Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Ian Baronofsky, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Retro networking, episode 1

We talk about things the word “networking” evokes in the context of old computers. Transferring files between computers, reaching (sort of) the modern internet, networking socially, etc.

Retro Computing News:

• Sir Clive Sinclair (Guardian)
• Arctic Adventure
• Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures
• Disk imaging with an oscilloscope (VCF Midwest)
• PAL-1, a KIM-1 clone kit
• Yellowstone: Ready for Takeoff
• Apple drive compatibility chart
• BlueSCSI
• RaSCSI
• Defender for the CoCo 3
• Glen Hewlett’s video of Defender on the CoCo 3

Vintage Computer commercial:

• MCI Mail
• Sinclair QL

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• BackBit chip tester

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • Time Bandit for the Sanyo MBC-550/555 by MichTron
  • See also: Bytecellar post about Time Bandit on the MBC 550
  • Tandy 10 Business Computer System
  • See also: Tandy 10 Business Computer System (Wikipedia)
  • See also: Tandy 10 Business Computer System (trs-80.org)
• Carrington:
  • Apple ethernet NB card
  • Vintage computer logo edge-lit signs: Acorn
  • Vintage computer logo edge-lit signs: Apple II
• Ian:
  • 3.5 Floppy Drive Cleaner
  • TRS-80 Model III and IV equipment, including newly designed power supplies
  • SWTP tapes
  • See also: Look Mum No Computer (this particular video features SWTP)
  • San Diego user group zines
• Paul:
  • G4 Cube power supply
  • Copy IIPC Option Board
  • Sidereal Corp. Micronet 12 message terminal
  • See also: Review of Micronet 12 in Data Communications, Dec 1983

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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