KansasFest 2014 Multicast!

Welcome to the “Retro Open ANTICHertz Mac Quarter Poly Floppy Drop” episode.

In this special joint podcast, live from KansasFest 2014, 9 podcasters (including 3 RCR regulars) discuss their favorite parts of KFest, play a game of 2 Truths and 1 Lie, and more!

Featuring:

Quinn Dunki: Open Apple
Ken Gagne: IndieSider, Polygamer
Paul Hagstrom: RCR, Drop /// Inches
Randy Kindig: ANTIC, Floppy Days
John Leake: RetroMacCast
Mike Maginnis: Open Apple, No Quarter, Drop /// Inches
Kevin Savetz: ANTIC
Carrington Vanston: RCR, No Quarter, DoubleTake, 1 MHz
Steve Weyhrich: RCR

Intro Song: Lazy Hazy Crazy KFest, lyrics created and sung by Steve Weyhrich

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

Host’s Topic: How do you do your programming?

We admire them, we play games on them, but how do we program them? BASIC or assembler? On the retro metal (OK, plastic), emulator, or cross-platform development? And finally, what is your favourite retro programming language?

Retro Computing News:

• CLIPS
• Inside SpaceWar!
• Proto Portable //c – Charles Mangin at it again!
• Commodore Vegas Expo
• Maniac Mansion Design Notes
• RCS/RI acquires a Cray J90
• ISEE-3 status report

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Amiga2000

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• “Set Phasers to Fun”

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer 2
• Paul: Casio FX-730P
  • Alt: PDP-8
• Michael: TI Speak & Spell

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

Host’s Topic:

Preserving the Wild Retroalope: Recreations are great. Repairs are great. But what actions can we take now to ensure that our vintage computers, peripherals or media don’t fail in the first place?

Retro Computing News:

• Athana (vendor of floppy disks)
• Preserving Computing’s Past: Restoration and Simulation
• EDD+ Card
• I’m feDD Up
• RocketChip
• Altair 8800 instructional videos
• Altair 8800 Clone
• EDSAC diagrams
  • EDSAC Project Overview
  • EDSAC video
• Cray-1 Introduction, by Seymour Cray
• LM323K replacement
• Selling The Computer Revolution
• Retrochallenge has busiest first week ever
• Miniature Apple II monitor
• New C64 motherboards and Tatung Einsteins (via Andy)
• IBM 1401: The Dawn of a New Era (via Hamik)
• Potentially very long term DVD/BDs (via Matt)
• Floppy emulator for the Mac 400K crowd (via Jason)

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Commodore Amiga

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 80s music to compute by

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Intellivision Computer Keyboard
• Paul: 475 Atarisoft Moon Patrols
  • Alt: 350 Atarisoft Jungle Hunts
  • Alt: 240 Atarisoft Galaxians
• Michael: Amstrad CPC 464
• Carrington: The Video Wizard and Video Tape File System
  • Alt: Mosaic in a Box
  • Alt: Boxed TI-99s as far as the eye can see

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

Host’s Topic: Wherefore Art Thou Retro?

Why bother to use or collect retro computers? Other than for nostalgia, what good are these old computers when you could buy a modern PC for the price of an Apple II on eBay?

Retro Computing News:

• Retrochallenge 2014SC
• Vintage Computer Faire
• Mac512K to Netatalk Server
• Apple Crate with 25 units
  • AppleCrate II
  • NadaNet
• Wearable submarine to hunt for 2000-year-old computer
  • The Antikythera Mechanism
  • Antikythera Mechanism in LEGO
• Object-Oriented Program … from 1965!
  • The SIMULA programming language
  • The Mother of All Demos
• Z80PACK Z80 simulator
• Lode Runner ported to the Tandy CoCo
• Looking back at 30 years of Tetris with Alexey Pajitnov
  • Tetris: From Russia With Love (BBC, 2004)
• Long lost Sharp X68000 game found
  • Sharp X68000
• History of Computers and the World Cup
• Escape Games Toronto

