Panelists: Earl Evans, Dr. Steven Weyhrich and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host topic: How does today’s “Maker” movement compare to the computing in the 70s & 80s
• Cloudpaint: online MacPaint simulation
• ANTIC podcast interview with Chris Crawford
• Homebrew Computer Club Reunion Kickstarter
• JSMESS: Run old computer emulations in a browser
• Centre for Computing History slideshow
• Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1
• CommVex V9 on Blip.tv

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Radio Shack is Christmas HQ

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• NeoPixel Ring
• GEMMA: Miniature wearable electronic platform

Auction Picks:

• Steve: 1950’S IBM SAGE computer history film
• Earl: Vintage Road Warrior Telecoupler
• Carrington: Full Throttle for PPC Mac (sealed)
  • Alt: Spectre VR for 68K Mac

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Panelists: Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host topic: Collecting to have vs. collecting to use.
• Blazin’ Forth for the C64
• Wayne Green (1922-2013)
  • Jason Scott tweets about Wayne Green
• Linotype: The Film
• Atari 7800 Expansion Module
  • Status Page
• Audio from listener David Wilson: is Retrocomputing a fad?
• How to make a BBC Micro work in North America

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Atari 400 brings the Computer Age home

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Three Fives Kit (555 timer IC model)

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Macintosh SE 1mb RAM Two 800k Drives
• Carrington: “Big box” original Wasteland for Apple II

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Panelists: Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host’s topic: What can we learn from old computers?
• The interseller 8-track player
• Commodore 8bit Search adds Amiga search
• Apple’s “Twiggy Mac” comes back to life
• New items from www.s100computers.com
• New run of CFFA3000 cards announced
• DXForth 4.00 for CP/M
• Code Academy
• The C64 vs Apple II chess match discussion
• Ken Shirriff’s blog

Upcoming Retrocomputing Events:

• VCF Midwest 8.0, Sept 28-29, 2013, Lombard, IL, USA
• Retropalooza, Sept 28, 2013, Arlington, TX USA
• VCFe 14.0 Oct 5-6, Winterthur, CH
• Portland Retro Gaming Expo Oct 5-6, Portland, OR
• DEC Legacy 2013, October 19th/20th, Marchesi Centre, Windermere, UK
• Syntax DemoParty, November 9-10, 2013, North Melbourne, Australia

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Are you keeping up with the Commodore?

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Gift card for Amazon

Auction Picks:

• Earl: NIB Vintage Microsoft MacEnhancer For Apple Macintosh
• Carrington: Quadra 605 with printer
  • Alt: 1979 Challenger

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Topics:

• Host topic: Get Off My Lawn tech that bugged us even back then.
• Digital Den to preserve and exhibit vintage computers
  • Indigogo campaign
  • Cambridge museum aims to preserve digital history
• KansasFest attendees feature on ComputerWorld
• GOG.com and the challenges of retro PC gaming
• The itty bitty Mac
• Manson H. Whitlock, typewriter repairman, dies at 96
• Polybius song by Julian Corrie
  • Polybius urban legend

Upcoming Events

• VCF Midwest 8.0, Sept 28-29, 2013, Lombard, IL, USA
• Retropalooza, Sept 28, 2013, Arlington, TX USA
• VCFe 14.0 Oct 5-6, Winterthur, CH
• DEC Legacy 2013, October 19th/20th, Marchesi Centre, Windermere, UK

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Rasputin for ZX

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Xronos alarm clock

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Commodore CBM PET Model 8032
• Carrington: Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas for Apple IIgs

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

Topics:

• Host topic: “Will this retro-computing hobby last?” revisited
• KansasFest
• Reading the newspaper on your computer in 1981
• Cambridge Centre of Computing History opens
  • ComputingHistory.co.uk
  • SiliconDreams.org.ui
• The Dying Art of Computer Viruses
• TRS8BIT quarterly Tandy newsletter
• A History of the Information Machine
• The Computer: An Illustrated History From its Origins to the Present Day
• Computer Chess (the movie)
• Electronic Plastic

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Mario Bros. Atari 2600 & 5200
• 1970s Electronic Quarterback game
• 1988 Radio Shack Tandy 286 PC Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Mattel Classic Football 2

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Mystery House for Apple II (sealed!)
  • Alt: Infocom Starcross flying saucer
• Earl: Vintage Apple II Plus
• David: DEC PDP 11/70 console board

