In this episode, it’s my great pleasure to chat with Neil from RMC Retro, the chief Cave Dweller himself. It would be fair to say that my biggest source of retro content has come from other cave dwellers, or those closely associated with the retro community.

Neil has built a full-time YouTube channel and now an exhibition space around ‘The Cave’ and we talk about how he started out with making YouTube videos to sell his collection, moving on to the popular ‘Trash to Treasure’ series, and of course how a colouring book brought in the much-needed funds to open the cave to the public.

I really hope you enjoy listening to our chat, it was a lot of fun to record and chat about some of our nostalgia for retro computing. Do let us know your experiences with retro tech in the comments, we’d love to hear your stories.

Episode Links

Neil (RMC Retro) on Twitter and YouTube

The RMC Retro site

Amiga 500 Trash to Treasure (Part 1)

Visiting The Cave

Cleaning the Acorn Electron

Rob from Ressurection Retro

The MiSTer MultiSystem

Chapter Times

00:00:04: Introductions

00:06:02: Growth of The Channel

00:11:13: Trevor & Lord Sugar

00:13:18: The Cave

00:27:21: The Fake Retro Shop Experience

00:31:19: The MiSTer MultiSystem

00:38:00: Donations

00:41:10: Wrapping Up & Finger Gravy

Credits

Intro and outro theme: Ace of Clubs by RoccoW

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