RCR Episode 212: Virtual Retro-gatherings

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Virtual Retro-gatherings

Given that retrocomputing gatherings are going virtual, what aer ways that we can make this experience a good one?

Topic/Feedback links:

• C64 guitar
• Compressorhead: Ace of Spades
• Computer Sport Athlete
• nMigen tutorial

Retro Computing News:

• Atgtha in Absurdia Roguelike game
• VCF T-Shirts
• FujiNet, reading data over https
• What is FujiNet?
• John Conway obituary (Princeton)
• John Conway obituary (New York Times)
• John Conway obituary (xkcd)
• John Conway on Numberphile
• Doomsday Rule
• Atari Lynx 2020 programming contest write-up
• Atari Lynx 2020 programming contest entry
• Project SPHINX: When the USSR tried to change the computer forever
• Meet Sphinx: The 30-Year-Old Soviet Smart Home Concept

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

• The Game of Life
• Atari Lynx
• Motorola pager
• Fidelity Chess Challenger

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation (MIT Press)
• Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation (Thames & Hudson)
• See also: Guardian write-up
• See also: Publisher’s Weekly write-up

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Darth NeXTER Mask
  • 3D Connexion SpaceBall 5000
  • Qantel Model 4150
• Carrington: Macintosh SE/30 new(-ish) in box
  • Apple II dust cover with maybe-red logo
  • TauonPC-1
  • See also: TauonPC-1 site
• Paul: Pin featuring Apple logo
  • Vintage Apple Macintosh 6500
  • See also: Garfield minus Garfield
  • Apple //c video+audio cable adapter
  • World's slowest PC
  • Cal-Kit dongle
  • Cal-Kit that doesn’t need a dongle (sold)
  • Cal-Kit on Kijiji
  • NeXT mug/shot-cup
  • Mouse phone

Closing words links:

• Panic podcast

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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