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



Topic: 1970



In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared.



Topic/Feedback links:




Recollections about the development of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)



The evolution of Forth (forth.com)



Shakey the Robot (YouTube)



75 years of innovation: Shakey the Robot (SRI)



conways game of life (Google search)



Martin Gardner’s Scientific American article (Scientific American, Oct 1970)



DRAM (Wikipedia)



Aquarius+ (GitHub)



Aquarius+ (AtariAge)



The current state of the Aquarius computer (YouTube, VCF West 2023)




Retro Computing News:




UTM



Adrian Black becomes a full-time retro content creator



WiFi Retromodem V3



ThinkPad 701C



Restoring the 701C butterfly laptop (YouTube)



IBM ThinkPad 701C “butterfly” keyboard (YouTube)



Tezza Stewart is back! (YouTube)




Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:




US Robotics (1997)



US Robotics X2 (with Woz)



Hayes: Say Yes to the Future




Retro Computing Gift Idea:




EOR #$FF (David Youd)

EOR #$FF on archive.org






Auction Picks:




Carrington:

Toaster Mac cotton dust cover



C64 canvas dust cover



Embarrassed by your Amstrad?





Earl:

C64/V20 keyboard cover





Paul:

Tandy 200 with a black screen



Apple Interactive Television Box (original auction gone now, different one)



iMac VGA-revealing cover

See also: iMac G3 description (mac27.net)





Computer Napoleonics (SSI)

See also: Computer Napoleonics (Paul’s, on archive.org)





BBC Micro, US version, sort of

See also: BBC Micro B US (Chris’ Acorns, Computing History)





AC-3 in its box (Radio Shack acoustic coupler)



The Controller in its box






A2Stream file:




a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr270.a2stream




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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John XShow audio files hosted by CyberEars



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