Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Retro Resolutions: Looking Forward To Looking Backward

Each new year brings a fresh opportunity to fail at something you love. Do you have any retro computing goals for the coming year? Projects to start, programs to write, events to attend, bugs to de-bug? What do you hope to have accomplished retro-wise by this time next year?

Retro Computing News:

• 6502 emulator written in LISP
• Port of Quake to an oscilloscope
• article about VALDOCS and Rising Star
• HP-25C/-21/-33c hardware emulation (kit/assembled)
  • Demo of HP-25C assembled kit
• RCSRI Restores a Cray:
  • Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island
  • Cray restoration write-up
• RetroChallenge 2015/01
• C64 BASIC ROM dissassembled
• Luminaries we lost in 2014
• Atari Fit
• Photo Tour of Bletchly Park
• EEVBlog Lisa 2 teardown
• It Came from the Desert for Amiga
• Retro Shadowgate
• Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS (mini-documentary)
• HighRetroGamelord89

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• How to get your dad online … in 1994

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppy Disk Pillow

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Captain Goodnight for Apple II
• Michael: Rocky Horror Show game for C64
• Paul: THINK Pad
• Paul: Olivetti P602
• Ken: ThunderChopper!
• Jack: Axlon “Andy” Robot
• Paul: Axlon Datalink terminal

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans and Michael Mulhern

Host’s Topic: Downsizing

You’ve got the downsizing bug. You used to have spare room and money. And now you don’t have either. What to do? How to prioritize? Where does it go? How did we get into this mess? Will you ever get to using X anyway?

Retro Computing News:

• Laser 128 had a 2-slot expansion chassis
• Isolated from 1999 to 2006 with only a 486
• Woz in Oz
• Apple-1 computer sale $365,000
• Assembly Lines
• Carte Blanche II coming
• Dr. Dobbs closing down
• Altair 8800 retrospective:
  • Developing the Concept of the Personal Computer
  • The Birth of the Microprocessor
  • PCs That Paved the Way for the Altair
• Softalk for the IBM PC

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM PS/2 commercial with MAS*H cast

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• I.O. Silver for iOS (and soon for Android)

Auction Picks:

• Earl: IBM PS/2 Model 70
• Paul: No-slot clock
  • Alt: HP 9000/236
• Michael: Microbee

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Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom and Jack Nutting.

Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1988-1989

Retro Computing News:

• EDSAC display at The National Museum of Computing
• How ENIAC was rescued from the scrap heap
• How Three Men and a Bar Launched the Video Game Industry
• Apple co-founder Ron Wayne to auction early Apple documents
• Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega
• German traffic light lets you play Pong with the person across the street

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128K
• Atari 1988: The Fun Is Back

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Build-On Brick Mug

Auction Picks:

• Michael: Alice
• Paul: SimCity Mac
• Steve: Atari belt buckle

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Ben Heckendorn a.k.a. “Ben Heck”

Host’s Topic: Special Guest Ben Heck

Topics Covered:

• Ben Heck:
  • BenHeck.com
  • The Ben Heck Show
  • Twitter: @benheck
• Apple-1 build, part 1
• Apple-1 build, part 2
• Apple-1 build, part 3
• Atari 800 laptop
• ZX Spectrum, part 1
• ZX Spectrum, part 2
• ZX Spectrum, part 3
• Briel Computers Replica 1
• PS2 vs. PS/2
• 6502.org
• Element14
• Parallax Propeller
• Update on Atari landfill cartridges

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Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1987

Retro Computing News:

• Bil Herd on the Amp Hour
• The History of Muse Software
• The Birth of Visual Basic
• EDSAC passes half-way infrastructure milestone
• The Internet Arcade
• Woz still thinks about the Apple II
• ABBUC Competitions 2014:
  • AtariAge: ABBUC Software Competition Results
  • AtariAge: ABBUC Hardware Competition Results
• Reformation C64 track remakes by Matt Gray
• The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
• 6502 Assembly for the Atari 2600
• Øredev Conference

