Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast

https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Please consider donating to keep Floppy Days going! The IBM PC 5150 Part 5 with Jim Leonard Welcome to Floppy Days episode 112 for March, 2022. I am Randy Kindig, your host. As a reminder, we are currently finishing up talking about computers released in 1981. This is the 5th of 5 shows covering the release of the IBM PC 5150, the grand-daddy of most modern personal computers. I know 5 shows about one computer seems like a lot, but it IS one of the few computer lines that actually became a standard and many of the computers we use today are based on this original architecture. Besides, it just turned out there was a lot to cover about this machine. As on the earlier IBM PC episodes, I'm extremely happy to have Jim Leonard as co-host for this final episode on the 5150. Jim is a fount of knowledge on all topics IBM PC, so I'm honored he was able to help us take a walk through the various aspects of the machine and all of its associated information. In this episode we will cover emulation, buying one today, Community, and Web sites. Before we get into the main part of the show, I will be talking a bit about new acquisitions in the vintage computer hobby. New Acquisitions Coleco Adam video cable - https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/coleco-adam-composite-av-cable/ Coleco Adam power supply - https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/Adam-replacement-power-supply/p/363366783/category=17839014 Coleco Adam ADE Virtual Disk - https://github.com/Kalidomra/AdamNet-Drive-Emulator FujiNet for multiple machines - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/331791-low-cost-fujinet-v16-includes-usb-and-coleco-adam-hardware-components/ Upcoming Shows VCF East 2022 = Apr 22, 23, 24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ CocoFest 2022 = May 14th & 15th 2022, Elk Grove Village, Illinois - https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest-2022/ Boatfest Retro Computing Festival 2022 = June 24-25 - Hurricane, WV - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/boatfest-retro-computer-festival-2022-tickets-222333103297 The Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2022 - June 25-26 - Burbank, CA - https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:start VCF Southeast - July 15-17 Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West 2022 = Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Emulation 86box - (https://github.com/86Box/86Box) IBM PC emulator for browsers - https://www.pcjs.org/ dosbox - (www.dosbox.com) hardware emulator - https://hackaday.com/2021/07/28/emulating-the-ibm-pc-on-an-esp32/ Community Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePCEnthusiasts/ classic computing mailing lists - http://www.classiccmp.org/lists.html Discord - https://discord.gg/CwhYHY2 Vintage Computer Federation Forums - https://forum.vcfed.org/ Upper Memory Block Podcast - (http://umbcast.com/ DOS Game Club Podcast - https://www.dosgameclub.com/ Adrian's Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE5dIscvDxrb7CD5uiJJOiw The Oldskool PC - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOldskoolPC Web Sites over 1000 games - https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/games/ Winworld pc - (https://winworldpc.com/home resource for troubleshooting IBM PCs, XTs and ATs - www.minuszerodegrees.net magazines, books, software, emulation - http://www.archive.org

