Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Teaching Old Data New Tricks

Host’s Topic: What can/should/do you do with the data you find on newly acquired vintage computers?

Retro Computing News:

• The Magnavox Odyssey on What’s My Line?
• Jeff Minter v. zombie Atari re: Tempest
• Doctor Who, Prime Computer ads
• 12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe
• Ready Player one picked up
• Chris Osborne assembles MC-10 128K RAM kit
• How One Man Invented the Console Adventure Game
• The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Prime Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Retrode 2 USB game cart adaptor

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Bob Bishop’s Dung Beetles for Apple II (sealed)
• Carrington: TRS-80 Mega Bug cartridge for Tandy CoCo
• Jack: An incredibly clean and shiny Atari 800XL plus printer and disk drive
• Paul: Laser 200 set
• Paul: Coco 2 x2, box, cartridges
• Paul: Some cables, from clean sale, to be delivered someday

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars

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