Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 151

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

Host's Topic: Is this important?

Is this old stuff objectively important, or is it just nostalgia?

Feedback notes

  • Living Computer Musem + Labs' permanent Apple exhibit
  • Break Out: How the Apple II launched the gaming revolution (David Craddock)
  • Breakout: How Atari 8-bit computers defined a generation (Jamie Lendino)
  • Lambda 8300 (El Museo de los 8 bits)
  • Lambda 8300 (Old-Computers.com)
  • Symbolics Lisp Machine rendering (reddit thread)
  • Instagram video of rendering
  • Symbolics Inc. Facebook page

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Armiga
      • Armiga review with giveaway
      • Early Mac emulation comes to the Internet Archive
      • PDP-10 enthusiasts resurrect ancient MIT operating system
        • ITS on Github
        • Lisa2.com served by a Lisa 2?
        • Experience Usenet as it was in 1987
          • YouTube demo of olduse.net
          • HUMONGOUS CP/M Software Archives
          • ZX Spectrum Next (Kickstarter)
            • ZX Spectrum ad (instrumental) (YouTube)
            • Shadow of the Beast
            • edladdin.com (Atari-compatible arcade controllers). Listen to the end of the episode for a discount code!

              • Vintage Computer Commercial

              • TRS-80 Model I

                • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

                • Command prompt T-shirt

                  • Auction Picks:

                  • Earl: TRS-80 Model I system
                  • Michael: Fractal Design Painter 2.0 Promo Rusty Tin
                    • Apple promotional calculator
                    • Paul: Seagate hard drive platters
                      • 6502 trainer
                      • Music of PDP 1-X
                        • See also: Selection of recordings from PDP-1X record (YouTube)
                        • Radio Shack MC-10 in box
                        • MC-10 16k expansion
                        • IBM Word Proof

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                          • Vintage Computer Forum
                          • RCR Podcast on Facebook
                          • Throwback Network
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                              • Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link

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