Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 216: Home v. Hobby

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Home v. Hobby

How have you kept the home/hobby balance? What has allowed you to remain friends/married/peaceful? Boundaries? Shared interest?

Topic/Feedback links:

  • Byte Cellar panorama
  • Stitching together with QuickTime VR Studio 1.0
  • QTVR file of the panorama
  • Collapse OS
  • Basic mechanisms in gun control computers (US Navy, part 1)
  • Basic mechanisms in gun control computers (US Navy, part 2)
  • Analog Computation in a Digital World (lecture, Dr. Corey Malay)
  • Mythbusters Big Rig episode
  • Riptide pilot
  • Captain Kirk's PET
  • Applefritter’s eWorld reboot

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Geekring webring
    • It's now safe to turn off your computer
    • Imagine That (Ed Smith, autobiography)
    • Ed Smith and the Imagination Machine: The Untold Story of a Black Video Game Pioneer (Fast Company, interview)
    • Mini PET
    • The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game
    • Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game (academic paper)
    • Retrogame Archaeology (John Aycock, academic monograph)
    • Retrogame Archaeology (John Aycock, lecture)
    • Double Low Res amper-library for enhanced Apple II

      • Vintage Computer-related commercials (or, well, chunk of audio):

      • Bill Gates talks about Microsoft and the Altair 8800

        • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

        • KansasFest 2020

          • Auction Picks:

          • Blake: Timex FDD3000 computer
            • See also: Timex FDD3000 (Wikipedia)
            • Medical Graphics Microloop 1100 Spirometer
            • Lotus JAZZ Pin Badge
            • See also: Memphis Group design examples
            • Carrington: The Works by First Star Software
              • See also: First Star Software
              • See also: Kay Savetz interview with Fenando Herrera
              • Earl: Altair MITS 8800 CPU Parts Kit
                • Epson PX-4
                • Paul: IIc bag in nice shape
                  • Another IIc bag
                  • Light pen new in box, rescued from the Titanic
                  • TRS-80 Model III in its box
                  • Microsoft... Office...
                  • Red Book Blue Book
                  • Tobias: RCA COSMAC VIP

                    • Closing words links:

                    • Smart Enough To Know Better
                    • Next Without For

                      • 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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