Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 137

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Host's Topic: Mandatory downgrade

If you had to use a legacy operating system as your daily driver, which one would you pick and why?

Retro Computing News:

  • ProDOS 2.4.1 released
    • ProDOS 2.4 released
    • ProDOS 2.4.1 in-browser emulation at archive.org
    • Direct link to disk image
    • Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year
    • Mitchell Waite interview on ANTIC
      • also, Michael Boucher, MECC interview
      • ANTIC, The Atari 8-Bit Podcast
      • Recovering Atari ST ASIC designs
      • Bill Atkinson's Polaroids of early OS milestones
      • No new CFFA3000s for a while
      • PacCommEx, Summer 2017
      • Apple adds to vintage software collection via eBay
      • Apple IIGS turned 30
      • Teardown: same product, fifty years apart
      • OSEPP Motor Driver
      • NodeMCU dev board, includes ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller
      • Dara O Briain’s Go 8 bit on Dave
      • IT Crowd DVD has subtitles in 1337

        • Vintage Computer Commercials

        • Apple II GS - "Experts"

          • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

          • PocketCHIP

            • Auction Picks:

            • Carrington: Dust cover for Apple II
              • The Alien for Apple II (sealed)
              • Tandy Color Computer 1 with odd keyboard
              • Earl: RARE Vintage Apple III Computer /w 256k ram!
              • Jack: Gramd Priks Atari 2600
                • Related: David Crane talks about writing Grand Prix
                • Paul: New VIC-20 Datasette drives, almost gone
                  • Robot arm
                  • Epson QX-16
                  • Pencil II
                  • SVI 328
                  • Mac Memory Disk
                  • Review: Macworld March 1985: Memory Disk review (p. 72)

                    • 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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