Patreon link for supporting the show: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Welcome to Floppy Days episode 111 for February, 2022. I am Randy Kindig, your host. As a reminder, we are currently finishing up talking about computers released in 1981. This is the 4th of 5 shows covering the release of the IBM PC 5150, the grand-daddy of most modern personal computers. As on the earlier IBM PC episodes, I'm extremely happy to have Jim Leonard as co-host for these remaining episodes on the 5150. When Jim and I went to record what was to be the final episode on the IBM PC, it ran so long that I decided to break it into 2 episodes. That means there will be one more episode next month, for 5 total on this historic machine. In this episode we will cover ads appearances and modern upgrades. Next month, in the final episode, we will focus on emulation, buying one today, Community, and Web sites. Before we get into the main part of the show, I will be talking a bit about new acquisitions in the vintage computer hobby. One other thing I wanted to mention to the listeners is that this month coincides with the 9th anniversary of Floppy Days! That certainly makes Floppy Days one of the grand-daddys of vintage computer podcasts and makes me wonder where the last 9 years went. It's been a fun ride and it's a long way from over. The interest remains high from listeners, with over 300,000 downloads since it started. More importantly, my love of the topic and interest in keeping this going remains high! We have a lot more machines to talk about! 1982 & 1983 were extremely rich years for the introduction of new home computers and I want to bring all of them to you. Finally, while I usually decline talking about monetary support for this podcast, I do want to mention that I have a way for you help if you have the inclination. I have a page set up at https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays where you can donate. Any funds will be used to defray the cost of managing the podcast as well as acquiring new hardware to talk about. Thank you so much everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions SIO2MIDI - https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/midi-for-your-atari-8-bit-400-800-xl-xe-xel-xld ABBUC membership - http://www.abbuc.de Upcoming Shows VCF East 2022 = Apr 22, 23, 24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ CocoFest 2022 = May 14th & 15th 2022, Elk Grove Village, Illinois - https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest-2022/ Boatfest Retro Computing Festival 2022 = June 24-25 - Hurricane, WV - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/boatfest-retro-computer-festival-2022-tickets-222333103297 The Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2022 = June 25-26 - Burbank, CA - https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:start VCF Southeast = July 15-17 Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West 2022 = Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Ads and Appearances Movies and TV: "Starring The Computer" - https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=58 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Halt and Catch Fire - Season 1, Episode 1, "I/O" (2014) Halt and Catch Fire - Season 1, Episode 4, "Close to the Metal" (2014) Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) IBM Ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPLGvI03Vrk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQT_YCBb9ao Modern Upgrades Lo-Tech 1MB memory board (Jim's favorite version is https://texelec.com/product/lo-tech-1mb-ram/) XT-IDE - https://www.tindie.com/products/glitchwrks/glitch-works-xt-ide-rev-4a/ Serge Kise's "monster-fdc project" - https://github.com/skiselev/monster-fdc YouTube video for using a gotek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTAWjtQPYF4 RGBtoHDMI - https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_reference.html http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html

contribute to the show via Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays The IBM PC 5150 Part 3 With Jim Leonard Welcome to Floppy Days episode 110 for January, 2022. I am Randy Kindig, your host. As a reminder, we are currently finishing up talking about computers released in 1981. This is the third of four shows covering the release of the IBM PC 5150, the grand-daddy of most modern personal computers. As announced last show, I'm extremely happy to have a co-host for these remaining episodes on the 5150. And that co-host is Jim Leonard, one of the people responsible for putting together VCF Midwest each year and a huge early PC enthusiast. Jim has an amazing amount of detailed knowledge about these machines and really enhances the podcast! In this episode we will cover peripherals, using the machine, software, magazines, and books. Next month, in the final episode covering this venerable machine we will focus on ads, emulation, modern upgrades, Community, and Web sites. Before we get into the main part of the show, I will be talking a bit about new acquisitions in the vintage computer hobby and what I've been up to. Finally, while I usually decline talking about monetary support for this podcast, I do want to mention that I have a way for you help if you have the inclination. I have a page set up at https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays where you can donate. Any funds will be used to defray the cost of managing the podcast as well as acquiring new hardware to talk about. Thank you so much everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Apple IIc VGA - http://www.a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=135 Apple IIc monitor - https://madeapple.com/apple-monitor-iic/ Apple IIGS RGB-to-SCART cable - https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/Apple_IIgs_SCART_Cable/p7004829_21371801.aspx VTech Precomputer 1000 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech_PreComputer_1000 HP-85 EBTKS - Philip Freidin - http://www.fliptronics.com/EBTKS/index.html Upcoming Shows in 2022 VCF East - Apr 22-24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ CocoFest - May 14-15, Elk Grove Village, Illinois - https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest-2022/ VCF Southeast - July 15-17 Southern Fried Gaming Expo - https://gameatl.com/ KansasFest 2022 - July 19–24, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West - Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Magazines/Newsletters Magazine LIst - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_magazines Byte - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(magazine) Creative Computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine) Compute's PC Magazine - https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine Personal Computer World magazine - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/573/Personal-Computer-World/ Books Compute!'s Mapping the IBM PC and PCJR Paperback by Russ Davies - https://www.amazon.com/Compute-Mapping-IBM-PC-PCJR/dp/0942386922/ References IBM Archives - https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_fact.html Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer Old-Computers.com - https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274&st=1 Vintage Computer Federation forums - https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php IBM 51xx PC Family Computers - http://www.minuszerodegrees.net

