Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 106

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

Host's Topic: Second chances

If we had a time machine - What do you wish you’d done “back in the day” in the computing world, and is there a chance you can catch up and do it now in the retrocomputing hobby?

Retro Computing News:

  • WDC 6502 and 65816-based development boards
  • Amiga Turns 30:
    • ArsTechnica series
    • Guardian article
    • Jay Miner interview
    • How “two bored 1970s housewives” helped create the PC industry
      • Vector Graphic Vector-1 computer
      • Vector-1 on eBay
      • Retrochallenge 2015/07 ends
        • Tezza’s newly-mobile-friendly site
        • Earl’s Forth for Commodore 128
        • Charles Babbage Institute
        • PiDP-8/I kits
          • PiDP forum
          • Apple IIgs bounty:
            • Apple IIgs System 6.0.2
            • GS/OS 6.0.2 hard disk image for Floppy Emu
            • Space Ace for the Apple IIgs
            • BurgerLib
            • KitchenSink
            • Leadlight Gamma released for Mac/PC
            • Sleepaway camp for Apple II fanatics, Motherboard Radio (Jason Koebler)
            • History of Icons

              • Vintage Computer Commercial:

              • Remington Rand UNIVAC

                • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

                • Green Computer Power Button Keychain

                  • Auction Picks:

                  • Carrington: The Apple Boogie
                    • Story on Apple Boogie on The Next Web
                    • Download the songs
                    • Blue Busters video
                    • Carrington: Outbound Laptop
                    • Paul: Radio Shack Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer
                      • Science Fair Microcomputer with more beat up box
                      • Earl: Bell Teletype Model 26
                        • Wikipedia says it’s from 1946

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

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