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

Topics:

• R.I.P. Jack Tramiel:
  • Improbable PC Pioneer: Commodore’s Jack Tramiel, 1928-2012…
  • YouTube: Commodore 64 – 25th Anniversary Celebration
  • Book: Commodore: A Company on the Edge
• Apple ][ turns 35:
  • 1977 West Coast Computer Faire program
  • Wikipedia: Apple ][
• Book: The Best of Creative Computing: Volume 3
  • http://www.atariarchives.org/ by Kevin Savetz
• Wasteland 2 beats funding target by $2 million
• Who’s talking to us?
  • Rikki from Glasgow sends us shopping:
    • new old stock Commodore LED watches on eBay.
  • James sends us some great TI-99/4A links:
    • TI-99/4A User Group
    • The TI-99/4A Home Computer Page
    • Win994a-TI-99/4A Simulator for Windows
    • TI-99/4A Home Computer Book Archive
    • WHTECH –real big repository of files
    • TI-99/4A Gameshelf
    • ATARIAGE TI-99/4A programming forum
• Prince of Persia source code posted
• Don’t forget upcoming vintage computing events!
  • VCF East
  • International Classic Video Game Tournament
  • KansasFest
  • VCF Midwest and the ECCC
• Auction prices are getting out of hand:
  • $100,000 Mac prototype
  • Related forum thread
• New Apple II User’s Guide coming soon
• Video Games Live coming to Canada, eh?

Old Computer Commercials:

• YouTube: Radio Shack TRS-80 Commercial 1979 1980
• YouTube: First Apple Commercial 1977 by High Technology, Inc.

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington: Trip to the American Classic Arcade Museum
• David: Atari Arcade 04-0002EN Atari Arcade iPad Device
• Ear: Modern day buckling spring keyboard from Unicomp

Current Auctions:

• Carrington: Infocom poster from Zork Users Group
• David: Byte Shop Byt-8 Early S-100 Personal Computer
  • Alt choice: BYT-8 S-100 Mini Micro System
• Earl: Lear Siegler ADM-3A Terminal

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Topics:

• Original Apple II source code for Prince of Persia found in closet
• The PET serial registry project
• Apple Corporate Museum article @ ClassicComputing.com
  • @ forbes.com
  • @ cultofmac.com
  • Apple Archives Stored in Secret Stanford Warehouse
• Mozilla announces BrowerQuest
• Our new website and blog!
• Retro Show Announcements:
  • VCF East
  • KansasFest
  • CoCoFest (related video)
• Google maps goes 8-bit (click on “Quest”)
• Toronto PET Users Group YouTube Channel
• Bits and Bytes: tech TV from 1983
  • Luba Goy on YouTube
  • Billy Van, “The Hilarious House of Frightenstein” on YouTube
• Penny Arcade: the art of modern retro
• Classic video games were NP-Hard
• Kevin Savetz’s atarimagazines.com posts Canadian Atari magazine ROM

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• David: Star Trek Electronic Door Chime
  • Alt choice: The Authentic James T. Kirk Captain’s Chair
• Earl: EasyFlash 3 for Commodore 64
• Carrington: A vintage calculator

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• David: Zorba Personal Computer
• Earl: Commodore 64/128 VIC REL Relay Cartridge by Handic
• Carrington: Programmer combo for Atari 800/400
  • Alt choice: Atari Heavy Sixer

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• Retro Show Announcements:
  • Vintage Computer Festival East, May 5 – 6
  • KansasFest, July 17 – 22
• Apple museum opens in Moscow
• Happy 20th birthday to a trillion MIMEs
• Mapstalgia: drawing video game maps from memory
• Did Microsoft’s BASIC licensing kill the Apple IIe?
• Space Invaders couch
• 8-bit beer from Tallgrass Brewing
• Wasteland 2
• Dogfighters of Mars by Brian Picchi

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Carrington – NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter
• Earl – Raspberry Pi
• David – Atari Flashback 3

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• Carrington: Smith Corona Messenger Module
• David: Compaq Portable III Model 2660
• Earl: Vintage Epson QX-10 Computer System

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Topics:

• Retrode 2: Play SNES and Genesis game carts on your Mac or PC
• Spacewar! Turns 50
• Sponsor a Valve on Colossus!
• F18A brings VGA output to TI-99/4A, ColecoVision, and more!
• http://www.commodoreserver.com/
• Retrochallenge Competition
• Howard Scott Warshaw (of Atari E.T. infamy) on AVGN: The Movie
• Retro computers in LEGO
• Andrew Stephen’s Altair 8800micro
• Alker33 vintage YouTube channel and blog
• Altair 8800 emulator with lots of info including PDFs of the manual
• Zeta SBC, a Zilog Z80 based single board computer
• The N8VEM Home Brew Computer Project
• The new Retro Computing Podcast Forum

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• Carrington: Zip Chip 8000
• David: Processor Technology SOL-20 S-100 computer
• Earl: Vintage Epson QX-10 Computer System

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Topics:

• Bob Cook from Sun Remarketing interview
• David does a guest spot on the Open Apple podcast
• 6502 in 40-pin DIP package relaunched
• Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
• CRAVCon 2012
• KansasFest 2012
• Audio feedback from Ken Gagne of Open Apple
• Commodore in the Movies
• Old school computer remix of House of the Rising Sun
• Abobo’s Big Adventure

Retro Computing Gift Guide:

• David: Briel Computers
• Earl: Retro Innovations
• Carrington: Subscription to Juiced.GS

Retro Computing Auciton Picks:

• David: Vintage Sharp Expert Pad
• David: Apple Newton MessagePad 100
• Earl: Kaypro 2
• Carrington: Apple II collection starter kit

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• The John Sculley interview
• Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
• John Sculley Was Our Friend
• CNET – C64 – 30 years of wins and fails
• Tandy Color Computer
• Illinois landfills ban electronics
• Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, to keynote VCF East 8.0
• Dartmouth BASIC computer language
• Michael Jackson’s Arcade
• Atari History Book – Volume 1 – Tweeted by Michael Nadeau
• Jason Scott’s Kickstarter
• Get Lamp Screening Q&A in Portland
• KansasFest 2009 Keynote with Jason Scott
• C116 video with Bil Herd, designer of the C128

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Carrington: B-29 Bomber Superfortress mechanical tube computer
• David: Byte Collection
• Earl: Seagate ST-225 drive and controller card
• Earl: Wright Manual card punch

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Topics:

• Petition to pardon Alan Turing (posthumously)
  ~ BBC news report
  ~ Turing test
  ~ PM’s apology to codebreaker Alan Turing: we were inhumane
• Computer History Museum Launches Online Steve Jobs Exhibit
• Rare Video of Steve Jobs Narrating the History of Apple During His Younger Days
• Computer History Museum Receives Google.org Grant for Digital Repository
• 40th anniversary of video games: From Computer Space to Skyrim
• Apple’s founding contract sells at Sotheby’s for $1.35 million
• Apple II online game server

Retro Computing Holiday Gift Ideas:

Carrington:

• Send them to the summer camp for geeks
• Movie: Colossus: The Forbin Project (on laser disc
• Get creative: fake a vintage magazine subscription (buy a set, mail one per month)

David:

• T-Shirts: [Apple ], Commodore, Zazzle
• Book: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers
• Movie: War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
• My Book!: The Complete Historically Brewed

Earl:

• Movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley
• Book: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• Gift Certificate: eBay Gift Card

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Carrington: ranswarp TW2325 Accelerator for Mac Classic
• Earl: Commodore LED handheld calculator
• David: Cromeco Z-2 Vintage Video Capture Computer System

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