Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Videos from the World of Commodore 2012
• Multiple ECB board special from N8VEM homebrew SBC project
• Hartmut Esslinger’s new design book
• Esslinger’s early Apple designs
• David posts to the Internet Archive
• Starring The Computer: computers in movies and TV
• TIME’s Machine of the Year, 30 years later
• CNET unboxes the TRS-80 Color Computer 2
• Ivan Drucker’s Apple II development tools
• Kevin Savetz “Terrible Nerd”

Vintage Computer TV clip:

• 1977 Texas Instruments Dataman and TI-30 calculators
• Commodore VIC-20

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• QuickJoy SV-129 Foot Pedal Controller for Atari 2600
• Atari Hot Wheels cars

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Commodore MAX Machine (AKA “Ultimax”)
• David: Cray T94 Super Computer
  • Alt choice: Replica 1 signed by Woz and Vince Briel
• Earl: 1950-60 UNIVAC Remingtion Rand Sperry factory collection

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Topics:

• Carrington snags a Fix-It Felix, Jr. arcade cabinet
• Randy Wigginton, Apple employee #6 and engineer, to keynote KansasFest 2013
• Athana is a source for floppy disks and other media
• ZX Spectrum wouldn’t pass modern radio frequency regs
• It began with ‘Spacewar!’ A history of science fiction in video games
• An explanation of timesharing from MIT in 1969

Vintage Computer TV clip:

• Black Friday 1983: What To Get A Hacker For Christmas

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Retro phone handset for cellphones

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: “Toaster Mac” case opening tool
• David: 1960’s Livermore Data Systems Acoustic Coupler Modem
  • Live Demo
• Earl: Industrial PET
  • Alt choice: 1966 UNIVAC Wright Line portable data card punch

Other Topics:

• New VCFSE dates
• MFORTH
• Retrochallenge

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Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Derek Warren

Topics:

• Macintosh Folklore Radio
• Ideographix breakthrough in Chinese computing is preserved in Silicon Valley
• This Piece of Cardboard Launched a Trillion-Dollar Industry
• Coming Soon: PC-Retro Motherboard Kit
• Original Apple I computer sells for record $630,000 at auction
• Tez’s continuing series on YouTube on his retro computer collection
• Retrochallenge Winter Warmup 2013
• Record Breaking Price Paid At Auction For First Apple Computer – But This Collector Owns Two Of Them!

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1991 Sears Packard Bell Christmas commercial
• Dell Commercial “All I want for Christmas”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• David: Arcadie iPhone and iPod Desktop Arcade
• David: IRIS 9000 voice control module for iPhone & Siri

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Epson HX-20 Vintage Handheld
• David: 1980 Coleco Quiz Wiz with 8 games

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Topics:

• Introducing… the Lo-tech XT-CFv2!
• Cathode: vintage terminal app for Macs
• SX-64 party!
  • Berry de Jager
• Two tonne Witch computer gets reactivated
• JavaScript Machines IBM PC Model 5150
• George the Robot
• VICE 2.4 Commodore multi-system emulator released

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Commodore 64 (Australian ad) 1984

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Model arcade cabinet replicals

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Loaded 386-40/DX AT computer system
• Carrington: HyperCard IIgs (sealed)

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Topics:

• David taking a break from RCR.
• PC World: How to optimize Windows 8 on old hardware
• Living Computer Museum opens to the public
  • Geekwire-includes link to KING 5 TV coverage
  • Keep in mind: you can still request a login account
• Internet judged to be a First Amendment right
  • Kevin Mitnick
  • MafiaBoy
  • Samy Kamkar
• P112 single board computer Kickstarter down to the wire
• KansasFest dates announced: July 23-28, 2013
• Wreck-It Ralph
• No Quarter classic coin-op arcade game podcast
• Computer History Simulation Project
• OpenVMS! It’s the greatest!

