Retro Computing Roundtable

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August 03, 2022RCR Episode 256: Keep calm and carry on
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Keep calm and carry on
Episode 0 has arrived.
Topic/Feedback links:
The 6502 overflow flag explained
The 6502 overflow flag explained mathematically
The 6502 overflow flag explained at the silicon level
ZX80 8K BASIC ROM upgrade
Floppy Days 114: Howell Ivy, Exidy
The Gaming Chronicles (Kickstarter)
Robert Henke, CBM 8032 AV
Retro Computing News:
How to use an Apple II as a dumb terminal for a modern Mac
Reverse-engineered AOL
International Research Conference on the History of Computing. 1976
DOOM ported to A/UX
Encyclopedia Britannica picks an odd Apple
Apple museum tour by Woz from 1984
Vintage Computer(-related) commercial:
AOL commercial (1997)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
MOS 6502 poster
See also: MthreeL (etsy store)
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
Screenies monitor frame
Q3 Monitor Mobile
1965 Shazam System Reference Manual
Earl:
Osborne 1
Paul:
MicroProfessor II
Cray catalog
Novation modems
ELF II
ELF II (continued)
See also: ELF II
ZX microdrive
See also: ZX Microdrive (Wikipedia)
Closing notes:
Dotti
A2Stream file:
a2stream file for this episode: http://yesterbits.com/media/a2s/rcr256.a2stream
Feedback/Discussion:
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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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1h 43min
June 05, 2022RCR Episode 255: The One With All The Ones
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Blake Patterson
Topic: The One With All The Ones
The Retrocomputing Roundtable has reached the end of its 8-bit run.
Topic/Feedback links:
Byte
8-bit computing
Nibble
Big boxes history video
Traveler (Wikipedia)
Traveler (Imperial Encyclopedia)
Traveler (Mongoose Publishing)
Mayday 2022
Manhunt
Wonderful Things (story about Manhunt)
Open Apple 41 (November 2014). Seek to 2:03.
Identify II v2.01
Retro Computing News:
Tweeting from the Teletype, April 2020
Tweeted from the Teletype
FASTRAND (Powerhouse Collecttion)
FASTRAND (Univac memories)
FASTRAND (Computer History Archives Project)
FASTRAND (Wikipedia)
Kenbak-1 Emulator
HP9830a Repair
The Apple Boogie
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials etc.:
Elephant Memory Systems mini micro floppy disk (Italian)
Laser Computer (Katja Schuurman, Dutch)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
8 bit game cartridge cutting board
Auction Picks:
Blake:
Laser 386SX/3
Y2K Bug
Earl:
Altair 8800
Ventana World Wide Web Kit
See also: Ventana (PC Magazine review)
Paul:
Elephant mug
Intel inside
MPF-1P
MPF-Ib
See also: MPF-I (Wikipedia)
See also: Flite interview (Elektor)
Tomy Tutor
ZX-80
HHC set
A2Stream file:
a2stream file for this episode: http://yesterbits.com/media/a2s/rcr255.a2stream
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2h 20min
April 26, 2022RCR Episode 254: Fortran, for better or for worse
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Fortran, for better or for worse
The year 1954 brought us Fortran (not named after the year though) to help us with our math, and development of SAGE to scan the skies for threats.
