Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: What we’ve done on our summer vacations This time we talk a bit about what we saw on our various recent excursions, primarily KansasFest, also a little bit more from the college reunion that was the backdrop for episode 174. Topic and feedback notes: KansasFest […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Schmopic Happy July. Topic and feedback notes: Using the Macintosh IIsi today Andy Hertzfeld interview, Tools & Craft series premiere Technomoan covers the OMNI Entertainment System Ken Shirriff reverse engineers the Sinclair Scientific Extreme refurbishing of an Atari 800XL: Extreme Refurbishing of Atari 800XL: Part […]

Panelists: Michael Current, Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting Topic: Atari facts and 8-bit FAQs In an unusual episode, Jack and Paul are joined by Michael Current around the same physical table, talking about things largely related to the early development of Atari and Michael’s Atari timeline and Atari 8-bit FAQ. There was a single microphone […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Where might you have wanted to go today? Imagine an alternate universe in which Atari, Commodore or even Apple had become the predominant computer architecture, rather than WinTel. How might have computing looked different in the 80s and beyond? Topic and feedback notes: […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Carrington Vanston (not hosting) Topic: But the menus won’t stay open Calmer days. Running old Mac OS software in an emulator, a reminder of how much extra whizzbang is distracting us now without necessarily adding much to the quality of the experience or production. Might it actually be useful to […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Shipwrecks eBay has gotten big enough that collectors with too little space, as well as non-experts, heirs, estate sale pickers, etc. can make rare and interesting vintage computer items available to those of us who are interested in them. Being good at finding things at […]

Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Evan Koblentz, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Vintage Computer Festivals Vintage Computer Festivals and the Vintage Computer Federation. See things, talk to people, escape into the past. Topic and feedback notes: Vintage Computer Federation VCF forum VCF Southeast 6.0 (Apr 21-22, 2018) VCF Italia (Apr 28-29, 2018) VCF […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and David Greelish (not hosting) Topic: Load accumulator This is episode 169, known to hex enthusiasts as 0xA9, known to 6502 opcode enthusiasts as LoaD Accumulator (immediate mode). So, naturally, we will riff on the topic of accumulation. Topic and feedback notes: Rescue 1130: Recreation of Forth on an IBM 1130 […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting) Topic: Feedback So much feedback to talk about, we just talk about feedback. Topic and feedback notes: Shopgoodwill Tindie RC2014 Retroconnector Tynemouth Software GGLabs “Totally 80s Rewind” at Living Computers Museum + Labs Geekwire writeup Samia Halaby, Amiga programmer (Guru Meditation) Oregon Trail handheld teardown Work […]

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Costly Custom Creations Continuing a discussion from last time, on the iterative process of designing, building, testing; costly custom creations; parts shortages; why it’s generally difficult. Topic and feedback notes: Florida Retrocomputing Club (Facebook group) Keep the Bombe on the Bletchley Park Estate […]