Retro Computing Roundtable

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February 04, 2018RCR 165 - Computers and advertising
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Computers and advertising
In honor of the Big Sports Game in the US, we attempt to talk about computers and advertisements. What advertisements made an impression on you, caused you to buy something? Were advertisements really mostly aimed at kids? Or were those just the ones we saw because we were kids? How have things changed? Did Carrington appear in a Quark ad campaign?
Topic and feedback notes:
Typography in 8-bit fonts

Retro Computing News:
The Life of David Kelley, According to His Shelves
BASIC 10Liners Contest

TX_Dj vintage computer videos
TX_Dj Patreon

TX_Dj FAQ (modems, telnet, BBSing)

Caper in the Castro: the first (?) LGBTQ computer game
CitC Stack on Archive.org

Article about CitC from Motherboard

Apple II+ Mini
Apple II+ Mini writeup on callapple.org

Apple II+ Mini Facebook page

Apple II+ Mini video demo

ZX Spectrum Next laptop project
Vintage Computer Commercial
Atari VCS 1982 (Stick with me, Grampa)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Altair 8800 iPhone case

Altair 8800 on eBay
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Star Saga: Two, The Clathran Menace for Apple IIgs

Paul: MacRecorder
Echo PC+

3.5" semi-automatic disk labeler

IBM sorter control panel

NeXT Cube case

Mimic Spartan

HP-85

Jack: HP 5036A trainer

Closing notes:
Aleph One

1994 Paul is impatient to hear about Marathon

Midwest Pirates' Guild, Greg Schaefer Interview (raw footage from The BBS Documentary)
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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January 14, 2018RCR 164 - Retrocomputing Goals for 2018
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Retrocomputing Goals for 2018
What are some of your retrocomputing goals and projects for the coming year?
Topic and feedback notes:
ZX-Modules development tools going away
ZX-Modules page

Realms of Quest V (VIC-20 RPG in development):
Thread on VIC-20 Denial forum

Thread on RPGCodex

Retro Computing News:
The Night a UNIVAC Computer Predicted The Next President
Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer talk
Hackaday write-up on AGC talk

DSKY/kit instructable

Lisa OS source code to be released
Gizmodo write-up on Lisa source code release

Announcement on LisaList

France’s 1983 Minitel
Xerox Alto zero-day crack
The Culture of Tech Podcast (Benj Edwards)
Classic Computing Show podcast (David Greelish)
Jason Scott Talks His Way out of It podcast (Jason Scott)
Soviet control rooms, analogue panels
Vintage Computer Commercial
It's An Atari Christmas! - 80's Commercials
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Donation to the Internet Archive - an investment in our digital heritage!
Auction Picks:
Carrington: PET 2001-8 C

Earl: 4x Gold DIP Carriers for 1960s Logic Chips

Michael: PDP-8
Millionaire II - Stock Market Simulation

Eye Com 1000 Microfilm Viewer

See also: Source for new Eye Com microfilm viewers

Paul: Lisa 1
Osborne 3

"You might have a problem" Mac lot

Complete TI 99/4a system

Instant retrocomputer collection

NEC PC6001 mkII

Closing notes:
DSE CAT info

ST.Mac
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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December 17, 2017RCR 163 - 2017
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, and Jack Nutting
Topic: 2017
YEAR++
Topic and feedback notes:
Edladdin

Retro_gaming (Instagram)
"The Great Apple II BBS Tour" contest:
telnet://a80sappleiibbs.ddns.net:6502 (A 80’s Apple II BBS)

telnet://cqbbs.ddns.net:6502 (Captain’s Quarters)

telnet://dura-bbs.net:6359 (Dura-Europas)

PDP-8/L renovation (page in Swedish)

ABC80 archive (page in Swedish)
Retro Computing News:
Doug Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos excerpts from a lecture from 1986
Vintage excerpts begin at 25:33

Full 1968 video

Chris Osborn (FozzTexx) plays the Lucy & Linus song on an IMSAI 8080 via AM radio interference
BMOW working on Apple II FPGA disk controller card
The story of Tetris Max
BMOW RetroUSB/Wombat (ADB-USB)
Joe’s Computer Museum (Joe Strosnider) review of Retro USB
Carte Blanche II
OPL2LPT AdLib compatible parallel port board
OPLL2LPT review on The 8-bit Guy's youtube channel

