Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston Topic: 1972 1972 brought us C (good enough for us), Pong, Magnavox Odyssey, and more. Topic/Feedback links: Retro Computing News: Vintage Computer(-related) commercials: Retro Computing Gift Idea: Auction Picks: A2Stream file: Feedback/Discussion: Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John XShow audio files … Continue reading RCR Episode 272: int age=0; →

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: 1972

1972 brought us C (good enough for us), Pong, Magnavox Odyssey, and more.

Topic/Feedback links:

Dennis Ritchie on the development of C (ACM SIGPLAN Notices, March 1993)

Pong released (Wikipedia)

Atari founded (Wikipeda)

A history of Syzygy/Atari (Michael Current)

Magnavox Odyssey (Wikipedia)

Retro Computing News:

Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89 (Developer Tech)

Thinking Back on Turbo Pascal as it Turns 40 (Bytecellar)

Dave Dunfield source code (including ImageDisk) (Classiccmp announcement)

Dave Dunfield source code (including ImageDisk)

Replacement Injection Molded Inner Bezel for Apple iMac G3 (MacEffects Kickstarter)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

Super Pong

Magnavox Odyssey promo video

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

Squarepainter painted pixel art

Auction Picks:

Blake

IBM 5561-P Model 40 (auction long gone)

See also: IBM JX (Wikipedia)

Amiga A1060 sidecar for the Amiga 1000 (different auction)

See also: Amiga Sidecar (Wikipedia)

Carrington:

RAMWorks III + VGA extender (different auction)

Paul:

Archives I stickers

Archives II stickers (auction long gone)

Archives III stickers

Definite stickers

See also: Archives Inc (Wikipedia)

See also: Archives Business Computer, Archives Inc., Davenport, Iowa 1979-1983 (YouTube documentary)

See also: Mention in On Computing 1980

Apple III in box (auction long gone)

Atari PC3 (different auction)

Duo 2300c (different auction)

DuoDock

Apple floppy box

See also: Apple gift catalog

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A2Stream file:

a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr272.a2stream

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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