Panelists: Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston Topics: Host topic: Get Off My Lawn tech that bugged us even back then. Digital Den to preserve and exhibit vintage computers Indigogo campaign Cambridge museum aims to preserve digital history KansasFest attendees feature on ComputerWorld GOG.com and the challenges of retro PC gaming The itty bitty Mac Manson […]

Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston Topics: Host topic: “Will this retro-computing hobby last?” revisited KansasFest Reading the newspaper on your computer in 1981 Cambridge Centre of Computing History opens ComputingHistory.co.uk SiliconDreams.org.ui The Dying Art of Computer Viruses TRS8BIT quarterly Tandy newsletter A History of the Information Machine The Computer: An Illustrated […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Jeff Salzman Topics: Host topic: The future of retrocomputing New Video Game Book: Collecting For Dragons Lair and SpaceAce Google Powers Cambridge Computing Initiative 10 cool analog computers Upcoming vintage computing shows: KansasFest CommVex (Commodore Vegas Expo) Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 8.0 Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention Vintage Computer […]

Panelists: David Greelish (hosting) and Syd Bolton from The Personal Computer Museum Topics: Douglas Engelbart, Early Developer of the Computer Mouse, Dead at 88 Commodore VIC-20 prepares for first-ever tweet WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again) The WarGames IMSAI 12 Badass American Inventions That Changed History Yahoo closes one-time Google rival Alta Vista Fire Sale! […]

Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom (twitter.com/yesterbits) and Carrington Vanston Topics: Host topic: Reproduction vs. The Real Thing? Interview with Mike Douglas, creator of the new Altair 8800 Clone Steve Wozniak test-drives Apple 1 computers Steve Jobs video from 1994 – he expected to be forgotten by history KansasFest and OZ KFest KansasFest […]

Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting) and Earl Evans (hosting) Topics: Host topic: Unfinished Business: Games and projects we keep telling ourselves we’ll finish RISC OS from the dawn of ARM, now on Raspberry Pi Documentary on the early UK video games industry PDP-8/E is alive Fun 5 minute video with Amiga co-designer Dave Needle E.T. game […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Carrington Vanston Topics: Host’s topic: Curmudgeon time: Is newer always better? GUI versus command line INI files versus the registry Web versus GUI Mobile apps versus web Wirth’s Law: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.” David’s two secret eBay resources: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/electronics/computers http://vintagecomputersale.com/ Komputer Kindergarden […]

Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), David Greelish and Earl Evans Topics: Host topic: “What shoved you down the slippery slope?” Amiga Forever Essentials for Android Kodable Programming Primer First website evah http://info.cern.ch/ Al Lowe releases vintage games for free download Al Lowe’s game design documents Italian computer history site Forgotten QuickTime Demo Videos Alexander Graham Bell’s […]

Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston Topics: Host topic: “What shoved you down the slippery slope?” Podcasting live from VCFSE iSteve movie on Funny Or Die PDP-11 software engineering job in 2013? Yep! Project Unity: one box that plays 18 different retro game console formats TRS8BIT March 2013 A Complete History Of […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Carrington Vanston Topics: Bill Gates and Paul Allen recreate classic 1981 Microsoft photo A Talk With Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland The 22nd Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST! KansasFest 2013 opens for registration Disney shuts down LucasArts History of the modern graphics processor (1 of 4) Vintage computers made […]