Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic:

Archiving physical media. Is it too late to copy that floppy?

• Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
• Rescuing Floppy Disks
• Kryoflux
• Software Preservation Society
• KeirF’s Disk-Utilities
• DiscFerret
• EDD+ card
• I’m fEDD Up
• Catweasel
• Supercard Pro

Retro Computing News:

• VCF SE behind-scenes photos
• Celebrate BASIC with a mini OS for Raspberry Pi
• Basic 10-line contest
• Jupiter ACE for sale
• Apple IIe still making player piano rolls
• Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
• Jimmy Maher’s The Digital Antiquarian blog
• Viscious: SID chip audio prototype for Apple-1
• Recreating the Deep Note
• Homebrew IBM System/370
• Time article on finding old computer games
• Oregon Trail nerdery

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Univac predicts the weather

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Raspberry Pi case shaped like Apple II
  • Melissa Barron’s Oregon Trail glitch art

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Canon CA2000 Japanese Pocket PC
• Paul: Commodore SD2IEC drive
• Carrington: Apple Studio Display M4551

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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Filed under: Podcasts - @ May 11, 2014 8:00 pm