Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 221: Unexpected Bonuses

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

Topic: Unexpected Bonuses

Along the way as we collect things, strange things turn up in what we get. We talk a bit about unexpected bonuses in amongst our finds.

Topic/Feedback links:

  • Charles finds whimsical characters on chips
  • TRS-80 Model I (article, Nuts and Volts, May 2002)
  • Adding Color to the Commodore PET (preview, Nuts and Volts, Sep 2015)

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Total Replay v4.0-alpha 3
    • Septandy
    • Ample MAME launcher
    • Crash and Burn: The Amiga ST Story
    • The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart (YouTube)
    • The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart (Amazon)
    • Curt Vendel (VintageIsTheNewOld)
    • Curt Vendel (Jason Scott, Twitter thread)

      • Vintage Computer-related commercial:

      • Tandy PC from 1988

        • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

        • Making Games for the Atari 2600
        • See also: 8bitworkshop.com

          • Auction Picks:

          • Blake: Olympia EX 100 Typewriter Extension CP/M Computer Word Processor
            • Atari PC4
            • IBM 9331-011 8" External Floppy Drive
            • See also: IBM 9331-012 5.25 External Floppy Disk Drive - AS/400 (Walmart)
            • Earl: Osborne 1 with monitor
            • Paul: IBM PC/AT
              • Mac LC 475, with ethernet
              • DCA IRMAprint
              • See also: AppleLine and Apple Cluster Controller sales reference guide (on bitsavers.org)
              • See also: AppleLine (on vintagecomputing.com)

                • 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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