Retro Computing Roundtable

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July 30, 2017RCR Episode 155 - Getting done
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Host's Topic: Getting done
Projects - so easy to start, so difficult to complete! What techniques have you found to cross the finish line? What stands in your way? Should we adopt a more businesslike approach to our hobby endeavors - would that take the fun out of it, or add to the fun when the final result appears?
Feedback notes
RWAP ZX81 keyboard membrane replacements

Moleman 4 movie

The Convex C220 arrives at the Vaxbarn
Retro Computing News:
Radiohead hides vintage computer game in OK Computer reissue

VCF West

Ready Player One preview
Ready Player One first look photo

Microsoft Paint is gone
No it's not

Impressive MS Paint art

Magnetic Scrolls source tapes recovered

Class Apples, the world's first all Apple II music based album
8 Bit Weapon

Apple II DMS Music and DMS Drummer

The forgotten world of teletype games (Benj Edwards)

The NASA computer in the basement

Modern day Gopher history
The Rise and Fall of the Gopher protocol

See also RCR episode 135

OverbiteFF Firefox plugin for Gopher protocol

Apple II Festival France 2017, Aug 3-6

VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L.
Vintage Computer Commercial
Sperry Computer Ad 1978
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
2038: The Final Countdown shirt
Auction Picks:
Carrington: 1976 MOS KIM-1 Computer System

Earl: VINTAGE 1985 MICROSOFT FORTRAN COMPILER W/DISCS, MANUALS, & PLEXIGLASS CASE

Michael: Clear/Prototype Mouse
IBM Card Punch, but not quite what you’d think

Paul: Silent Service T-shirt
Sub Battle hat

Datamost T-shirt

HP 5036A Microprocessor Lab (8085)

TeleType 43 terminal

Closing notes:
RetroMacCast 444 (MacAttic tour)

Mpls City Pages story on Oregon Trail origins

Philip Bouchard (Jan 2016), You Have Died of Dysentery (book)

See also: How I managed to design the most successful educational computer game of all time

Feedback/Discussion:
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Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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June 25, 2017RCR Episode 154 - News news news
Host's Topic: News news news
So much news since the previous episode, the topic is: more news.
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Earl Evans
Feedback notes
Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors

64bites: Commodore 64 BASIC/Assembly video tutorials

Love Notes to Newton documentary (indiegogo, campaign finished)
RetroMacCast interview with Noah Leon about it

FASTchip //e (beta) reviewed at FinApple
a2heaven, where FASTchip //e will be available

Apple II Colecovision/VDP-1000 card from Ian Kim
CP/M Turbo 7, support for VDP-1000 card
Retro Computing News:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Composite Mod

Ted Nelson Junk Mail Cartons
How to support the scanning of Ted Nelson's "junk mail"

DEC records open for research at CHM

TNMOC 3D virtual tour opens

The Design of Colossus

After 2000 declsification of ‘General Report on Tunny’

Micro Adventure books online

100+ emulators written in Javascript

Emscripten
Vintage Computer Commercial
Sinclair C5
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Big Enter key
Auction Picks:
Earl: Microsoft SoftCard for Apple II

Michael: ZX-81
Apple yo-yo

Tennis Cup 2 for Amiga

Paul: 1977 WCCF shirt
COSMAC Super Elf (Quest)

ZX-81 unbuilt kit

Memopak HRG
See also: Memopak HRG

Memopak Z80 Assembler
See also: Memopak Z80 Assembler

MAST MiniMegs 1MB expansion for A500

Motorola EXORciser big setup
See also: Motorola EXORciser

Closing notes:
Justin Trudeau remembers Dark Castle fondly
and Wizardry

via the Internet Archive in The Atlantic

Feedback/Discussion:
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May 28, 2017RCR Episode 153 - Random Access Memories
Host's Topic: Random Access Memories
RAM limitations. Early on in home/personal computing, we were faced with very real RAM constraints. Not like today’s RAM measured in GBs and added in freely, only really affecting disk reliance. What do you remember about bumping into RAM limits, planning programs around them, finding failures, expanding, etc.
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, Kevin Savetz, and Carrington Vanston
Feedback notes
Real life TRON on an Apple IIGS

Synths in TV and Film

OSIweb.org

Forum discussion of the OSI reproduction boards

Github with gerber files for OSI boards

RCR Episode 142

Musée Bolo
Retro Computing News:
The Treasure of Lumos by Jaime Grilo

Radio Shack auction
TRS-80 things (catalogs, books, pins, art)

Bust of Charles Tandy

Older style Radio Shack sign

RCR Podcast episode 28 (Jun 2, 2012)

David Greelish interview (MacObserver, "Background Mode")

Charles Babbage left a program in Turin

Atari 800XEL mini-ATX project

ÉclaireXL Atari 8-bit FPGA project

Giant giddy giraffes gallop gently; GIF turns 30.

