Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: 1979
In 1979, VisiCalc’s rampage began, and models 400, 800 (Atari), II (TRS-80), and 4 (TI 99) arrived.
Topic/Feedback links:
- Wordstar
- VisiCalc
- TI 99/4
- Intellivision
- Asteroids
- Atari 400/800
- MUD1
- StarMud review
- TRS-80 Model II
- Motorola 68000
- Compu$erve
- Robert Williams becomes first human killed by a robot
Retro Computing News:
- Unicode 16.0 adds more Symbols for Legacy Computing
- Existing Unicode symbols for Legacy Computing
- Unicode symbols for Legacy Computing working group document
- Unscii font
- Grace Hopper lectures archived and released
- Warhol’s lost Amiga art, found
- Wallops: a modern IRC client for classic Mac OS
- Famous Computer Cafe
- Computerland audio commercials (with gaps for filling in local deals)
- Mol (Baldur’s Gate demake for TRS-80 Model 100 and ZX Spectrum)
- Dungeons & Dragons Systems Reference Document
- RadioShack catalog archive
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
- Radio Shack
- Intellivision
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Carrington:
- Mockingboard in box (Auction gone, but here’s a similar WorthPoint image)
- InvisiCalc
- Paul:
- Business IIGS (original auction gone, but: Incider Jan 1989 cover)
- Amdek Color-I (original auction ended, here is similar one)
- ZuluSCSI
- See also: http://zuluscsi.com/
- TI 99/4a replacement power supply
- ZX81/TS1000 keyboard replacement
- SE / SE/30 replacement power supply
- Video for installing the SE/SE/30 replacement PSU (YouTube)
- SIO2PC USB-C
- See also: Set up RespeQT for SIO2PC (Atariprojects.org)
A2Stream file:
- a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr279.a2stream
Feedback/Discussion:
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- Vintage Computer Forum
- RCR Podcast on Facebook
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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