RCR Episode 217: Architecture shifts

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

Topic: Architecture shifts

Apple announced that it will be shifting its processor architecture from Intel to ARM. This has happened before, not just at Apple, but, well, mostly Apple or Apple-adjacent. We try to think of some other examples as well.

Topic/Feedback links:

• New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
• Communications of the ACM
• John Cocke (Wikipedia)
• Dimension 68000 ad (auction)
• Dimension 68000 review (Creative Computing)
• InfoWorld: "Jack of All Trades, But Master Of None" (Dimension 68000)
• Dimension 68000 review (YouTube)
• Altair 8800 in Unity
• Swipecard retro game loader
• RetroSwiper (GitHub)
• 68K coprocessor for Apple II being revived
• 68K coprocessor design for Apple II

Retro Computing News:

• TI Silent 700 Model 703
• Miniature IBM 1401 Datacentre
• 6502b (@miniatua) on Instagram
• Virtual Colossus
• Mini PET
• Finding an Old Friend

Vintage Computer-related commercials (or, well, chunk of audio):

• IBM promotional film (from about 1970)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Colour Maximite 2
• See also: 8-bit Guy demo of Colour Maximite 2

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Apple-1
  • Targa graphics card
  • Olympus America DS-1 / 300-01 Floppy Disc Computing Device Video
  • Inside NeXT book
  • See also: Blake's NeXT photo (in book)
• Carrington: MacWeek cloth bag
  • The Gutenberg for Apple II and III
  • Cyborg for Apple II (NOS)
• Paul: Popular Electronics, Jan 1975
  • SX-64s and a reminder of our mortality
  • Assembled Altair-duino
  • ERE I AM JH. Macnifier
  • See also: Macnifier ad
  • xu1541 nano
  • See also: Applesauce
  • PX-8, MU64
  • Personal Portable Computer, model 16BC
  • Apple II+ in its box
  • See also: A Labor of Labels (blog post about Apple II serial numbers)

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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