Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: On whether RealPlayer suuuuuuux

Computer video: What have been the most striking impacts computer video has had on you?

Topic/Feedback links:

• My first taste of CGA composite color
• 1K colors on CGA: How it's done
• Full Motion Video World
• Steve Gibson’s page on subpixel rendering
• The mysterious orange vertical line (Apple Orchard v1n2 Fall 1980)
• Cornica.org

Retro Computing News:

• Triton - The Forgotten 1970's Home Computer - Part 1
• An Absurd Number of People Still Play Microsoft Solitaire
• Play MS Solitaire Online
• Living Computer Museum + Labs is closed at least for now
• Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC
• Github: Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter Source Code

Upcoming shows

• VCF Southeast 8.0. July 10-12. Atlanta, GA.
• KansasFest. July 24-25. Online.
• WozFest SWEET 16. Sat Jul 25. Online.
• VCF West. August 1-2. Mountain View, CA (Computer History Museum).
• VCF East. October 10-12, 2020 (rescheduled). InfoAge. Wall, NJ.

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

• Windows 95
• TRS-80 Model 4

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Bitsbox subscription for kids

Auction Picks:

• Blake: CBC-7000 Model No. Dialer VI
  • See also: Discusson of the CBC-7000 (@Foone)
  • Apple IIc in original pacakaging
  • Vintage 61414 Monochrome Display Monitor Conrac Corporation
  • See also: Discussion of the monitor
• Carrington: Alice Through The Looking Glass for Lisa and Mac
  • See also: Chess.app on Mac OS X and OpenStep
  • See also: Screens: Mac Plus
  • See also: Alice (Folklore.org)
  • See also: AliceX online
  • Legacy graphical text adventure for 128K Mac
• Paul: Cheat code for Apple hardware completist
  • Very white Apple II joystick
  • Model 4P in its box
  • Another nice 4P set
  • Hyperportable CP/M machine
  • NEC PC-8001A and peripherals
  • TAM

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
Includes: "Corncob" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) which is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars

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