IBM PC 5150 Part 2 with Jim Leonard Welcome to Floppy Days episode 109 for December, 2021. I am Randy Kindig, your host. As a reminder, we are currently finishing up talking about computers released in 1981. This is the second of a now anticipated four shows covering the release of the IBM PC 5150, the grand-daddy of most modern personal computers. Back in episode 106, I covered the long and interesting history of the 5150. How it came about and why we are living today with the choices made clear back in 1981. I'm very happy to announce that I will have a co-host for these next 3 episodes where we cover tech specs, books, magazines, Web sites, and all the usual topics. And that co-host is Jim Leonard, one of the people responsible for putting together VCF Midwest each year and a huge early PC enthusiast. Jim is a fount of knowledge about these machines and adds a ton to the podcast! It turns out that just covering the tech specs about the 5150 alone was more than enough material to fill an entire episode, so Jim and I will focus on that in this episode. Next month we will cover peripherals, software, magazines, books, and more and in the final episode covering this venerable machine we will focus on ads, emulation, modern upgrades, Community, and Web sites. Before we get into the 5150 tech specs, I will be talking a bit about new acquisitions in the vintage computer hobby and what I've been up to. I have a page set up at https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays where you can donate to help keep this podcast going. New Acquisitions Commodore 128 RGB to SCART - https://c128adapter.pook.nl/ Atari 8-bit 576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet Atari 8-bit ACE80XL Cart - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/ace-80 Upcoming Shows VCF East 2022 = Apr 22, 23, 24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ CocoFest 2022 = May 14th & 15th 2022, Elk Grove Village, Illinois - https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest-2022/ KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West 2022 = Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Interview - Jim Leonard Jim interview on Floppy Days #7 at VCFMW 8.0 (2013) - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-7-vintage-computer-festival-midwest-8-0 Total DOS launcher - https://github.com/MobyGamer/total-dos-launcher The Oldskool PC YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/TheOldskoolPC Reference - Tech Specs https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_fact.html https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php http://www.minuszerodegrees.net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274&st=1

Interview with Albert Cory, author of "Inventing the Future" about the Xerox Star Welcome to Floppy Days episode 108 for October, 2021. I am Randy Kindig, your host. This month is a special episode based on an interview I was able to get with Albert Cory, author of the recently published book, "Inventing the Future". This book is a semi-fictional account of what it was like to work at Xerox in the late 70's and early 80's, while the company was working on the concept of the "Office of the Future" and the amazing computer known as the Xerox Star. For me, this interview and book finally pushed me into researching this incredible part of computer history; of which I had a cursory knowledge, but had never gone into any detailed research. The Xerox Star was ahead of its time and the technology that went into this computer set the stage for our modern computers in many ways. While Xerox didn't truly take advantage of all this amazing technology, as the Star was considered a commercial failure, many other companies took the mantle from Xerox and successfully utilized much of its technology. Albert sits down with me and talks about what it was like to work at Xerox in those days, what prompted him to write the book, and many other topics. I think you'll find it interesting. I know I did! Before getting into the interview, I do want to talk about some vintage computer shows I was recently able to attend and, of course, some vintage hardware or modern upgrades I was able to acquire. Finally, while I usually eschew talking about monetary support for this podcast, I do want to mention that I have a way for you to help if you have the inclination. I have a page set up at https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays where you can donate. Any funds will be used to defray the cost of managing the podcast as well as acquiring new hardware to talk about. Thank you so much everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute! Links: New Acquisitions VCF Midwest - http://www.vcfmw.org ZX80/81/TS1000 ZXpand Super Serial + wireless module - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/zxpand%2B-super-serial-card-40640 ZX80/81/TS1000 ZX-Key: The ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard and Interface Card (Gateron Black Switches) - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/45028 ZX80/81/TS1000 ZX-Key main Web site - ZX81 Keyboard Adventure Apple IIGS RGB-to-SCART cable - Cocoman - https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/Apple_IIgs_SCART_Cable/p7004829_21371801.aspx Microsoft BASIC I for Atari - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Microsoft%20Basic%20I Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com MCX32SD for Tandy MC-10 - https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ REX# for M100/T102 - Steve Adolph - https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ordering_Information Backpack Drive for M100/T102 - Jeffrey Birt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3es0NLJmd2c Upcoming Shows CocoFest November 6-7 Elk Grove Village, IL https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS) November 6-7, Burbank, CA, http://www.portcommodore.com/class VCF East April 22-24, 2022: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall NJ VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Interview Links Albert Web site - https://www.albertcory.io/ Bitsavers documents - http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/sdd/ "Inventing the Future" by Albert Cory - https://amzn.to/3EtBOO1 "Dealers of Lightning" by Michael Hiltzik - https://amzn.to/3w7xVM0 Read the reviews from the participants - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57138737-inventing-the-future

