Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Steven Weyhrich (apple2history.org/), Jeff Salzman (vintagevolts.com/) Topics: Host’s topic: The genesis of collecting – what made you start? OzKFest in Brisbane, Australia, July 27-28, coinciding with part of KFest (which runs from July 23-28) Vintage software, including games, find a home in archives The Twiggy Macintosh prototype is alive… David Schmenk’s […]
RCR Episode #46: All-in-one office suites
Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston Topics: Host’s topic: All-in-one office (“works”) suites Atari founder to publish book about finding the next Steve Jobs The Strange Beauty of Historic Computers Brought Back From the Dead iCapture! for iPhone The return of square monitors Raspberry Pi Gets RISC OS Tablets, Mice, and Trackpads: […]
RCR Episode #45: First computers vs. REAL first computers
Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), David Greelish and Earl Evans Topics: Our first computers vs. our real first computers Project Genesis SBC6120 single board PDP-8 replica SEGA to releae retro gaming inspired SEGA Note laptops Classic Sega Consoles Reinvented as Gaming Laptops Terry Stewart Mike Willegal powers up his reproduction SCELBI for first time New vintage […]
RCR Episode #44: February 2013
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), David Greelish and Carrington Vanston Topics: Retrochallenge 2013 Winter Warmup PedalBox by Shelldozer Simon game with rotary controller Cassette storage system for 6502 homebrew Carrington gets a Gravitar arcade cabinet What do check/do first when you receive vintage computers Streaming is replacing the web as we know it Another run of […]
RCR Episode #43: What to check first
Panelists: David Greelish (hosting), Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston Topics: Retrochallenge 2013 Winter Warmup PedalBox by Shelldozer Simon game with rotary controller Cassette storage system for 6502 homebrew Carrington gets a Gravitar arcade cabinet What do check/do first when you receive vintage computers Streaming is replacing the web as we know it Another run of […]
RCR Episode #42: January 2013
Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Carrington Vanston Topics: Videos from the World of Commodore 2012 Multiple ECB board special from N8VEM homebrew SBC project Hartmut Esslinger’s new design book Esslinger’s early Apple designs David posts to the Internet Archive Starring The Computer: computers in movies and TV TIME’s Machine of the Year, 30 years […]
RCR Episode #41: December 2012
Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Carrington Vanston Topics: Carrington snags a Fix-It Felix, Jr. arcade cabinet Randy Wigginton, Apple employee #6 and engineer, to keynote KansasFest 2013 Athana is a source for floppy disks and other media ZX Spectrum wouldn’t pass modern radio frequency regs It began with ‘Spacewar!’ A history of science fiction […]
RCR Episode #40: December 2012
Panelists: Earl Evans, David Greelish and Derek Warren Topics: Macintosh Folklore Radio Ideographix breakthrough in Chinese computing is preserved in Silicon Valley This Piece of Cardboard Launched a Trillion-Dollar Industry Coming Soon: PC-Retro Motherboard Kit Original Apple I computer sells for record $630,000 at auction Tez’s continuing series on YouTube on his retro computer collection […]
Retro Priorities: Part Two
As comedian Steven Wright says – you can’t have everything. Where would you put it. I’ve found, though, that until pretty recently, you could have almost everything in your retrocomputing collection. Sure, maybe an Apple I is out of reach (especially nowadays), and maybe even an Altair or IMSAI (although if you saved up, the […]
RCR Episode #39: November 2012
Panelists: Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston Topics: Introducing… the Lo-tech XT-CFv2! Cathode: vintage terminal app for Macs SX-64 party! Berry de Jager Two tonne Witch computer gets reactivated JavaScript Machines IBM PC Model 5150 George the Robot VICE 2.4 Commodore multi-system emulator released Vintage Computer Commercial: Commodore 64 (Australian ad) 1984 Retro Computing Gift Idea: […]