RCR Episode 97

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

Host's Topic: Teaching Old Data New Tricks

Host’s Topic: What can/should/do you do with the data you find on newly acquired vintage computers?

Retro Computing News:

The Magnavox Odyssey on What’s My Line?
Jeff Minter v. zombie Atari re: Tempest
Doctor Who, Prime Computer ads
12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe
Ready Player one picked up
Chris Osborne assembles MC-10 128K RAM kit
How One Man Invented the Console Adventure Game
The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing

Vintage Computer Commercial:

Prime Computer

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

Retrode 2 USB game cart adaptor

Auction Picks:

Carrington: Bob Bishop’s Dung Beetles for Apple II (sealed)
Carrington: TRS-80 Mega Bug cartridge for Tandy CoCo
Jack: An incredibly clean and shiny Atari 800XL plus printer and disk drive
Paul: Laser 200 set
Paul: Coco 2 x2, box, cartridges
Paul: Some cables, from clean s