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Celebrate the World Cup by building a Video Soccer game:
  • The TV Game Construction Kit
  • AY-3-8500 Pong-on-a-chip
  • DIY Pong-but-better instructions
  • Vintage make-it-yourself Pong ads

Auction Picks:

• Earl: STRTRK (Startrek) on paper tape
• Paul: Tandy Paladin
• Michael: Bumper Sticker
• Carrington: Macintosh SE/30
  • Related: IIsi ColorPivot II card hack for SE/30
  • Related: Long torx bit (Toaster Mac case opening tool

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Panelists: Steven Weyhrich (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic:

What is the best way to get into the retrocomputing hobby if you wanted to start with nothing?

Retro Computing News:

• Buy new 5.25 and 3.5 floppy disks
• CraigsWatch
• SearchTempest
• Modern kids react to retro computers
• Teens react to 90s Internet
• Sharp PC-1403 calculator playing some music
  • Outline 2014 results
• AT&T Archives: Unix in 1982
  • Dennis M. Ritchie
  • AT&T Archives
• Computer Terminal Corporation 2200 Data Point terminal video
• ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Talking to a vintage computer…in space
  • GNU Radio
• MTU-130 for sale
  • MTU-130: Compute Magazine Dec 1981
  • MTU Support
• Flapple Bird for Apple
• Plasma 123: compiler assembler for Apple-1, II, and ///
• Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
• 2014 Summer Retro Challenge
• The Computer Magazine Archives

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM: Introducing the Personal Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• USB Typewriter

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Prodigy kit
• Michael: Acorn Archimedes A3000
• Carrington: Apple II HDMI & VGA adaptor

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Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Earl Evans, Steven Weyhrich, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic:

How far have you gone to personally pick-up a retro thingie?

Retro Computing News:

• Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1974)
  • Get a reprint
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Bletchley Park vs TNMOC
• Drop /// Inches podcast
• George R. R. Martin: “Why I still use DOS”
• Tezza’s Classic Mac capacitor replacement
  • Further info and photos
  • Dallas DS 1287 battery/real-time-clock fix
• Born With Curiosity: The Grace Hopper Documentary
• MS Gong Ride
  • Michael’s donation page
• Another Apple IIe that still has a day job
• TRS-80 Model 4P
• FreHD disk emulator (works on the 4P and others)
• Radio Shack Disk/Video Interface for Model 100
• Club100 (The Model 100 Users Group)

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Tandy 1000: “Clearly Superior”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Voyager Space Probe Golden Record Cover Replica

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Amdahl Corporation Emergency Power Off Button
• Paul: TRS-80 Model 4P
  • Alt: YAPX8
• Michael: 2 original Apple building signs
• Steve: IBM keypunch card printing plate
• Carrington: Heathkit Hero 2000 robot
  • Alt: Myra Burg Apple Wall Art Rug

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic:

Archiving physical media. Is it too late to copy that floppy?

• Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
• Rescuing Floppy Disks
• Kryoflux
• Software Preservation Society
• KeirF’s Disk-Utilities
• DiscFerret
• EDD+ card
• I’m fEDD Up
• Catweasel
• Supercard Pro

Retro Computing News:

• VCF SE behind-scenes photos
• Celebrate BASIC with a mini OS for Raspberry Pi
• Basic 10-line contest
• Jupiter ACE for sale
• Apple IIe still making player piano rolls
• Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
• Jimmy Maher’s The Digital Antiquarian blog
• Viscious: SID chip audio prototype for Apple-1
• Recreating the Deep Note
• Homebrew IBM System/370
• Time article on finding old computer games
• Oregon Trail nerdery

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Univac predicts the weather

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Raspberry Pi case shaped like Apple II
  • Melissa Barron’s Oregon Trail glitch art

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Canon CA2000 Japanese Pocket PC
• Paul: Commodore SD2IEC drive
• Carrington: Apple Studio Display M4551

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

Host’s Topic:

Happy 50th Birthdays
Both BASIC and the IBM System/360 are turning 50. We discuss the impact and importance of both.

