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

Host’s Topic: Spring cleaning

Do you remove the accumulated goop? How do you remove the accumulated goop?

Topic/feedback links:

• How II 0x06: Cleaning Vintage Plastic Parts
• Your Computer
• Emulating DOS, for running legacy applications
  • DOSBox
  • vDOS
  • vDosPlus
  • PCem
• Building miniature CP-500 (Brazilian TRS-80 clone), translated at VITNO
• CP-500 miniature project page (in Portuguese)

Retro Computing News:

• Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation (book, by Jamie Lendino)
• RabbitEngineering miniatures on etsy
• Chasing the first arcade easter egg
• Guru Meditation’s Commodore preview for VCF East’
• Sharp80 TRS-80 emulator
• SDLTRS TRS-80 emulator
• Upcoming festival/convention/show roundup, next few:
  • Apr 22-23: 26th annual Last Chicago CoCoFest. Lombard, IL
  • Apr 29-30: VCF Southeast 5.0. Roswell, GA
  • Apr 29-May 1: VCR Europa. Munich, Germany
  • Apr 29: WOzFest PR#6. Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Vintage Computer Commercial

• IBM Personal Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Miniature “PeeCee” 5150

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Northstar Horizon
• Jack: Sun SPARCStation 5
• Michael: Atari pin
  • Apple Pin
  • Mixed set
  • Univac Pin
• Paul: Bill Diel vinyl single
  • Heathkit ETW-3400A
  • Heathkit ETA-3400
  • TRS-80 Model 16 128K memory board
  • JLPGA Powerbook and bag
  • IBM Microsoft Adventure
  • SOL-20

Closing notes:

• Vintage Gaming And More, Atari 2600 composite video mod
• RetroChallenge 2017/04 is GO! Late entries are allowed
• KansasFest 2017, limit 100.

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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