Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Topic: Most innovative / forward-looking technology in the 60s/70s/80s

Mostly, an excuse to talk about Douglas Englebart's "mother of all demos." But other topics are welcome too.

Topic and feedback notes:

• The Mother of All Demos, Douglas Englebart (1968)
• Retrobits Podcast episode reviewing What the Dormouse Said (covering events of the era)
• Lisa slideshow
• Merlin in a browser (and links to other IXO things)
• Byte 1982 article on IXO telecomputer
• Paul's Retrochallenge 2014 WW on IXO
• AmigaOS 3.1.4
• Kano (Raspberry Pi-based programming kits for kids)
• Ad for the Portbubble terminal
• X-keys XK-16 Stick
• Pac-Man: The untold story of how we really played the game
• HN discussion on arcade cabinet restoration

Retro Computing News:

• Kickstarter: Transparent toaster Mac case
• Beto O'Rourke's history with Cult of the Dead Cow
  • Twitter thread from author with further details
• Creating new LCD displays for repairs
• 8-bit symphony
• Anti-M (pre-boot for protected Apple II disks)

Upcoming Shows:

• Computer Conservation Society lecture series, Manchester and London
• VCF Pacific Northwest, Living Computers: Museum+Labs, Seattle, WA, Mar 23-24, 2019
• VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ, May 3-5, 2019
• GORF (The Great Oz-stralian Retro-technology Festival), Melbourne, Apr 24-28, 2019
• CoCoFest, Lombard, IL, May 4-5, 2019
• WOzFest 12:00, Sydney, May 25, 2019
• QFest 12, Brisbane, May 25, 2019
• KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019
• Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• IBM 5100 (1977)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 1977 Pillow

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Vintage Burroughs B 9974-5 Disk Pack
• Jack: eMate 300 with all its stuff
• Paul: IBM Microsoft Adventure
  • New Old Computer
  • See also: Electronika KR-03
  • See also: @Foone discussing one on Twitter
  • ORA RedGuard Data Protection
  • Osborne car adapter
  • Maxell 10-minute cassette
  • Quazon Quik-Link 300
  • CP+ Telecoupler

Closing comments:

• Scooping the Soviets

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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