Bill Degnan, Kennett Classic https://www.vintagecomputer.net/ https://www.kennettclassic.com Second Annual Kennett ClassicSept. 25, 2021Kennett Square, PA

The History of the IBM PC 5150 Welcome to Floppy Days episode 106 for August, 2021. I am Randy Kindig, your host. As regular listeners will remember, we are currently talking about computers released in 1981. It just so happens that the next computer up is the IBM PC 5150, the grand-daddy of most modern personal computers. It just so happens that this very month, August, is the 40th anniversary of the venerable IBM PC. This wasn't planned. It just fortuitously worked out this way. I'm planning to have a couple-episode arc on this topic, starting this month with the long and interesting history of the 5150. How it came about and why are we living today with the choices made clear back in 1981? Although I'll be running solo this month, as Bill Gates just couldn't free himself up to co-host with me, I will have a co-host for the follow-up episode where we cover tech specs, books, magazines, Web sites, and all the usual topics. Before we get into the 5150 history, I will be talking a bit about new acquisitions in the vintage computer hobby and what I've been up to. Finally, while I usually eschew talking about monetary support for this podcast, I do want to mention that I have a way for you help if you have the inclination. I have a page set up at https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays where you can donate. Any funds will be used to defray the cost of managing the podcast as well as acquiring new hardware to talk about. New Acquisitions iWoz book - https://amzn.to/2Wurftw Jobs movie - https://amzn.to/3kC9IYQ PCJrSD + case - https://www.raphnet.net/electronique/sdcartJR/index_en.php MS-DOS 5 disks from Jim Leonard - https://www.pcjribm.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=26 MCX32 SD - https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Retrocomputer Coloring Book by Quick Web Books - https://amzn.to/3zwK1iG AmtixCPC Magazine - https://www.patreon.com/amtixcpcmagazine/posts Upcoming Shows VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago) Second Annual Kennett Classic September 25, https://www.kennettclassic.com/ , Kennett Square, PA Tandy Assembly October 1-3 in Springfield Ohio, http://www.tandyassembly.com/ (play ad for Tandy Assembly) VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall NJ Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS) November 6-7, Burbank, CA, http://www.portcommodore.com/class References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_reference.html http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html

Floppy Days 105 - Joe Decuir - Developing the Amiga Hello, and welcome to another interview edition of the Floppy Days Podcast for July, 2021. I am Randy Kindig. I am extremely honored to bring to you today an interview with one of the true pioneers of the personal computer, one of the designers of the Amiga 1000, a primary designer of the Atari 8-bit line and Atari 2600, and the developer of modern USB based on his work developing the SIO port for the Atari 8-bit: Mr. Joe Decuir. I've interviewed Joe for Floppy Days before, but that was about his amazing work on the Atari 8-bit line. Joe was able to provide a lot of history around the development of the Atari 8-bits for the shows where I was covering the 400 and 800 computers. The majority of this interview is around the work he did on the Amiga. Joe worked closely with Jay Miner and others to design a computer in the days when personal computers were just in their infancy. Joe shares with us the thoughts and reasoning that went into the design of the Amiga 1000 and thus brings all of us a little closer to being a part of an amazing time in computer history. Joe also mixes in some Atari 8-bit and Atari 2600 information, talks about the Apple II, has a story involving the TI-99 and numerous other tidbits. Before diving into the interview, I will cover a few of the new acquisitions that have been added to my ever-growing vintage computer and modern upgrades collection. I had a great time, as always, talking with Joe and learning more about what it was like back in the 70's and 80's as a developer of some of the most incredible hardware developed up to that time. Please enjoy! Links: Amiga .5MB upgrade - https://www.ebay.com/itm/274483642683 AmigaSD - ozkanocakli at gmail.com - https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/sdcard-interface-for-the-commodore-amiga Amiga Addict Magazine - https://www.amiga-addict.com/ Upcoming Shows VCF West August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA VCFSE Aug 20-22 - https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast-8-0-at-sfge/ or http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ , Atlanta, GA VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 - http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago) Tandy Assembly October 1-3 in Springfield Ohio - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall NJ Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS) November 6-7, Burbank, CA - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

