Retro Computing Roundtable

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December 20, 2015RCR Episode 116
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Michael Mulhern
Host's Topic: 2016, Here We Come
What are your big retro plans for 2016? Writing something, building something, fixing something, selling something?
Retro Computing News:
MIST FPGA
Pictures from World of Commodore 2015
Pictures from World of Commodore 2015
EDSAC Update - Two new videos
BBC News article on the EDSAC Project
(Largely complete) Star Raiders II released
Star Raiders source code
S100 Z80-based single board computer
The Internet Archive Telethon
Internet Archive donations
Teensy-based 6502 Logic analyzer
Teensy logic analyzer highlighted on Hackaday
Jingle Disk comparison
Vintage Computer Commercial:
IBM PCjr
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Tesla Watch
Auction Picks:
Earl: Z80 Microprocessor Kit
PDP 8/I
Michael: C64 Diagnostic Dead Test Cartridge
Paul: BASIS 108
Something
Mac Color Classic, ready for Mystic Upgrade
Dark Forces (Mac)
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December 06, 2015RCR Episode 115
Panelists: Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern
Host's Topic: The great acquisitions of 2015
Looking back on 2015, what was your favorite retrocomputing acquisition?
Retro Computing News:
C64 Preservation Project
10th anniversary collection on archive.org
Getting a 1992 Sparc Classic running in 2004
Interview with Tom Persky of floppydisk.com
Building Tetris on the C64 in 6502 assembler, DevDef blog series
C64 WiFi modem
C64 WiFi, video
The Infocom Cabinet
A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities
The Rest of the Infocom Cabinet
Open Apple show 47 (Jason Scott)
Raspberry Pi Zero
Pis...In...Space!
Kickstarter for LattePanda
The Telharmonium
Coverage in McClure’s Magazine, July 1906
Oscar Vermeulen on Hacakday: Experiences in Developing an Electronics Kit
Video of Oscar's talk
Vintage Computer Commercial:
Commodore Plus 4 Commercial 1986
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Pixel Vision, hand-crafted handheld videogame emulator (Kickstarter) (4000 SEK, 470 USD)
Auction Picks:
Paul: HERO 1
Educator 64
TI 99ER Virginia license plate
Old Datasette (black)
Earl: Apple III Plus with monitor (Seattle pickup only)
Jack: Melty, crafty, costly Atari 800
Paul: Timex-Sinclair 1000 set for those with superfluous money
Michael: Tandy MC-10
Matra Alice 90
Jim Gerrie's MC-10 blog
Screenshots of and downloadable BASIC programs
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November 22, 2015RCR Episode 114
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting)
Host's Topic: Internet of Dumb Things
Are our 8-bit programming skills going to be relevant again? In this upcoming Internet of Things world, underpowered is back. The IoT and the return of 8-bit computing
Retro Computing News:
Ken Olsen, DEC documentary (20 minutes)
10 computers time forgot
Jupiter Ace emulator (iOS)
Gene Amdahl dies at 92
Oral history CHM Bill Asprey interview, 2000
Start a petition at change.org
Polycade retro arcade cabinet
Top 11 Soviet PCs
Gauntlet “ported” to Atari 2600 (actually, Dark Chambers)
CFFA3000 run 4, over 75% of 500 are already sold
VCF East XI, April 15-17. Stewart Cheifet is giving Saturday keynote
Vintage Computer Commercial:
Vectrex
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Codebug
Auction Picks:
Paul: Atari AT-FS2 specialized joysticks
ZX Spectrum +
iMac G4 Cube
Apple Interactive Television Box
Jack: Unisex Retro Trendy Pixel 8 Bit Glasses Pixelated Style Square Sunglasses
Space Invaders-themed belt with integrated iPhone holder!
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1h 12min
November 08, 2015RCR Episode 113
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern
Host's Topic: Let’s sum it up
Your non-retro enthusiast friend asks “why do you collect, play with or learn about old computers? Fifty words or less! Well, after that challenge, I’m sure we’ll find some more words. But can we give the “elevator speech” on what the hobby is about?
Retro Computing News:
Atari 800XL flyover/through
State of Electronics (trailer)
BASIC comes to the Nintendo 3DS
The XPL0 Programming Language
Coleco: The Complete History
Lego meets Babbage
History of Computers LEGO project
Obituary for Chuck Forsberg, creator of ZMODEM
ZMODEM spec
ProTERM 3.1 manual, Zmodem discussion at p.256
WUDSN IDE for 6502-based machines
WUDSN tutorials
Computer.show
Virtual Keypunch
Virtual cardreader
PDP 8/e simulator
Bil Herd will narrate the 8-bit Generation documentary
Dinosaur Den channel (Bil Herd and Fran Blanche)
Call-A.P.P.L.E. resumes publication again
Vintage Computer Commercial:
Timex Sinclair 1000 Computer TV Commercial 1982
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Star Wars Mouse Pad
Auction Picks:
Paul: OCC2
TRS-80 Model I, with cases
Walnut Mac 128K/Mini
Hero Jr.
