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

RCR Holiday Give-Away Contest
Enter now for a chance to win Sophistication & Simplicity
by Steven Weyhrich.

Topics:

• Host Topic: Our favourite modern-day add-ons for vintage computers
• Christmas Bytes Festival: Dec 27-31, 2013
• A Computer’s Carol by James Houston
• Bletchley Park podcast
• Homebrew Computer Club 2013 Reunion video
• Vintage computer meetings starting in Switzerland
• N8VEM single-board computer
• Raising the CDC 6500 from the dead
• Vintage System Software Developer job opening
• Richard Garriott goes through old notebooks
• The Spoony Experiment
• Floppy Days podcast
• CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer
• The Tano Dragon (quite similar to the CoCo), new in box at CA Digital
• Introducing a Mac Plus to the Web
• The U.S. federal agency that still uses floppy disks
• Modernizing power supplies:
  • Apple III power supply auction
  • Littlepower
  • IIGS PS replacement

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• 1998 DEC Digital Equipment Corp Notebook Computer Commercial

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Men’s Barcode scan UPC Code cloth tie

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Acorn BBC Model B with DataCentre
  • Related: RetroClinic DataCentre
• Paul: Commodore 64 incredible music keyboard
• Earl: Atari 800 macro assembler and text editor

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars

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Filed under: Podcasts - @ December 22, 2013 9:00 pm