TurboBASIC XL source code

RC 2017/04 Results are in

CoCoBASIC Atom syntax highlighting plugin (writeup)
Plugin page

Vintage Computer Commercial
Compuserve (1987?)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
My First Laptop plush playset
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Thoroughbred Horse Race Analyzer Computer
Hints, Maps, and Solutions to Computer Adventure Games

Datamost Argos for the Apple II

Kevin: Pied Piper Communicator One
Commodore Plus/4

Michael: VZ300 setup
Galaga 9x32mm pin badges

Paul: ZX Evolution
Fischertechnik robot kit for PC

Elektronika BK-0010 including manuals, PSU, and conspiracy theory

Softalk for the IBM PC
See also: Softalk for the IBM PC on Yesterbits site

Softalk 1983
See also: Softalk on the Internet Archive

Closing notes:
Eaten By A Grue podcast

ANTIC podcast, interviews

WiFi232

After Dark 3.2 Flying Toaster song

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

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May 14, 2017RCR Episode 152 - Future nostalgists
Host's Topic: Future nostalgists
We're nostalgic for our formative computing years now, but lots of that old cool stuff got discarded or broken or traded along the way. D'oh! If only we'd been thinking of now then. But the kids of today will be our age at some point. Are we doing any better for their generation? What will they want back? Or, maybe easier: What do we wish our parents or former selves had hung onto?
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting
Feedback notes
Mike Willegal demos his SCELBI-8B reproduction

A ZX81 Keyboard Adventure

Scott's RC2017/4 "Andy Project"

MIT Flea

Stockholm nördloppis

Awesome Space

Home-built computers web ring

Mike Harrison's (mikeselectricstuff) BBC Micro video
Retro Computing News:
8-bit workshop, now with more platforms!
Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C (book, Steven Hugg)

History of the machines in 8-bit workshop

55,000 Reasons to love FORTRAN

WiFi232

Steve Furber Interview - Centre for Computing History
Steve Furber on Wikipedia

Debugging Applesoft code from Airwolf

Tandy Assembly. October 7-8 in Chillicothe, OH.
Vintage Computer Commercial
Hayes marketing from 1984
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Mouse Mats (Rhayader Computers)
Auction Picks:
Jack: Atari wallet

Michael: ETI 631 keyboard and 632 VDU
LCD Projection Panel

Computer Plus Modular 200 (Australian made PDP-11)

Paul: BYTE Spectrum clone
Don Lancaster classics USB v1.03

TRS-80 Model III, red

ZX80.5

OSI Superboard II set
See also: Briel Computers Superboard III:

Closing notes:
Citizens of Tech episode 69 on retrocomputing

WOzFest recap/galleries

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network
Throwback Network on Facebook

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1h 28min
April 23, 2017RCR Episode 151
Panelists: Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern
Host's Topic: Is this important?
Is this old stuff objectively important, or is it just nostalgia?
Feedback notes
Living Computer Musem + Labs' permanent Apple exhibit

Break Out: How the Apple II launched the gaming revolution (David Craddock)

Breakout: How Atari 8-bit computers defined a generation (Jamie Lendino)

Lambda 8300 (El Museo de los 8 bits)

Lambda 8300 (Old-Computers.com)

Symbolics Lisp Machine rendering (reddit thread)

Instagram video of rendering

Symbolics Inc. Facebook page
Retro Computing News:
Armiga
Armiga review with giveaway

Early Mac emulation comes to the Internet Archive

PDP-10 enthusiasts resurrect ancient MIT operating system
ITS on Github

Lisa2.com served by a Lisa 2?

Experience Usenet as it was in 1987
YouTube demo of olduse.net

HUMONGOUS CP/M Software Archives

ZX Spectrum Next (Kickstarter)
ZX Spectrum ad (instrumental) (YouTube)

Shadow of the Beast

edladdin.com (Atari-compatible arcade controllers). Listen to the end of the episode for a discount code!
Vintage Computer Commercial
TRS-80 Model I
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Command prompt T-shirt
Auction Picks:
Earl: TRS-80 Model I system

Michael: Fractal Design Painter 2.0 Promo Rusty Tin
Apple promotional calculator

Paul: Seagate hard drive platters
6502 trainer

Music of PDP 1-X
See also: Selection of recordings from PDP-1X record (YouTube)

Radio Shack MC-10 in box

MC-10 16k expansion

IBM Word Proof

Feedback/Discussion:
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Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

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1h 28min
April 02, 2017RCR Episode 150
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting
Host's Topic: Spring cleaning
Do you remove the accumulated goop? How do you remove the accumulated goop?
Topic/feedback links:
How II 0x06: Cleaning Vintage Plastic Parts

