Retro Computing Roundtable

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

Topic: Preserving the Fleeting Now

Things people post, preserving the past, themselves vanish. eBay images, images in blogs that eventually go offline. Respositories like Pinterest morph into something less useful for preservation and searching...

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Not cassettes, not floppies

Software distributed in some way other than on cassette or floppy...

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: RCR Episode 2

Episode 2 of the Retro[ ]computing Roundtable is a decade old...

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson

Topic: Decade

It's been just days over 10 years since the first episode of this podcast, so we reflect a bit on the podcast, the community, our starts...

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Repurposed Tech

This time we talk about existing technology repurposed for use with computers. Cassette tapes, CDs, TVs. Though it wound up being kind of more tangent than topic this time...

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...

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Carrington Vanston.....

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

Topic: Unexpected Bonuses

Along the way as we collect things, strange things turn up in what we get. We talk a bit about unexpected bonuses in amongst our finds...

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson

Topic: Terminals

For episode 220 (Think: VT-220), we talk about our various experiences with terminals.

Topic/Feedback links:

• VirtualColussus is working on a 3D simulation
• Intel 8080 ICE development system
• ZX Spectrum Next 2nd kickstarter

Retro Computing News:

• Game Controller - H.A.L...

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Databases

For episode 0xdb, we talk about our experiences with dedicated database programs, what some of us learned and didn't learn while studying computer science, employment as consultants, and other marginally related things...