Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Carrington Vanston (not hosting) Topic: The eBay-er Necessities For finding retrocomputing-related stuff, eBay is the main place to go. How does it work? How can you find things? What should you be careful about? Turns out, there’s a lot to say about this. Topic and feedback notes: PCW-8256: Guide for […]
RCR Episode 185: Virtual retrocomputing
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting) Topic: Virtual retrocomputing For things you can’t physically interact with, how would you like to see or experience retrocomputers? What’s important to you for, say, an internet-accessible museum? Photos, movies, emulation? In-browser? Documentation? “Everything, all the things” is a possible answer, but realistically, what would you […]
RCR Episode 184: Bring on 2019
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Ken Gagne, and Paul Hagstrom Topic: Bring on 2019 What plans are on the horizon for 2019? [Perhaps the same question as “What didn’t you manage to get to in 2018?”] There are some new products, new archives, any plans about things that are newly available as of 2019? Can we […]
RCR Episode 183: Feedback Feast
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Jack Nutting Topic: Feedback Lots of feedback (mostly links people sent in), so we go through some of that. Topic and feedback notes: PC Classic Doors and Dungeons Gaming Podcast TRS-80 Prototype tape system If PHP were British GuruNet for the Amiga Stagecast Creator The Coming Crisis in […]
RCR Episode 182: OK. OK. What’s Next?
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston Topic: OK. OK. What’s next? How do you pick what to do next with your retro computer hobby and collection? Free time can be unpredictable, and sometimes projects get started and then stuck in limbo. Also, related – what is your “white whale” project that you’d […]
RCR Episode 181: Getting and Regretting
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Getting and Regretting What vintage computer did you get… and regret? Topic and feedback notes: LowEndMac’s Road Apples Our Founder Docubyte Macs in Austria need a home Retro Computing News: The Adventures of Captain Midnight: an Early History of Pay TV Scrambling (Paleotronic) Ken Sherriff […]
RCR Episode 180: Playing today’s games in 1000 years
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Playing today’s games in 1000 years To what extent should “we” expect to be able to play the games of today in 1000 years. What challenges might there be? To what extent can the experience survive? Is there anything we can do to make this […]
RCR Episode 179: Having no topic didn’t help
September 30, 2018. Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Having no topic didn’t help In an attempt to keep the time under control, we skipped the host topic. Spoiler: It didn’t work. Topic and feedback notes: EEVblog visits the Australian Computer Museum site, part 1 EEVblog visits the Australian […]
RCR Episode 178: Retro ANTIC Assembly Chicken Missile Talks Our Way Out Of It (KansasFest 2018 MegaPodcast)
This is the annual group “megapodcast” recorded at KansasFest, from July 2018. The event draws quite a few podcasters, so we all sit in a room and talk for an hour. This year’s podcast involves surprisingly little discussion of the KansasFest event itself (which is an annual gathering of Apple II enthusiasts, along with some […]
RCR Episode 177: Museum, Collection, or Hoard?
Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Earl Evans, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting Topic: Museum, private collector, or hoarder? So, are you a museum, a private collector, or a hoarder? Really? Topic and feedback notes: Australian Computer Museum Society collections faces bulldozers Australian Computer Museum Society – Last days of the Villawood Storage facility Atari Store: Breakin’ […]