Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: RCR Episode 2 Episode 2 of the Retro[ ]computing Roundtable is a decade old. Topic/Feedback links: Episode 2 Windows 1 Turns 25 Target Haunted Computer (eBay) Target Haunted Computer (YouTube) Retro Computing News: Atari announces list of games included with upcoming Atari VCS Official site […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson Topic: Decade It’s been just days over 10 years since the first episode of this podcast, so we reflect a bit on the podcast, the community, our starts. Topic/Feedback links: Episode 1 Episode 30, live at KansasFest 2012 Live streaming video from Mac Plus […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Repurposed Tech This time we talk about existing technology repurposed for use with computers. Cassette tapes, CDs, TVs. Though it wound up being kind of more tangent than topic this time. Topic/Feedback links: Think-a-Tron review Precursor (FPGA phone) TEDuino, a Commodore cassette unit replacement Retro […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Michael Mulhern, Blake Patterson, and (briefly) Carrington Vanston Topic: Regrets and unregrets What’s something you regret buying, doing, selling, dumping, investigating, etc. in the context of the retrocomputing hobby AND what’s something that you bought, did, sold, dumped, investigated, etc. that led to an unexpectedly […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Carrington Vanston… and (eventually) Michael Mulhern Topic: Second computers What was your second computer? How did lessons learned with your first affect your choice of second? Topic/Feedback links: Cool-Retro-Term C64 mini monitor 3D printed Building a 3270 terminal controller Intel MDS development system (Centre for Computing History) […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Blake Patterson Topic: Unexpected Bonuses Along the way as we collect things, strange things turn up in what we get. We talk a bit about unexpected bonuses in amongst our finds. Topic/Feedback links: Charles finds whimsical characters on chips TRS-80 Model I (article, Nuts and Volts, May 2002) […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson Topic: Terminals For episode 220 (Think: VT-220), we talk about our various experiences with terminals. Topic/Feedback links: VirtualColussus is working on a 3D simulation Intel 8080 ICE development system ZX Spectrum Next 2nd kickstarter Retro Computing News: Game Controller – H.A.L. Labs Gizmo – Cloning the […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Databases For episode 0xdb, we talk about our experiences with dedicated database programs, what some of us learned and didn’t learn while studying computer science, employment as consultants, and other marginally related things. Topic/Feedback links: Self-contained tape loader for the ZX Spectrum Mini-PET […]

KansasFest 2020 Megapodcast Welcome to Retro Open Poly Roundtable Chicken Missile Lines Drop Museum Gruecast. The annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, this time conducted virtually. Note: Reading the links below could be “spoilers” for the game. Participants: Quinn Dunki (Blondihacks, Open Apple, Retrocomputing Roundtable) Earl Evans (Retrocomputing Roundtable, Next Without For, Retrobits) Ken Gagne (Polygamer, Transporter […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Architecture shifts Apple announced that it will be shifting its processor architecture from Intel to ARM. This has happened before, not just at Apple, but, well, mostly Apple or Apple-adjacent. We try to think of some other examples as well. Topic/Feedback links: New Golden Age […]