Retro Computing Roundtable

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November 17, 2020RCR Episode 225: Decade
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson
Topic: Decade
It's been just days over 10 years since the first episode of this podcast, so we reflect a bit on the podcast, the community, our starts.
Topic/Feedback links:
Episode 1
Episode 30, live at KansasFest 2012
Live streaming video from Mac Plus
ScuzzyGraph
Mini-MPI
NitrOS-9 Ease of Use (EOU) Project
Retro Computing News:
Usenet archive UTZOO Online
Tapes to PostgreSQL using Python 3.8
Volley for Two (new Commodore 128 game)
Inside stacked RAM modules
Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
1984 BBC Micro Acorn Electron Home PC Advert
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Commodore 64 Patent Print
Auction Picks:
Blake: Three Cray Research Posters: MPGS, Y-MP EL, Y-MP C90
VTech Laser 110

VTech Laser 310

See also: VTech Laser 200 (Wikipedia)

Earl: COMPU GLO Neon Dot Matrix Computer Paper

Paul: Apple Interactive TV Box
See also: AITB (Higher Intellect wiki)

Better Working (Spinnaker) Power C for C64

Sony Magic Link development system

Apple III disk drive

Mac OS X Snow Leopard install DVD

HP 2647A terminal

See also: HP 2640A (HP Computer Museum)

See also: HP 264x terminals (CuriousMarc)

Closing notes:
Wind-up Gramophones (Techmoan)
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

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November 09, 2020RCR Episode 224: Repurposed Tech
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Repurposed Tech
This time we talk about existing technology repurposed for use with computers. Cassette tapes, CDs, TVs. Though it wound up being kind of more tangent than topic this time.
Topic/Feedback links:
Think-a-Tron review
Precursor (FPGA phone)
TEDuino, a Commodore cassette unit replacement
Retro Computing News:
Sacrifice Zone: IBM’s abandoned country club
Bill Herd visits former MOS Technologies factory
VCF East
VCF East on YouTube
VCF East schedule
Crazy Blaster: new Amstrad CPC game
Joshua Stein live-coding IMAP client on Mac 512Ke in Think C
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
Clue, Clue II, and Let's Go To The Races VCR games
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
10 Print Coffee mug
COFFEE mug
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Robocom Bitstick for Apple II CAD
See also: Bitstick write-up

See also: Original Robocom CAD-1 setup

MacHandwriter pen gestures for classic Macs

Hyper Electronics 91 Function Apple Mouse

Apple Resource Directory floppy disks

Apple Video News #1 VHS tape

Apple lunch bag with AM/FM radio

Paul: PC Transporter
Make your own murder party on the Zinderneuf

Sealed Apple brochures

Portable 128D

iMac DV/SE

QuickLink cable organizer

Mac DeveloperEd box

Old Mac/Lisa disks

Closing notes:
Algarve Portugal escape rooms

Galavant
Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network

Throwback Network on Facebook
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October 30, 2020RCR Episode 223: Regrets and unregrets
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Michael Mulhern, Blake Patterson, and (briefly) Carrington Vanston
Topic: Regrets and unregrets
What’s something you regret buying, doing, selling, dumping, investigating, etc. in the context of the retrocomputing hobby AND what’s something that you bought, did, sold, dumped, investigated, etc. that led to an unexpectedly positive outcome?
Retro Computing News:
Atari 8 bit bot
Apple II bot
Fujinet 1.0
Fujinet purchase
Fujinet purchase (from Poland)
Thomas Cherryhomes demonstrates a cool new disk swapping feature of Fujinet (YouTube)
Programming for the Colecovision and Adam (forthcoming book)
F18A
Peter Neubauer's Apple-II/F18A thoughts, including KansasFest 2016 talk
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
Epson 1984 Commercial
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Mini-PET
Auction Picks:
Blake: (Mostly) TI CC-40 development artifacts:
CC-40 Plus prototype

TI 64K cartridge development simulator

Hexbus 3.5 Microdisk manual

CC-40 Hexbus video interface protoype

CC-40 Hexbus wafer tape drive prototype

Anderson Jacobson acoustic data coupler

Earl: Epson QX-10

Michael: CP/M Fortran S-100 MemTech APU 8" disk disk 1979 vintage programming software
Vintage 1980 Heathkit Zenith Complete Microcomputing Course w/ Cassette Tapes

Paul: CBM 256-80
See also: Commodore B128

See also: Secret Weapons of Commodore

Monitor III manual etc.

