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



Topic: 1979



In 1979, VisiCalc’s rampage began, and models 400, 800 (Atari), II (TRS-80), and 4 (TI 99) arrived.



Topic/Feedback links:




Wordstar



VisiCalc



TI 99/4



Intellivision



Asteroids



Atari 400/800



MUD1



StarMud review



TRS-80 Model II



Motorola 68000



Compu$erve

CB Simulator





Robert Williams becomes first human killed by a robot




Retro Computing News:




Unicode 16.0 adds more Symbols for Legacy Computing



Existing Unicode symbols for Legacy Computing



Unicode symbols for Legacy Computing working group document



Unscii font



Grace Hopper lectures archived and released



Warhol’s lost Amiga art, found



Wallops: a modern IRC client for classic Mac OS



Famous Computer Cafe



Computerland audio commercials (with gaps for filling in local deals)



Mol (Baldur’s Gate demake for TRS-80 Model 100 and ZX Spectrum)



Dungeons & Dragons Systems Reference Document



RadioShack catalog archive




Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:




Radio Shack



Intellivision




Retro Computing Gift Idea:




Insert Coin keychain

See also: iBot G3






Auction Picks:




Carrington:

Mockingboard in box (Auction gone, but here’s a similar WorthPoint image)



InvisiCalc

Scanned at MOCAGH







Paul:

Business IIGS (original auction gone, but: Incider Jan 1989 cover)



Amdek Color-I (original auction ended, here is similar one)



ZuluSCSI

See also: http://zuluscsi.com/





TI 99/4a replacement power supply



ZX81/TS1000 keyboard replacement



SE / SE/30 replacement power supply

Video for installing the SE/SE/30 replacement PSU (YouTube)





SIO2PC USB-C

See also: Set up RespeQT for SIO2PC (Atariprojects.org)








A2Stream file:




a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr279.a2stream




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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X



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