Retro Computing Roundtable

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

Topic: Lasers Smoking in the PET Room

We start a conversation about computers in school. For many of us, computers were only just becoming available in our school years, so we consider the access this provided (limited though it often was).

Topic/Feedback Links:

• My earliest memories of microcomputing
• Remembering an Atari lab in Hampton, VA
• BBC Archive: Infocom feature (1986)
• P.R.E.S.T.A.B.A. ported to the MC-10
• MC-10 emulator (pick PRESTAVB cassette and type RUN)

Retro Computing News:

• AmigaOS 3.2 for all Classic Amigas released
• Creating Chinese computer fonts
• The Little Book of Sound Chips (Volume 1)
• Hibernated 1. The Director's Cut.
• #ponyinformation
• Hibernated 1 (physical, SAM Coupé version)
• SAM Coupé on eBay
• SAM Coupé overview (YouTube, Re:Enthused)
• SD card and Ethernet adapter for the SAM Coupé
• Quazar (home of SAM Revival magazine )
• Review of SAM Revival magazines (YouTube, TJ Ferreira)
• Sim Coupé
• World of SAM
• SAM Coupé Champion Collection
• No Quarter, episode 78: Sorry Charlie.

Vintage Computer commercials:

• Miracle Workers, season 3 trailer
• PRIME Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Radio Shack shirt

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Mac 128K, probably
• Carrington: iCEBOX
  • See also: Hybrid Net Appliance Hits Market
• Michael: Guns of Fort Defiance
• Paul: Prince of Persia for the SAM Coupé

Closing notes:

• Roberta and Ken Williams making first game together in over 20 years
• People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction
• Michael's scans at archive.org
• Scan Tailor Advanced

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
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