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 Computer Museum site, part 2
ob. Omnivore link
Halfway to telecommuting
Restoring a ThinkPad 701 using CF media
Jason Scott will come help image big Apple II disk collections
S-80 Retro

Retro Computing News:

Playing today's games in a thousand years
Federico Faggin: The Real Silicon Man
TRS80 images online by Peter Cetinski
Retrobrite with blue LED bulbs?
The history of a security hole
C64 emulation joins the Internet Archive
Emulate ZX Spectrum on emulated Commodore 64 on emulated DOS on emulated Windows on Linux
Two-bit history on where VIM came from
Two-bit history on what Ada Lovelace’s program actually did

Vintage Computer-related Commercials

Colossus - The Forbin Project trailer
Epson HX-20
WarGames trailer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

Trifecta of computer nuke movies:

Colossus - The Forbin Project
WarGames
Terminator
See also: Apple II Bits blog on the Terminator's 6502 code

Auction Picks:

Carrington: "Vintage" "Antique" "Intel CPU" Display

Apple “Notebook” Floppy Disks

Earl: Vintage IBM Model 5140 Convertible Laptop Computer with Printer WORKING!

Michael: Computer Peripherals That You Can Build

"Hirigana" (really, Katakana) Mac 128/512 Keyboard

Paul: Two Xerox 820-IIs

Victor 9000 (probably needs new keyboard pads)
Letter quality GE printer (with Commodore/Atari adapter)
MT-Mac Apple II clone
COSMAC Elf
Analog Joystick adapter
CoCo 1

Closing discussion notes:

Melaleuca deanei

Feedback/Discussion:

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

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