Latest Retrocomputing Podcast Episodes
Should Sun Microsystems Buy Apple? (1996)
Mac Folklore Radio - April 21, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text from SunWorld, February 1996 by Michael McCarthy and Mark Cappel. This was such a bad idea that in the very same issue it was announced a potential Sun/Apple deal had fallen through. CHM Sun Microsystems Founders Panel in which they discuss close encounters with acquiring Apple....
ANTIC Episode 106 - Thom, Do you ever sleep?
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - March 31, 2024 14:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Episode 106 - Thom, do you ever sleep!? In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we cover all the recent contests involving new Atari software development, bring you all the other Atari news we could find, and marvel at the stamina of Thom Cherryhomes… READY! Recurr...
GlobalTalk Special - O Bolo Mio (1995)
Mac Folklore Radio - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn Bolo’s world, players form alliances, pilot tanks and command little green men. Original text by Steve Silberman. GlobalTalk Overview, or how to run AppleTalk over TCP/IP around the world. Gursharan Sidhu quote at the end of this episode: “It worked across very large multi-segment networks...
Floppy Days 137 - Post-VCF SoCal 2024 with Paul Nurminen
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - March 11, 2024 20:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsPost-VCF SoCal 2024 with Paul Nurminen Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 13 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 43 sec Intro 2 min 53 sec bumper - Paul Nurminen 3 min 00 sec Discussion with Paul Nurminen 1 hr 20...
The History of Be, Inc. (1998)
Mac Folklore Radio - March 10, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text by Henry Bortman. Be’s roller coaster ride from 1990-1998: the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial, Commodore’s Irving Gould, a thirty-mile hike to the sea, headhunting disgruntled Apple employees, and what to do when Apple says you’re not allowed to exhibit at WWDC 1996. Pictures of an AT&...
ANTIC Episode 105 - Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - February 29, 2024 18:10 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Episode 105 - Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we pull together our secret club of Atari hackers, including special guest Andy Diller, and talk FujiNet, archiving disks, VCF SoCal, VCF East, listener feedback and more in an e...
Floppy Days 136 - Grundy New Brain Peripherals to Web Sites with Chris Espoinidis
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - February 28, 2024 22:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsGrundy NewBrain Peripherals thru Web Sites with Chris Despoinidis Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 13 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 42 sec Intro 5 min 17 sec bumper - Chris Espoinidis 5 min 28 sec New Acqu...
Plan Be (1997)
Mac Folklore Radio - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text by Henry Bortman and Jeff Pittelkau, MacUser, January 1997. How does BeOS measure up to System 7.5, and could it have become the next-generation Mac OS? The authors examine why Copland would not have been the crashproof operating system we had all hoped for. Official BeOS demo v...
Floppy Days 135 - Grundy New Brain Tech Specs with Chris Despoinidis
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - January 28, 2024 19:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsGrundy NewBrain Tech Specs with Chris Despoinidis Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 14 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 43 sec Intro 5 min 38 sec bumper - Chris Espoinidis 5 min 51 sec New Acquisitions 16 min...
The Wizards of Be, Inc. (1997)
Mac Folklore Radio - January 11, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text by Dave Mark, MacTech, January 1997. Bryan Cantrill on interviewing at Be, Inc. (perhaps with Dominic Giampolo?) and inadvertently buying a VFS architecture at the Be bankruptcy auction. Apple wouldn’t have gone OS shopping if Copland had worked out. CodeWarrior for BeOS was a ...
ANTIC Episode 104 - You’re Gonna Label Me a Failure
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - January 08, 2024 22:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Episode 104 - You’re Gonna Label Me a Failure In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Kay plays with Pokey the AI chatbot some more, Kay’s cat tries to smack Randy in the head, we discuss what happens if we don’t meet our interview goals (hint: Randy will be labeled a f...
Floppy Days 134 - VCF SoCal 2024 Preview with the Organizing Team
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - January 08, 2024 16:09 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsVCF SoCal 2024 Preview with Organizing Team Hello, and welcome to this bonus, interview-only episode of the Floppy Days Podcast. My name is Randy Kindig; your host. This episode is a discussion with most of the organizing team around the very first Vintage Computer Festival 2024 that is comi...
RCR Episode 269: Considered harmful
Retro Computing Roundtable - January 07, 2024 23:09 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsPanelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Carrington Vanston Topic: 1968-1969 In 1968 and 1969, we had SHRDLU, the Mother of All Demos, Go To being considered harmful, and Unix. Topic/Feedback links: Retro Computing News: Vintage Computer(-related) commercials: Retro Computing Gift Ide...
