In this special episode, David and Jeff take a break from their respective work and event activities. The regularly scheduled podcast will continue next week.

Meanwhile, David interviews Jeff on his experiences as an exhibitor attending the Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0

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Commodore 64

Are you keeping up with the Commodores? Well we are… and HOW! Join us on this, part two of Episode 15, where David discusses its next generation cousin, the Commodore 64, and we do our eBay finds.

For your convenience (and maybe due to our laziness), we’ll put an identical set of shownote links in each part.

In this show, we decided to try and loosen up a bit with a little more active commentary (which unfortunately lead to its length). If you find this particular episode’s style better than the older shows, or prefer the original style, please let us know by contacting us through the many forms of feedback mentioned at the bottom of these shownotes.

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VIC-20 Advertisement

Are you keeping up with the Commodores? Well we are… and HOW! Join us on this, part one of Episode 15, where Jeff waxes on about his very first computer, the Commodore VIC-20.

For your convenience (and maybe due to our laziness), we’ll put an identical set of shownote links in each part.

In this show, we decided to try and loosen up a bit with a little more active commentary (which unfortunately lead to its length). If you find this particular episode’s style better than the older shows, or prefer the original style, please let us know by contacting us through the many forms of feedback mentioned at the bottom of these shownotes.

http://www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/HofPC-15a.mp3

eBay links (you may need to scroll down the linked pages to see the full auction)

Links to lists of SOLD items may differ from items mention in the show content

TI-99/4A with PEB

In this episode, we cover two computers from two coasts. One is American, and though important, we wouldn’t really say groundbreaking, while the other (other two really) were British, and were in fact very groundbreaking in the English market. Today we are boldly, fully entering the 1980s with discussions of the TI-99/4A and the Acorn Atom computer, which led to the BBC Micro.

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First Issue Cover of ROM Magazine

Now that the paper cuts have healed from flipping through pages of magazines we covered in the previous episode, come back in time with David and Jeff as they discuss the popular passive resource for early home computing enthusiasts, the “computer magazine.”

In this episode, they remark and reminisce about four more publications; ROM, The Transactor, Compute! and Dr. Dobbs Journal. Learn a bit about the creation, content, continuum, and culmination of these magazines, along with their various disciplines in computer information coverage.

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Creative Computing’s April 1980 (April Fool’s) parody cover

Put on your reading glasses folks and come back in time with David and Jeff as they discuss the popular passive resource for early home computing enthusiasts, the “computer magazine.”

In this episode, they remark and reminisce about four specific publications; Creative Computing, Byte, Kilobaud and Interface Age. Learn a bit about the creation, content, continuum, and culmination of these magazines, along with their various disciplines in computer information coverage.

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Atari 400 – “Candy”

After a last minute scramble by me, Jeff, to get a solid Internet connection established for my part of the recording, we were able to bring Episode 11 to you on time. David did his usual outstanding job with editing to maintain continuity of the show and working around my technical mishaps.

Joining us this time is a special guest host, Randy Kindig, host of the Floppy Days podcast, and co-host of the ANTIC podcast.

The topic of this episode: The Atari 400 and 800 home computers!

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After a small hiccup in our release schedule, we are back on track to tell you about two different computers, one that will make a great prop in a 1970’s style Sci-Fi movie remake, and another that would do well to hold open that door that keeps swinging shut on its own. We are talking about the Sharp MZ-80K and Sinclair ZX80, respectively. These are two international systems, and our first featured Japanese computer. We’re actually skipping another significant computer system that was released before the ZX80, but our next show will be fully dedicated to that American computer series released in 1979, the Atari 400 & 800.

You can download the Episode 10 audio here.

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It’s 2015, and here is the first installment of the History of Personal Computing podcast for the year! This is show nine, and we complete the coverage of the “Personal Computer Trifecta”, or “Holy Trinity”, depending on which host you ask. Or you can just fast forward to the end and hear some news about bacon! (more…)

The holiday bounty is PLENTIFUL!!! We have so much to give to you that we had to edit some extra audio out of the first show to save time. So, we put it in this BONUS EPISODE. Please enjoy what may have been some cutting room floor audio from the Holiday Memories special podcast.

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Please have a happy holiday of your choice… and keep your old computer out of the cold!