Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 206: 2020, thumb by thumb

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

Topic: 2020, thumb-by-thumb

Retro New Years Resolutions (retro plans for the new year, and old resolutions you never kept)

Topic and Feedback links:

  • Captain’s Quarters BBS and AE line
  • mTCP page (with, perhaps, some pages still being served by a PCjr)

    • Retro Computing News:

    • https://www.team6502.org/chuck-peddle.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chuck Peddle
    • The Legendary Chuck Peddle
    • Hackaday honors Chuck Peddle
    • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part I
    • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part II
    • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part III
    • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part IV
    • Silas Warner, the man who made Wolfenstein
    • Silas Warner at KansasFest 1992
    • Silas Warner and Muse Software, The Digital Antiquarian
    • Silas Warner memorial site
    • Silas Warner memorial site (at Internet Archive)
    • MUSE and ABM (at yesterbits.com)
    • Adam Rosen’s vintage Macs find new home at American Computer Robotics Museum
    • Tech Luminaries We Lost in 2019
    • Bushfire Charity eBay Auction (Mr. Lurch's Things)
    • Mike Harvey of Nibble magazine passed away
    • John Leake and Brian Wiser interview Mike Harvey
    • Nibblemagazine.com
    • Y2.02K Bug in Classic Mac OS Date & Time Control Panel
    • SetDate utility
    • History of the TI-MBX expansion system
    • Atariage thread containing specs for TI-MBX in message 5
    • Borland/Turbo C++ flavor ui for VIM

      • Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

      • VCF Pacific Northwest. March 21-22, Seattle. Living Computer Museum + Labs.
      • The 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest. April 18-19, 2020. Elk Grove Village, IL
      • VCF East. April 24-26, 2020. InfoAge. Wall, NJ..

        • Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

        • Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer Commercial (1978)

          • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

          • Tiny 3D-printed TRS-80s

            • Auction Picks:

            • Carrington: Steve Wozniak life-size standee
              • Hartley Courseware cassette control device
              • See also: Description of Hartley CCD in Resources in Education Vol 18 No 12
              • Spot On advanced formatting utility for Mac
              • Apple IIe with Cascade Graphics Development thingy
              • Earl: Titan III plus IIe
              • Michael: Heathkit EE-3101 DC Electronics Educational Systems Course
              • Paul: DTACK Grounded board
                • See also: Discussion with Don Burtis on Drop III Inches. 1:28 in
                • See also: DTACK Grounded newsletter issue #1
                • TI MicroExplorer
                • See also: MicroExplorer brochure
                • Sealed Apple II disks
                • Exidy Sorceror
                • HP Integral Personal Computer
                • See also: Inforworld article on the HP Integral Personal Computer
                • Think-a-Dot computer game from 1965
                • Wheels for the G3/G4
                • Cassette programs for the Apple II written by Silas Warner, Ed Zaron, and Bob Bishop

                  • Closing notes:

                  • Blake Patterson’s NMSspot (No Man's Sky)

                    • 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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