RCR Episode 191: Re: recapping

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Re: recapping

How dangerous is it to keep our heads in the sand about failing capacitors on our vintage computers? How hard is it to fix them? Do we all need to learn how to do this?

Topic and feedback notes:

Let's talk about capacitor failure (ByteCellar)
Experiences with capacitor failure (Hackaday)
ReativeMicro universal PSU kit for Apple II/III
MacCaps
Building the System/360 nearly destroyed IBM.
TekGear's Twiddler
Remembrance agent
Wearable computing, remembrance agent and privacy
Hashtag Softg
July 1984 issue of A+ magazine (article about Douglas Englebart and the mouse)

Retro Computing News:

Teardown of a 50 Year Old Modem
Neon816 MiniTX Retro System
Retroshield for Arduino Mega
Emulating an Altair 8800 on an Apple II
Building a homebrew video game console
BASIC 10Liners 2019 results
IMSAI 8080 papercraft

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

Computer Conservation Society lecture series, Manchester and London
VCF Southeast, Roswell, GA, April 27-28
VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ, May 3-5, 2019
GORF (The Great Oz-stralian Retro-technology Festival), Melbourne, Apr 24-28, 2019
CoCoFest, Lombard, IL, May 4-5, 2019
WOzFest 12:00, Sydney, May 25, 2019
QFest 12, Brisbane, May 25, 2019
KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019
Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

Apple II (1979)
Windows 95 Crowd Control (Macintosh)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

Apple IIGS Cap

Auction Picks:

Carrington: Trio of vintage Apples: SE, LC475, and IIc

BENQ BL702A Monitor for Apple IIgs


Earl: PDP-8/S, serial number 0

Paul: Magic floppy endensificator

General Magic DataRover 840
Tulip System 1
HX-20 with ribbons, BASIC, case
Softgraf
JR 01 computer kit
Thunder Mountain software collection
ZX-80 kit
Compaticard I
Windows 95 Sucks Less

Paul: Kaypro II showed up on Miracle Workers. Oh I saw Kevin too at the People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction meeting.

Closing comments:

Miracle Workers show
People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction

Feedback/Discussion:

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

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