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

Host’s Topic: Choices of a New Generation

Host’s Topic: There has been much discussion lately among retro enthusiasts about introducing the “next generation” (i.e. our kids) to the computers and software of our youth. If the machines we love are going to live on after we die, it will have to be in the hands of people who never had them growing up, and therefore have no real nostalgia for them. My question is this: What were your parents nostalgic for, that they tried to instill in you a nostalgia for? Did it work?

Retro Computing News:

• ESA deems modding retro games for preservation is illegal
• Jimmy Maher on the “68000 wars”
  • 1st half
  • 2nd half
  • 3rd half
  • The Future Was Here
• Wander (1974), lost mainframe game found
  • Wander source code
  • Terry Winograd’s SHRDLU
• Kaboom! game released for Apple IIgs
• George at InfoAge/VCF East X
• VCF SE 3.0
• Steve Furber on Computerphile, designing the ARM
  • The Path toward ARM and BBC B

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• IBM 5100

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retrory memory game

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Stratos SE/30 Dual Slot PDS Adapter
• Jack: “Atari-style” USB joystick with blue LED lighting effects
• Paul: Apple-Vision Source
• Paul: Letter from Bruce Tognazzini
• Paul: Three-Dimensional Microcomputer Graphics
  • Scan of what appears to be this manual

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

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Filed under: Podcasts - @ April 26, 2015 8:00 pm