RCR Episode 136: Old computers de-composing
Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting
Host’s Topic: Old computers de-composing
Dr. Peter Thorne stopped by TNMOC and talked about CSIRAC, Australia’s oldest computer, and indeed the world’s oldest existing computer—and also explained that it will almost certainly not be restored, but kept instead in original, but non-working, condition. Discuss.
Retro Computing News:
- CSIRAC won’t work again
- RCR YouTube channel
- RetroGathering
- RetroChallenge
- 2015 megapodcast (RCR 105)
- CoCo Crew
- How Australia played the world’s first music on a computer (Australian Geographic)
- CSIRAC – the first computer to play music (ABC Science)
- Trevor Pearcey interview (1996)
- A timeline of 1-bit music (1-bit forum)
- The hacker, the scrapheap, and the first Apollo computer
- Lode Runner Total Recall (HTML5)
- Omnivore, Jumpman Level Design contest
- Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
- “Multimedia LPs” on the RCR Facebook group
- Vinyl Data (kempa.com)
- CloudT Model 100 emulator in a web page
- VirtualT Model 100 emulator
- Sierra classics now on Steam
- GOG.com
- PocketChip
- Music excerpts from:
Vintage Computer Commercials
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Jack: Enterprise 128
- See also: Enterprise on Wikipedia
- See also: RCR 69 for one earlier mention
- Michael: When Computers meet Vinyl
- Paul: ORIC-1
- ACE Discovery 500
- See also: ACE Discovery 500 ads
Feedback/Discussion:
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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