Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Blake Patterson
Topic: 1985
The year of the Amiga arrives, NeXT is founded, the first .com site appears, Quantum Computer Services begins its journey toward becoming AOL.
Topic/Feedback links:
- Commodore Amiga
- Installing FS-UAE on Mac
- Amiga Forever
- Ample
- NeXT
- symbolics.com
- symbolics.com museum
- Symbolics
- Aldus PageMaker
- Apple LaserWriter
- Enterprise
- Super Mario Bros
- Microsoft Windows 1.0
- Quantum Computer Services founded, which became AOL
- GameLine
- GameLine (eBay)
- Atari Compendium: Longevity (mentions Supercharger)
- Arcadia/Starpath Supercharger (eBay)
- A modern news story on AOL
Retro Computing News:
- The First Perfect Computer (upgrading an Amiga 1000)
- INIT HELLO
- Computer Museum at System Source
- National Electronics Museum
- Bloop Museum
- CuriousMarc visits System Source
- Usagi Electric visits System Source
- Usagi Electric gets a Bendix G15 to run the first half of a test program
- DigiBarn
- The SuperFo Harlequin 128
- The Leningrad-1
- Original Soviet key cap kit
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
- America Online
- Enterprise 128
- Super Mario 2
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Blake:
- Vintage Olympia EX 100 Typewriter Extension CP/M Computer Word Processor Systel
- Paul:
- The PC-8001 They Didn’t Want You To See. Picture number 6 will shock you.
- Mario Bros 2 ripped burned floppy disk
- The 202 Alliance
- Mario Bros (202) on Internet Archive, hit Esc while “202 Alliance” is being painted
- Real pirates buy Apple Cats
- The Curse
- Apple catalogs (including last one with Apple //e)
Closing notes:
- Rasberry Pi MIDI hat
- Stronghold
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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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