Blake Patterson's 8-bit holiday demos for 2017
Santa demo from The Voice (MUSE, Apple II)

" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cows are cool (Paul as a kid recording his voice with The Voice)

Dave Cheney dives into C. Gordon Bell’s “What Have We Learned from the PDP-11 paper” from 1976
Olivetti Programma 101 early computer, nunmber game being played
Ken Shirriff gets an IBM 1401 mainframe to create a Christmas card
The IBM 1401 wishes you a Merry Christmas (video)

Bitcoin mining on IBM 1401

Skool Daze ported to Atari 8-bit
Some upcoming shows/gatherings:
Retrogathering 2018 Vintage Computer Edition, January 27 2018, Västerås, Sweden

VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L

Retrocomputing devroom CfP for FOSDEM, February 3-4, 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Vintage Computer Commercial
Olivetti Programma 101
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
5.25-inch floppy pillow
Auction Picks:
Ian: Fujitsu FM-8
Byte Magazine May 1982 issue review of Japanese personal computers

Paul: 3COM Audrey (Ocean)
Big orange DEC VMS manuals

LOBO MAX-80

Trockball

S-100 paper tape reader pre-order

Closing notes:
C64 Cynthcart

Funko Pop! figures staged on a NeXTstation TurboColor, punnilly captioned for an exceedingly narrow audience

Kevin scanned an Apple brochure in which the colors are weird

Large version of original Apple II ad

The evolution and history of the Apple logo
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link
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December 03, 2017RCR 162 - 3-Smooth
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting (not hosting)
Topic: 3-Smooth
3x3x3x3x2.
Feedback notes:
7 Classic Home PC Follow-Up That Were Never Released
Retro Computing News:
Atari shows off new joystick
A digital clock implemented in Life
StackExchange notes on creating the clock

Conway's Game of Life

NASA fires Voyager-1's thrusters for first time in 37 years
CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustritive Aid to Computation)
1969 article (Cardboard “Computer” "Helps" Students)

Python CARDIAC simulator

Python CARDIAC assembler

CARDIAC example code

Paleotronic Magazine
MicroM8 emulator

Paleotronic Magazine Kickstarter

Vintage (Computer) Commercial(s)
Voyager

The Game of Life

Commodore VIC-20
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Retro Pi Cases
Auction Picks:
Jack: Avon Beauty Vision Personal Color Computer

Paul: Otrona Attache
Macrotronics Terminall

NEC PC-8200

Intellivision computer module

Burroughs 8” Floppy drive

C64 WiFi modem

Closing notes:
Advent of Code

Glenda Adams' Ultima 1 cross-stitch

Cross-stitch detail
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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November 19, 2017RCR 161 - Living Computers
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Cynde Moya, and Jack Nutting
Topic: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
This week we are joined by Cynde Moya, collections manager, and chair of the acquisitions committee for the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle. We discuss various topics, including some of the new exhibits and acquisitions, philosophy of restorations, challenges in cataloging, availability of time sharing accounts, and lots more.
Topic notes:
Search LCM+L’s catalog

Get an account to log into LCM+L’s various time-sharing computer systems

Start a discussion about using these systems

Read LCM+L engineer’s restoration stories

Multics, now on Raspberry Pi

Multics simulator

Honeywell 6180 Maintenance Panel is being driven by a Xilinx BASYS3, running this Multics emulation.
Feedback notes:
RCR videos from #30 (July 2012) to #57 (September 2013)

New ZX-81 emulator for iOS
Retro Computing News:
1088XEL

1088XEL Mini-ATX board assembly video

Floppy Days interviews Stewart Chefeit

Reviving the Atari 1027

Terry’s Rubber Rollers

HP archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Loss of HP archive a wake-up call for computer historians (IEEE Spectrum)

Bitsavers.org

Ted Nelson's junk mail collection (so far)

Ted Nelson junk mail scanning costs spreadsheet

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Brian Dear, 2017)

cyber1 PLATO simulator online

Software Preservation Network

Minimal Computing thought pieces (see especially Old Machines Running Old Languages)
Upcoming show notes:
VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L

Retrocomputing devroom CfP for FOSDEM
Vintage Computer Commercial
IBM Sage and missile defense
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Floppy Disk Bag
Auction Picks:
Paul: System/360 front panel
COBOL coding forms

COBOL for C128

NeXTdrive

Packard Bell Corner Computer

IBM Aptitude Test for Programmer Personnel (1964)

