RCR Episode 186 - The eBay-er Necessities

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 connecting a 3.5" drive"
PCW-8256: Replacement disk drive belts"
PCW-8256: Disk images
Nerdly Pleasures blog
PSA: Get your batteries out

Retro Computing News:

New Hampshire to commemorate BASIC with historial marker
Barbara Keremedjiev has re-opened the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT, created by her late husband, George Keremedjiev
Direct3D team office has a wall of GPU history
Darkstar: Xerox Star emulator now available
Introducing Darkstar
ROMchip journal, call for submissions
Apple Lisa turns 36

Upcoming Shows:

CoCoFEST, Lombard Illinois, May 4-5, 2019
VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ, May 3-5, 2019
Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, August 26-September 4, 2019

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

Xerox Star Professional Workstation

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

BX Foundry BX-110 joystick

Auction Picks:

Carrington: Macintosh Color Classic with Mystic 040 board upgrade and Apple IIe card

Paul: Popular Electronicses

EMMA II 6502 trainer

See also: Information/manuals for EMMA and EMMA II



CBM 4040
Mac2USB
Fix Your Own Computer
Using Word 97
Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 1976
Xerox 820-II

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