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

Topic: Museum, private collector, or hoarder?

So, are you a museum, a private collector, or a hoarder? Really?

Topic and feedback notes:

• Australian Computer Museum Society collections faces bulldozers
• Australian Computer Museum Society – Last days of the Villawood Storage facility
• Atari Store: Breakin’ the Borders, Beyond the Borders books

Retro Computing News:

• Making DOS and CP/M 5.25″ Boot Disks with Commodore 128 and 1571 Floppy Drive
• Omnivore 2
  • Omnivore: rewind
  • Omnivore: memory accesses
• Retrochallenge 2018/09
• Graffidisk
• Applesauce
• Retro-uC, your favorite instruction sets on custom silicon
• The Prehistory of PowerPoint
• Andromeda Yeldon tweets a tour of a computer museum in Bozeman, MT
• American Computer and Robotics Museum on Twitter

Vintage Computer Commercials

• Compaq Portable II
• Epson computer
• Compaq Deskpro

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 64GB Pentode radio tube flash drive

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Epson MX-80
• Michael: 20MB HDD
• Paul: Canon X-07
  • Lexis Nexis terminal
  • Unitech Data Phone
  • Seiko RC-1000
  • See also: Seiko RC-1000 information
  • See also: Seiko UC-2000 at in exhibit.com
  • dBase II keychain

Closing discussion notes:

• Mastodon

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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