RCR Episode 179 - Having no topic didn't help

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September 30, 2018. Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Having no topic didn't help

In an attempt to keep the time under control, we skipped the host topic. Spoiler: It didn't work.

Topic and feedback notes:

• EEVblog visits the Australian Computer Museum site, part 1
• EEVblog visits the Australian Computer Museum site, part 2
• ob. Omnivore link
• Halfway to telecommuting
• Restoring a ThinkPad 701 using CF media
• Jason Scott will come help image big Apple II disk collections
• S-80 Retro

Retro Computing News:

• Playing today's games in a thousand years
• Federico Faggin: The Real Silicon Man
• TRS80 images online by Peter Cetinski
• Retrobrite with blue LED bulbs?
• The history of a security hole
• C64 emulation joins the Internet Archive
• Emulate ZX Spectrum on emulated Commodore 64 on emulated DOS on emulated Windows on Linux
• Two-bit history on where VIM came from
• Two-bit history on what Ada Lovelace’s program actually did

Vintage Computer-related Commercials

• Colossus - The Forbin Project trailer
• Epson HX-20
• WarGames trailer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Trifecta of computer nuke movies:
  • Colossus - The Forbin Project
  • WarGames
  • Terminator
  • See also: Apple II Bits blog on the Terminator's 6502 code

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: "Vintage" "Antique" "Intel CPU" Display
  • Apple “Notebook” Floppy Disks
• Earl: Vintage IBM Model 5140 Convertible Laptop Computer with Printer WORKING!
• Michael: Computer Peripherals That You Can Build
  • "Hirigana" (really, Katakana) Mac 128/512 Keyboard
• Paul: Two Xerox 820-IIs
  • Victor 9000 (probably needs new keyboard pads)
  • Letter quality GE printer (with Commodore/Atari adapter)
  • MT-Mac Apple II clone
  • COSMAC Elf
  • Analog Joystick adapter
  • CoCo 1

Closing discussion notes:

• Melaleuca deanei

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

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