Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: 1972
1972 brought us C (good enough for us), Pong, Magnavox Odyssey, and more.
Topic/Feedback links:
- Dennis Ritchie on the development of C (ACM SIGPLAN Notices, March 1993)
- Pong released (Wikipedia)
- Atari founded (Wikipeda)
- A history of Syzygy/Atari (Michael Current)
- Magnavox Odyssey (Wikipedia)
Retro Computing News:
- Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89 (Developer Tech)
- Thinking Back on Turbo Pascal as it Turns 40 (Bytecellar)
- Dave Dunfield source code (including ImageDisk) (Classiccmp announcement)
- Dave Dunfield source code (including ImageDisk)
- Replacement Injection Molded Inner Bezel for Apple iMac G3 (MacEffects Kickstarter)
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
- Super Pong
- Magnavox Odyssey promo video
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
- Squarepainter painted pixel art
Auction Picks:
- Blake
- IBM 5561-P Model 40 (auction long gone)
- See also: IBM JX (Wikipedia)
- Amiga A1060 sidecar for the Amiga 1000 (different auction)
- See also: Amiga Sidecar (Wikipedia)
- Carrington:
- RAMWorks III + VGA extender (different auction)
- Paul:
- Archives I stickers
- Archives II stickers (auction long gone)
- Archives III stickers
- Definite stickers
- See also: Archives Inc (Wikipedia)
- See also: Archives Business Computer, Archives Inc., Davenport, Iowa 1979-1983 (YouTube documentary)
- See also: Mention in On Computing 1980
- Apple III in box (auction long gone)
- Atari PC3 (different auction)
- Duo 2300c (different auction)
- Apple floppy box
- See also: Apple gift catalog
- A+Disk-Disk=A
A2Stream file:
- a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr272.a2stream
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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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