Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 244: Lacking Future Relevance

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

Topic: Lacking future relevance

Sunk time – times you’ve spent learning (or learning how to do) something that has no future relevance. What did you do, what were you THINKING?

Topic/Feedback links:

  • Foone Turing explores the updated Twitter image posting/processing rules, for a very good reason
  • The reason

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Corecursive: The Original Remove Developer, Paul Lutus
    • Mountain Hermit Makes ‘Apples’ Sing In Simple English
    • The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk (Hackaday)
    • The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk (YouTube)
    • The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
    • The 100 MHz 6502
    • The 100 MHz 6502 (Hackaday)
    • Swatch 1984 Revisited
    • The Source (GitHub, historical source)

      • Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

      • IBM 5100 (First Portable Computer) commercial 1977

        • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

        • Lovelace and Babbage board game

          • Auction Picks:

          • Carrington:
            • Apple Super Bowl cushion
            • Memphis Design mouse pad
            • Earl:
              • Atari 400 computer keyboard
              • Paul:
                • Edison Voicewriter
                • Wax cylinders
                • See also: Edison Voicewriter
                • Mystery House
                • Laser 50
                • Laser 50
                • Spaceball
                • ADAM power supply

                  • Topic/Feedback links:

                  • A People’s History of Computing in the United States
                  • The Soul of a New Machine
                  • ?Next Without For 006 – SNOBOL

                    • 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

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