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

Topics:

• Host topic: “What shoved you down the slippery slope?”
• Amiga Forever Essentials for Android
• Kodable
• Programming Primer
• First website evah
  • http://info.cern.ch/
• Al Lowe releases vintage games for free download
  • Al Lowe’s game design documents
• Italian computer history site
• Forgotten QuickTime Demo Videos
• Alexander Graham Bell’s voice recovered from ‘unplayable’ record
• Ivan Drucker’s Magic Gosub
• David needs to sell books!
• David also needs to sell FIGnitions!

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Ballmer sells windows 1.0
• Windows 3.1 Commercial 1993

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Halo for Atari 2600
  • Play Halo 2600 online

Auction Picks:

• David: Columbia All-In-OnePortable Computer
• Earl: CDI 1206 Miniterm Pro portable computer
• Carrington: Philips Videopac Computer plus 25 games

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Topics:

• Host topic: “What shoved you down the slippery slope?”
• Podcasting live from VCFSE
• iSteve movie on Funny Or Die
• PDP-11 software engineering job in 2013? Yep!
• Project Unity: one box that plays 18 different retro game console formats
• TRS8BIT March 2013
• A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Overnight Bag

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Keypunch card printing plates
• David: Vintage Faceplate IBM 360/50 ser #12067
• Earl: Quattro Pro 1.0 for DOS
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Topics:

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen recreate classic 1981 Microsoft photo
• A Talk With Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland
• The 22nd Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
• KansasFest 2013 opens for registration
• Disney shuts down LucasArts
• History of the modern graphics processor (1 of 4)
• Vintage computers made out of LEGO:
  • Apple II by Chiu-Kueng Tsang
  • Commodore 64 by Chris McVeigh
  • Macintosh by Chris McVeigh
• VCFSE
  • http://www.youtube.com/vcfse1
• Announcing 2 new members of the Retrobits Podcast family:
  • “Chicken Lips Radio” podcast
  • “Next Without For” podcast

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Comdex
• Laptop 89′ Convention

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Book: Atari Inc., Business Is Fun

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Infocom Suspended (mask box)
• David: Rare Original Unassembled Altair 8800 Computer Kit
• Earl: TeleVideo 950

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Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Steven Weyhrich (apple2history.org/), Jeff Salzman (vintagevolts.com/)

Topics:

• Host’s topic: The genesis of collecting – what made you start?
• OzKFest in Brisbane, Australia, July 27-28, coinciding with part of KFest (which runs from July 23-28)
• Vintage software, including games, find a home in archives
• The Twiggy Macintosh prototype is alive…
• David Schmenk’s QuickCam on an Apple IIe – lo-res and hi-res!
• The First Literary Work Produced With a Word Processor
• The Centre for Computing History is moving to Cambridge

Vintage Computer Commercials:

• Old Boise Computer Store Spot
• Funny Computer Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• David: Six Digit Nixie Tube Clock The “Pinecrest”
  • TubeClock.com
• Steve: USB Plasma Ball
• Jeff: Bluetooth Ericophone (Cobra)

Auction Picks:

• David: Exidy Sorcerer Computer w/ S-100 bus adapter carts manuals and more
• Steve: Apple II Europlus built in Cork, Ireland
• Jeff: Vintage Wang 600 14TP Advanced Prog. Calculator 1973 S#CC3623 in good condition

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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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