Earl: TI-99/4A 32K Memory Expansion Card
Michael: Amstrad PPC640
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1h 15min
October 25, 2015RCR Episode 112
Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern
Host's Topic: How has the retro scene changed in five years?
How have things changed for us personally, in the communities? What hasn’t changed? What should have changed?
Retro Computing News:
History of Personal Computing podcast
About David Greelish
Chicken Lips Radio
Drop /// Inches
Computer History Quiz
IEEE for the VIC-20! Kickstarter completed with 250% of their goal. Modern day replica of the VIC-1112 cartridge
Do historical inaccuracies matter in new ‘Steve Jobs’ film?
From the Film Australia Collection - “Get With I.T. The Information Technology Challenge.”
Floppy Days / Kevin Savetz interviews Wayne Green
History of Personal Computing, episode 12 (Magazines)
Charles Mangin’s video, modeling the Apple ///
RicBit’s MSX vault.
Call-A.P.P.L.E. resumes publication again
Vintage Computer Commercial:
William Shatner promotes the Commodore VIC-20
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Apple Lisa Raspberry Pi case
Auction Picks:
Related: Brainiac K-30
Paul: Univac ashtray
Commodore 2031 single PET-style drive
Commodore DX-64, probably
NeXTstation Mono, kbd, mouse, monitor
Earl: IBM PS/2 Model 70
Michael: Tandy Colour Computer 3
Attack of the Clones
David: Sharp Electronic Organizer Wizard OZ-9600 II
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1h 17min
October 11, 2015RCR Episode 111
Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom (vice hosting), and Charles Mangin (not hosting)
Host's Topic: 3D Printing
Perhaps your keyboard broke, or you’re missing a drive door. Perhaps you have a Raspberry Pi without a retrocomputer-shaped enclosure. Is 3D printing the answer? If so, where do you start?
Retro Computing News:
Tetris easter egg on HP 54600B oscilloscope
TI-82/etc calculator tracker/sequencer
Tezza has fun servicing an Amstrad FD-1 3” External Floppy Drive
Steve Jobs introducing the “Think Different” campaign, but with remarkable animation
Reading Retro: The Z1
Ben Heck revisits the ZX Spectrum project (from 2014)
Part-1 September 25th
Part-2 October 9th
Blake Patterson on the Mockingboard
RetroConnector (Charles' easy store) Lisa/Mac XL available, Apple /// coming soon, custom requests can be made through the contact link.
Vintage Computer Commercial:
Epson, every 10 seconds
The sadness of competitors to the Amstrad 464
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Disk II Styled USB SD card reader
Auction Picks:
Michael: ZX Spectrum Clone, blue
ZX Spectrum Clone, red
Charles: austingoodwillcomputerworks
Paul: TechStep
see also TechStep site on ForcedPerfect.net
see also also Diagnostic thing
Plamen Vaysilov’s new Apple II gear
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1h 28min
September 27, 2015RCR Episode 110
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhurn, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Host's Topic: Lottery
You won the lottery! Now, money is no object. You can pick one - just one - vintage computer system with all the fixings. Which one do you add to your collection, and why?
Retro Computing News:
Floppy Days Episode 24 - the CompuColor II
The Retrobits Podcast show 092: A Close Encounter - The CompuColor II
RCR episode 013, when there was a CompuColor II on eBay
“The 6502 Gets Microprogrammable Instructions,” Dennette A. Harrod, Byte Oct 1980
Ferranti Atlas computers
Video about the Atlas computers
Gray Chang’s Claim Jumper development notebook
Atari releases LGBT-themed “Pridefest” game
Z80 Membership card
Gofundme page for Sean's Garage Giveaway (KansasFest)
25 years ago a working party started something so pervasive today - IEEE802.11
The Superheroines of Computing
Grace Hopper Documentary
Grace Hopper interview on Letterman
Build a 6502, 6809, or Z80 computer hardware emulation using FPGA development boards and a few external parts. Neat stuff!
Cyclone IV
Grant Searle's FPGA Pick-and-mix
Retro VGS
JKL museum
MEGA65
Vintage Computer Commercial:
Epson Featuring Kent Dorfman from Animal House
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Black and White Keyboard Box
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Apple IIc covers
Blazing Paddles for Apple II
Earl: Vintage Texas Instruments 99/4 Peripheral Expansion System
Michael: Extra RAM for your VIC-20
- See also: tech info (ftp link)
Epson CX-20 Portable Acoustic Coupler
Jack: Mattel Aquarius
Aquaricart
32k cartridge
Paul: Your CompuServe account has been suspended
Model 100, disk drive, ROMs, manuals, software.