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Jeff Salzman

Topics:

• Host topic: The future of retrocomputing
• New Video Game Book: Collecting For Dragons Lair and SpaceAce
• Google Powers Cambridge Computing Initiative
• 10 cool analog computers
• Upcoming vintage computing shows:
  • KansasFest
  • CommVex (Commodore Vegas Expo)
  • Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 8.0
  • Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention
  • Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1
• When Gadgets Were Huge: The Great 80s Computers of “Computer Chess”
• Retrochallenge
• Jobs movie coming to theaters
• David’s book available at PDF eBook

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Family Computing Magazine

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

Auction Picks:

• David: S-100 Computer System with Cromemco ZPU Cards
• Jeff: Heathkit ET-3400a microcomputer
• Earl: IMSAI 8080with cards plus the 8080A Bug Book

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Panelists: David Greelish (hosting) and Syd Bolton from The Personal Computer Museum

Topics:

• Douglas Engelbart, Early Developer of the Computer Mouse, Dead at 88
• Commodore VIC-20 prepares for first-ever tweet
• WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again)
  • The WarGames IMSAI
• 12 Badass American Inventions That Changed History
• Yahoo closes one-time Google rival Alta Vista
• Fire Sale! Last copies of David’s book on sale

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Mid 90’s Intel Pentium Commercial
• Intel Pentium 1 Advert 1995

Auction Picks:

• David: 1970s Royal V-64 Apple II copy
• Syd: Commodore CBM B128 Vintage Computer System
• Carrington: Micotek Mice II 8bit CPU emulation system

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Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom (twitter.com/yesterbits) and Carrington Vanston

Topics:

• Host topic: Reproduction vs. The Real Thing?
• Interview with Mike Douglas, creator of the new Altair 8800 Clone
• Steve Wozniak test-drives Apple 1 computers
• Steve Jobs video from 1994 – he expected to be forgotten by history
• KansasFest and OZ KFest
• KansasFest 2013
• Retrochallenge 2013
• New podcast! ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast
• The Turbo Entabulator (3D printed mechanical computer)
• Prince Of Persia source code in depth examination
• Terry Ritter’s memoir of building a Mark-8 in 1974
• Early Apple II A2S1-0047 sells for $23,099
• First Apple computer could fetch $500,000 or more
• Vintage Apple-1 Sells for $671,000

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Mac Apple Computer Commercial 1980s
• AT&T Computer commercial 1984

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Evolution of Video Game Controllers
• The Insanely Great History of Apple

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Mark 8 computer kit
• Earl: IBM C/2 development language
• Paul: Compaq Portable III
  • Alt: Open House H650
• David: Poqet PC model PQ0164

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Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting) and Earl Evans (hosting)

Topics:

• Host topic: Unfinished Business: Games and projects we keep telling ourselves we’ll finish
• RISC OS from the dawn of ARM, now on Raspberry Pi
• Documentary on the early UK video games industry
• PDP-8/E is alive
• Fun 5 minute video with Amiga co-designer Dave Needle
• E.T. game excavation confirmed
• How to set up CC65 to create Apple II software on Mac OS X

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Panasonic 3DO Commercial 1995
• Atari Jaguar Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Apple Lisa 1 converted to Lisa 2
• Carrington: Apple II CPM kit (I think)

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

Topics:

• Host’s topic: Curmudgeon time: Is newer always better?
  • GUI versus command line
  • INI files versus the registry
  • Web versus GUI
  • Mobile apps versus web
  • Wirth’s Law: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
• David’s two secret eBay resources:
  • http://www.collectorsweekly.com/electronics/computers
  • http://vintagecomputersale.com/
• Komputer Kindergarden with Kim Komando
• TRS-80 hard drive emulator
  • Terry Stewart (Tezza) TRS-80 Model 4
• Intel CEO Paul Otellini: History of the Computer Industry in 1 Chart
• Atari Breakout in Google Images
• A New 68000 CPU Board for the S-100 Bus

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Radio Shack TRS-80 Commercial 1979 1980
• Acorn Computers TV advert UK 1991

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• The Tenth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver

Auction Picks:

• David: Zenith Minisport ZL-1 1MB Laptop
• Earl: DEC Digital Equipment Corp Vintage Programming Template
• Carrington: 1979 Mini Labs Astro War electronic game

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