RCR Episode 249: 2020 also

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Blake Patterson

Topic: 2020 also

We enter the third year of 2020. Yet another New Year’s, yet another opportunity to make the New Year’s resolution joke.

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RCR Episode 248: So long, 2021

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: So long, 2021

At the tail end of 2021, we talk about our retrocomputing-based adventures during the year, with a little bit of a look ahead at what might come after.

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RCR Episode 247: Computing 24/7

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Blake Patterson

Topic: Computing 24/7

In honor of episode 247, we talk about stuff vaguely related to “all the time.” Mostly we wound up talking about whether we turned our computers off or not.

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RCR Episode 246: Data hoards, musician chords

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Data hoards and privacy

Retrocomputing collectors often collect retrocomputers, which often have disks or hard drives, which might contain private data. Particularly as computers get recent enough to have hard drives. Particularly particularly in the future when retrocomputers might contain SSD drives.

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RCR Episode 245: End of line

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Michael Mulhern, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: End of line

To the extent that you have physical objects, intellectual properties, accounts that host archives, what kind of plans do you have for when you are (possibly unexpectedly) no longer around? Or, what kind of plans do you plan to have? What kind of considerations are there? Does anyone but you in your local real-life circle know what the stuff is, who to talk to, how to access things?

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RCR Episode 244: Lacking Future Relevance

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Lacking future relevance

Sunk time – times you’ve spent learning (or learning how to do) something that has no future relevance. What did you do, what were you THINKING?

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RCR Episode 243: Networking keeps us all connec

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, and Earl Evans

Topic: Networking keeps us all connec

We continue to talk about networking in the context of old computers, in the days before everything was TCP/IP, when certain things were case-sensitive.

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RCR Episode 242: Retro networking, episode 1

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Retro networking, episode 1

We talk about things the word “networking” evokes in the context of old computers. Transferring files between computers, reaching (sort of) the modern internet, networking socially, etc.

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RCR Episode 241: Every Septandy is Like the First Septandy

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Every Septandy is Like the First Septandy

We rediscover the Tandy enthusiasts event, talk about simulators and emulators, wind-up computers, and board games.

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RCR Episode 240: A Flock of Toasters

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Screensavers

Avoid burn-in, and sometimes end relationships, with the help of flying toasters, fireworks, and 3D pipes.

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