Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern and Earl Evans Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1986 Retro Computing News: Terminal Madness: 1980 Documentary About Personal Computers T.P.U.G. at Startbucks Kickstarter Amiga Commpendium Xerox Alto Source Code released Archive Archive walk-through Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joins UTS When Women Stopped Coding Early Computers: 8-bit Vintage Text […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern and Ken Gagne Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1985 Retro Computing News: KIM Uno: a $10 remake of the KIM-1 CBM prg Studio Version 3.1.0 released Restoration of Habitat, a C64 online game RadioShack’s plummeting profits TNMOC were donated a Mystery Item Computer History Museum makes CP/M source […]

Panelists: Michael Mulhern, (hosting), Earl Evans, Carrington Vanston, David Greelish, and Jeff Salzman Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1984 Retro Computing News: Amiga Book kickstarter Wasteland 2 explodes onto the gaming scene like a blood sausage Destiny is dull; play Marathon instead Marathon: Rubicon X History of Personal Computing podcast Does your ancient computer belong in […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern and Mike Whalen Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1983 Retro Computing News: Which Apple II, if you can only have one? Why didn’t 6502 computers get faster? History of Personal Computing podcast Newly discovered Apple I up for auction Chris Osborne on using modems without a land line Level 29: […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Steven Weyhrich Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1982 Retro Computing News: The Australian Apple Review Punchcard simulator Michael:Xerox PARC & Apple myth/legend Videos from CommVex 2014 Spectrogram of a dial-up modem handshake AT&T “You Will” series Wikipedia: You Will commercials Vintage Computer Commercial: 1987 Software City Leading […]

Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Michael Mulhern Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1981 Retro Computing News: Ted Nelson vs. skeptical interviewer SpeccyJam panel announced SpeccyJam: Aug 29 to Sep 5, 2014 IBM Simon: The “smart phone” turns 20? Living Computer Museum’s Vintage Computer Faire Douglas Adams’ “Hyperland” documentary SerialTCP for Mac Cray […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: Milestones of 1980 Retro Computing News: CP/M named an IEEE Milestone LEGO’s first programmable product Vintage Computer Faire EEVBlog TRS-80 Model I teardown TRS-80 Model I pre-keypad TRS-80 Model I 35th anniversary Retrochallenge Competition FreHD hard drive emulator Steve Wozniak on That’s […]

KansasFest 2014 Multicast! Welcome to the “Retro Open ANTICHertz Mac Quarter Poly Floppy Drop” episode. In this special joint podcast, live from KansasFest 2014, 9 podcasters (including 3 RCR regulars) discuss their favorite parts of KFest, play a game of 2 Truths and 1 Lie, and more! Featuring: Quinn Dunki: Open Apple Ken Gagne: IndieSider, […]

Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Earl Evans Host’s Topic: How do you do your programming? We admire them, we play games on them, but how do we program them? BASIC or assembler? On the retro metal (OK, plastic), emulator, or cross-platform development? And finally, what is your favourite retro programming language? Retro Computing […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: Preserving the Wild Retroalope: Recreations are great. Repairs are great. But what actions can we take now to ensure that our vintage computers, peripherals or media don’t fail in the first place? Retro Computing News: Athana (vendor of floppy disks) Preserving Computing’s […]