Retro Computing News:

• 50 years of BASIC
  • History/Timeline of programming languages
  • Chipmunk BASIC
  • BASIC variants still popular today
  • Wikibooks: BASIC Programming
• IBM System/360 turns 50
  • Computer History Museum: System/360
  • Why won’t you DIE? IBM’s S/360 and its legacy at 50
  • The mainframe that helped send men to the Moon
  • Previous auction pick: System/360 faceplate — sold for over $1,750!
  • Have your very own mainframe at home with Hercules Emulator
  • How-To Install OS/360 on Hercules
• Fun with 3D printers:
  • Mario Andrioletti: Sinclair ZX80
  • Charles Mangin: Disk II (And video)
  • Charles Mangin: iPod nano dock
• NitrOS-9 v3.3.0: CoCo and Dragon operating system
  • NitrOS-9 Wiki
• British Pathé newsreel clips
  • British Pathé
  • Pathé News
  • Mid-Atlantic English
• Atari dig in Alamogordo
  • Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600
• Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy
  • Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
  • Rescuing Floppy Disks
• Right On The Button: IRS video introducing computers
  • Videos of the US National Archives
• Retro Computer Museum Easter Weekend Walkthrough
• VCF Southeast 2.0: May 3-4, 2014
  • VCF SE Kickstarter
• The Mother of All Demos: Douglas Engelbart, 1968
  • The Mother of All Demos

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Don’t Copy That Floppy

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Rubber Stamp Floppy

Auction Picks:

• Michael: Where is my mainframe?
• Carrington: Apple IIc battery portability kit
• Earl: Sinclair ZX81 with Kayde keyboard
• Paul: Kaypro II
  • Alt: DuoDock Plus

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

Host’s Topic:

What do people actually do with retro computers?
We discuss feedback and ideas from our listeners about how they use (and abuse) their retro computer collections.

Retro Computing News:

• Commodore 64: a visual Compendium by Bitmap Books
• TNMOC digitally recreates Bletchley Park Maze for Easter Bytes Festival
  • Video: Bletchley Park Turing Quiz Maze in Minecraft
• Books by “that” Chris Crawford
• Vassal: the open source board game engine
  • Tanktics on Vassal
  • Erasmatazz: Chris Crawford videos
• Michael J. Mahon’s donation to the Apple II community
• RESET Magazine
• Gallery of Graphical User Interfaces
• VCF Southeast 2.0: May 3-4, 2014
• The 23rd Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST
  • Get a booth
  • Photos
  • Newsletters
• KansasFest 2014 opens for registration
• Clear Light Superstar appears on eBay
  • Eric Anderson’s bio page
  • Japanese collector’s page
  • Translated
• Coursera

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Oric Atmos 48K Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Commodore 64 socks

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Coleco Adam Family Computer
• Paul: Heathkit festival with ETA-3400
• Michael: Battlestar Galactica Box Set
• Carrington: Ballyhoo (sealed) for Apple II

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

Host’s Topic: When is “Retro” Retro?

After 12 years, Windows XP is about to go out of support; is XP now retro, or is retrocity in the eye of the nostalgic beholder?

Retro Computing News:

• Microsoft have releases source for MS-DOS and Word for Windows
  • Computer History Museum press release
• Arniga project: ARM-based Amiga 500
• Minimig
• The Next “Briel Thing” prototype board S/N #1
  • OldComputers.net: Ohio Scientific
  • Wikipedia: Ohio Scientific
• Raspberry Pi built into Ultratec teletype machine
• Stick a Beaglebone inside your VT100!
• Lord British’s Apple II running Akalabeth
• James Tauber detokenizes the Akalabeth source
• Nano Vic20
• Internet Archive to digitize 40,000 VHS & Betamax tapes
• 30th anniversary edition of Hitchhiker’s Guide text adventure game released

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Arthur C. Clarke: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Star Trek Pyjamas

Auction Picks:

• Earl: BNIB Atari CX85 keypad
• Paul: Many new TI 99/4a things
  • Nanopeb
  • Photo of highly expanded TI 99/4a
• Michael: Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative
• Carrington: Maxx flight control yolk for Apple II

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