Ohio Scientific Superboard II batcomputer

Novation Apple Cat II

"Apple II" Versa EZ Port

Teleport manual/folder (Apple II game, Mike Abbott)

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network

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October 18, 2020RCR Episode 222: Second Computers
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Carrington Vanston... and (eventually) Michael Mulhern
Topic: Second computers
What was your second computer? How did lessons learned with your first affect your choice of second?
Topic/Feedback links:
Cool-Retro-Term

C64 mini monitor 3D printed

Building a 3270 terminal controller

Intel MDS development system (Centre for Computing History)

Joe's Intel MDS-800 development system
Retro Computing News:
Retrocomputing Spray Paints
OpenFlops USB floppy drive emulator (GoTek alternative)
8086 Microcode Disassembled
Ken Shirriff’s 8086 transistor photograph
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
IBM 3279 color terminal
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
M.U.L.E. The Board Game
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Ultimate 80s desk accessories:
1985 Hallmark computer desk plaque plus tie

Computer pencil holder with ‘dirty’ jokes

1980s computer programmer tchotchke

1980s business card holder by same tchotchke maker

See also: Adele’s II in Encino, CA (Los Angeles Daily News)

Michael: Wifi car backup camera

Paul: Brimstone and the terribleness of the world
Apple Aristotle menu software

Novation CAT

Mac 128K bag

Alternative Mac 128K bag

Mac Portable bag

Evolution of Apple iconography

Quinn: //c Carrying bags
Example 1 missing inside cover

Example 2 missing strap

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network

Throwback Network on Facebook
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September 21, 2020RCR Episode 221: Unexpected Bonuses
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Blake Patterson
Topic: Unexpected Bonuses
Along the way as we collect things, strange things turn up in what we get. We talk a bit about unexpected bonuses in amongst our finds.
Topic/Feedback links:
Charles finds whimsical characters on chips

TRS-80 Model I (article, Nuts and Volts, May 2002)

Adding Color to the Commodore PET (preview, Nuts and Volts, Sep 2015)
Retro Computing News:
Total Replay v4.0-alpha 3
Septandy
Ample MAME launcher
Crash and Burn: The Amiga ST Story
The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart (YouTube)
The Augmentation of Douglas Englebart (Amazon)
Curt Vendel (VintageIsTheNewOld)
Curt Vendel (Jason Scott, Twitter thread)
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
Tandy PC from 1988
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Making Games for the Atari 2600
See also: 8bitworkshop.com
Auction Picks:
Blake: Olympia EX 100 Typewriter Extension CP/M Computer Word Processor
Atari PC4

IBM 9331-011 8" External Floppy Drive

See also: IBM 9331-012 5.25 External Floppy Disk Drive - AS/400 (Walmart)

Earl: Osborne 1 with monitor

Paul: IBM PC/AT
Mac LC 475, with ethernet

DCA IRMAprint

See also: AppleLine and Apple Cluster Controller sales reference guide (on bitsavers.org)

See also: AppleLine (on vintagecomputing.com)

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

RCR Podcast on Facebook

Throwback Network

Throwback Network on Facebook
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September 13, 2020RCR Episode 220: Terminals
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson
Topic: Terminals
For episode 220 (Think: VT-220), we talk about our various experiences with terminals.
Topic/Feedback links:
VirtualColussus is working on a 3D simulation
Intel 8080 ICE development system
ZX Spectrum Next 2nd kickstarter
Retro Computing News:
Game Controller - H.A.L. Labs Gizmo - Cloning the Cloner
Super Taxman 2 video
Taxman video
The Infinity Modules Player: Never Turn Off Your Amiga Again
Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies in his Portland home at age 91
High Score (Netflix)
ESP32 Altair Emulator improvement
C74 project
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
BBC Tomorrow's World Home Computer Terminal 20 Sep 1967
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
C-Jump Computer Programming Board Game
Auction Picks:
Blake: Fairchild Video Entertainment System
NEC PC M580 teletex terminal 1986

Maxed out Apple IIGS computer

Paul: Apple BASIC Programming manual (printed in Korea)
See also: Apple BASIC Programming manual (on archive.org)

See also: Apple IIe User Interface Guidelines

Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?

