Retro Computing Roundtable

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July 08, 2018RCR Episode 175 - Schmopic
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Schmopic
Happy July.
Topic and feedback notes:
Using the Macintosh IIsi today

Andy Hertzfeld interview, Tools & Craft series premiere

Technomoan covers the OMNI Entertainment System

Ken Shirriff reverse engineers the Sinclair Scientific
Extreme refurbishing of an Atari 800XL:
Extreme Refurbishing of Atari 800XL: Part One
Extreme Refurbishing of Atari 800XL: Part Two

Syd Bolton, founder of the Personal Computer Museum in Brandtford, Ontario, passed away
Retro Computing News:
BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive
Evan’s Lego Robotics Virtual Museum
LEGO Logo, LEGO's first programmable product
Computer Museum AR, Android app
Homebrew Club, iOS AR app
How Apple’s Advanced Technology Group changed our world:
Fastcompany article
MacObserver article that mentions it
Fastcompany article on archive.org

Animated retrocomputer gifs

Papercraft Commodore 64

Applesauce unit assembly under way, shipping soon
Vintage (Computer) Commercial(s)
Atari 800XL

Sinclair calculators
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
TRS-80 Model I Raspberry Pi case
Auction Picks:
Carrington: A Collector’s Guide to Personal Computers
ACGtPC on abebooks

Michael: LEGO interface card and sealed software
LEGO Interface A box, or, well, never mind.

IBM FNB 1410 System Scale Model

Paul: Coleco ADAM disk drive
VIC-20 with unusual keyboard

Data tracker RS232

Perkins Elmer Fox terminal

Teletype ASR 35

Inside the Personal Computer

ItPC on abebooks

Great Plains Software pin

DEC mug

Topic and feedback notes:
Silicon Cowboys documentary

Magnetostrictive delay line unit in a tweet

Magnetostrictive delay line unit on eBay

Custom Oregon Trail arcade cabinet at High Scores Arcades in San Francisco

This Is America video animated using MacPaint and MacroMind Director on vintage Macintosh SE.

CEC "Basic Skills Software Resource Collection"
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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June 17, 2018RCR Episode 174 - Atari facts and 8-bit FAQs
Panelists: Michael Current, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting
Topic: Atari facts and 8-bit FAQs
In an unusual episode, Jack and Paul are joined by Michael Current around the same physical table, talking about things largely related to the early development of Atari and Michael's Atari timeline and Atari 8-bit FAQ. There was a single microphone in a not particularly well noise-isolated room, so enjoy the party-like atmosphere.
Links:
The Atari 8-bit FAQ

Atari history timelines

St. Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts (SPACE)
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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June 03, 2018RCR 173 - Where might you have wanted to go today?
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Where might you have wanted to go today?
Imagine an alternate universe in which Atari, Commodore or even Apple had become the predominant computer architecture, rather than WinTel. How might have computing looked different in the 80s and beyond?
Topic and feedback notes:
Sinclair micro-drives

Henry Rollins points to his trusty Mac SE during a tour of his house in 1993.

Model F Keyboards project
Retro Computing News:
Restoring a PDP-12 in Duluth, MN
Ataribox is now VCS
Fantasy console/computers:
List of fantasy console/computers
BASIC8
Fazic.io
PICO-8

Sword of Sodan game for Apple IIgs:
Sword of Sodan game for Apple IIgs found
John Keoni Morris' tweet about imaging the disks

Virtual ][ adds (then improves) WOZ file compatibility
Ted Dabney, Co-Founder Of Atari And Video Game Pioneer, Dies At 81:
NPR write-up
The origins of Atari, and Ted Dabney’s role

Eudora source code released
Vintage (Computer) Commercial(s)
Pizza Hut

Atari VCS
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
RTL-SDR software defined radio
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Mattel 1979 Horse Race Analyzer Computer
Milton Bradley OMNI 8-Track Entertainment System

