Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 120

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern

Host's Topic: We Heart Retrocomputing

It’s Valentine’s Day! So, we heart retrocomputing? First love, current love, secret love? As a side note, does Carrington secretly long for a Commodore 64?

Retro Computing News:

  • CHM, 60th anniversary of the birth of Silicon Valley
  • KansasFest 2016 registration is now open
  • Babbage Difference Engine moving from CHM to Seattle
  • Carston Tonn-Petersen's AIM-65+++ with Forth
  • Sinclair might-have-beens: Loki, LC3, Pandora
  • Secret Weapons of Commodore
  • Amstrad cross-development on Windows or Linux using Docker container
    • CPC Wiki forums
    • docker-amstrad-crossdev on github
    • Free books from Usborne
    • OS/2 Blue Lion - modern upgrade for OS/2
      • Blue Lion
      • The Malware Museum on archive.org
        • Malware Museum write-up at ars technica
        • Malware Museum write-up at BBC news
        • Retrochallenge Winter Warmup Winners
        • Woz gets mad
        • Win95 in web browser (Andrea Faulds)
          • Write-up at PCWorld
          • Write-up on TheNextWeb
          • Internet Archive does Windows 3.1
            • IA blog post introducing Win 3.x collection

              • Vintage Computer Commercial:

              • Amstrad 464 Computer

                • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

                • Retro Computer Code Scarf

                  • Auction Picks:

                  • Earl: Terminal w/ keyboard - Direct 831
                  • Michael: Creepy Programming book
                  • Paul: Commodore S-video cable for SX-64 etc.
                    • DK'Tronics keyboard for Sinclair ZX Spectrum
                    • info about DK'Tronics keyboard at WorldOfSpectrum
                    • TI 99/4 (sold immediately)
                    • SYM-1 in box

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

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