See also: WINDICS (on archive.org)

See also: Article about WINDICS from gamehistory.org

Apple Computer Inc. faux friendmaking bag

Dithertizer II PCB only

VT-220 fixer-upper

Atari Portfolio with all the extras

IBM Think Pad

Feedback/Discussion:
@rcrpodcast on Twitter

Vintage Computer Forum

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Throwback Network

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August 25, 2020RCR Episode 219: Databases
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Databases
For episode 0xdb, we talk about our experiences with dedicated database programs, what some of us learned and didn't learn while studying computer science, employment as consultants, and other marginally related things.
Topic/Feedback links:
Self-contained tape loader for the ZX Spectrum
Mini-PET update
Myst documentary kickstarter
Portable CP/M
iz-cpm on Github
Unicomp keyboards
The ubiquitous little plotter (e.g., CGP-115)
Fixing the plotter gears
Retro Computing News:
Worms Armageddon updated after 21 years
Apple II Augmented Reality Chess Board
Windows Task Manager Runs Doom
This Week in Retro podcast
Durgod Fusion, retro-inspired keyboards
Mac OS 8 in Javascript
oldweb.today, historical browsery
Making a modern TRS-80 Model I clone
Write-up on the TRS-80 model I clone (Hackaday)
FujiNet
Vintage Computer-related commercial:
Lotus 123 and Symphony Commercial 1984
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
The Altair-duino
See also: Demo build of the Altairduino
Auction Picks:
Carrington: PowerBook 140-180c Car Adapter
Soviet BYTE ZX-Spectrum clone

BBC Acorn Computer Kit

Earl: TRS-80 Model 4P
See also: FreHD

See also: M3SE

Paul: Micromodem II
Newton Fax Modem

Newton 2100 and many extras

Epson PX-8 replacement keyboard

Very complete Epson HX-20 set

Shopping bag for encouraging social distancing (WordPerfect 8)

MPF IP

“VisiCalc III”, which requires VisiCalc III

See instead: VisiCalc III and training pak

Arfon Micro VIC-20 expander

See also: Arfon Micro expander announcement (Compute! magazine)

See also: Commodore VIC-1020 expansion box

Microsoft binder

Feedback/Discussion:
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August 10, 2020RCR Episode 218: KansasFest 2020 Megapodcast
KansasFest 2020 Megapodcast
Welcome to Retro Open Poly Roundtable Chicken Missile Lines Drop Museum Gruecast.
The annual "megapodcast" from KansasFest, this time conducted virtually. Note: Reading the links below could be "spoilers" for the game.
Participants:
Quinn Dunki (Blondihacks,
Open Apple,
Retrocomputing Roundtable)
Earl Evans (Retrocomputing Roundtable,
Next Without For,
Retrobits)
Ken Gagne (Polygamer,
Transporter Lock,
Retrocomputing Roundtable)
Paul Hagstrom (Retrocomputing Roundtable,
Drop III Inches)
John Leake (RetroMacCast)
Charles Mangin (How II)
Rob McMullen (Player/Missile)
Blake Patterson (Retrocomputing Roundtable)
Kay Savetz (ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast,
Eaten By A Grue)
Kate Szkotnicki (RetroMetal: Old Games on Old Machines)
Carrington Vanston (Retrocomputing Roundtable,
Eaten By A Grue)
Game-related links:
KansasFest
KansasFest (YouTube channel)
National Dairy Council Grab A Byte
Ancient Tarot
Canadian Tire Complimentary Cassette
The Missing Ring
Softline Mar/Apr 1984
Magic Knight Rayearth
Gertrude's Secrets
Conan: Hall of Volta
Apple Cider Spider
Firebug
Old Timers: MUSE Software (KansasFest 1992)
Three Mile Island
Senseless Violence 1 and 2
Feedback/Discussion:
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RCR Podcast on Facebook

