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 […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: The gear left behind outweighs the needs of the few, or the one There will come a time when whatever we have in our collection becomes somebody else’s responsibility. What should we be doing? Those of us collecting now have certainly all seen this […]

Panelists: Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: Radio Shack Memories Radio Shack has filed for bankruptcy, and we take this opportunity to talk about times when their history and ours coincided. Retro Computing News: Radio shack store closure list Adios Radio Shack photo(shop) The original 1978 source […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: Are we cheating cheaters? Flash storage devices, Internet modems, multi-cartridges with entire software libraries, super RAM add-ons, LCD flat panels – what’s so retro about all that? Retro Computing News: Alan Turing’s hidden manuscripts to be auctioned New […]

Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Ken Gagne (eventually), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: Books! Books! Do we need them for our retro addiction hobby? Are PDFs better, or do you prefer dead tree flesh? How do you store and use them? Can you have too many? (No! I need more books) Reprints, […]

Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting Host’s Topic: Retro Resolutions: Looking Forward To Looking Backward Each new year brings a fresh opportunity to fail at something you love. Do you have any retro computing goals for the coming year? Projects to start, programs to write, events to attend, […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans and Michael Mulhern Host’s Topic: Downsizing You’ve got the downsizing bug. You used to have spare room and money. And now you don’t have either. What to do? How to prioritize? Where does it go? How did we get into this mess? Will you ever get to using X […]

Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom and Jack Nutting. Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1988-1989 Retro Computing News: EDSAC display at The National Museum of Computing How ENIAC was rescued from the scrap heap How Three Men and a Bar Launched the Video Game Industry Apple co-founder Ron Wayne to auction early Apple documents Sinclair ZX […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Ben Heckendorn a.k.a. “Ben Heck” Host’s Topic: Special Guest Ben Heck Topics Covered: Ben Heck: BenHeck.com The Ben Heck Show Twitter: @benheck Apple-1 build, part 1 Apple-1 build, part 2 Apple-1 build, part 3 Atari 800 laptop ZX Spectrum, part 1 ZX Spectrum, part […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1987 Retro Computing News: Bil Herd on the Amp Hour The History of Muse Software The Birth of Visual Basic EDSAC passes half-way infrastructure milestone The Internet Arcade Woz still thinks about the Apple II ABBUC Competitions 2014: AtariAge: ABBUC […]