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RCR Episode 212: Virtual Retro-gatherings
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Virtual Retro-gatherings
Given that retrocomputing gatherings are going virtual, what aer ways that we can make this experience a good one?
Topic/Feedback links:
- C64 guitar
- Compressorhead: Ace of Spades
- Computer Sport Athlete
- nMigen tutorial
Retro Computing News:
- Atgtha in Absurdia Roguelike game
- VCF T-Shirts
- FujiNet, reading data over https
- What is FujiNet?
- John Conway obituary (Princeton)
- John Conway obituary (New York Times)
- John Conway obituary (xkcd)
- John Conway on Numberphile
- Doomsday Rule
- Atari Lynx 2020 programming contest write-up
- Atari Lynx 2020 programming contest entry
- Project SPHINX: When the USSR tried to change the computer forever
- Meet Sphinx: The 30-Year-Old Soviet Smart Home Concept
Vintage Computer-related Commercials:
- The Game of Life
- Atari Lynx
- Motorola pager
- Fidelity Chess Challenger
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
- Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation (MIT Press)
- Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation (Thames & Hudson)
- See also: Guardian write-up
- See also: Publisher’s Weekly write-up
Auction Picks:
- Blake: Darth NeXTER Mask
- 3D Connexion SpaceBall 5000
- Qantel Model 4150
- Carrington: Macintosh SE/30 new(-ish) in box
- Apple II dust cover with maybe-red logo
- TauonPC-1
- See also: TauonPC-1 site
- Paul: Pin featuring Apple logo
- Vintage Apple Macintosh 6500
- See also: Garfield minus Garfield
- Apple //c video+audio cable adapter
- World's slowest PC
- Cal-Kit dongle
- Cal-Kit that doesn’t need a dongle (sold)
- Cal-Kit on Kijiji
- NeXT mug/shot-cup
- Mouse phone
Closing words links:
- Panic podcast
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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