RCR Episode 170: Vintage Computer Festivals
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Evan Koblentz, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Vintage Computer Festivals
Vintage Computer Festivals and the Vintage Computer Federation. See things, talk to people, escape into the past.
Topic and feedback notes:
- Vintage Computer Federation
- VCF forum
- VCF Southeast 6.0 (Apr 21-22, 2018)
- VCF Italia (Apr 28-29, 2018)
- VCF East XIII (May 18-20, 2018)
- VCF West XIII (August 4-5, 2018)
- Don Eyles walks through the LEM source code
Retro Computing News:
- IRATA.ONLINE, a PLATO service for retro computing
- The Friendly Orange Glow book (about PLATO)
- Computer Chronicles (Education, 1986) (PLATO starts around 15:50)
- C64 Mini begins shipping.
- The Making of Dark Castle
- ViperCard
- SuperCard
- Livecode
- ANTIC special: Bits & Bytes (1983 musical)
- NeXTstation Turbo Color (Part 1) (RetroManCave YouTube)
- RISCy Business – The Acorn RiscPC (RetroManCave YouTube)
- KansasFest (July 17-22, 2018)
- Tandy Assembly (October 13-14, 2018)
Vintage Computer Commercial
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Carrington: Trivia Fever Apple II computer board game (sealed!)
- See also: Contents of Trivia Fever box
- Earl: TOSHIBA HX-10D 64KB MSX Z80
- See also: MSX.org
- See also: Setting up an MSX emulator on Raspberry Pi
- Paul: Tax Avoiders for Atari 2600
Closing notes:
Feedback/Discussion:
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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