Floppy Days 104 - Interview with Leonard Tramiel Welcome to Floppy Days episode 104 for June, 2021. Randy Kindig here again, as your usual host, to talk about vintage computer topics. For this month, I have another interview for you in which Commodore and Atari fans will have special interest. One of the most iconic figures in vintage computer history, and one who was a big part of the home computer wars back in the late 70's and into the mid-to-late 80's was Jack Tramiel. Jack at one time owned Commodore and later Atari, and involved his sons intimately in the business. Although Jack is no longer around there are plenty of interviews available on YouTube and other places where you can see and hear Jack. For this episode, however, I was able to track down one of Jack's sons, Leonard, and get his perspective on being involved in home computers with his father during that time. Leonard was particularly involved in the development of the Atari ST and much of this interview will revolve around that, but there is a lot of other content here as well. For this month, I'm going to forgo any other content and just focus on the interview itself. This interview took place February 2, 2020. Please enjoy! Links: Leonard Tramiel, Computer History Museum profile - https://computerhistory.org/profile/leonard-tramiel/ Interview at Arcade Attack - https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/leonard-tramiel/ The story of Commodore and the 8-bit generation | Leonard Tramiel | TEDxMidAtlantic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBU8pEDWwY Leonard Tramiel Greets Those at CommVEx 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNGEd7QbLjI

Floppy Days 103 - Kay Savetz Interviews Mark Englebardt, Wayzata Technology Mark Englebardt was the founder of Wayzata Technology, a company that was one of the earliest publishers of CD-ROM software. The company was founded in 1991, and produced hundreds of CD-ROM titles before going out of business in 1996. The company's discs were primarily for Macintosh but many worked with all ISO-9660 compatible platforms. Its most popular product was the Wayzata World Factbook, a disc of information about countries and territories around the world. Downloadable versions of more than 80 of Wayzata CD-ROMs are available at the Internet Archive. This interview took place on January 26, 2016. Inc Magazine: Pioneer CD-ROM Maker Hit by Hardball Competition Downloadable versions of Wayzata CD-ROMs at Internet Archive