HERO-1 (missing side panels)

Cynde: DisplayWrite 4 word processing software
1973 Vector Pak System Bread Boarding Catalog

Interdata model 80 with a lot of 16-bit software on paper tape

IBM 1401 console

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link
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October 15, 2017RCR Episode 160 - The Final Frontier
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Host's Topic: The Final Frontier
160. $A0. A high-ASCII space. LDY. Space bars. Keyboards? Places to put things? Yeah, we got nothing.
Feedback notes:
Micro Computer Machines of Canada MCM/70

Mac Portable ejects a floppy disk in space

FitalyStamp for Palm
Retro Computing News:
Steve Wozniak launches Woz-U

Cross Chase, massively multiplatform game

Cross Chase in play

The infinitely profitable program

Orca/C, Linker, and OrcaLib library available on GitHub

6502 Badge from VCF Midwest

6502 Badge build video

Rob Justice and Apple’s SOS-internal DRM support
Vintage Computer Commercial
Alan Greenspan promotes the Apple //c
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Floppy Disk Notebook
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Apple Letter Quality Printer
See also: Printing graphics with Apple daisy wheel printer

Jack: Atari Fossil Centipede Watch
Atari Fossil Asteroids Watch

Paul: DEC cart
Intellivision computer module in box

Apple II random number generator card

Model 100 with DVI and monitor
"DVI" stands for "Disk/Video Interface". Not "Digital". Whatever. We're not re-recording it.

TRS-80 Space Warp tape

Closing notes:
Welcome to Macintosh - 12

The story of Audion

Steven Frank's online Beagle Bros. museum

Early Winter 1987 DAK Catalog
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network

Throwback Network on Facebook
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September 24, 2017RCR Episode 159 - Retro Gaming Evolution
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Mark Lemmert, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston
Host's Topic: Retro Gaming Evolution
What changes are there in game development with old hardware in a new context? Use modern hardware enhancements? Modern advancements in computer science, user interface, programming environments? To what extent is there still something left to squeeze out of these machines?
Retro Computing News:
Nox Archaist Kickstarter

Nox Archaist main page, 6502workshop

Open Apple 74 (featuring Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist)

Open Apple 70 (featuring Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist)

Assembly Lines 54 (featuring Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist)

Unknown Realm

TRS-80 Video Player

Retro Roundup

Ken's blog entry describing Retro Roundup launch

Transporter Lock Star Trek: Discovery podcast (Ken Gagne and Sabriel Mastin)

Vintage is the New Old

44 years of Computer Weekly donated to TNMOC

Computer Weekly (modern site)

Ken Shirriff dives into fake RAM

Play SG-1000 and Colecovision games on Apple IIe

CP/M Turbo 7 card for Apple II

PC-RETRO reproduction IBM 5150 motherboard

Easy6502 interactive tutorial site

Using 6502 Assembly Language (Randy Hyde) (pdf)
Vintage Computer Commercial
Colecovision. Sorry, Atari
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Altair-duino kit
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Infocom Witness for DEC Rainbow

Michael: Apple IIc Mouse
See also: Kevin Costner uses a Lisa mouse

Compton's CD ROM

Leonardo - The Inventor CD ROM

Tandy RC Van

Paul: Northstar Horizon, box
Sony Series 35 Model 10

Dancing Demon

“The Information Revolution” 16mm 1982 documentary

Quadram Quadlink

Closing notes:
RetroChallenge RC2017/10
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
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September 03, 2017RCR Episode 158 - The Retropocalypse
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Jack Nutting, and Steven Weyhrich
Host's Topic: The Retropocalypse
What might drive computing to go back "off-line"---massive infrastructure or privacy/secturity disaster? What kind of advantages are there to the limited/isolated machines of the olden-days? Is there a difference between obsolete and just retro? Might data/privacy disasters (even if not structural) lead to new uses of older tech?
Feedback notes
AmigaOne A1222 preview

Captain's Quarters BBS

WiFi232

Syncterm
Retro Computing News:
Atari is releasing Tempest 4000, made by Jeff Minter

Tempest 4000 preview

Alan Turing's lost papers discovered

Zork deep dive and carrying too many things

The enduring legacy of Zork

Zork on the Computer History wiki

Saving Every Apple Video

Unofficial Apple Archive

Tezza’s Adventures with an 8" disk drive
Vintage Computer Commercial
DEC takes us from past to future
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
1958 PAPAC-00 paper computer

