Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Cynde Moya, and Jack Nutting

Topic: Living Computers: Museum + Labs

This week we are joined by Cynde Moya, collections manager, and chair of the acquisitions committee for the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle. We discuss various topics, including some of the new exhibits and acquisitions, philosophy of restorations, challenges in cataloging, availability of time sharing accounts, and lots more.

Topic notes:

• Search LCM+L’s catalog
• Get an account to log into LCM+L’s various time-sharing computer systems
• Start a discussion about using these systems
• Read LCM+L engineer’s restoration stories
• Multics, now on Raspberry Pi
• Multics simulator
• Honeywell 6180 Maintenance Panel is being driven by a Xilinx BASYS3, running this Multics emulation.

Feedback notes:

• RCR videos from #30 (July 2012) to #57 (September 2013)
• New ZX-81 emulator for iOS

Retro Computing News:

• 1088XEL




• 1088XEL Mini-ATX board assembly video




• Floppy Days interviews Stewart Chefeit




• Reviving the Atari 1027




• Terry’s Rubber Rollers




• HP archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
• Loss of HP archive a wake-up call for computer historians (IEEE Spectrum)
• Bitsavers.org
• Ted Nelson’s junk mail collection (so far)
• Ted Nelson junk mail scanning costs spreadsheet
• The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Brian Dear, 2017)
• cyber1 PLATO simulator online
• Software Preservation Network
• Minimal Computing thought pieces (see especially Old Machines Running Old Languages)

Upcoming show notes:

• VCF Pacific Northwest, Feb 10-11 (2018), Seattle, WA at LCM+L
• Retrocomputing devroom CfP for FOSDEM

Vintage Computer Commercial

• IBM Sage and missile defense

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppy Disk Bag

Auction Picks:

• Paul: System/360 front panel
  • COBOL coding forms
  • COBOL for C128
  • NeXTdrive
  • Packard Bell Corner Computer
  • IBM Aptitude Test for Programmer Personnel (1964)
  • HERO-1 (missing side panels)
• Cynde: DisplayWrite 4 word processing software
  • 1973 Vector Pak System Bread Boarding Catalog
  • Interdata model 80 with a lot of 16-bit software on paper tape
  • IBM 1401 console

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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