Your Computer

Emulating DOS, for running legacy applications
DOSBox

vDOS

vDosPlus

PCem

Building miniature CP-500 (Brazilian TRS-80 clone), translated at VITNO

CP-500 miniature project page (in Portuguese)
Retro Computing News:
Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation (book, by Jamie Lendino)

RabbitEngineering miniatures on etsy

Chasing the first arcade easter egg

Guru Meditation's Commodore preview for VCF East'

Sharp80 TRS-80 emulator

SDLTRS TRS-80 emulator

Upcoming festival/convention/show roundup, next few:
Apr 22-23: 26th annual Last Chicago CoCoFest. Lombard, IL

Apr 29-30: VCF Southeast 5.0. Roswell, GA

Apr 29-May 1: VCR Europa. Munich, Germany

Apr 29: WOzFest PR#6. Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Vintage Computer Commercial
IBM Personal Computer
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Miniature “PeeCee” 5150
Auction Picks:
Earl: Northstar Horizon

Jack: Sun SPARCStation 5

Michael: Atari pin
Apple Pin

Mixed set

Univac Pin

Paul: Bill Diel vinyl single
Heathkit ETW-3400A

Heathkit ETA-3400

TRS-80 Model 16 128K memory board

JLPGA Powerbook and bag

IBM Microsoft Adventure

SOL-20

Closing notes:
Vintage Gaming And More, Atari 2600 composite video mod

RetroChallenge 2017/04 is GO! Late entries are allowed

KansasFest 2017, limit 100.
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

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1h 47min
March 19, 2017RCR Episode 149
Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting
Host's Topic: Still Going Strong
Adobe Illustrator recently turned 30 years old. AutoCAD is 34, Microsoft Word and Excel are both over 30, and Mathematica is 28. Even the IBM PC emulator DOSBox is itself now almost 15 years old. What new versions of old applications do you still regularly use today?
Retro Computing News:
WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor

Bytecellar: To Upgrade or not to upgrade?

Usborne children's instructional computer books

Seymore Papert's "Mindstorms" book, MIT Media Lab

Wonderful restoration of an Atari 1040st on YouTube from Modern Vintage Gamer:
Part 1

Part 2

8bitworkshop

"Making Games for the Atari 2600" book

Harwell-Dekatron WITCH at TNMOC

WITCH-E update at Hackaday

WITCH-E main page

Retrochallenge RC2017/04 open for entrants

The 2017 edition of the “BASIC 10-liners” contest is open for submissions, deadline is April 15

Building miniature CP-500 (Brazilian TRS-80 clone), translated at VITNO

CP-500 miniature project page (in Portuguese)

CP-500 information page

Hercules IBM mainframe emulator

Seth Morabito's walkthrough of installing Open Genera'

Symbolics stuff that was on eBay:
Symbolics Framegrabber I/O board thing

MacIvory Model 2 upgrade

MacIvory Model 2 in Quadra 650

MacIvory Model 3 in Quadra 700

Symbolics full machine?

Symbolics NBS FEP I/O board

Symbolics processor board

Upcoming festival/convention/show roundup, additions:
Apr 29: WOzFest PR#6. Sydney, NSW< Australia.

Aug 31-Sep 3: OzKFest. Bribie Island, QLD, Australia

Vintage Computer "Commercials"
Symbolics Concordia

Symbolics Joshua

Symbolics S-Packages

Symbolics overview of Genera 7.0
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Tiny Arcade
Auction Picks:
Earl: DSI DATA SPECIALTIES INC. Tape Reader Punch SRP-3075-01

Jack: Amstrad PPC 512
Korvet SB8010

Michael: MicroSci Floppy Drive for A2
CBM Professional Computer Guide 1982

Paul: Red Guard
TRS-80 Video Display / BASIC worksheets

See also: Donut Dilemma

JC Penney’s Computer Program Data Recorder

8087 Math CoProcessor in box

IBM PC Game Control adapter

Feedback/Discussion:
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1h 42min
March 05, 2017RCR Episode 148
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston)
Host's Topic: Venturing down the retro upgrade path
How far should we go down the upgrade path toward modernity? If you have a, say, 68030 Mac, would you want to put a third-party 68040 accelerator in it? You would have in 1993. But what is the point today?
Retro Computing News:
Vintage computer game code wheels online

EEVblog teardown of an OCC-1

Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?

Future Shocked: reverse engineering the FuturePad controller for the Apple IIgs

Kickstarter: "The Commodore Story - Changing the World 8 Bits at a Time."