See also Techmoan's detailed video on the OMNI

Earl: TRS-80 Model III and Hard Drive with Key

Jack: Telex 12-cassette 8-track player (ad)
Video of Telex 12-cassette player

Paul: Teachatron
TI 99/4a joystick adapter

SD-card cassettes for ZX Spectrum

Interact Model Number 1 set

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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May 20, 2018RCR 172 - But the menus won't stay open
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Carrington Vanston (not hosting)
Topic: But the menus won't stay open
Calmer days. Running old Mac OS software in an emulator, a reminder of how much extra whizzbang is distracting us now without necessarily adding much to the quality of the experience or production. Might it actually be useful to try to work in a retro environment?
Topic and feedback notes:
Using the old Mac OS is pure Zen

ET-PEB does MIDI

Fazic.io

Database: How to send email (1984)

Bits & Bytes

Hilarious House of Frightenstein (ep 1)

LGR on Avon Beauty Vision Personal Color Computer
Retro Computing News:
The 76477 sound effects chip reverse engineered
Rick Dickinson, industrial designer of Sinclair home computers, passed away
Rick Dickinson prototypes on Flickr
New games:
Timepilot for ATARI XL/XE
Helicommander for Atari XL/XE
Nixy The Glade Sprite for ZX Spectrum
Quahappy for ZX Spectrum
Mine Sweep Mini for VIC-20

Colossal vintage game/computing auction in NJ
Vintage Computer Commercial
Sir Clive Sinclair's Quantum Leap

Fidelity Electronics Chess Challanger
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Knit Heart Floppy Disk
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Fidelity Electronics original 1977 Chess Challenger
Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess

The Overtom Chess Computer Museum

Paul: IMSAI 8080 with drives
IMSAI 8080 owned by Don Kneller

IBM PC/AT set

IBM 5155

White phosphor Monitor III

Recreated ZX Spectrum, sort of

New Quadra 700 feet

Sinclair QL set

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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May 06, 2018RCR 171 - Shipwrecks
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Shipwrecks
eBay has gotten big enough that collectors with too little space, as well as non-experts, heirs, estate sale pickers, etc. can make rare and interesting vintage computer items available to those of us who are interested in them. Being good at finding things at estate sales is not the same as being good at packing things for shipment. What’s the worst eBay/general shipping experience you’ve had?
Topic and feedback notes:
Mimeo-1

Jupiter Ace emulator for iPad

Wolfenstein 3D, DOS, Apple IIGS

Nova: The KGB, Computer, and Me (Nova, Clifford Stoll)

Play retro baseball games in your browser
Retro Computing News:
NASA dusts off FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede
Kickstarter for Brian Bagnall’s “Commodore - The Final Years”
TransWarp GS pre-orders
Oregon Trail:
How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time
"You Have Died of Dysentery" book
Article on original development of Oregon Trail

New Commodore 128 motherboard

List of C128 software

BBSing on an Epson PX-8

BBSing on an emulated NeXT cube

WiFi232

WiModem232

Kiba of Akiba: Party @ The BBS

Kiba of Akiba: Oh My Personal Computer is Dead
Vintage Computer Commercial
Commodore 128
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Atari joystick keychain

Atari 2600 keychain
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Apple II tape collection barn find

Earl: Apple 2gs Computer with System Saver

Paul: Web-It internet computer
Apple luggage tag

Computer Shopper issue

TRS-80 Model I set

Norland Speed Term

iMac DV/SE

Closing notes:
Long Long Man

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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April 15, 2018RCR 170 - Vintage Computer Festivals
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Evan Koblentz, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Vintage Computer Festivals
Vintage Computer Festivals and the Vintage Computer Federation. See things, talk to people, escape into the past.
Topic and feedback notes:
Vintage Computer Federation
VCF forum

VCF Southeast 6.0 (Apr 21-22, 2018)

VCF Italia (Apr 28-29, 2018)

VCF East XIII (May 18-20, 2018)

VCF West XIII (August 4-5, 2018)

Don Eyles walks through the LEM source code

Retro Computing News:
IRATA.ONLINE, a PLATO service for retro computing
The Friendly Orange Glow book (about PLATO)
Computer Chronicles (Education, 1986) (PLATO starts around 15:50)
C64 Mini begins shipping.
thec64.com
8-Bit Guy unboxing and review
YouTube search for c64 mini