Topic/Feedback links:
IBM 650
Drum memory
Wurlizter SideMan (not 1954, but related via tangent)
SAGE (Gizmodo)
SAGE (Wikipedia)
Fortran
Fortran 2018, 202x
Retro Computing News:
system7.app
macos8.app
Tech details for system7.app, macos8.app
Return to Monkey Island
ACM opens first-50-years backfile
Game of pong in a single sprite
Sprite pong video
SWTPC 6800 rescue
SWTPC 6800 fan site
ADB makes fun of the IIGS manual
University of Saskatchewan self guided computer history tour
A2stream, audio server
A2stream demo
AppleWin with Uthernet II
a2stream file for this very episode: http://yesterbits.com/media/a2s/rcr254.a2stream
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials etc.:
IBM SAGE (1960)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Atari sneakers
See also: Atari NFT sneakers
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
Apple Credit salesperson’s kit
Apple branded radio lunchbag
Earl:
MMD-1 8080A Trainer
See also: MMD-1 (Oldcomputermuseum)
Paul:
Funniest CD of the century
The drive of a new generation
USB evangelism mouse
Companion diskette
Astra 1620 dual drive for Atari
VM 4209
A2Stream file:
a2stream file for this episode: http://yesterbits.com/media/a2s/rcr254.a2stream
Feedback/Discussion:
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1h 46min
April 18, 2022RCR Episode 253: Prebricked drives
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Prebricked drives
Episode 253 relates to 1953. Core memory begins its long dominance of the RAM space, the IBM 701 is introduced. A year that was kind of between things, so as one might expect the conversation keeps sliding into a discussion of beverages.
Topic/Feedback links:
Magnetic core memory
Advent of Computing, episode 77
The Thinking Machine (1961)
IBM 701
Williams tube
Jeffries tube
Exploring the Amiga series, assembly language programming
Brief tour of the PDP-11
Top 20 C64 games from 2011-2021
Commodore 64 turns 40
Retro Computing News:
SystemSix desk calendar
SWTPC 6800 rescued (Adrian’s Digital Basement)
Jobs for the boys?
The ultimate multics project
A quarter century of Unix. Peter Sallas. 1994 Addison-Wesley
The evolution of the Unix time sharing system
Compatible time sharing system
Incompatible time sharing system
Easter Egg found in Windows 1.0.
Mariupol Computer Museum in Ukraine
Club it8bit
A Brick for Some Bytes: My First Hard Drive (Byte Cellar)
One of the Biggest Frauds in Tech History – The Miniscribe Brick Fiasco (Tech Time Traveler)
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials etc.:
Tab
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
The Art of Point and Click Adventure Games
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
MCM/70
About the MCM/70
Earl:
IBM Core Memory
See also: Core memory shield for Arduino
Michael:
RCA Selectron 256bit
See also: Selectron tube
Paul:
QuickLetter
Murder Party
CA Simply Tax 1993
eMate pin
Feedback/Discussion:
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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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2h 8min
April 15, 2022RCR Episode 252: UNIVAC liked Ike
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: UNIVAC liked Ike
Episode 252 relates to 1952. The year when UNIVAC correctly called the election early and nobody believed it. The year the paper introducing the Huffman code compression algorithm was published. And the 50th anniversary of all the things that happened in 1902.
Topic/Feedback links:
UNIVAC predicts the 1952 election
CBS news election coverage, 1952
A method for the constructions of minimum-redundancy codes (Sep 1952, Proceedings of the I.R.E.)
The Huffman algorithm, and family
Stuffit end of life announcement
Mac Folklore Radio, Raymond Lau (Stuffit) interviews
RetroMagazine World, issue 13 (EN)
David Ahl’s magazine auctions, some signed
The Capacitor Plague
The Lost Sectors, playthrough of Deathlord
Retro Computing News:
Monmouth College typewriter class
TubeTime’s QuadLink repair and reverse engineering project
Apple patenting the home computer?
The Amiga Show
Apple II video to HDMI using Raspberry Pi Zero/Pico
Teardown of a Minitel terminal
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials etc.:
Remington Quiet-riter
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
The Colouring Book of Retro Computers
Highlighters for reproducing yellowing
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
Computer Bug
1990s Tech Stock Bubble in a can
Paul:
Woz near Steve Jobs
Tim Cook near Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Rare
Just Stuffit World Tour shirt
AutoDoubler
PKZIP 2.70
Multiputer
Feedback/Discussion:
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1h 53min
March 27, 2022RCR Episode 251: Memories of Whirlwind I
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Charles Mangin, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Memories of Whirlwind I
It’s been 71 years since 1951. So, we talk about some things kind of loosely related to 1951, including computer music, the Whirlwind I, and memory technology.
