Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: 1970 In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared. Topic/Feedback links: Retro Computing News: Vintage Computer(-related) commercials: Retro Computing Gift Idea: Auction Picks: A2Stream file: Feedback/Discussion: Intro … Continue reading RCR Episode 270: Time Zero →

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: 1970

In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared.

Topic/Feedback links:

Recollections about the development of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)

The evolution of Forth (forth.com)

Shakey the Robot (YouTube)

75 years of innovation: Shakey the Robot (SRI)

conways game of life (Google search)

Martin Gardner’s Scientific American article (Scientific American, Oct 1970)

DRAM (Wikipedia)

Aquarius+ (GitHub)

Aquarius+ (AtariAge)

The current state of the Aquarius computer (YouTube, VCF West 2023)

Retro Computing News:

UTM

Adrian Black becomes a full-time retro content creator

WiFi Retromodem V3

ThinkPad 701C

Restoring the 701C butterfly laptop (YouTube)

IBM ThinkPad 701C “butterfly” keyboard (YouTube)

Tezza Stewart is back! (YouTube)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

US Robotics (1997)

US Robotics X2 (with Woz)

Hayes: Say Yes to the Future

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

EOR #$FF (David Youd)

EOR #$FF on archive.org

Auction Picks:

Carrington:

Toaster Mac cotton dust cover

C64 canvas dust cover

Embarrassed by your Amstrad?

Earl:

C64/V20 keyboard cover

Paul:

Tandy 200 with a black screen

Apple Interactive Television Box (original auction gone now, different one)

iMac VGA-revealing cover

See also: iMac G3 description (mac27.net)

Computer Napoleonics (SSI)

See also: Computer Napoleonics (Paul’s, on archive.org)

BBC Micro, US version, sort of

See also: BBC Micro B US (Chris’ Acorns, Computing History)

AC-3 in its box (Radio Shack acoustic coupler)

The Controller in its box

A2Stream file:

a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr270.a2stream

Feedback/Discussion:

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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