Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Michael Mulhern, Blake Patterson, and (briefly) Carrington Vanston

Topic: Regrets and unregrets

What’s something you regret buying, doing, selling, dumping, investigating, etc. in the context of the retrocomputing hobby AND what’s something that you bought, did, sold, dumped, investigated, etc. that led to an unexpectedly positive outcome?

Retro Computing News:

• Atari 8 bit bot
• Apple II bot
• Fujinet 1.0
• Fujinet purchase
• Fujinet purchase (from Poland)
• Thomas Cherryhomes demonstrates a cool new disk swapping feature of Fujinet (YouTube)
• Programming for the Colecovision and Adam (forthcoming book)
• F18A
• Peter Neubauer's Apple-II/F18A thoughts, including KansasFest 2016 talk

Vintage Computer-related commercial:

• Epson 1984 Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Mini-PET

Auction Picks:

• Blake: (Mostly) TI CC-40 development artifacts:
  • CC-40 Plus prototype
  • TI 64K cartridge development simulator
  • Hexbus 3.5 Microdisk manual
  • CC-40 Hexbus video interface protoype
  • CC-40 Hexbus wafer tape drive prototype
  • Anderson Jacobson acoustic data coupler
• Earl: Epson QX-10
• Michael: CP/M Fortran S-100 MemTech APU 8" disk disk 1979 vintage programming software
  • Vintage 1980 Heathkit Zenith Complete Microcomputing Course w/ Cassette Tapes
• Paul: CBM 256-80
  • See also: Commodore B128
  • See also: Secret Weapons of Commodore
  • Monitor III manual etc.
  • Ohio Scientific Superboard II batcomputer
  • Novation Apple Cat II
  • "Apple II" Versa EZ Port
  • Teleport manual/folder (Apple II game, Mike Abbott)

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link
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