Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR 163 - 2017

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, and Jack Nutting

Topic: 2017

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Topic and feedback notes:

  • Edladdin
  • Retro_gaming (Instagram)
  • "The Great Apple II BBS Tour" contest:
    • telnet://a80sappleiibbs.ddns.net:6502 (A 80’s Apple II BBS)
    • telnet://cqbbs.ddns.net:6502 (Captain’s Quarters)
    • telnet://dura-bbs.net:6359 (Dura-Europas)
    • PDP-8/L renovation (page in Swedish)
    • ABC80 archive (page in Swedish)

      • Retro Computing News:

      • Doug Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos excerpts from a lecture from 1986
        • Vintage excerpts begin at 25:33
        • Full 1968 video
        • Chris Osborn (FozzTexx) plays the Lucy & Linus song on an IMSAI 8080 via AM radio interference
        • BMOW working on Apple II FPGA disk controller card
        • The story of Tetris Max
        • BMOW RetroUSB/Wombat (ADB-USB)
        • Joe’s Computer Museum (Joe Strosnider) review of Retro USB
        • Carte Blanche II
        • OPL2LPT AdLib compatible parallel port board
          • OPLL2LPT review on The 8-bit Guy's youtube channel
          • Blake Patterson's 8-bit holiday demos for 2017
            • Santa demo from The Voice (MUSE, Apple II)
            • " rel="noopener noreferrer">Cows are cool (Paul as a kid recording his voice with The Voice)
            • Dave Cheney dives into C. Gordon Bell’s “What Have We Learned from the PDP-11 paper” from 1976
            • Olivetti Programma 101 early computer, nunmber game being played
            • Ken Shirriff gets an IBM 1401 mainframe to create a Christmas card
              • The IBM 1401 wishes you a Merry Christmas (video)
              • Bitcoin mining on IBM 1401
              • Skool Daze ported to Atari 8-bit

                • Some upcoming shows/gatherings:

                • Retrogathering 2018 Vintage Computer Edition, January 27 2018, Västerås, Sweden
                • VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L
                • Retrocomputing devroom CfP for FOSDEM, February 3-4, 2018, Brussels, Belgium

                  • Vintage Computer Commercial

                  • Olivetti Programma 101

                    • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

                    • 5.25-inch floppy pillow

                      • Auction Picks:

                      • Ian: Fujitsu FM-8
                        • Byte Magazine May 1982 issue review of Japanese personal computers
                        • Paul: 3COM Audrey (Ocean)
                          • Big orange DEC VMS manuals
                          • LOBO MAX-80
                          • Trockball
                          • S-100 paper tape reader pre-order

                            • Closing notes:

                            • C64 Cynthcart
                            • Funko Pop! figures staged on a NeXTstation TurboColor, punnilly captioned for an exceedingly narrow audience
                            • Kevin scanned an Apple brochure in which the colors are weird
                            • Large version of original Apple II ad
                            • The evolution and history of the Apple logo

                              • Feedback/Discussion:

                              • @rcrpodcast on Twitter
                              • Vintage Computer Forum
                              • RCR Podcast on Facebook
                              • Throwback Network
                                • Throwback Network on Facebook

                                  • Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link

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