The Soul of a New Machine

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Lacking future relevance

Sunk time - times you’ve spent learning (or learning how to do) something that has no future relevance. What did you do, what were you THINKING?

Topic/Feedback links:

  • Foone Turing explores the updated Twitter image posting/processing rules, for a very good reason
  • The reason

Retro Computing News:

  • Corecursive: The Original Remove Developer, Paul Lutus
  • Mountain Hermit Makes ‘Apples’ Sing In Simple English
  • The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk (Hackaday)
  • The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk (YouTube)
  • The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
  • The 100 MHz 6502
  • The 100 MHz 6502 (Hackaday)
  • Swatch 1984 Revisited
  • The Source (GitHub, historical source)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

  • IBM 5100 (First Portable Computer) commercial 1977

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

  • Lovelace and Babbage board game

Auction Picks:

  • Carrington:
    • Apple Super Bowl cushion
    • Memphis Design mouse pad
  • Earl:
    • Atari 400 computer keyboard
  • Paul:
    • Edison Voicewriter
    • Wax cylinders
    • See also: Edison Voicewriter
    • Mystery House
    • Laser 50
    • Laser 50
    • Spaceball
    • ADAM power supply

Topic/Feedback links:

  • A People’s History of Computing in the United States
  • The Soul of a New Machine
  • ?Next Without For 006 - SNOBOL

Feedback/Discussion:

  • @rcrpodcast on Twitter
  • 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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