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

Topics:

• Petition to pardon Alan Turing (posthumously)
  ~ BBC news report
  ~ Turing test
  ~ PM’s apology to codebreaker Alan Turing: we were inhumane
• Computer History Museum Launches Online Steve Jobs Exhibit
• Rare Video of Steve Jobs Narrating the History of Apple During His Younger Days
• Computer History Museum Receives Google.org Grant for Digital Repository
• 40th anniversary of video games: From Computer Space to Skyrim
• Apple’s founding contract sells at Sotheby’s for $1.35 million
• Apple II online game server

Retro Computing Holiday Gift Ideas:

Carrington:

• Send them to the summer camp for geeks
• Movie: Colossus: The Forbin Project (on laser disc
• Get creative: fake a vintage magazine subscription (buy a set, mail one per month)

David:

• T-Shirts: [Apple ], Commodore, Zazzle
• Book: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers
• Movie: War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
• My Book!: The Complete Historically Brewed

Earl:

• Movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley
• Book: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• Gift Certificate: eBay Gift Card

Retro Computing Auction Picks:

• Carrington: ranswarp 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 - @ December 17, 2011 7:56 pm