Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Mike Whalen

Host’s Topic: Stock or Tricked-Out?
What’s your view of expanding vintage machines? Is it better, and is it worth it?

Retro Computing News:

• 64tass
  • 64tass manual
• Geoff Edwards (final host of Starcade) passes away
  • Starcade
  • Interview with Geoff Edwards, part 1
  • Interview with Geoff Edwards, part 2
  • No Quarter podcast #64: Starcade special
• Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1
• C64: A Visual Compendium
  • Related video
• PC Jr. History by Michael Brutman
  • The PC Jr. server
• Who stole the graphics? Board Games meet the computer:
  • Tanktics
  • Virtual Apple: Tanktics disk image
  • Dneiper River Line
  • Virtual Apple: Dneiper River Line disk image
• Aquarius runs Portal? (Not quite)
• 1 BIT Sigma Delta Modulator:
  • Chris Martin’s YouTube channel
  • Atari Age post
• Michael’s ‘new’ Dick Smith VZ200: It’s not an Apple II, it doesn’t even run on a 6502

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Hawkeye predicts that the Atari may make the typewriter obsolete

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Fortran Coloring Book:
  • Amazon
  • Roger Kaufman’s own retrospective page

Auction Picks:

• Paul: Fortran Coloring Book
• Michael: SSG (Amiga) “Reach for the Stars”
• Mike: Casio Databank DBC 600
  • Timex Data Link watch demo

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Host’s Topic: Good Old Golden Rule Days

What was your first exposure to a computer in school? Did you take computer classes in grade school?

Retro Computing News:

• Dear Educator, we live in exciting times!
• Apple /// emulation in MESS leaps forward
• Flappy Bird for C64
• Meet the Unitron: the first Mac clone
• Archive.org: The Business Case
• Almost Perfect: How a Bunch of Regular Guys Built WordPerfect Corporation
• Gary Kildall and the Birth of the PC Operating System
• Computer Chronicles: Gary Kildall Special
• BBC to launch refreshed Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Game
• Margot Comstock to keynote KansasFest 2014
• The return of Humongous games
• A question for listeners: What do you do with your vintage computers?

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• The Enterprise 128

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• It’s Behind You: the making of a computer game by Bob Pape

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215 Plotter
  • Alt: Core memory
• Paul: Enterprise 128
• Carrington: Modern power adaptor for Apple IIc
  • Related: iFixit guide: Apple IIc device repair

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Host’s Topic:

What items, tools, techniques and resources are good for repairing vintage computers?

• The Retr0bright Project
• iFixit Store

Retro Computing News:

• Maximite BasicBoxX (BBX) Kickstarter
• CGCOLORMAX2: Colour Maximite
• Geoff Graham
• March 2011 Silicon Chip Magazine
• Firmware update for GoTek Floppy Emulator
• The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art
• Compuserve PDP-10 SC-40 Boot Up
• ICE/ISEE-3
• Sarcastic Rover
• Colossus Needs You!
• Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Code-breaking Computers
• Reconditioning a Model M keyboard
• VTech Laser VZ200 computer:
  • VTech Laser VZ200 on Wikipedia
  • VZ200.org
  • Dick Smith VZ200 Personal Colour Computer
• Beginnings of PowerPoint by Dennis Austin

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Xerox 1970s Experimental Office

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Something Geeky women programmer tshirt

Auction Picks:

• Earl: AT&T 2503 Exclusion Set telephone
• Paul: Capitol BBS S-100 machine
• Michael: Dick Smith VZ200 and VZ300
• Steve: Pravetz 82 Bulgarian Apple II clone

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Host’s Topic:

Does programming 8-bit computers make you a better programmer of modern systems?

Retro Computing News:

• A.P.P.L.E. Posts First Year of Australian Apple Review
• The Australian Apple Review
• The Mac Turns 30:
  • Apple’s Macintosh Turns 30: Did You Know It Almost Failed?
  • Mac 30: Thirty Years of Innovation
  • Macintosh originals celebrate the Mac’s 30th anniversary
  • Macintosh 30th Celebration Kickstarter
  • First “Stevenote”: BCS Mac intro video with team Q&A
  • Scans of Softalk.Mac
  • Softalk Forever!!! Facebook group
• PDP-12 sells for over USD$16K on eBay
• Steve Chamberlin updates Mac Floppy Emulator
• VCFSE 2.0
• RetroChallenge 2014 Winter Warmup ends
• The Complete Historically Brewed PDF

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Macintosh: The Computer for the Rest of Us

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Hakko FX-888D soldering station

Auction Picks:

• Paul: PQ the Party Quiz game for Apple II
  • Alt: Mimic Spartan
• Michael: Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons
• David: Mac Plus and accessories, in boxes
• Earl: 1802 Membership Cards: Cosmac Elf Replicas
  • Lee Hart’s 1802 “Membership Card”

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Host’s Topic: The Way We Weren’t

Things didn’t have to be the way they are. We pick a handful of turning points (hardware, software, business decision, etc.) and imagine they did not happen, or happened differently. What kind of alternative computing future could we have found ourselves in instead?

