RCR 170 - Vintage Computer Festivals

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 East XIII (May 18-20, 2018)
VCF West XIII (August 4-5, 2018)
Don Eyles walks through the LEM source code

Retro Computing News:

IRATA.ONLINE, a PLATO service for retro computing
The Friendly Orange Glow book (about PLATO)
Computer Chronicles (Education, 1986) (PLATO starts around 15:50)
C64 Mini begins shipping.

thec64.com
8-Bit Guy unboxing and review
YouTube search for c64 mini

The Making of Dark Castle
ViperCard
SuperCard
Livecode
ANTIC special: Bits & Bytes (1983 musical)
NeXTstation Turbo Color (Part 1) (RetroManCave YouTube)
RISCy Business - The Acorn RiscPC (RetroManCave YouTube)
KansasFest (July 17-22, 2018)
Tandy Assembly (October 13-14, 2018)

Vintage Computer Commercial

Canadian Tire Commodore Christmas 1985

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

Retro Floppy disk cookie cutter

Auction Picks:

Carrington: Trivia Fever Apple II computer board game (sealed!)

See also: Contents of Trivia Fever box

Earl: TOSHIBA HX-10D 64KB MSX Z80

See also: MSX.org
See also: Setting up an MSX emulator on Raspberry Pi

Paul: Tax Avoiders for Atari 2600

Monorail PC
See also: Video of Monorail PC number 16
Commodore 65 in Germany
Canadian Tire VIC-20 games
Canadian Tire VIC-20 cassette in a C2N 1530
See also: Photos of cassette insert at Denial forum
See also: Canadian Coin News report on Canadian Tire money.
PC demo disks

Closing notes:

Atari VCS not quite displayed at GDC

Rob Beckett’s Playing for Time

Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link

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