Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 115

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Panelists: Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern

Host's Topic: The great acquisitions of 2015

Looking back on 2015, what was your favorite retrocomputing acquisition?

Retro Computing News:

  • C64 Preservation Project
    • 10th anniversary collection on archive.org
    • Getting a 1992 Sparc Classic running in 2004
    • Interview with Tom Persky of floppydisk.com
    • Building Tetris on the C64 in 6502 assembler, DevDef blog series
    • C64 WiFi modem
      • C64 WiFi, video
      • The Infocom Cabinet
        • A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities
        • The Rest of the Infocom Cabinet
        • Open Apple show 47 (Jason Scott)
        • Raspberry Pi Zero
        • Pis...In...Space!
        • Kickstarter for LattePanda
        • The Telharmonium
          • Coverage in McClure’s Magazine, July 1906
          • Oscar Vermeulen on Hacakday: Experiences in Developing an Electronics Kit
            • Video of Oscar's talk

              • Vintage Computer Commercial:

              • Commodore Plus 4 Commercial 1986

                • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

                • Pixel Vision, hand-crafted handheld videogame emulator (Kickstarter) (4000 SEK, 470 USD)

                  • Auction Picks:

                  • Paul: HERO 1
                    • Educator 64
                    • TI 99ER Virginia license plate
                    • Old Datasette (black)
                    • Earl: Apple III Plus with monitor (Seattle pickup only)
                    • Jack: Melty, crafty, costly Atari 800
                    • Paul: Timex-Sinclair 1000 set for those with superfluous money
                    • Michael: Tandy MC-10
                      • Matra Alice 90
                      • Jim Gerrie's MC-10 blog
                      • Screenshots of and downloadable BASIC programs

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

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