Topic/Feedback links:
Whirlwind I
Jim Butterfield C64 training tape
David Ahl’s BASIC Computer Games, ANIMAL
3D construction kit (Spectrum, Sam Coupé)
Retro Computing News:
BASIC Computer Games book programs updated to modern languages
Laurie Spiegel, Music Mouse
See also: AlphaSyntauri
Million Perfect Letters
Hello World collection
The Hobbit (IF50)
The Hobbit (Digital Antiquarian)
The Hobbit (Internet Archive)
The Hobbit (eBay)
The Hobbit (eBay)
Deathlord Relorded
Deathlord Relorded (GitHub)
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials etc.:
Pac-Man cereal
Whirlwind interview
Corncob
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Floppy disk coasters
And storage box
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
Remington Rand UNIVAC sales brochure
Codewriter for Apple II
See also: Codewriter in COMPUTE’s Gazette, Sept 1985
Charles:
Pac-man rug
Pac-Man lunchbox
Pac-Teacher pin
See also: Museum Character Hall of Fame induction for Pac-Man
Paul:
MEK6800D2
See also: MEK6800D2 (Wikipedia)
See also: photos of unbuilt MEK6800D2 kit
See also: Apple-1 motherboard
See also: 6800 running on an Apple-1
See also: 74154
Tractor feed option kit
See also: Hardware Wars
Computer Shopper July 1988
See also: Computer Shopper on Internet Archive
See also: Computer Shopper debut
Gigabyte me
Softsel product encyclopedia 1985
See also: Everything project spreadsheet
Commodore 64 reset switch
Feedback/Discussion:
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1h 47min
February 04, 2022RCR Episode 250: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
It’s been 72 years since the year Turing published the paper that outlined the Turing test. So: Let’s talk about interactions we’ve had relating to artificial intelligence in some form or another.
Topic/Feedback links:
RetroMagazine issue 12, English version
Total Replay booting from the DigitalOcean cloud on an Apple II with FujiNet
Commodore Computer Museum Kickstarter (NZ)
Aroma Disc
Sounds and Scents of the Holiday season
Aroma Disc player, unopened
Aroma Disc player, unpacked
Retro Computing News:
How The US Census Led to the First Data Processing Company
Leonard Tramiel recalls Bill Gates at a trade show
See also: WAIT 6502, 10 and other easter eggs
Nostalgic Computing Center
JavaScript version of Prince of Persia runs on Apple Watch
PrinceJS
Junk in the PC DOS 1.1 boot sector (Michal Necasek)
Junk in the PC DOS 1.1 boot sector (The Starman)
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
Atari 65xe
Aroma Disc
DEC laptop
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
MeowToast 1/2AA battery replacements
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
1988 West Coast Computer Faire program
Make friends with: West Coast Computer Faire button
Earl:
Digital Rainbow PC100-B2
Paul:
Versawriter
A-1 with or without Bernie’s mods
See also: UncleBernie on applefritter
QX-10/16 SemiDisk RAM card with battery backup
QX-10/16 ComFiler hard drive
QX-10/16 hard drive card PCB to build
What you call your game when all the good game names are already taken
See also: Metal band name generator
Roguelike to perhaps the greatest degree
Atari 65xe painted black, with two AtariMax cartridges (originally listed at $250)
Closing discussion links:
Like a DOS podcast
Meat stylus
DOS Nostalgia Podcast
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2h 4min
January 31, 2022RCR Episode 249: 2020 also
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Blake Patterson
Topic: 2020 also
We enter the third year of 2020. Yet another New Year’s, yet another opportunity to make the New Year’s resolution joke.
Topic/Feedback links:
Mega II project (single chip Apple II)
Mega II project progress
Acorn – a world in pixels (extended edition)
HP 9845 part 2 (Beige-o-Vision)
See also: HP 9845 part 1 (Beige-o-Vision)
Nichrome project
Retro Computing News:
Appreciating the physicality of floppies
How many Commodore 64s were sold, really?
