RCR Episode 183 - Feedback Feast

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Jack Nutting

Topic: Feedback

Lots of feedback (mostly links people sent in), so we go through some of that.

Topic and feedback notes:

• PC Classic
• Doors and Dungeons Gaming Podcast
• TRS-80 Prototype tape system
• If PHP were British
• GuruNet for the Amiga
• Stagecast Creator
• The Coming Crisis in Home Computers
• How to design an 8-bit Z-80 computer, part 1
• How to design an 8-bit Z-80 computer, part 2

Retro Computing News:

• Walk Around an 80s City with LASERDISC! The Domesday Project
• Mini vMac for iPad
• ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space
• Mac Portable ejects a disk in space
• No Such Thing as a Fish, episode 243
• 1987 Ardent Titan Graphics Supercomputer
• COBOL all the way down
• Bill Godbout, early power in S-100 design, passed away
• George Keremedjiev, founder of Bozeman, MT’s American Computer Museum passed away
  • See also: Floppy Days episode 5
  • See also: Retrocomputing Roundtable episode 177 (Aug 26, 2018)

Vintage Computer-related Commercial:

• Prodigy

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

• TRS-80 shirt (Radio Shack)
• The Almighty C shirt (Commodore)

Auction Picks:

• Earl: Commodore 2031 Computer Single Disk Drive
• Paul: Slomo ZX Spctrum Pacesetter
  • CoCo mini disk drive with poncho
  • Miniature PowerMac 8500
  • CompuServe Starter Kit
  • PDP 11/35 system
  • Turtle Tot Educational robot
  • SEGA SC-3000
  • See also: SEGA SC-3000 survivors

Closing discussion notes:

• #tweetcart
• VidHD orders open

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 - link
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