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



Topic: 1977



In 1977, XMODEM, VAX, and FAT arrived. And the Atari VCS (2600). And the TRS-80 Model 1, Commodore PET, and Apple II.



Topic/Feedback links:




Atari 2600 (Wikipedia)



Atari 2600 Pac-Man (Wikipedia)



Tod Frye discusses Pac-Man 8K homebrew (YouTube)



TRS-80 Model 1 (Wikipedia)



TRS-80 Model 1 (trs-80.org)



Commodore PET (Wikipedia)



Commodore PET (commodore.ca)



Apple II (Wikipedia)



XMODEM (WIkipedia)



FAT (Wikipedia)



DEC VAX (Wikipedia)



UNIVAC (Wikipedia)




Retro Computing News:




Electromechanical Lunar Lander



Tim Hunkin (YouTube channel)



Apple II emulator on the CoCo3 (GitHub)



Apple II emulator on the CoCo3 (YouTube)



Michael Mahon’s Burroughs 220 emulator (KansasFest 2016 presentation)



Michael Mahon’s Burroughs 220 emulator



Choplifter reverse engineered



Using fountain pens with pen plotters



The Graphics Scientist




Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:




Atari 2600 Pac-Man



TRS-80



VIC 20 vs Atari and Intellivision



The Choplifter



Pac-Man and other MB board games




Retro Computing Gift Idea:




Ben Eater’s World’s Worst Video Card

World’s Worst Video Card (YouTube, part 1)






Auction Picks:




Carrington:

Defender ENTEX



Defender MB (auction long gone)



Popeye



Pooyan



Turbo



Turtles



Board games based on 8-bit arcades (boardgamegeek.com)





Paul:

TRS-80 model 1 set



PET 2001



Home security sticker (HERO robot)



Western Union Telefax receiver



Bull Questar 200

Bull Questar



Groupe Bull



List of Groupe Bull products



Micral: First personal computer using a microprocessor



Micral at MO5



“A talk with the father of computing” (Wired)



Computer Museum Catalog of Personal Computers








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