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1987 Atari XE commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Apple cufflinks
• Commodore cufflinks

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Massive Atari 800XL Collection
• Paul: NeXTstation Turbo Color
• Michael: SoftStrip
• Jack: Atari XEGS
  • Alt: Atari brochure catalog including 1450XLD

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Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1986

Retro Computing News:

• Terminal Madness: 1980 Documentary About Personal Computers
• T.P.U.G. at Startbucks
• Kickstarter Amiga Commpendium
• Xerox Alto Source Code released
  • Archive
  • Archive walk-through
• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joins UTS
• When Women Stopped Coding
• Early Computers: 8-bit Vintage Text Editor for iOS

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Macintosh Plus: Crocodiles

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• ZX Spectrum mug

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple Service part: Macintosh SE/30 logic board
• Paul: NEC PC 8201A
  • Alt: Bell Telephone Labs synthesized speech on vinyl
  • Alt: TRS-80 power controller
• Michael: The original iPhone by Infogear Technology Corp
• Earl: Texas Instruments Home Computer Editor Assembler

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Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1985

Retro Computing News:

• KIM Uno: a $10 remake of the KIM-1
• CBM prg Studio Version 3.1.0 released
• Restoration of Habitat, a C64 online game
• RadioShack’s plummeting profits
• TNMOC were donated a Mystery Item
• Computer History Museum makes CP/M source code available

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Commodore 128 vs. the Apple IIc

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Micromite Companion

Auction Picks:

• Ken: Apple II/IIGS software lot
• Paul: OCC-1
  • Related: Ad for OCC-1 magnifying lens
  • Alt: Hypercard 2.0 shoelaces
  • More Alt: CoCo 2 lot
  • The Altest: VIC-20 lot
• Michael: 3.5″ Disk Notcher
• Earl: TRS-80 Model 4

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Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1984

Retro Computing News:

• Amiga Book kickstarter
• Wasteland 2 explodes onto the gaming scene like a blood sausage
• Destiny is dull; play Marathon instead
  • Marathon: Rubicon X
• History of Personal Computing podcast
• Does your ancient computer belong in a museum?
• Computability: 1984 instructional VHS tape
• Block H: 70th anniversary of first purpose-built computer centre

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1984. Yes, that Macintosh ad

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Trouble with Tribbles

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Power Mac G4 mirrored doors
  • Alt: Macintosh Centris 660AV
• Earl: Online 101 Telic Alcatel
  • Alt: 6 inch silicon wafer
• Michael: Sideways
• David: Rare Compaq XT Deskpro
• Jeff: MSX MX-10 CASIO Personal Computer Console

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Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1983

Retro Computing News:

• Which Apple II, if you can only have one?
• Why didn’t 6502 computers get faster?
• History of Personal Computing podcast
• Newly discovered Apple I up for auction
• Chris Osborne on using modems without a land line
  • Level 29: The BBS
• Macworld Magazine is no more
• OzKfest dates announced: April 17-19 2015
  • OzKfest

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Lode Runner shirt

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Aquarius 32K! cart
  • Alt: Jupiter Ace, with 16K
• Michael: Windows v1.0

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Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1982

Retro Computing News:

• The Australian Apple Review
• Punchcard simulator
• Michael:Xerox PARC & Apple myth/legend
• Videos from CommVex 2014
• Spectrogram of a dial-up modem handshake
• AT&T “You Will” series
  • Wikipedia: You Will commercials

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1987 Software City Leading Edge Model D PC

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Micromite
  • Micromite companion

Auction Picks:

• Earl: PDT 11 Console and Digital Equipment Writer
• Paul: CoCo 2, Model 100, etc
  • Alt: Atari 810 label
• Michael: 1986 Vtech Laser One Thermal Printer
• Steve: Franklin ACE 1000
  • Alt: TRS-80 Model 16 service manual

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