A built (not really working) PAPAC-00

Digi-Comp II

CHM PDP-1 restoration team (includes Peter Samson, creator of SADSAC II mentioned on pages prior to description of PAPAC-00)
Auction Picks:
Earl: SIDEWAYS for IBM PC

Ken: Atari 2600 games

Steve: Unitron Apple II clone
See also: Unitron page on applelogic.org

Low serial number Apple II

Paul: Kaypro 2000
IMSAI 8080 in a desk

Handheld paper tape punch

Two Epson PF-10 disk drives

Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1) auction

See also: David Larsen's Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1)

Closing notes:
Minecraft Apple IIe (to download)
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

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August 20, 2017RCR Episode 157 - eBay and retrocomputing
Panelists: Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, and Paul Hagstrom
Host's Topic: eBay and retrocomputing
“Atari 800 - RARE - $1,000 - L@@K!!1!”. Why do such listings exist? They are becoming more and more common. Does anyone ever accidentally buy from these outrageous listings? Memorabilia - especially recent-ish (90s, 2000s). Sometimes the vintage section of eBay is absolutely cram-packed with this stuff. Does anyone buy it? Is there value to having these items listed, or is it just yard sale stuff cluttering up the category? (Super common with Apple stuff.) “Not tested” - why not? Some items may indeed be difficult to test, but in other cases, it would be simply “hook it to the TV”. Do we assume that the alleged “cannot test it...” items are broken? Books - often overpriced on eBay. Should always check to see if the used Internet bookstores (including Amazon) have a lower price. Total junk - 4X internal CD-ROM units. Why? Among all the noise, decrease of actual interesting stuff that isn’t selling for 5x the price it should go for.
Feedback notes
Ricki's palmtops and retrotech blog

The Arcade Experience (Centre of Computing History, Sept 2)

Converting the 6510 as a replacement for the 8501

Adobe Audition

Audacity
Retro Computing News:
The Virtual Museum of Computing (with many 3D Blender models)

Alan Kay on Steve Jobs' visit to Xerox PARC (Quora)

Putting CoCo3 BASIC programs on an autoloading cartridge

Earl's experience at VCF West
MOnSter 6502

Xerox Alto restoration video blog (Marc Verdiell)

Neohabitat

Amiga A-EON X5000

Hypercard on the Internet Archive

RetroGathering, Sep 30, Västerås, Sweden
Vintage Computer Commercial
Sun Microsystems 1997
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Antikythera Mechanism pendant
Auction Picks:
Earl: Commodore PET 2001

Paul: SuperPET
Heathkit ET6800

Microace kit

See also: Kodetroll's first computer

Apple Interactive Television Box

Palm IIIxe and Landware keyboard

Closing notes:
Changing the "ROM" in the Mac IIe card

Halt and Catch Fire
Feedback/Discussion:
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August 20, 2017RCR Episode 156 - Assembly Chicken PolyANTICast Roundtable episode 1
This is the annual group "megapodcast" recorded at KansasFest, from July 2017. The event draws quite a few podcasters, so we all sit in a room and talk for an hour.
This year's podcast involves the obligatory discussion of the KansasFest event itself (which is an annual gathering of Apple II enthusiasts, along with some others, for almost a week of "retrocomputing camp"). It is held at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, where everyone lives in a dorm room, socializes in common areas, goes to presentations held in the basement, participates in various events, works on projects of their own or observes projects others are doing.
We discuss the event itself, play a version of "Celebrity" with figures from geek culture or computing history, and generally have a grand time.
This was one microphone in the middle of a room, so the audio quality is what you would expect from one microphone in the middle of a room. Also, this same audio appeared on the Open Apple podcast feed, so if you heard it there already, you are excused from listening to it again (unless you want to).
The participants were (clockwise from Quinn):
Quinn Dunki (Open Apple)

Paul Hagstrom (Retrocomputing Roundtable, Drop III Inches)

John Leake (Retro MacCast)

Chris Torrence (Assembly Lines)

Kevin Savetz (ANTIC, Eaten By A Grue)

Ken Gagne (Retrocomputing Roundtable, PolyGamer)

Charles Mangin (How II)

Carrington Vanston (Retrocomputing Roundtable, Eaten By A Grue)

Michael Mulhern (Retrocomputing Roundtable)
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