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

Host’s Topic: Printers, with Lasers

Host’s Topic: 30 years ago HP and Apple released their first Laser printers, both based on a Canon engine. When did you first use a laser printer instead of an impact or thermal printer? What was the drove you to use lasers, and how hard/easy were they to use?

• How Steve Jobs helped launch the desktop publishing revolution
• Senator Obama on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me

Retro Computing News:

• Warren Robinett (Adventure) and Howard Scott Warshaw (Yars Revenge) postmortems at GDC
• Kickstarter: Newly molded Commodore 64c cases from original molds
• Ancient Atari goodies from Videogame History Museum
• BBC Micro Bit
  • BBC Micro Bit and Colossus
  • the original BBC Micro
• Al Lowe, one Sierra history
• [Digitized VHS marketing tapes]
  • ComputerLand Business Computing System
  • Apple 1988 marketing video: The Mainstreet Workgroup
  • Apple 1988 marketing video: The Macintosh Advantage
  • Apple 1988 marketing video: Hambrecht & Quist
  • ComputerLand/Apple “Moving Up”

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• ComputerLand/Apple “Moving Up”

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• ZX Spectrum Keyboard

Auction Picks:

• Jack: Atari trackball controller “for parts”
• Michael: Witty Mouse
• Michael: Sinclair QL Tool Kit
• Michael: //c Playing Cards
• Paul: Broken Apple Cats

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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