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Input Magazine

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Giant LED Table Lamp on ThinkGeek

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Symbolics 3640 Artificial Intelligence Work Station
• Carrington: Macintosh Cube with monitor, speakers, upgrades

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Topics:

• Project Kiwi: Simon Ferber’s 68000 homebrew computer
  • Project web site
  • Project forum
  • YouTube channel
  • Hack A Day feature 1
  • Hack A Day feature 2
• Not another Apple 1 coming to auction?!
• Minitel network shuts down after long run (from James)
• New ZX Spectrum game: Encyclopedia Galactica by Jonathan Cauldwell
• Digital Equipment Corp “Industrial 8” minicomputer goes for $4,600 on eBay
• Flossie: the 5-ton movie star computer restored, but at risk
  • Save Flossie
  • ICT 1301 computers

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• OS/2 Warp TV Commercial
• Currys Christmas Advert: ZX Spectrum

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Give the gift of a Good Old Game

Current Auctions:

• Earl: 2000 DD-5081 80 Column Computer Punch Cards
• Carrington: Systron Donner 3500
• David: NeXT Cube (N1000)

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Topics:

• The CD player turns 30
• Bell Labs tribute to Dennis Ritchie on YouTube
• Kickstarter: P112 Single Board Computer Kit
• Retro City Rampage released
• Introducing the Lo-tech XT-CFv2
• Apple 1 fails to sell at Christie’s auction
• Mimeo 1 kits on sale again
• Ken Gagne steps down from KansasFest Committee

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Crazy Eddie’s gone Computer Crazy!!
• “I Need A Vacation!” John Cleese Compaq Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• David: Miniature iMac computer radio toy

Current Auctions:

• Earl: Coleco Adam Home Computer with accessories
  • Alt choice: Mac Mini in Disk II enclosure
• Carrington: Key Tronic dual RJ-11/ADB keyboard for original and later Macs
• David: Vintage 1979 Mattel Electronics horse race analyzer handheld computer

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Topics:

• RC-3 Relay Computer from Stephen Torrence, Museum of Computer Culture
  • Harry Porter’s Relay Computer at Portland State University
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_%28computer%29
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarvardMarkI
• Apple II prototype hardware sold on eBay:
  • Prototype RAMWORKS VGA interface
  • Prototype Apple IIc VGA adapter
• Report from the Portland Retro Gaming Expo
• 101 Classic Computer Ads, from David’s brother Keith
• MultipleClassicComputer
• “VCFMW7 Happened. It was a good time! Pic links here:”
• Internet Archive adding issues of Byte magazine, via fan Roman
• Original Apple 1 Headed to Auction
• Melissa Baron’s glitch screenprints
  • Baron’s presentation at KansasFest 2010

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Earl: Minecraft Foam Sword & Pickaxe Combo Set Of 2

Current Auctions:

• Carrington: IMSAI 8080
• David: Mini Apple II computer handmade Flash drive
• Earl: DEC Digital MicroVAX II w/ SCSI OpenVMS 7.3 VAX

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Topics:

• Last Call for the VCFMW!
• X11 turns 25. Hey, you don’t look a day over 20
• Apple 1 replica sells for $1,525
  • Michael Ng’s Newton 1
  • Mike Willegal’s Mimeo
  • Steve Gabaly’s Obtronix (not official site)
  • Controversy over replica design sources
  • Vince Briel’s Replica 1
  • Apple 1 Replica Creation book
• Benj Edwards: “Is the iPad a PC? Tell me what you think.”
• Commodore C64SSD epic case mod, from one of our listeners!
• Crippled by Nostalgia: The Fraud of Retro Gaming
• Shameless plug for upcoming Retrobits
• Cypher: Cyberpunk Text Adventure

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• MacBook Air NOT the First (Aired in 1994)
• Apple Powerbook Classic Commercial 1993

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Carrington: Adventure shirt

Current Auctions:

• David: Macintosh 128k vintage computer
• Earl: WordPerfect and dBase III Plus new in box
• Carrington: Heath HTX-10 keyboard terminal

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Topics:

• Atari Arcade: play “re-imagined” classics in a web browsers
• From Altair to iPad: 35 years of personal computer market share
• S100 mini front panel project
• AtGames announces Atari Flashback 4 and Arcade Classic
  • Flashback 4 review
• Tetris World Championship coming to PRGE, Sept 29-30
• Mike’s Hobby Pages podcast
• David Crane’s Jungle Adventure Kickstarter
• Another Apple 1 to be auctioned by Christies
• Captain 8BIT & The Game Chasers

Interview

• Exclusive interview with Adam Rosen, of the Vintage Mac Museum

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• David: Nixie Clock Electronic Kit K8099

Current Auctions:

• Carrington: NeXTSTEP 3.2 Operating System and Developer Kit
• Earl: PET “Fat 40” 4032
• David: Jeff Raskin’s Complete Canon Cat System

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