RCR Episode 244: Lacking Future Relevance

Retro Computing Roundtable

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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