Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 155 - Getting done

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

Host's Topic: Getting done

Projects - so easy to start, so difficult to complete! What techniques have you found to cross the finish line? What stands in your way? Should we adopt a more businesslike approach to our hobby endeavors - would that take the fun out of it, or add to the fun when the final result appears?

Feedback notes

  • RWAP ZX81 keyboard membrane replacements
  • Moleman 4 movie
  • The Convex C220 arrives at the Vaxbarn

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Radiohead hides vintage computer game in OK Computer reissue
    • VCF West
    • Ready Player One preview
      • Ready Player One first look photo
      • Microsoft Paint is gone
        • No it's not
        • Impressive MS Paint art
        • Magnetic Scrolls source tapes recovered
        • Class Apples, the world's first all Apple II music based album
          • 8 Bit Weapon
          • Apple II DMS Music and DMS Drummer
          • The forgotten world of teletype games (Benj Edwards)
          • The NASA computer in the basement
          • Modern day Gopher history
            • The Rise and Fall of the Gopher protocol
            • See also RCR episode 135
            • OverbiteFF Firefox plugin for Gopher protocol
            • Apple II Festival France 2017, Aug 3-6
            • VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L.

              • Vintage Computer Commercial

              • Sperry Computer Ad 1978

                • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

                • 2038: The Final Countdown shirt

                  • Auction Picks:

                  • Carrington: 1976 MOS KIM-1 Computer System
                  • Earl: VINTAGE 1985 MICROSOFT FORTRAN COMPILER W/DISCS, MANUALS, & PLEXIGLASS CASE
                  • Michael: Clear/Prototype Mouse
                    • IBM Card Punch, but not quite what you’d think
                    • Paul: Silent Service T-shirt
                      • Sub Battle hat
                      • Datamost T-shirt
                      • HP 5036A Microprocessor Lab (8085)
                      • TeleType 43 terminal

                        • Closing notes:

                        • RetroMacCast 444 (MacAttic tour)
                        • Mpls City Pages story on Oregon Trail origins
                        • Philip Bouchard (Jan 2016), You Have Died of Dysentery (book)
                        • See also: How I managed to design the most successful educational computer game of all time

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

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