Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Home v. Hobby

How have you kept the home/hobby balance? What has allowed you to remain friends/married/peaceful? Boundaries? Shared interest?

Topic/Feedback links:

• Byte Cellar panorama
• Stitching together with QuickTime VR Studio 1.0
• QTVR file of the panorama
• Collapse OS
• Basic mechanisms in gun control computers (US Navy, part 1)
• Basic mechanisms in gun control computers (US Navy, part 2)
• Analog Computation in a Digital World (lecture, Dr. Corey Malay)
• Mythbusters Big Rig episode
• Riptide pilot
• Captain Kirk's PET
• Applefritter’s eWorld reboot

Retro Computing News:

• Geekring webring
• It's now safe to turn off your computer
• Imagine That (Ed Smith, autobiography)
• Ed Smith and the Imagination Machine: The Untold Story of a Black Video Game Pioneer (Fast Company, interview)
• Mini PET
• The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game
• Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game (academic paper)
• Retrogame Archaeology (John Aycock, academic monograph)
• Retrogame Archaeology (John Aycock, lecture)
• Double Low Res amper-library for enhanced Apple II

Vintage Computer-related commercials (or, well, chunk of audio):

• Bill Gates talks about Microsoft and the Altair 8800

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• KansasFest 2020

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Timex FDD3000 computer
  • See also: Timex FDD3000 (Wikipedia)
  • Medical Graphics Microloop 1100 Spirometer
  • Lotus JAZZ Pin Badge
  • See also: Memphis Group design examples
• Carrington: The Works by First Star Software
  • See also: First Star Software
  • See also: Kay Savetz interview with Fenando Herrera
• Earl: Altair MITS 8800 CPU Parts Kit
  • Epson PX-4
• Paul: IIc bag in nice shape
  • Another IIc bag
  • Light pen new in box, rescued from the Titanic
  • TRS-80 Model III in its box
  • Microsoft... Office...
  • Red Book Blue Book
• Tobias: RCA COSMAC VIP

Closing words links:

• Smart Enough To Know Better
• Next Without For

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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