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July 31, 2020RCR Episode 217: Architecture shifts
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Architecture shifts
Apple announced that it will be shifting its processor architecture from Intel to ARM. This has happened before, not just at Apple, but, well, mostly Apple or Apple-adjacent. We try to think of some other examples as well.
Topic/Feedback links:
New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
Communications of the ACM
John Cocke (Wikipedia)
Dimension 68000 ad (auction)
Dimension 68000 review (Creative Computing)
InfoWorld: "Jack of All Trades, But Master Of None" (Dimension 68000)
Dimension 68000 review (YouTube)
Altair 8800 in Unity
Swipecard retro game loader
RetroSwiper (GitHub)
68K coprocessor for Apple II being revived
68K coprocessor design for Apple II
Retro Computing News:
TI Silent 700 Model 703
Miniature IBM 1401 Datacentre
6502b (@miniatua) on Instagram
Virtual Colossus
Mini PET
Finding an Old Friend
Vintage Computer-related commercials (or, well, chunk of audio):
IBM promotional film (from about 1970)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Colour Maximite 2
See also: 8-bit Guy demo of Colour Maximite 2
Auction Picks:
Blake: Apple-1
Targa graphics card

Olympus America DS-1 / 300-01 Floppy Disc Computing Device Video

Inside NeXT book

See also: Blake's NeXT photo (in book)

Carrington: MacWeek cloth bag
The Gutenberg for Apple II and III

Cyborg for Apple II (NOS)

Paul: Popular Electronics, Jan 1975
SX-64s and a reminder of our mortality

Assembled Altair-duino

ERE I AM JH. Macnifier

See also: Macnifier ad

xu1541 nano

See also: Applesauce

PX-8, MU64

Personal Portable Computer, model 16BC

Apple II+ in its box

See also: A Labor of Labels (blog post about Apple II serial numbers)

Feedback/Discussion:
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Vintage Computer Forum

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July 28, 2020RCR Episode 216: Home v. Hobby
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Home v. Hobby
How have you kept the home/hobby balance? What has allowed you to remain friends/married/peaceful? Boundaries? Shared interest?
Topic/Feedback links:
Byte Cellar panorama
Stitching together with QuickTime VR Studio 1.0
QTVR file of the panorama
Collapse OS
Basic mechanisms in gun control computers (US Navy, part 1)
Basic mechanisms in gun control computers (US Navy, part 2)
Analog Computation in a Digital World (lecture, Dr. Corey Malay)
Mythbusters Big Rig episode
Riptide pilot
Captain Kirk's PET
Applefritter’s eWorld reboot
Retro Computing News:
Geekring webring
It's now safe to turn off your computer
Imagine That (Ed Smith, autobiography)
Ed Smith and the Imagination Machine: The Untold Story of a Black Video Game Pioneer (Fast Company, interview)
Mini PET
The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game
Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game (academic paper)
Retrogame Archaeology (John Aycock, academic monograph)
Retrogame Archaeology (John Aycock, lecture)
Double Low Res amper-library for enhanced Apple II
Vintage Computer-related commercials (or, well, chunk of audio):
Bill Gates talks about Microsoft and the Altair 8800
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
KansasFest 2020
Auction Picks:
Blake: Timex FDD3000 computer
See also: Timex FDD3000 (Wikipedia)

Medical Graphics Microloop 1100 Spirometer

Lotus JAZZ Pin Badge

See also: Memphis Group design examples

Carrington: The Works by First Star Software
See also: First Star Software

See also: Kay Savetz interview with Fenando Herrera

Earl: Altair MITS 8800 CPU Parts Kit
Epson PX-4

Paul: IIc bag in nice shape
Another IIc bag

Light pen new in box, rescued from the Titanic

TRS-80 Model III in its box

Microsoft... Office...

Red Book Blue Book

Tobias: RCA COSMAC VIP

Closing words links:
Smart Enough To Know Better
Next Without For
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