Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 109

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Panelists: Michael Mulhurn (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Host's Topic: User Groups - Are they still Important to the Retro Enthusiasts Experience?

In this age of the internet, are face-to-face User Group Meetings as important as they used to be? Do you go (or try to go) to regular User Group Meetings?

Retro Computing News:

  • Digibarn’s Audrey
  • HP calculator repair kit
  • Raster Blaster Reloaded
  • Report on building Christopher Haberer’s GMC-4 replica (in German)
    • GMC-4 replica build report in English via Google Translate
    • Github repository for GMC-4 replica code
    • Kim Uno KIM-1 replica kit
    • Chicken Lips Radio, now with as many episodes as co-hosts! Now with twice as many episodes as before!
    • Ken reviews: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
    • /r/retrobattlestations BASIC week 5
    • Mike Willegal’s SCELBI reproduction
      • Mike’s 8008-related blog entries
      • The iBookGuy’s videos on “How ‘oldschool’ graphics worked”
        • Part 1. Commodore and Nintendo
        • Part 2. Apple and Atari
        • Daffy Duck and the Great Paint Caper, recovered for C64
        • Vote for Oscar’s PiDP-8, one of Hackaday’s 10 finalists.
          • Hackaday Finalists
          • PiDP-8 Project Entry
          • Nuts and Volts magazine, September 2015 issue with cover story on adding color to your PET.

            • Vintage Computer Commercial:

            • 1989 Celebrities consult with Tommy and his Commodore Amiga

              • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

              • Tetris Stackable LED Desk Lamp

                • Auction Picks:

                • Jack: Atari 2600 clone
                  • PDP8/e
                  • Ken: Atarisoft lot
                  • Michael: The Giant Book of Microcomputer Projects
                  • Paul: Interact
                    • If the community is starting to seem too small
                    • IBM 5155 at whatever market dictates
                    • CBM 8050 disk drive
                    • Just one Star Raider
                    • CPT 8100

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

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