RCR Episode 236: Lasers Smoking in the PET Room

Retro Computing Roundtable

English - June 08, 2021 23:53 - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
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Previous Episode: RCR Episode 235: Playing in the MUD

Next Episode: RCR Episode 237: 18-bit Space Computers

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Lasers Smoking in the PET Room

We start a conversation about computers in school. For many of us, computers were only just becoming available in our school years, so we consider the access this provided (limited though it often was).

Topic/Feedback Links:

My earliest memories of microcomputing
Remembering an Atari lab in Hampton, VA
BBC Archive: Infocom feature (1986)
P.R.E.S.T.A.B.A. ported to the MC-10
MC-10 emulator (pick PRESTAVB cassette and type RUN)

Retro Computing News:

AmigaOS 3.2 for all Classic Amigas released
Creating Chinese computer fonts
The Little Book of Sound Chips (Volume 1)
Hibernated 1. The Director's Cut.
#ponyinformation
Hibernated 1 (physical, SAM Coupé version)
SAM Coupé on eBay
SAM Coupé overview (YouTube, Re:Enthused)
SD card and Ethernet adapter for the SAM Coupé
Quazar (home of SAM Revival magazine )
Review of SAM Revival magazines (YouTube, TJ Ferreira)
Sim Coupé
World of SAM
SAM Coupé Champion Collection
No Quarter, episode 78: Sorry Charlie.