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



Topic: 1980



In 1980, Commodore introduced the VIC-20, Sinclair introduced the ZX80, Tandy introduced the Color Computer, and HP tried to breed a computer out of calculators. Also other things happened. Which we discuss!



Topic/Feedback links:




VIC-20 



Sinclair ZX80

See also: MicroAce (timexsinclair.com)





HP-85 

See also: Tandy PC-4





Tandy Color Computer 



Intel 8087 



Pac-Man 



Epson MX-80




Retro Computing News:




​​Apple’s best keyboard reimagined (YouTube)



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



Daily news from a dot matrix printer



APFram. APFram



Atari Portfolio



It was all Boris Vallejo




Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:




Pac-Man Cereal



VIC-20



Timex/Sinclair 1000




Retro Computing Gift Idea:




Inflatable Pac-Man costume




Auction Picks:




Carrington:

The Usurper, one of the last text adventures



The Odyssey, one of the worst named adventure games





Paul:

Apple-Cat II with expansion box

Starring the Computer: Vacation (1983)





Apple IIGS upgrade (finished at $720, 11 bids)



Blank floppies (finished at $111.50, 9 bids)



Because we all want to be able to say “And over here, this is my Grundy NewBrain” (bought now at $850)

See also: Grundy NewBrain





Timex/Sinclair 1000 with box (finished at $15, 1 bid)



Because we all want to be able to say “And over here, this is my Jupiter Ace”

See also: Jupiter Ace





A moment of silence for the keyboards that have been parted out



OCC-2 (bought now at $499)

See also: OCC-2





16K RAM chips sans RAM






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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X



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