Panelists: Carrington Vanston (host), David Greelish, and Earl Evans.

Topics:

• The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix
• Intel Celebrates 40th Anniversary of World’s First Microprocessor (Intel 4004)
• Research Slideshow: Computer History Quiz: Ten Most Influential Contributors
• Vintage games iOS:
  ~ Elite Systems re-releases vintage games (including Paranoid)
  ~ Prince of Persia retro
  ~ Atari’s Greatest Hits
  ~ Miner 2049er
  ~ Glider Classic
  ~ Spectre 3D
  ~ Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing and Sonic Spinball
  ~ Chrono Trigger
  ~ Snake ’97
  ~ Marathon
  ~ The 7th Guest and The 7th Guest: Book of Secrets
  ~ The Secret of Monkey Island special edition
  ~ Another World – 20th Anniversary
  ~ Frotz
• iOS games with a vintage feel:
  ~ Forget-Me-Not
  ~ The Incident
  ~ Canabalt
  ~ Geometry Wars
  ~ Hard Lines
  ~ Space Junk
  ~ AirFox HD
  ~ Hypership Out Of Control
  ~ GoatUp (and other games by Llamasoft)
  ~ Super Drill Panic (and other games by OrangePixel)
• iCade
• Steve Jobs and NeXT (YouTube)
• RetroChallenge 2012 coming up on January 1st!

Additional Links:

• MITS 300/55 Business System (Altair in a desk)
• The Living Computer Museum
• Classic Computing, Steve Smith interview
• Buy the book! The Complete Historically Brewed

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Transwarp TW2325 Accelerator for Mac Classic
• Earl: Commodore LED handheld calculator
• David: Cromeco Z-2 Vintage Video Capture Computer System

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

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Filed under: Podcasts - @ November 30, 2011 3:35 pm