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RCR Episode 217: Architecture shifts
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Architecture shifts
Apple announced that it will be shifting its processor architecture from Intel to ARM. This has happened before, not just at Apple, but, well, mostly Apple or Apple-adjacent. We try to think of some other examples as well.
Topic/Feedback links:
- New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
- Communications of the ACM
- John Cocke (Wikipedia)
- Dimension 68000 ad (auction)
- Dimension 68000 review (Creative Computing)
- InfoWorld: "Jack of All Trades, But Master Of None" (Dimension 68000)
- Dimension 68000 review (YouTube)
- Altair 8800 in Unity
- Swipecard retro game loader
- RetroSwiper (GitHub)
- 68K coprocessor for Apple II being revived
- 68K coprocessor design for Apple II
Retro Computing News:
- TI Silent 700 Model 703
- Miniature IBM 1401 Datacentre
- 6502b (@miniatua) on Instagram
- Virtual Colossus
- Mini PET
- Finding an Old Friend
Vintage Computer-related commercials (or, well, chunk of audio):
- IBM promotional film (from about 1970)
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
- Colour Maximite 2
- See also: 8-bit Guy demo of Colour Maximite 2
Auction Picks:
- Blake: Apple-1
- Targa graphics card
- Olympus America DS-1 / 300-01 Floppy Disc Computing Device Video
- Inside NeXT book
- See also: Blake's NeXT photo (in book)
- Carrington: MacWeek cloth bag
- The Gutenberg for Apple II and III
- Cyborg for Apple II (NOS)
- Paul: Popular Electronics, Jan 1975
- SX-64s and a reminder of our mortality
- Assembled Altair-duino
- ERE I AM JH. Macnifier
- See also: Macnifier ad
- xu1541 nano
- See also: Applesauce
- PX-8, MU64
- Personal Portable Computer, model 16BC
- Apple II+ in its box
- See also: A Labor of Labels (blog post about Apple II serial numbers)
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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