Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 158 - The Retropocalypse

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Jack Nutting, and Steven Weyhrich

Host's Topic: The Retropocalypse

What might drive computing to go back "off-line"---massive infrastructure or privacy/secturity disaster? What kind of advantages are there to the limited/isolated machines of the olden-days? Is there a difference between obsolete and just retro? Might data/privacy disasters (even if not structural) lead to new uses of older tech?

Feedback notes

  • AmigaOne A1222 preview
  • Captain's Quarters BBS
  • WiFi232
  • Syncterm

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Atari is releasing Tempest 4000, made by Jeff Minter
    • Tempest 4000 preview
    • Alan Turing's lost papers discovered
    • Zork deep dive and carrying too many things
    • The enduring legacy of Zork
    • Zork on the Computer History wiki
    • Saving Every Apple Video
    • Unofficial Apple Archive
    • Tezza’s Adventures with an 8" disk drive

      • Vintage Computer Commercial

      • DEC takes us from past to future

        • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

        • 1958 PAPAC-00 paper computer
        • A built (not really working) PAPAC-00
        • Digi-Comp II
        • CHM PDP-1 restoration team (includes Peter Samson, creator of SADSAC II mentioned on pages prior to description of PAPAC-00)

          • Auction Picks:

          • Earl: SIDEWAYS for IBM PC
          • Ken: Atari 2600 games
          • Steve: Unitron Apple II clone
            • See also: Unitron page on applelogic.org
            • Low serial number Apple II
            • Paul: Kaypro 2000
              • IMSAI 8080 in a desk
              • Handheld paper tape punch
              • Two Epson PF-10 disk drives
              • Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1) auction
              • See also: David Larsen's Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1)

                • Closing notes:

                • Minecraft Apple IIe (to download)

                  • 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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