RCR Episode 268: KansasFest/A24eVR megapodcast
Retro Computing Roundtable - January 07, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsVarious podcasters who attended the KansasFest 2024 or virtual A24eVR event relate their experiences and thoughts, in the annual “megapodcast” tradition. Participants: A2Stream file: Feedback/Discussion: Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John XShow audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
Floppy Days 133 - Grundy NewBrain History with Gerald McMullon
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - December 31, 2023 17:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsGrundy NewBrain History with Gerald McMullon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 14 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 43 sec Intro 6 min 33 sec bumper - Gerald McMullon 7 min 15 sec New Acquisitions 13 min...
ANTIC Interview 436 - Rodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - December 18, 2023 17:11 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsRodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile Rodrigo Castro was one of the organizers of an Atari Expo that took place July 22, 2023 in Santiago, Chile. He told me it was probably the largest Atari show in that country to date, with an estimated 300 attendees. Panelists included Robert Jaeger, creator o...
The Desktop Christmas '94 (1994)
Mac Folklore Radio - December 07, 2023 08:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text by David Pogue, Macworld December 1994. Watch the CD3 compact disc storage and retrieval box in action. Photos of the salami-like CD3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The product lasted into the 2000s and the companion DiscGear website is still up, featuring no less than three CD3-like units on ...
RCR Episode 267: Turtles all the way down
Retro Computing Roundtable - December 04, 2023 04:06 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsPanelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Blake Patterson Topic: 1967 1967 gave us Logo and the floppy disk, so we talk about that, and then many other things. Topic/Feedback links: Retro Computing News: Vintage Computer(-related) commercials: Retro Computing Gift Idea: Auc...
ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - November 26, 2023 23:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…results of the ABBUC 2023 Software Contest, upcoming 2024 shows (and an Atari Party yet in 2023), and Kay has a great time testing out POKEY The Atari Guru… READY! Recurring Links Floppy D...
Trouble In Finder City (1992)/The Hard Sell (1995)
Mac Folklore Radio - November 26, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsSimplicity, sophistication, oversimplification, and At Ease. I rant about the usability of modern Apple software, Steven Levy rants about the complexity of the Mac and the oversimplified environment provided by At Ease, and Josef Morell rants about the damage At Ease does to first impressions ...
Floppy Days 132 - Grundy New Brain History with Steve O'Hara-Smith
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - November 21, 2023 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsGrundy NewBrain History with Steve O’Hara-Smith Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 14 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 43 sec Intro 6 min 14 sec bumper - Steve O'Hara-Smith 6 min 32 sec New Acquisitions 2...
Life At Apple (1991)
Mac Folklore Radio - November 10, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text by Erfert Fenton, Macworld September 1991. Roger Heinen “engineers are a dime a dozen” story from episode 40 of the Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs Podcast. Engineer interviews from “Apple of the Future”, preserved and uploaded by The Byte Cellar. Apple campus decor in t...
ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy!
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - October 30, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… All the Atari 8-bit news for this month, Kay breaks his Atari mug, Brad impersonates Kay, Kay decides to start up a cable company, and Randy changes in retirement … READY! Recur...
Floppy Days 131 - Grundy NewBrain History with John Grant
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - October 26, 2023 19:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThe Grundy NewBrain History with John Grant Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper Hello, and welcome to episode 131 of the Floppy Days Podcast; where old computers get a new lease on life and have a purpose once again! I’m Randy Kindig, yo...
ANTIC Interview 435 - Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - Logo
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - October 24, 2023 16:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Interview 435 - Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - Logo Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. I’m Randy Kindig, your host for this episode. Cynthia Solomon is an American computer scientist known for her work in artificial int...
Pixel Fix Level 2 Episode 7
Pixel Fix - October 23, 2023 20:10 - 50 minutesWe welcome Simon this episode, discuss VR in the '90s, zzap! & Crash Live shows, plus some recent RARE dev machine museum donations. Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on X @pixelfixpodcast
Review: Infini-D 2.5.1 and StrataVision 3D 2.6.3 (1994)
Mac Folklore Radio - October 20, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOriginal text by Deke McClelland, Macworld February 1994. RayDream Designer and Infini-D merged into a new product called Carrara, which is still marketed by Daz3D. It must still be Carbon under the hood since it only runs on macOS 10.14 and earlier. 27 years is a pretty good life for a person...
SK8ing Down the Wrong Path (2019)
Mac Folklore Radio - October 08, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsQuickDraw GX, meet unfinished developer tool prototype. Original text by Cameron Esfahani who is still at Apple today, ~30 years later. Chris Espinosa replied to the original: “Cam, with this thread you got maybe 500 people interested in SK8, which is a lot more than Jim Spohrer and I ever di...
Floppy Days 130 - Interview with Forrest Mims III
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast - September 25, 2023 16:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsInterview with Forrest Mims III, Electronics Author Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper Books: Forrest's first memoir "Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era" - https://amzn.to/48wmIao Forrest's best-selling book "Gettin...
ANTIC Episode 101 - The Pronunciation Episode
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast - September 18, 2023 18:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode” In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that calls itself Atari and their purchase of AtariAge and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find, while mispronouncing names all over ...