Internal Apple memos on SSAFE

Upcoming festival/convention/show roundup:
Mar 31-Apr 2: VCF East XII. Wall, NJ

Apr 22-23: 26th annual Last Chicago CoCoFest. Lombard, IL

Apr 29-30: VCF Southeast 5.0. Roswell, GA

Apr 29-May 1: VCF Europa 18.0. Munich, Germany

Jun 10-11: Pacific Commodore Expo Northwest. Seattle, WA, LCM+L

Jul 18-23: KansasFest. Kansas City, MO (and golden tickets)

Jul 29-30: CommVEx v13. Las Vegas, NV

Aug 5-6: VCF West XII. Mountain View, CA

Dec?: World of Commodore. Toronto, Canada

Tony Diaz on Retroblasting

Affinity Designer

Silicon Valley Revolution (trailer)
Vintage Computer Commercial
IBM Quietwriter typewriter
Retro Computing Gift Idea: Rasberry Pi Zero W
Official page

Adafruit page

Micro Center page
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Power Macintosh 8500
IBM Quietwriter

Apple Studio Display (NOS)

Earl: Siemens TS100 Teletype Machine

Paul: Lisa 1 bezel
Lisa 1 (“Twiggy”) drives

PDP-8/S

Expando-vision

Epson HX-20

Etherwave adapter

Feedback/Discussion:
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1h 34min
February 19, 2017RCR Episode 147
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston)
Host's Topic: Big collections
Big collections -- what are the implications? Saving systems from oblivion? Or, perhaps, removing them from the hands of enthusiasts who might happily use them? How to enjoy a large collection -- viewing, using, showcasing?
Retro Computing News:
The Finnish Museum for Games is now open
Video tour of the Finnish Museum for Games

"Under the Radar" documentary

Imaging 8" floppy disks for TRS-80 Model II/16

European Vintage Computer Festival 18.0, April 29-30, 2017, in Munich.
VCFe 18.0 Schedule (in German)

The Making of Apple’s HAL ad

Adafruit HAL replica instructions

Forth: The Hacker’s Language

William Wong: Forth Redesigned

William Wong on Rising Star

"A Gathering of Magicians" (from "Man Alive", CBC 1984)

Donner 3000 restoration

Commodore PET restoration

Inexhibit.com: Holborn 9100

Inexhibit.com: Commodore PET 2001

Inexhibit.com: Programma 101

The Untold Story of Nolan Bushnell's 1980s Tech Incubator

C64 8 Bit Civilizations

Finding the magazine that was in Wargames

MacWorld UK's macOS emulator roundup

Tezza's Windows emulator roundup

ZX81stuff.org, ZX-81 archives and emulator

Burroughs 220 simulator

ENIAC day in Philadelphia (Feb 15)

ENIAC article, with link to Java simulator

SCELBI app for macOS

TI-99/4a page on oldcomputers.net (featuring the sidecars photo)

Yale names Grace Hopper College

(non-gaming) DOS emulator

Clipper Summer '87 unboxing video
Vintage Computer Commercial
Atari ST - How The Computer Industry Works
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Bluetooth Boombox
Auction Picks:
Carrington: TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter Reprints
TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletters 1980

TRS-80 Colour Computer 2 case top

Earl: DEC letterwriter la-100

Michael: Intel 4004 CPU Print
80386ex uncut wafer

80486DX2 CPU die

Paul: Intel 486 original CAD layout
Sanyo VM-4509

Time-Life books, Understanding Computers

Etch-a-sketch screenie

TI 99/4a 32K RAM sidecar

Chicagoland Displaywriters

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1h 49min
January 29, 2017RCR Episode 146
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Carrington Vanston (not hosting)
Host's Topic: The next new old thing
So, we’re kind of experts on something. Or we’re familiar with something. But part of the fun of the hobby is seeing what else there was that we never got involved in. Now that we have our new modern brains, what old things are you interested in going back and learning? (Forth? Cobol? Inform? Mainframes? Alternative platform?) Is our modern brain going to make it easier?
Retro Computing News:
Apple2BuildPipeline

Inform

A Reader’s Guide to Microcomputer Books

Chicago Classic Computing

Retrogame.tv

Dial-a-Grue

RetroGathering Feb 4, 2017

proxxima038 on G+

proxxima038 on YouTube

Volta V computer

You are not expected to understand this.

Lion’s commentary (Wikipedia)

Comment in github

Dagen Brock: The making of Applezini

A downloadable software library for real or virtual Exidy Sorcerors

I’ve been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years. This is the result.

Dystopia: What a game of Civilization II looks like after 10 years

Passport on Github

Vintage Computer Commercials
Macintosh 1984 ad
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Civilization: The board game
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Apple IIc model A2S4100
Apple Studio Display M4551

Paul: ATR-8000 (and stealthy Nintendo drive)
Apple Network Server

Epson QX-10 system

Northstar Horizon

Osborne Vixen

Columbia Commander M64 Shoebox computer

See also: aximel.com page about Columbia Commander M64

Feedback/Discussion:
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1h 27min

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