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

Topics:

• Hackerspaces
• Arduino Diecimila-Compatible board kits
• http://www.nkcelectronics.com/freeduino-arduino-diecimila-compatible-board-complete-kit.html
• Petscii Forums
• The Retrobits Podcast at petscii.com
• Forbin project
• An editorial article by Stan Veit from Computer Shopper, April 1989 (additional short article, “Intel Announces 1 Million Transistor Superchip!”)
• Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0
  • Pics: http://bit.ly/mCsCcS | http://bit.ly/iHG3hJ | http://bit.ly/jgZrvl | http://bit.ly/murzjH
  • A short video about VCF 7 East
  • A Great Time at Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0
• MARCH
• KansasFest 2011 July 19th to July 24th
• Ryan Suenaga’s podcast, A2Unplugged
• YouTube: Ryan Suenaga and A2 Unplugged podcast Saturday July 25 2009
• Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2.0
• Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 6.0
• Ask Slashdot – DOS box, or DOSBox?
• mTCP

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Carrington – 1889 C H Webb Adder Computer
• Earl – New in the box Atari 65XE computer
• Earl – New in the box Commodore 64 (original model)
• David – Tandy 1000 HX Complete system with Deskmate Software

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Topics:

• The History of Atari Computers
• The Day in Tech History
• Book Review: Idea Man by Paul Allen
• Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft @ Amazon.com
• Vince Briel announces hands-on A2MP3 session at KansasFest
• KansasFest 2011, Tue., July 19th to Sun., July 24th
• The Vintage Computer Festival East, Sat. & Sun., May 14th & 15th

Retro Computing Auction Picks: 

• Carrington – Apple IIGS 11Mhz Transwarp GS Accelerator -Works Great!
• Carrington – ZORK Personal Software Apple II w/BOX pre-Infocom 1980
• Earl – Book: PET Interfacing
• Earl – AddALL results
• David – Commodore 128 Working System Disk Drive Disks Lot
• David – “Commodore 128” eBay search

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Panelists: David Greelish (host), James Savage and Carrington Vanston.

Topics:

• 300 Baud magazine shuts down
• Brain Board (close-up picture)
• http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-first_page.htm
• Living Computer Museum computer pictures
• http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
• http://s100computers.com/
• Commodore Free
• Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_NewWave
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley

Emulator Discussion:

• Active GS
• Mini vMac
• Macintosh Garden
• Sweet16
• Virtual ][
• SheepShaver
• iDOS
• Einstein
• LCF Group / David Larsen

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

Carrington – Jupiter Ace

James – Apple Lisa 1 Theory of Operations/Hardware Manual 1982

David – Psion Series 3c 2mb Backlit Screen

Links Mentioned:

• VCF East 7.0 (2011)
• KickStarter.com
• http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/Blog/Entries/2010/9/3_Stan_Veit.html

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Panelists: David Greelish (host), Earl Evans, Evan Koblentz and Matt Wilson.

Topics:

• Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, dead at 84
  • http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp
  • DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC
  • TOPS-10
  • Sellam Ismail’s PDP-8 Replica Project
  • Jeri Ellsworth
• Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer
  • Fairchild Channel F
  • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6585977467001963251#
  • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2498129174652261598#
• The Top-Performing Alternative Investments: Vintage Apple Computers and Other PCs
• This Week in IT History: In Man vs. Machine, Machine Wins (Again)
• Castle Wolfenstein Original Cover Art Painting sells for $2000+!
  • http://panic.com/goods/
• Battle of the Brains: Election-Night Forecasting at the Dawn of the Computer Age (pdf) – Dissertation by Ira Chinoy, University of Maryland
  • Nov. 4, 1952: Univac Gets Election Right, But CBS Balks
  • http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/
• Click! A Brief History of Computing
• The histories of computing(s) by Michael S. Mahoney (pdf)
• The 25 Most Important PCs in History
• Open Apple: An Apple II Podcast

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Matt – Vintage Dell Dimension XPS Intel 486 DX2-66
• Evan – MITS Altair 8800 Computer- Rare Early Version
• Earl – Teletype model 33 – vintage computer and stand
• David – “Zenith” in Vintage Computing category

