Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: 1970
In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared.
Topic/Feedback links:
- Recollections about the development of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)
- The evolution of Forth (forth.com)
- Shakey the Robot (YouTube)
- 75 years of innovation: Shakey the Robot (SRI)
- conways game of life (Google search)
- Martin Gardner’s Scientific American article (Scientific American, Oct 1970)
- DRAM (Wikipedia)
- Aquarius+ (GitHub)
- Aquarius+ (AtariAge)
- The current state of the Aquarius computer (YouTube, VCF West 2023)
Retro Computing News:
- UTM
- Adrian Black becomes a full-time retro content creator
- WiFi Retromodem V3
- ThinkPad 701C
- Restoring the 701C butterfly laptop (YouTube)
- IBM ThinkPad 701C “butterfly” keyboard (YouTube)
- Tezza Stewart is back! (YouTube)
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
- US Robotics (1997)
- US Robotics X2 (with Woz)
- Hayes: Say Yes to the Future
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Carrington:
- Toaster Mac cotton dust cover
- C64 canvas dust cover
- Embarrassed by your Amstrad?
- Earl:
- Paul:
- Tandy 200 with a black screen
- Apple Interactive Television Box (original auction gone now, different one)
- iMac VGA-revealing cover
- See also: iMac G3 description (mac27.net)
- Computer Napoleonics (SSI)
- See also: Computer Napoleonics (Paul’s, on archive.org)
- BBC Micro, US version, sort of
- See also: BBC Micro B US (Chris’ Acorns, Computing History)
- AC-3 in its box (Radio Shack acoustic coupler)
- The Controller in its box
A2Stream file:
- a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr270.a2stream
Feedback/Discussion:
- rcrpodcast@podcast.social on Mastodon
- Vintage Computer Forum
- RCR Podcast on Facebook
- Throwback Network
- Throwback Network on Facebook
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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