Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Still Going Strong

Adobe Illustrator recently turned 30 years old. AutoCAD is 34, Microsoft Word and Excel are both over 30, and Mathematica is 28. Even the IBM PC emulator DOSBox is itself now almost 15 years old. What new versions of old applications do you still regularly use today?

Retro Computing News:

• WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor
• Bytecellar: To Upgrade or not to upgrade?
• Usborne children’s instructional computer books
• Seymore Papert’s “Mindstorms” book, MIT Media Lab
• Wonderful restoration of an Atari 1040st on YouTube from Modern Vintage Gamer:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• 8bitworkshop
• “Making Games for the Atari 2600” book
• Harwell-Dekatron WITCH at TNMOC
• WITCH-E update at Hackaday
• WITCH-E main page
• Retrochallenge RC2017/04 open for entrants
• The 2017 edition of the “BASIC 10-liners” contest is open for submissions, deadline is April 15
• Building miniature CP-500 (Brazilian TRS-80 clone), translated at VITNO
• CP-500 miniature project page (in Portuguese)
• CP-500 information page
• Hercules IBM mainframe emulator
• Seth Morabito’s walkthrough of installing Open Genera’
• Symbolics stuff that was on eBay:
  • Symbolics Framegrabber I/O board thing
  • MacIvory Model 2 upgrade
  • MacIvory Model 2 in Quadra 650
  • MacIvory Model 3 in Quadra 700
  • Symbolics full machine?
  • Symbolics NBS FEP I/O board
  • Symbolics processor board
• Upcoming festival/convention/show roundup, additions:
  • Apr 29: WOzFest PR#6. Sydney, NSW< Australia.
  • Aug 31-Sep 3: OzKFest. Bribie Island, QLD, Australia

Vintage Computer “Commercials”

• Symbolics Concordia
• Symbolics Joshua
• Symbolics S-Packages
• Symbolics overview of Genera 7.0

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Tiny Arcade

Auction Picks:

• Earl: DSI DATA SPECIALTIES INC. Tape Reader Punch SRP-3075-01
• Jack: Amstrad PPC 512
  • Korvet SB8010
• Michael: MicroSci Floppy Drive for A2
  • CBM Professional Computer Guide 1982
• Paul: Red Guard
  • TRS-80 Video Display / BASIC worksheets
  • See also: Donut Dilemma
  • JC Penney’s Computer Program Data Recorder
  • 8087 Math CoProcessor in box
  • IBM PC Game Control adapter

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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

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