we consider the access this provided (limited though it often was).

Topic/Feedback Links:

• My earliest memories of microcomputing
• Remembering an Atari lab in Hampton, VA
• BBC Archive: Infocom feature (1986)
• P.R.E.S.T.A.B.A. ported to the MC-10
• MC-10 emulator (pick PRESTAVB cassette and type RUN)

Retro Computing News:

• AmigaOS 3.2 for all Classic Amigas released
• Creating Chinese computer fonts
• The Little Book of Sound Chips (Volume 1)
• Hibernated 1. The Director’s Cut.
• #ponyinformation
• Hibernated 1 (physical, SAM Coupé version)
• SAM Coupé on eBay
• SAM Coupé overview (YouTube, Re:Enthused)
• SD card and Ethernet adapter for the SAM Coupé
• Quazar (home of SAM Revival magazine )
• Review of SAM Revival magazines (YouTube, TJ Ferreira)
• Sim Coupé
• World of SAM
• SAM Coupé Champion Collection
• No Quarter, episode 78: Sorry Charlie.

Vintage Computer commercials:

• Miracle Workers, season 3 trailer
• PRIME Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Radio Shack shirt

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Mac 128K, probably
• Carrington: iCEBOX
  • See also: Hybrid Net Appliance Hits Market
• Michael: Guns of Fort Defiance
• Paul: Prince of Persia for the SAM Coupé

Closing notes:

• Roberta and Ken Williams making first game together in over 20 years
• People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction
• Michael’s scans at archive.org
• Scan Tailor Advanced

Feedback/Discussion:

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