Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Jack Nutting, and Steven Weyhrich

Host’s Topic: The Retropocalypse

What might drive computing to go back “off-line”—massive infrastructure or privacy/secturity disaster? What kind of advantages are there to the limited/isolated machines of the olden-days? Is there a difference between obsolete and just retro? Might data/privacy disasters (even if not structural) lead to new uses of older tech?

Feedback notes

• AmigaOne A1222 preview
• Captain’s Quarters BBS
• WiFi232
• Syncterm

Retro Computing News:

• Atari is releasing Tempest 4000, made by Jeff Minter




• Tempest 4000 preview




• Alan Turing’s lost papers discovered




• Zork deep dive and carrying too many things
• The enduring legacy of Zork
• Zork on the Computer History wiki
• Saving Every Apple Video
• Unofficial Apple Archive
• Tezza’s Adventures with an 8″ disk drive

Vintage Computer Commercial

• DEC takes us from past to future

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 1958 PAPAC-00 paper computer
• A built (not really working) PAPAC-00
• Digi-Comp II
• CHM PDP-1 restoration team (includes Peter Samson, creator of SADSAC II mentioned on pages prior to description of PAPAC-00)

Auction Picks:

• Earl: SIDEWAYS for IBM PC
• Ken: Atari 2600 games
• Steve: Unitron Apple II clone
  • See also: Unitron page on applelogic.org
  • Low serial number Apple II
• Paul: Kaypro 2000
  • IMSAI 8080 in a desk
  • Handheld paper tape punch
  • Two Epson PF-10 disk drives
  • Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1) auction
  • See also: David Larsen’s Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1)

Closing notes:

• Minecraft Apple IIe (to download)

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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