RCR Episode 206: 2020, thumb by thumb

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: 2020, thumb-by-thumb

Retro New Years Resolutions (retro plans for the new year, and old resolutions you never kept)

Topic and Feedback links:

• Captain’s Quarters BBS and AE line
• mTCP page (with, perhaps, some pages still being served by a PCjr)

Retro Computing News:

• Chuck Peddle
• The Legendary Chuck Peddle
• Hackaday honors Chuck Peddle
• Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part I
• Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part II
• Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part III
• Retrobits: An Interview With Chuck Peddle, Part IV
• Silas Warner, the man who made Wolfenstein
• Silas Warner at KansasFest 1992
• Silas Warner and Muse Software, The Digital Antiquarian
• Silas Warner memorial site
• Silas Warner memorial site (at Internet Archive)
• MUSE and ABM (at yesterbits.com)
• Adam Rosen’s vintage Macs find new home at American Computer Robotics Museum
• Tech Luminaries We Lost in 2019
• Bushfire Charity eBay Auction (Mr. Lurch's Things)
• Mike Harvey of Nibble magazine passed away
• John Leake and Brian Wiser interview Mike Harvey
• Nibblemagazine.com
• Y2.02K Bug in Classic Mac OS Date & Time Control Panel
• SetDate utility
• History of the TI-MBX expansion system
• Atariage thread containing specs for TI-MBX in message 5
• Borland/Turbo C++ flavor ui for VIM

Upcoming Shows/Gatherings:

• VCF Pacific Northwest. March 21-22, Seattle. Living Computer Museum + Labs.
• The 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest. April 18-19, 2020. Elk Grove Village, IL
• VCF East. April 24-26, 2020. InfoAge. Wall, NJ..

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer Commercial (1978)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Tiny 3D-printed TRS-80s

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Steve Wozniak life-size standee
  • Hartley Courseware cassette control device
  • See also: Description of Hartley CCD in Resources in Education Vol 18 No 12
  • Spot On advanced formatting utility for Mac
  • Apple IIe with Cascade Graphics Development thingy
• Earl: Titan III plus IIe
• Michael: Heathkit EE-3101 DC Electronics Educational Systems Course
• Paul: DTACK Grounded board
  • See also: Discussion with Don Burtis on Drop III Inches. 1:28 in
  • See also: DTACK Grounded newsletter issue #1
  • TI MicroExplorer
  • See also: MicroExplorer brochure
  • Sealed Apple II disks
  • Exidy Sorceror
  • HP Integral Personal Computer
  • See also: Inforworld article on the HP Integral Personal Computer
  • Think-a-Dot computer game from 1965
  • Wheels for the G3/G4
  • Cassette programs for the Apple II written by Silas Warner, Ed Zaron, and Bob Bishop

Closing notes:

• Blake Patterson’s NMSspot (No Man's Sky)

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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