The Making of Dark Castle

ViperCard

SuperCard

Livecode

ANTIC special: Bits & Bytes (1983 musical)

NeXTstation Turbo Color (Part 1) (RetroManCave YouTube)

RISCy Business - The Acorn RiscPC (RetroManCave YouTube)

KansasFest (July 17-22, 2018)

Tandy Assembly (October 13-14, 2018)
Vintage Computer Commercial
Canadian Tire Commodore Christmas 1985
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Retro Floppy disk cookie cutter
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Trivia Fever Apple II computer board game (sealed!)
See also: Contents of Trivia Fever box

Earl: TOSHIBA HX-10D 64KB MSX Z80
See also: MSX.org

See also: Setting up an MSX emulator on Raspberry Pi

Paul: Tax Avoiders for Atari 2600
Monorail PC

See also: Video of Monorail PC number 16

Commodore 65 in Germany

Canadian Tire VIC-20 games

Canadian Tire VIC-20 cassette in a C2N 1530

See also: Photos of cassette insert at Denial forum

See also: Canadian Coin News report on Canadian Tire money.

PC demo disks

Closing notes:
Atari VCS not quite displayed at GDC

Rob Beckett’s Playing for Time

Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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April 01, 2018RCR 169 - Load Accumulator Immediate
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and David Greelish (not hosting)
Topic: Load accumulator
This is episode 169, known to hex enthusiasts as 0xA9, known to
6502 opcode enthusiasts as LoaD Accumulator (immediate mode).
So, naturally, we
will riff on the topic of accumulation.
Topic and feedback notes:
Rescue 1130: Recreation of Forth on an IBM 1130

Jupiter Ace Micro-emulator
Jupiter Ace turned 30, in 2012

Jupiter Ace (current home)

Retro Computing News:
Documentaries!
General Magic

Love Notes to Newton

The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart

Steve Jobs' Choices

Grace Hopper (Google project)

Grace Hopper on Letterman
An Evening with John Romero

Apple Time Warp podcast

Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 6.0 (April 21-22)

webOS open source edition

Designing the Windows 95 User Interface

VCF East XIII (May 18-20, 2018)

KansasFest (July 17-22, 2018)

VCF West XIII (August 4-5, 2018)

Tandy Assembly (October 13-14, 2018)
Vintage Computer Commercial
Where is Newton?
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Azio Retro classic keyboard

Also: Engadget review
Auction Picks:
David: Reproduction Swyft Card kit
Batman print prop

Sony PIC-2000 Magic Link PDA

Paul: Apple disk cases
See also:
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Epson PX-4

ILM PowerMac 7500/100

Televideo TS-803

See also: TS-803 in Pretty in Pink

Historically Brewed volumes

See also: Classic Computing: The Complete Historically Brewed

Westinghouse Microprocessor I/O Trainer

Closing notes:
David's blog (and recent interviews)

Interview with creator and producer of Douglas Englebart documentary

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
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March 18, 2018RCR 168 - Feedback
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting)
Topic: Feedback
So much feedback to talk about, we just talk about feedback.
Topic and feedback notes:
Shopgoodwill

Tindie
RC2014

Retroconnector

Tynemouth Software

GGLabs

“Totally 80s Rewind” at Living Computers Museum + Labs
Geekwire writeup

Samia Halaby, Amiga programmer (Guru Meditation)

Oregon Trail handheld teardown

Work on TI/99 ET-PEB (AtariAge thread)

TI section of AtariAge forums

Demo of CC-40 and Hexbus modem

CC-40 multicart boards

Banderstv television restoration

Macrofab features

Macrofab electronics podcast

Retro Computing News:
An astonishing old calculator (Numberphile)
Make BASIC Fast Again

Retrochallenge

The story of Tetris

Modern eSheep
Vintage Computer Commercial
VIC-20 careers
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
MS Paint enamel pin

