Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast

Personal memories, history, technical specs, peripherals, magazines/books/software, fun with the machine, modern upgrades & repairs, emulation, current Web sites, letters from listeners.

Links mentioned in the show:

• TI-59 email list - [email protected]

• TI58/59 manuals at rskey.org - http://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/the-library/12

• TI59 compiler by Guillaume Tello - http://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/ti58_e.htm

• TI59 emulator by GemTree Software - http://www.ti59.com/ti59.exe

• TI58c/59 site by Pierre Houbert, including TI58c emulator - http://83.156.189.247/ti58c/index.php?langue=EN

• Vertigo java-based emulator - http://www.n3times.com/vertigo/#

• TI59 emulator by Alain Zanchetta - http://www.zanchetta.net/

• Programming The TI-59 and HP-41 Calculators by Paul Garrison - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ti-59-Hp-41-Calculators-Garrison/dp/0830624422

• Sourcebook for Programmable Calculators by Texas Instruments - http://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Programmable-Calculators-Texas-Instruments/dp/0895120259

• Personal Programming – A Complete Owner's Manual for TI Programmable 58/59 - http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Programming-Complete-Owners-Programmable/dp/0895120275

• Programming Programmable Calculators by Harold S. Engelsohn - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-programmable-calculators-Harold-Engelsohn/dp/0810451050

• TI59.com – http://ti59.com

• TI59 presentation at Vintage Computer Festival Europe 2007 by Bernd Ulmann - http://fafner.dyndns.org/~vaxman/publications/ti-59.pdf

• TI59 site by Bernd Ulmann - http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/texas_instruments/ti-59/ti-59.html

• Battery repair at Datamath Calculator Museum - http://www.datamath.org/Batteries/BP1_Repair.htm

• Disassembly and cleaning instructions - http://www.marekczeszek.com/sitemap/homepage/ti-59-how-to/ti-59-how-to.htm

• TI59 Failures and Maintenance Tips - http://www.rskey.org/gene/calcgene/59diag.htm

• PPX-59 Software & Newsletter archive - http://www.datamath.org/Sci/WEDGE/PPX59-Newsletter.htm

• PPC Notes Newsletter - http://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/the-library/14

• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59

Bill Gates' recollections of the Altair and Altair BASIC, history of the machine, specifications, peripherals, cost of the machine, magazines/books, connectivity to modern computers, emulation, simulation, replicas, current Web sites.

Links mentioned in the show:

• wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

• Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer, by Stan Veit - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566640237

• Gates' memories of the Altair on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqAg0GJLPGk

• David Greelish, "Ed Roberts Interview With Historically Brewed Magazine" - http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Historically-Brewed-David-Greelish/dp/0615538126

• Computer Notes - http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/vac_comp_notes.asp

• The Tenth anniversary of the Altair 8800, with Forrest Mims III (helped form MITS), January, 1985 Computers & Electronics - http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/altair/pe0185er.pdf

• Cracking Open the Altair 8800, Cnet - http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-6204753.html

• Altair Peripheral Emulator - http://home.comcast.net/~forbin376/

• Altair32 Emulator - http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32/

• Altair 8800 demonstration on YouTube, by Don Russ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAhp_LzvSWk

• Virtual Altair Museum - http://www.virtualaltair.com/

• SIMH Altair 8800 Simulator - http://www.schorn.ch/altair.html

• iAltair and iAltairHD Emulator for the iPhone/iPad, by Peter Schorn - http://www.schorn.ch/ialtair.html

• Hack A Day - http://hackaday.com/2010/04/26/altair-8800-pc-case-can-emulate-the-original-hardware/

• Briel Computers (Altair replica) - http://www.brielcomputers.com/

• Altair Group on Yahoo - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altaircomputerclub/

Discussion of what's to come in this new vintage computing podcast. Also, a discussion of the vintage computers in the host's collection.