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

Topics:

• Host’s topic: All-in-one office (“works”) suites
• Atari founder to publish book about finding the next Steve Jobs
• The Strange Beauty of Historic Computers Brought Back From the Dead
• iCapture! for iPhone
• The return of square monitors
• Raspberry Pi Gets RISC OS
• Tablets, Mice, and Trackpads: The evolution of Apple pointing devices

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM 5100 commercial 1977

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• CARDIAC – Cardboard Illustrative Aid To Computation
• Unboxing the CARDIAC computer

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Multitech Microprofessor MPF-II
• Earl: IBM RISC System/6000 paperweight
• David: 1996 Hewlett Packard 200LX Palmtop

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Topics:

• Our first computers vs. our real first computers
• Project Genesis
• SBC6120 single board PDP-8 replica
• SEGA to releae retro gaming inspired SEGA Note laptops
  • Classic Sega Consoles Reinvented as Gaming Laptops
• Terry Stewart
• Mike Willegal powers up his reproduction SCELBI for first time
• New vintage computing podcast: Floppy Days by Randy Kindig
• Dr. Bruce’s Levity Zone podcast

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 2XL Talking Computer
• Playskool Alphie Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Turning Monopoly

Auction Picks:

• David: Atari Stacy 2 Computer
• Earl: Atari 800XL with 1050 Drive, 1027 Printer, Commodore 1701 Monitor, Covers
• Carrington: VisiCalc for DOS (sealed)

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Topics:

• Retrochallenge 2013 Winter Warmup
  • PedalBox by Shelldozer
  • Simon game with rotary controller
  • Cassette storage system for 6502 homebrew
• Carrington gets a Gravitar arcade cabinet
• What do check/do first when you receive vintage computers
• Streaming is replacing the web as we know it
• Another run of SBC6120 PDP-8 replica systems possible
  • http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120-2.htm
• Vintage Computer Museum opens in Katowice, Poland
  • ITN Source article (in English) about museum
• Vintage Computer Festival news:
  • Retro computing events
  • VCF East cancelled!
  • VCF GB
  • VCF GB Facebook page
  • VCF Southeast
• Poor Atari goes bankrupt again
• KansasFest 2013 logo
• Only a handful of copies of David’s book remain!
• Batmobile photos from Myles Wakeham:

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Apple IIgs Dual Mind
• Atari 400/800 Home Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Electronics/microcontroller starter kits:
  • BASIC Stamp Activity Kit
  • The Aztec MCU starter kit
  • Other starter kits based on Arduino or Raspberry Pi

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Account.System: Apple II personal finance software new for 2013
• David: Rare Vintage Zilog Z-80 Microcomputer System
• Earl: Commodore 65 prototype

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Topics:

• Retrochallenge 2013 Winter Warmup
  • PedalBox by Shelldozer
  • Simon game with rotary controller
  • Cassette storage system for 6502 homebrew
• Carrington gets a Gravitar arcade cabinet
• What do check/do first when you receive vintage computers
• Streaming is replacing the web as we know it
• Another run of SBC6120 PDP-8 replica systems possible
  • http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120-2.htm
• Vintage Computer Museum opens in Katowice, Poland
  • ITN Source article (in English) about museum
• Vintage Computer Festival news:
  • Retro computing events
  • VCF East cancelled!
  • VCF GB
  • VCF GB Facebook page
  • VCF Southeast
• Poor Atari goes bankrupt again
• KansasFest 2013 logo
• Only a handful of copies of David’s book remain!

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Apple IIgs Dual Mind
• Commodore 128 computer 1985 TV ad

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Electronics/microcontroller starter kits:
  • BASIC Stamp Activity Kit
  • The Aztec MCU starter kit
  • Other starter kits based on Arduino or Raspberry Pi

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Account.System: Apple II personal finance software new for 2013
• David: Rare Vintage Zilog Z-80 Microcomputer System
• Earl: Commodore 65 prototype

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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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