The BBC Micro, Part 3 with Daniel Jameson Hello, and welcome to episode 102 of the Floppy Days Podcast for December, 2020. I just love these old machines and love to learn and talk about them. The year is 1981 and we are talking about the legendary BBC Micro or Beeb as it's affectionately known. This is the final episode on this incredible machine, where we will be covering Ads and Appearances, Modern Upgrades, Emulators, Buying One Today, Community, and current Web Sites. Again, as with the last episode, since the BBC Micro is a British machine I thought it only right that my co-host for these episodes should be someone from the UK. Daniel Jameson, a prominent member of the stardot forums, graciously agreed to help me with this and provide the "color" commentary during this episode. I think he adds a lot to the show. Before getting into the details of the Beeb, I will talk a bit about new acquisitions and what I've been up to, a very brief mention of any upcoming shows, and then right into the meat of the episode. New Acquisitions PC Junior VGA video card - https://www.ebay.com/itm/164149429851 C64 TapeCart - https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Tapecart FujiNet for Atari 800/800XL - https://fujinet.online/shop/ book "Beneath Apple DOS and ProDOS 2020" By Don Worth, Pieter Lechner - https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/pieter-lechner-and-don-worth/beneath-apple-dos-and-prodos-2020/paperback/product-g9kwzm.html?page=1&pageSize=4 MVT100 - https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=VT100 - Steve Adolph Apple IIC composite cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-IIc-2c-DB15-Color-Composite-Video-amp-Audio-Cable-Tested-/233772943854?nma=true&si=tHD2mKl633oUtVis3c7Y7F3AfKY%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 ZXpand+ - https://www.sellmyretro.com/ MISE/FreHD cases: re490 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-3D-Printed-2-color-Case-Enclosure-for-TRS-80-MISE-w-Pads-screws-NEW-/124383293703?hash=item1cf5d27107 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-3D-Printed-2-Color-Case-Enclosure-for-TRS-80-FreHD-w-Pads-screws-NEW-/124383299365?hash=item1cf5d28725 Upcoming Shows April 9, 10 & 11, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East June 11-13, 2021: http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West Feedback Adam Trionfo - Computer and Videogame Collection - Video 1 - Books, Books and More... Books! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhMBeqkfB8 Ads and Appearances Starring the Computer - http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ 1980s BBC Micro Used By Everyone/The Story of Daphne Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6GQaC4Em8E ads at 8bs.com - http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/ads.shtml ads at vintagecomputing.com - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/657 Vintage PC Ads - https://twitter.com/vintage_pc_ads https://twitter.com/vintage_pc_ads/status/938943770065764355/photo/1 https://twitter.com/vintage_pc_ads/status/954526425599676416/photo/1 4Corn Computers - http://4corn.co.uk/8bit.php Modern Upgrades RetroClinic's "INTERNAL RASPBERRY PI 1GHz MULTI-CORE CO-PROCESSOR KIT" uses a Raspberry Pi to emulate a number of the Tube processor expansions - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/retroclinic TheFutureWas8Bit "SD2BBC BBC Micro SPI SD Card Interface" - SD2BBC SPROW Ethernet Adapter - http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm Acorn BBC Micro RGB SCART - Cool Novelties Acorn BBC Micro RGB SCART - RetroComputerShack RGB to HDMI directly using RPi Zero https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14430&start=90 https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20404 GreaseWeazle - https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle modern USB mouse adapter - SmallyMouse - https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=245 Emulation BBC Micro emulators - Emulation General Wiki B-EM - The BBC Micro Emulator , https://github.com/stardot/b-em BeebEm - BBC Micro and Master 128 Emulator BeebEm For Mac BeebEm for UNIX - http://beebem-unix.bbcmicro.com/ JSBeeb: JSBeeb - Javascript BBC Micro emulator https://github.com/mattgodbolt/jsbeeb The Complete BBC Games Archive a website holding nearly all software for the BBC Micro, most with links to play online for free in JSBeeb. Matt Godbolt's blog and videos - https://xania.org/Emulation model-b, a BBC Micro Emulator for Windows b2 - https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13081 , https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releases Community Facebook Acorn Computer and BBC Micro Enthusiasts - https://www.facebook.com/groups/AcornAndBBCMicro/ Mailing Lists - BBC Micro mailing list - http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/bbc-micro Twitter - BBC Micro (@acornproton) - https://twitter.com/acornproton Forums AtariAge - http://www.atariage.com stardot.org.uk 6502.org - http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3482 Current Web Sites General Info BBC Micro - Tips BeebMaster BeebWiki BBC Micro - Wikipedia Inside The Master 128 - Motherboard picture mdfs.net - Software and documentation covering such subjects as Acorn BBCs, Econet and networking R. T. Russell: The home of BBC BASIC The BB

