RCR Episode 184 - Bring on 2019

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Ken Gagne, and Paul Hagstrom

Topic: Bring on 2019

What plans are on the horizon for 2019? [Perhaps the same question as “What didn’t you manage to get to in 2018?”] There are some new products, new archives, any plans about things that are newly available as of 2019? Can we make it through this without making the New Year’s Resolution joke? No? Yeah, I didn’t really think so.

Topic and feedback notes:

• Pods (WordPress plugin)
• Juiced.GS
• Gaming Patreon at PAX East 2018 (Polygamer podcast)
• Epic Apple II versus Commodore 64 Chess Match
• Chicken Lips Radio podcast
• Next Without For podcast
• Drop /// Inches podcast
• Transporter Lock - A Star Trek: Discovery podcast
• Strong Bad draws a diskette
• Accenture demos the "Pocket Supercomputer"
• Pocket Supercomputer video demo
• Video search makes phone a second pair of eyes (New Scientist)
• Puma is rereleasing its classic 1986 RS-Computer running shoe (The Verge)
• Puma Shoes for the Apple II (Apple II Bits blog)
• Apple II papercraft design
• Electronics is Fun
• Plipbox design and firmware
• C65 classroom computer prototype

Retro Computing News:

• Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration (YouTube playlist)
• Restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer (Hackaday)
• Charles Mangin releases DROPBLOCKS and BLOCKCHAIN
• BLOCKCHAIN on Internet Archive
• Freeload/Ocean Loader tape speeder-upper-and-protector
• C74-6502, a 6502 in 7400 series logic chips
• Forum comments about C74-6502 project
• flashx20 for HX-20
• Blurry photo of TRS-80 DVI in action

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer Commercial (1978)

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• Robot Odyssey I: Escape from Robotropolis (Fred D’Ignazio)
• Hear also: Fred D’Ignazio interviewed on ANTIC

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Commodore PET 4032
  • See also: Perspectives on PET
• Ken: Puma RS-Computer (2018)
  • Snake Byte
• Paul: ALF’s Apple Music II demo record
  • 3M Whisper Writer 1000
  • Memorex banner paper
  • Commodore plus/4 and printer
  • ZX-80s, ZX-81
  • Jingle Disk 1986 (Apple/PC)
  • Jingle Disk 1985 (Apple/C64)
  • See also: Jingle Disk video on YouTube

Closing discussion notes:

• Blake Patterson’s helping of 8-bit holiday cheer

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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