Also: Beach Ball pin
Auction Picks:
Jack: A well-loved Atari Lynx

Paul: Apple feet
IBM feet

TI 58/59 Securities Analysis

Casio FX820P

Expensive UNIVAC and IBM/360 manuals

Radio Shack catalogs

New TAM

Arduino Altair 8800 clone

Tiny Arduino Altair 8800 clone

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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March 04, 2018RCR 167 - Costly Custom Creations
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Costly Custom Creations
Continuing a discussion from last time, on the iterative process of designing, building, testing; costly custom creations; parts shortages; why it's generally difficult.
Topic and feedback notes:
Florida Retrocomputing Club (Facebook group)

Keep the Bombe on the Bletchley Park Estate

Poorly packed TeleType

Call-A.P.P.L.E. 40th anniversary issue

Interactive adaptation of WarGames

Work on TI CC-40 peripherals (AtariAge thread)

Atari Lynx HandyCast

Ultima Codex: Favourite Fan Projects of 2017

Retro Computing News:
Grand Digital computer race at NMOC
Stunt Car Racer ported to Atari 8-bits

ZXbaremulator (ZX Spectrum on a Raspberry Pi)

Navy targeting computer on HaD

Steve Jobs job application

A.I. beats Q-Bert

Q-Bert infinite points

Benj Edwards' tweet about his collection
Upcoming events:
Florida Retrocomputing Club (Facebook group, meetup March 10)

Home Computer Museum (opens March 16, in Helmond, The Netherlands)
Vintage Computer Federation
VCF Southeast 6.0: April 21-22, Roswell, GA. Speakers: Bill Dromgoole, Don Eyles, Dave Walden

VCF East XIII: May 18-20, Wall, NJ.

VCF West XIII: August 4-5, Mountain View, CA.

Tandy Assembly (Oct 13-14, Springfield, OH)
Vintage Computer Commercial
Q*bert 1983 Commercial
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Handheld Oregon Trail game
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Heathkit H-89
Society of Eight-Bit Heathkit Computerists

Paul: Osborne car adapter
Toshiba HX-10D 64K MSX

Jumpman for the IBM PC

Atari Portfolio with Colman Network 8000 interface

Bag only

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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February 18, 2018RCR 166 - Retrocomputing Replicators
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Jack Nutting
Topic: Retrocomputing Replicators
Part of the fun of retrocomputing in the modern age is seeing what we can do with new technology to help our old hardware do things that were never before possible, or difficult, etc. With relatively easy availability of PCB design tools and fabrication shops, people set off to make their own projects, and share them. And maybe make a few and sell them. And people want them, and then they run out of time, interest, materials. Could things be better?
Topic and feedback notes:
CFFA3000 Run 5 coming soon

Centre for Computing History is running a “build-your-own-Z80-computer” workshop

10 PRINT official

Qodem (Qmodem simulator)

Cool-Retro-Term

Video review of Qodem, using Cool-Retro-Term

WinAmp in a browser

Panic's Audion story

Radio Shack 1980s Cell Phone Review video

Retro Computing News:
Cheap solution for what to do when the monitor finally breaks: Retro Man Cave on YouTube: Amiga to VGA | GBS-8220 Review (CGA/EGA/YUV to VGA)
Atari is jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon
Bloomberg

Bitcoin

Fortune

Kickstarter for the DSKY kit

#plottertwitter
Nolan Bushnell was offered an award at GDC, an offer that was rescinded
Polygon

Kotaku

Game Master Cartridge. CoCo enhancer. Write-up on VITNO by John Linville

Stewart Cheifet is considering producing a play about his friend and Computer Chronicles co-host Gary Kildall
Vintage Computer Commercial
ORIC Atmos 48k
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Centipede Board Game (Atari 2600 edition)
Auction Picks:
Earl: RARE Commodore 8296 Computer - A Real Beauty

Jack: Oric Nova 64

Paul: TI/994a Editor/Assembler
Kaypro 4 on Australian eBay

AT&T Septre

IIGS with buggy ROMs

Weird old Univac documents

Cheap computer tapes

Closing notes:
Windfall magazine on archive.org
Feedback/Discussion:
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Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

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The podcast currently has 190 episodes available.