Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Blake Patterson



Topic: 1985



The year of the Amiga arrives, NeXT is founded, the first .com site appears, Quantum Computer Services begins its journey toward becoming AOL.



Topic/Feedback links:




Commodore Amiga 



Installing FS-UAE on Mac 



Amiga Forever



Ample



NeXT 



symbolics.com



symbolics.com museum



Symbolics



Aldus PageMaker



Apple LaserWriter 



Enterprise



Super Mario Bros



Microsoft Windows 1.0



Quantum Computer Services founded, which became AOL 



GameLine



GameLine (eBay)



Atari Compendium: Longevity (mentions Supercharger)



Arcadia/Starpath Supercharger (eBay)



A modern news story on AOL




Retro Computing News:




The First Perfect Computer (upgrading an Amiga 1000)



INIT HELLO



Computer Museum at System Source



National Electronics Museum



Bloop Museum



CuriousMarc visits System Source



Usagi Electric visits System Source



Usagi Electric gets a Bendix G15 to run the first half of a test program



DigiBarn



The SuperFo Harlequin 128



The Leningrad-1



Original Soviet key cap kit




Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:




America Online



Enterprise 128



Super Mario 2




Retro Computing Gift Idea:




Commodore4ever VertiPort




Auction Picks:




Blake:

Vintage Olympia EX 100 Typewriter Extension CP/M Computer Word Processor Systel





Paul:

The PC-8001 They Didn’t Want You To See. Picture number 6 will shock you.



Mario Bros 2 ripped burned floppy disk

The 202 Alliance



Mario Bros (202) on Internet Archive, hit Esc while “202 Alliance” is being painted



Real pirates buy Apple Cats



The Curse





Apple catalogs (including last one with Apple //e)






Closing notes:




Rasberry Pi MIDI hat



Stronghold




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