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

Host’s Topic: Is this important?

Is this old stuff objectively important, or is it just nostalgia?

Feedback notes

• Living Computer Musem + Labs’ permanent Apple exhibit
• Break Out: How the Apple II launched the gaming revolution (David Craddock)
• Breakout: How Atari 8-bit computers defined a generation (Jamie Lendino)
• Lambda 8300 (El Museo de los 8 bits)
• Lambda 8300 (Old-Computers.com)
• Symbolics Lisp Machine rendering (reddit thread)
• Instagram video of rendering
• Symbolics Inc. Facebook page

Retro Computing News:

• Armiga
  • Armiga review with giveaway
• Early Mac emulation comes to the Internet Archive
• PDP-10 enthusiasts resurrect ancient MIT operating system
  • ITS on Github
• Lisa2.com served by a Lisa 2?
• Experience Usenet as it was in 1987
  • YouTube demo of olduse.net
• HUMONGOUS CP/M Software Archives
• ZX Spectrum Next (Kickstarter)
  • ZX Spectrum ad (instrumental) (YouTube)
• Shadow of the Beast
• edladdin.com (Atari-compatible arcade controllers). Listen to the end of the episode for a discount code!

Vintage Computer Commercial

• TRS-80 Model I

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Command prompt T-shirt

Auction Picks:

• Earl: TRS-80 Model I system
• Michael: Fractal Design Painter 2.0 Promo Rusty Tin
  • Apple promotional calculator
• Paul: Seagate hard drive platters
  • 6502 trainer
  • Music of PDP 1-X
    • See also: Selection of recordings from PDP-1X record (YouTube)
  • Radio Shack MC-10 in box
  • MC-10 16k expansion
  • IBM Word Proof

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
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