Floppy traveling case
Apple plotter
Keyboards one and two
North American source of SCSI2SDs
See also: Compatible computers
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1h 35min
September 13, 2015RCR Episode 109
Panelists: Michael Mulhurn (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting
Host's Topic: User Groups - Are they still Important to the Retro Enthusiasts Experience?
In this age of the internet, are face-to-face User Group Meetings as important as they used to be? Do you go (or try to go) to regular User Group Meetings?
Retro Computing News:
Digibarn’s Audrey
HP calculator repair kit
Raster Blaster Reloaded
Report on building Christopher Haberer’s GMC-4 replica (in German)
GMC-4 replica build report in English via Google Translate
Github repository for GMC-4 replica code
Kim Uno KIM-1 replica kit
Chicken Lips Radio, now with as many episodes as co-hosts! Now with twice as many episodes as before!
Ken reviews: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
/r/retrobattlestations BASIC week 5
Mike Willegal’s SCELBI reproduction
Mike’s 8008-related blog entries
The iBookGuy’s videos on “How ‘oldschool’ graphics worked”
Part 1. Commodore and Nintendo
Part 2. Apple and Atari
Daffy Duck and the Great Paint Caper, recovered for C64
Vote for Oscar’s PiDP-8, one of Hackaday’s 10 finalists.
Hackaday Finalists
PiDP-8 Project Entry
Nuts and Volts magazine, September 2015 issue with cover story on adding color to your PET.
Vintage Computer Commercial:
1989 Celebrities consult with Tommy and his Commodore Amiga
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Tetris Stackable LED Desk Lamp
Auction Picks:
Jack: Atari 2600 clone
PDP8/e
Ken: Atarisoft lot
Michael: The Giant Book of Microcomputer Projects
Paul: Interact
If the community is starting to seem too small
IBM 5155 at whatever market dictates
CBM 8050 disk drive
Just one Star Raider
CPT 8100
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August 30, 2015RCR Episode 108
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ken Gagne, and Jack Nutting
Host's Topic: Funding retrocomputing projects
When you get a new idea for something related to retrocomputing (new electronics, new cases, coffee table books)—and it’s a great idea—but you can’t fund it all yourself, what are the options? Thinking back on such projects, what seems to you like it’s been most successful? What would you try (or never try again)?
Retro Computing News:
Virtualbasic.org
Alamogordo dig sales exceed $100K
8bit Generation on Kickstarter
Happy 20th Birthday Win95
Happy 20th birthday Atari Jaguar CD!
RetroVGS
Jaguars at the dentist
Quinn prepares to look at the IIc Plus ROM code the hard way
The Byte Works Opus ][ (Software, Source) now available from Gamebits
Uthernet II preorders were open
Vintage Computer Commercials:
Windows 95: Multitasking
Thomson MO6
Guide to Windows 95 with friends
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Start button shirt
Auction Picks:
Jack: Atari joystick belt buckle
Ken: Microzine 8+9
Paul: ZX-81 kit
Thomson M05
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1h 18min
August 16, 2015RCR Episode 107
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), and Earl Evans
Host's Topic: The end of retrocomputing
We here on the speaking end of these microphones have a pretty similar timelines with computers, having been young and eager when computers were just entering the “personal” era. No doubt a part of the current interest in re-exploring that time is nostalgia. Will people who were 10 in 2003 (Bart Simpson aside) play around with old Dell Windows boxes when the mid 2030s roll around? Did people who were 10 in 1920 seek out old standing mixers to play with in the 1960s? The time we focus on is generally the point when the technology was new and changing and finding itself, isn’t that going to be the time “retrocomputing” will always focus on? What for you lies outside the bounds of the hobby interest—too new, too widely available, too closed, too ...? to “feel like” retrocomputing? It’s not about who can play or what anyone calls it, but what personally is the endpoint of your own interest?
Retro Computing News:
Radio Shack Microcomputer trainer pages
GMC-4, modern RS Microcomputer trainer clone
Retropie 3
VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL MIDWEST 10 August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL
ECCC - Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention
New Vintage Style 64C Computer Housing Case - Red
Brand-new colored keycaps for your Commodore C64
C64 reloaded (motherboard from Individual Computers)
Surfing the internet with a Model 100
Commodore PET in JavaScript, along with chiclet keyboard layout!
Saving 25,000 manuals from Manuals Plus
Ongoing, amazing PDP-12 restore effort happening at the RICM, Rhode Island Computer Museum
Vintage Computer Commercial:
TRS-80 Color Computer 3 vs. shortwave radio
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
iRecorder (iPhone dock/speaker in cassette player form factor
Auction Picks:
Earl: Televideo 920C with second page of memory installed
Paul: Lear-Siegler ADM 3A terminal
Lot of 20 Atari 400/800 cartridges. And some other stuff.
SX-64 with Prophet MIDI synth
HERO 1
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1h 1min

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