Links Mentioned:

• http://pdxcug.org/
• http://www.commodoreserver.com/ProductView.asp?PID=365065CF529B4C408F7D01C08BA34803
• http://retrobits.libsyn.com/show-133-an-interview-with-stewart-cheifet-part-i
• http://www.pdpplanet.com/
• http://used.addall.com/
• http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/

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• Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, dead at 84
  • http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp
  • DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC
  • TOPS-10
  • Sellam Ismail’s PDP-8 Replica Project
  • Jeri Ellsworth
• Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer
  • Fairchild Channel F
  • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6585977467001963251#
  • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2498129174652261598#
• The Top-Performing Alternative Investments: Vintage Apple Computers and Other PCs
• This Week in IT History: In Man vs. Machine, Machine Wins (Again)
• Castle Wolfenstein Original Cover Art Painting sells for $2000+!
  • http://panic.com/goods/
• Battle of the Brains: Election-Night Forecasting at the Dawn of the Computer Age (pdf) – Dissertation by Ira Chinoy, University of Maryland
  • Nov. 4, 1952: Univac Gets Election Right, But CBS Balks
  • http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/
• Click! A Brief History of Computing
• The histories of computing(s) by Michael S. Mahoney (pdf)
• The 25 Most Important PCs in History
• Open Apple: An Apple II Podcast

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Matt – Vintage Dell Dimension XPS Intel 486 DX2-66
• Evan – MITS Altair 8800 Computer- Rare Early Version
• Earl – Teletype model 33 – vintage computer and stand
• David – “Zenith” in Vintage Computing category

Links Mentioned:

• http://pdxcug.org/
• http://www.commodoreserver.com/ProductView.asp?PID=365065CF529B4C408F7D01C08BA34803
• http://retrobits.libsyn.com/show-133-an-interview-with-stewart-cheifet-part-i
• http://www.pdpplanet.com/
• http://used.addall.com/
• http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/

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Panelists: David Greelish (host), Michael Nadeau, Bruce Damer and Carrington Vanston.

Topics:

• 25 Years of Digital Vandalism
• Zero History by William Gibson
• WDEF Virus
• Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0
• VCF Controversy?!
• A truly graphic adventure: the 25-year rise and fall of a beloved genre
• IBM Centennial Film: 100 X 100 – A century of achievements that have changed the world
• IBM and the Holocaust
• IBM Watson: A System Designed for Answers
• Debate over Jane Smiley Atanasoff book
• Digibarn Systems: The LINC – Laboratory INstrument Computer
• Personal Computing 76 T-Shirt
• Commodore Free Issue 47
• Juiced.GS

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Carrington – Doc’s One-Minute Encyclopedia of Nintendo Game Instructions
• Michael – Vintage SORD M243 Mark IV
• David – Highest to lowest priced in Vintage Computing

Links Mentioned:

• Bill Pentz and (Earliest) History of the Microcomputer
• Matt Chat video show
• The Retroist podcast
• Historical Computer Society
• DoubleTake podcast
• NACA (pre-NASA)

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Panelists: David Greelish (host), Derek Warren, John Leake and Evan Koblentz.

Topics:

• Consumer Electronics Show
• Retrochallenge 2011 Winter Warmup
• Points of View a tribute to Alan Kay
• Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo – 1 of 9
• Book: Dealers of Lightning
• Book: The Dream Machine
• Pirate Bay Founder Says Apple “Becoming Microsoft” with Mac App Store
• 2011 prediction #7: Microsoft is the new IBM
• Oldenburger Computer Museum
• The Visual 6502 Simulator
• VCF East 4.0 — Chuck Peddle 1/4
• New ambient techno album from Zoe Blade (from Get Lamp)
• Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Derek – Text adventure: “Tass Times in Tonetown”
• John – Color Classic with 040 and IIe card
• Evan – Interesting book by Les Solomon + Stan Viet
• David – eBay “rare” in Vintage Computing

Links Mentioned:

• 1 Mhz: Episode #1
• AddALL: Used and Out of Print Search
• Amazon: Getting Involved With Your Own Computer
• Vintage Analog Computer Old Rare
• Mac Plus computer – vintage – rare – original computer
• The Cctalk Mailing List
• Data General Eclipse
• Hurricane Andrew
• Bruce Damer
• Vince Briel
• Sellam Ismail
• Matt Wilson

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Panelists: David Greelish (host), Bill Degnan, Earl Evans and Jason Scott.