Retro Computing News:

• The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS
  • Chris Fenton
  • Andras Tantos
• FreHD: TRS-80 virtual hard drive
  • Ian Mavric’s YouTube videos
  • Ian Mavric’s Site (where to order)
  • Mark Blair’s Model 4 ROM adapter for auto boot ROMs
  • Tezza’s collection of TRS-80 disk images
• Apple II vs. Commodore 64 chess match
• Retro UK cinema fest:
  • Micro Men (BBC 2009)
  • Computerphile on BBC Micro
  • Computerphile on Elite
  • Podfather (BBC 2009)
  • From Bedrooms to Billions
• Complete Historically Brewed ebook discounted
• Steve Jobs: “OpenDoc is Dead”
• Mac30th Celebration
• Sinclair’s 1984 big shot at business
• 8-bit harmonica
• Michael’s 2014 Winter Warmup

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Sega SC3000

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retro computer wrapping paper

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple II cables from Digi4D
• Paul: TRS-80 pocket computer
  • Alt: IMSAI 8080
• Earl: MiST: Amiga/Atari ST FPGA clone
• Myles: Huge Apple/Mac computer collection
• Michael: iMac clock (You can never have too many clocks)

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Host’s Topic: New guts, same glory?

Would you be happy to own/use a “vintage” computer where the insides had been replaced with modern tech that 100% emulates/replicates the original experience? And what happens when the day comes that you can 3D-print a retro computer indistinguishable from the original? Our panelists discuss whether retro computing beauty is only skin deep.

Retro Computing News:

• Atari Styled USB Joystick
• Pictures of Apple’s first employees
• World of Commodore 2013
• Programming the UniDisk 3.5 as a co-processor
• Chris Crawford wants to fix video games
• Acorn Learning Curve setup video
• Winter Warmup IP Telecomputer update

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Acorn Learning Curve

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Digi-Comp II: First Edition (recration)
  • Giant Digi-Comp II
  • Digi-Comp I replica kit
  • Digi-Comp I emulator

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple IIc, new in box
• Paul: Commodore SX-64
  • Alt: Another Commodore SX-64
• Earl: Sinclair ZX80

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Topics:

• Host Topic: Our favourite modern-day add-ons for vintage computers
• Christmas Bytes Festival: Dec 27-31, 2013
• A Computer’s Carol by James Houston
• Bletchley Park podcast
• Homebrew Computer Club 2013 Reunion video
• Vintage computer meetings starting in Switzerland
• N8VEM single-board computer
• Raising the CDC 6500 from the dead
• Vintage System Software Developer job opening
• Richard Garriott goes through old notebooks
• The Spoony Experiment
• Floppy Days podcast
• CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer
• The Tano Dragon (quite similar to the CoCo), new in box at CA Digital
• Introducing a Mac Plus to the Web
• The U.S. federal agency that still uses floppy disks
• Modernizing power supplies:
  • Apple III power supply auction
  • Littlepower
  • IIGS PS replacement

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1998 DEC Digital Equipment Corp Notebook Computer Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Men’s Barcode scan UPC Code cloth tie

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Acorn BBC Model B with DataCentre
  • Related: RetroClinic DataCentre
• Paul: Commodore 64 incredible music keyboard
• Earl: Atari 800 macro assembler and text editor

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Topics:

• Host Topic: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Stealy-Wheely. If you could go back and time and bring forward something you used to have, what retro goody would you snatch away from your younger self to have today?
• 1997 DEC retrospective on VAX and VMS
• Briel Computers’ Replica 1 ten available for pre-order
• Nishida Radio:
  • UNISDISK
  • Component video card for Apple IIe
  • RGB component video adapter for Apple IIgs
  • NISHIPPLE: Apple II compatible logic board
  • Lots of other Apple II goodies
• Plamen Vaiselov:
  • Disk II
  • Mockingboard
  • ZX-80 Kit
• BootZero’s HDDD A2 3.5 drive Disk II emulator
• The Art of Selling a Speccy Game
• Kickstarter: Slightly Magic 8bit Legacy Edition
• 2014 Winter Warmup Retrochallenge
• IXO Telecomputer:
  • Byte 1982 editorial: “A revolution in your pocket”
  • Inc. 1982 write-up: “Toying with computers”
  • Inc. 1983: “The revolution has been postponed”
• Merlin simulator
• Lamb Chops!, new Apple II game by Brian Picci
• Brian Picci’s other games
• JSMESS: the endgame

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• BBC Micro: the story of Daphne

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer by Steven Weyhrich

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: 1986 Ziggy Christmas Card Disk
• Earl: TRS-80 Color Computer serial number 1
• Paul: Very complete Model 100 set
  • Alt: Kaypro II, cheap start, good shape
  • Alt: PX-8 with multi-unit
  • Alt: Anderson Jacobson acoustic coupler
  • Alt: Nixdorf LK-3000

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Topics:

• Host Topic: The Cycle of Retrocomputing
• Homebrew Computer Club reuinion
• Ultimate unboxing video: ICT 1905E mainframe, circa 1970s
• Ken Gagne’s unboxing videos:
  • Wii U
  • PS4
  • XBox One
• Sophistication & Simplicity by Dr. Steven Weyhrich
• Forrest Mims interview
• The Amp Hour podcast
• Javascript classic Mac emulator based on PCE
• Apple II DOS source code released, with Apple’s permission
• Google BBS Terminal
• Sealed Apple IIc that just can’t sell
• World of Commodore: Toronto, Dec 7, 2013
• The Secret Weapons of Commodore
• Earl Evans book announcement: Back For A Bit

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Bill Cosby for TI99: This is the One

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• HTML Tag Necklace

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Apple Museum for sale
• Earl: Laser 128

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Topics:

• Host topic: Did going digital inevitably lead to a short-term-data culture?
• Learning Forth on the Atari 8-bit systems
• Mad Dog: 8-bit(-ish) online horror adventure game
• Commodore 128D Gamma Ray Spectrometer
• Cyan (Myst): Writing The Next Age

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• SinClair ZX Spectrum James Bond 007 Special Edition

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Activision Patches

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Hexamatic/16 hex to decimal conversion tool
• Carrington: Gremlins 2: The New Batch for Amstrad 464
  • Alt: Personal Software version of Zork

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