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RCR Episode 206: 2020, thumb by thumb


Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: 2020, thumb-by-thumb

Retro New Years Resolutions (retro plans for the new year, and old resolutions you never kept)

Topic and Feedback links:

  • Captain’s Quarters BBS and AE line
  • mTCP page (with, perhaps, some pages still being served by a PCjr)

Retro Computing News:

  • Chuck Peddle
  • The Legendary Chuck Peddle
  • Hackaday honors Chuck Peddle
  • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part I
  • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part II
  • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part III
  • Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part IV
  • Silas Warner, the man who made Wolfenstein
  • Silas Warner at KansasFest 1992
  • Silas Warner and Muse Software, The Digital Antiquarian
  • Silas Warner memorial site
  • Silas Warner memorial site (at Internet Archive)
  • MUSE and ABM (at yesterbits.com)
  • Adam Rosen’s vintage Macs find new home at American Computer Robotics Museum
  • Tech Luminaries We Lost in 2019
  • Bushfire Charity eBay Auction (Mr. Lurch's Things)
  • Mike Harvey of Nibble magazine passed away
  • John Leake and Brian Wiser interview Mike Harvey
  • Nibblemagazine.com
  • Y2.02K Bug in Classic Mac OS Date & Time Control Panel
  • SetDate utility
  • History of the TI-MBX expansion system
  • Atariage thread containing specs for TI-MBX in message 5
  • Borland/Turbo C++ flavor ui for VIM

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

  • VCF Pacific Northwest. March 21-22, Seattle. Living Computer Museum + Labs.
  • The 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest. April 18-19, 2020. Elk Grove Village, IL
  • VCF East. April 24-26, 2020. InfoAge. Wall, NJ..

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

  • Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer Commercial (1978)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

  • Tiny 3D-printed TRS-80s

Auction Picks:

  • Carrington: Steve Wozniak life-size standee
    • Hartley Courseware cassette control device
    • See also: Description of Hartley CCD in Resources in Education Vol 18 No 12
    • Spot On advanced formatting utility for Mac
    • Apple IIe with Cascade Graphics Development thingy
  • Earl: Titan III plus IIe
  • Michael: Heathkit EE-3101 DC Electronics Educational Systems Course
  • Paul: DTACK Grounded board
    • See also: Discussion with Don Burtis on Drop III Inches. 1:28 in
    • See also: DTACK Grounded newsletter issue #1
    • TI MicroExplorer
    • See also: MicroExplorer brochure
    • Sealed Apple II disks
    • Exidy Sorceror
    • HP Integral Personal Computer
    • See also: Inforworld article on the HP Integral Personal Computer
    • Think-a-Dot computer game from 1965
    • Wheels for the G3/G4
    • Cassette programs for the Apple II written by Silas Warner, Ed Zaron, and Bob Bishop

Closing notes:

  • Blake Patterson’s NMSspot (No Man's Sky)

Feedback/Discussion:

  • @rcrpodcast on Twitter
  • Vintage Computer Forum
  • RCR Podcast on Facebook
  • Throwback Network
  • Throwback Network on Facebook

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link
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 January 17, 2020  n/a