Topics:

• Incredible CG work – “16-bit Memories” – tweeted by Blake Patterson, @blakespot
• Game collection of late Dungeons & Dragons creator E. Gary Gygax up for sale tweeted by Michael Nadeau, @menadeau1
• Gary Gygax on Wikipedia.org
• CommodoreUSA updated its material on the rebirth of the C64 – tweeted by Blake Patterson, @blakespot
• Oregon Trail Computer Game Becomes Live-Action Movie Trailer (The One)
• Finally a proper hardware-banging demo for Commodore PET – tweeted by Yves Bolognini,@yvesbolo
• Vintage Computer / Console Christmas Games from 8Bit Aficionado
• Bob Bishop to keynote KansasFest 2011 tweeted by KansasFest, @kansasfest
• eBay – APPLE LISA 1, VERY RARE, BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER
• Scratch-Built 8-bit Retro Computer from Retro Thing, http://www.msarnoff.org/projects/

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Bill – 1975 Popular Electronics – Altair 680 Computer Kit
• Earl – NEW Apple IIc 1985 Portable Computer Set SEALED BOXES!
• Jason – VIDEO GAMES & COMPUTER ENT EXTREMELY RARE JUNE 91
• Jason – RARE! Next Computer Screw Driver Nextcube Nextstation
• David – Old Commodore MOS Technology 6502 KIM-1 SBC Computer

Links Mentioned:

• Get Lamp Screening Q&A in Portland, OR
• Jason’s cat on Twitter
• Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game: An Essential D&D Starter (4th Edition D&D)
• Life with the Dice Bag DVD
• Uber Goober DVD
• New Epson PX-8 Geneva Computer

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Topics:

• Cassidy: Apple 1 sells at Christie’s auction for $212,267
• Maurice Wilkes: Visionary and pioneering doyen of British computing
• Silicon Valley: Computer History Museum to unveil $19M makeover
• Steve Wozniak the ultimate icon for the history of computing
• The 15 Greatest Computer Books of All Time

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Michael –APF Imagination Machine + 14 Games & Education Programs
• Michael –Vintage IMSAI VDP-80 VDP80 Business Computer Intel 8085
• James –Transparent Mac SE
• James –MacColby
• David –Largest vintage computer collection – over 600 items
• David –VINTAGE Brainiac K-30 Computer Circuits Lab EXIB 1959

Links Mentioned:

• EDSAC
• Book: Computer: A History Of The Information Machine, Second Edition
• Top Documentary Films
• Book: L.E.O.: The Incredible Story of the World’s First Business Computer
• Book: A Computer Called Leo
• Woz goes hands-on with technology relics
• Book: The Road Ahead

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Panelists: David Greelish (host), Evan Koblentz, John Leake, and Derek Warren.

Topics:

• Windows 1.0 turning 25
• The Intel 80386 Business Case
• Christie’s to Auction Apple 1 Computer
• Altair 8800 Micro (also see Micro-KIM & replica 1 TE)
• Minimig
• 4-Bit Microcomputer Kit
• Hackvision Kit
• KansasFest podcasts
• Top Documentary Films
• Bill Gates, Teen Beat
• MicroLive

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• UNIVAC history brochure
• Core Memory
• Complete BBC Micro Model B System
• Apple IIe SWYFTcard – Tested and Works – A RARE Find!

Links Mentioned:

• http://fatmanandcircuitgirl.com/
• http://fpgaarcade.com
• Book: Commodore: A Company on the Edge
• Book: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
• The Banana Jr. lives!

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