The Forgotten History of the Blinking Cursor
See also: Blinking cursor turns 54, hardly anyone notices
See also: Retrocomputing forum thread re: blinking cursor
Yellowstone is a go
Virtual BBC Micro
Virtual BBC Micro description
See also: Zero Page
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
Are you keeping up with the Commodore
Prime Computer
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Beagle Bros floppy warnings mug
See also: Penguin’s version
“ours were better” reddit thread
Auction Picks:
Blake:
Philips Videopac G7400 Game Console
See also: Philips Videopac G7400
See also: Magnavox Odyssey 2
See also: Magnavox Odyssey
See also: National Museum of American History Exhibit – Places of Invention
Matra Alice 8000 PROTOTYPE ULTRA RARE Number 24
See also: Matra Alice 8000 (Rare and Old Computers)
See also: Matra Alice 8000 (AtariAge thread)
Earl:
6 Vintage BASIC Coding Form Pads 40 plus pages each
Digital DEC STARION 960 Intel Pentium 166MHz 16MB RAM Vintage Computer
Michael:
ADB Black Vintage Rare Macintosh TV M2706 computer
Paul:
PR1ME Computer ashtray
Pumpkin spice Silent 700
See also: Regular Silent 700
ImageWriter II with sheet feeder
Closing discussion links:
Pits of Death
ScanTailor Advanced OS X
Feedback/Discussion:
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2h 27min
January 19, 2022RCR Episode 248: So long, 2021
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: So long, 2021
At the tail end of 2021, we talk about our retrocomputing-based adventures during the year, with a little bit of a look ahead at what might come after.
Topic/Feedback links:
Drop /// Inches, episode #11 (re: visiting Stanford archives)
Mac networks game spreadsheet
Retro Computing News:
The Mac Game of the Year was… Myst
The RMC Cave soft open
Overclocking the Tandy 102
“I made my partner learn DOS in 2021”
Building a new Commodore 1581 disk drive in 2021
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
BurgerTime (Intellivision)
Myst (Japanese, Sunsoft)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Piper Computer Kit 3
Auction Picks:
Carrington:
Power Macintosh 8200/120 in original box
TRS-80 CoCo Videotext
Radio Shack tone dialer
Earl:
Heathkit computer (looks like an H89?)
Paul:
Ethernet microdock
PET modem
Jewelled mouse
1977 British Airways Compute-a-Tour
See also: Dick Clark, New Year’s Eve 1977
Feedback/Discussion:
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2h 2min
January 13, 2022RCR Episode 247: Computing 24/7
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Blake Patterson
Topic: Computing 24/7
In honor of episode 247, we talk about stuff vaguely related to “all the time.” Mostly we wound up talking about whether we turned our computers off or not.
Topic/Feedback links:
RetroMagazineWorld #11
The World of Commodore 2021 event information
The World of Commodore 2021 video
Python C64 emulator, sort of
Retro Computing News:
Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer’s sound chip
TRS-80 PC-1 / Sharp PC-1211 LCD replacement
Beginner’s Guide to the Amiga – Workbench
Beginner’s Guide to the Amiga – Amiga OS tutorial
Crash course to Amiga assembly programming
Santa’s Workout – new C64 Christmas game, from Vector5games (Indie Retro News)
The Pudding Strikes Back (2021 Christmas game, Apple II)
DOLORES double LORES library
Flapple Bird
The Register article on the BBC Micro and Elite
BBC Micro Elite source code deep dive
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
Enterprise 128
DX100 synthesizer
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
THINKING cap
See also: NeitherNet adapter
Auction Picks:
Blake:
Enterprise 128
Apple IIgs Computer
Paul:
TK 2000
COVOX
How to use the C64
See also: Blue Commodore 64
Echo+
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2h 2min

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