The BBC Micro, Part 2 Hello, and welcome to episode 101 of the Floppy Days Podcast for September, 2020. The year is 1981 and we are talking about the legendary BBC Micro. In this episode and next we will fully cover this incredible machine; from tech specs, peripherals, and books/magazines/software to emulators, modern upgrades, and current Web sites. The BBC Micro is a British machine, and I thought it only right that my co-host for these episodes should be someone from the UK. I acquired my BBC Micro, a BBC Master Series model, from my good friend and frequent contributor to the show via feedback, Andy Collins. We did an international swap, where I sent him a machine that is common in the US (the Apple IIGS) and he sent me a machine common in the UK (the aforementioned BBC Master). It would have cost each of us a not-insignificant sum of money otherwise to acquire our respective machines, as they each are rare in the country from which they did not originate. I'm very happy with the trade and thankful to Andy for helping me get a BBC Micro. In any event, Andy agreed to co-host this episode, for which I'm grateful, and I will have another UK resident for next month's co-host. Before getting into the details of the Beeb, I will talk a bit about new acquisitions and what I've been up to, a very brief mention of any upcoming shows, and then right into the meat of the episode. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Aquisitions The History of the Fortran Programming Language by Mark Jones Lorenzo - https://amzn.to/3iboEK4 The Atari Experience by Adrien Lamothe Jr. - https://amzn.to/36fakOh The Easy Guide to Your Atari 600XL/800XL by Thomas Blackadar - https://amzn.to/36eTCyF Compute!'s ST Programmer's Guide by The Editors of Compute! - https://amzn.to/3kVLVkX Elementary ST BASIC by C. Regena (Compute! Books) - https://amzn.to/2Gk4vUQ Beginning Programming Using Retro Computing, Learn BASIC with a Commodore Emulator by Gerald Friedland - https://amzn.to/3jiVlqn PRM-85 - Bill Kotaska - https://vintagecomputers.sdfeu.org/hp85/prm85.htm H85Disk - Mike Gore - https://github.com/magore/hp85disk/tree/master/ groups.io HP Series 80 list - [email protected] Upcoming Shows October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ VIRTUAL + LIVE Peripherals Acorn Dual Analogue Joysticks - https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Analogue-Joysticks/ Kempston Competition Pro 500 Joystick - https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Competition-Pro-Joystick-for-the-BBC-Micro/ Acorn Data Recorder - https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Data-Recorder-ANF-03/ BBC Turtle - https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/10/22/remembering-the-bbc-micro/ Magazines BBC Micro Magazines - http://8bs.com/magazines.htm BBC Micro User/The Micro User/Acorn Computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Micro_User Acorn Programs - https://archive.org/details/acorn-programs BeBug - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEEBUG Disk User Magazine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_User Books 55 BBC Micro Books - http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/revs/dvds/55_Bbc_Micro_Books_000.html BBC-related manuals - http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/applications.shtml "BBC Microcomputer User Guide" by John Coll - BBC Micro User Guide [Remastered PDF] "The Advanced User Guide"/"The New Advanced User Guide" Advanced_User_Guide.pdf New_Advanced_User_Guide.pdf http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/info/electron/acornsoft_adder/The-New-Advanced-User-Guide.html The "BASIC Rom User Guide" by Mark Plumbley - BASIC ROM User Guide [Remastered PDF] Advanced BASIC ROM User Guide by Colin Pharo, 1984 - Advanced BASIC ROM User Guide [Remastered PDF] Forth on the BBC Microcomputer by Steven Flintham - http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/applications/forth-on-the-bbc-microcomputer.zip LISP on the BBC Microcomputer - http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/applications/LISP-doc-SBL14.zip Assembly Language Programming for the BBC Micro [Remastered PDF] Software Top 20 BBC games - http://bbcmicro.co.uk/about.php Educational Software Archive for the BBC Micro - http://www.flaxcottage.com/ ROMS!!!!!! - http://www.flaxcottage.com/BBC_ROMS/Default.asp A guide to making your own ROMs - https://mansfield-devine.com/speculatrix/2019/12/making-roms-for-the-bbc-micro/

Ed Smith, developer of the Imagination Machine Ed Smith is an African American was born in 1954 in Brownsville Brooklyn, NY. Ed studied electrical engineering at Westinghouse High School, then computer science and marketing at Pace University. Ed is one of only two African Americans to develop a video game system in the 1970s and the first African American to work in the design of a personal computer – The Imagination Machine. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Floppy Days that covered the MP1000 and IM-1 back in 2014 (episode 22) - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-22-the-apf-imagination-machine New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To book - Commodore the Final Years by Brian Bagnall - https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Final-Years-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0994031033/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=flodaypod-20&linkId=2145a99d3cb6c0a9d26dc08ee0b9394f&language=en_US MagPi Magazine - https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ Pi4 8GB - https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ Fusion Magazine - Amiga special - https://fusiongamemag.com/collections/magazine/products/fusion-amiga Current Notes magazines - collection at Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/@allan52 Next Without For Podcast - http://www.nextwithoutfor.org/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20Next%20Without%20For&text=Next%20Without%20For%20is%20a,or%20(b)... Upcoming Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20 to register August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ - going virtual Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/ - No word on the Website yet Interview Ed's Website - https://www.imaginethat2.com/ article on Ed Smith, Black Enterprise, Dec. 1982 - http://books.google.com/books?id=N6pacvfrf0wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.fastcompany.com/3063298/ed-smith-and-the-imagination-machine-the-untold-story-of-a-black-vid by Benj Edwards, Fast Company, 9/2/16 "Imagine That!" by Ed Smith and Benj Edwards - https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-That-Americans-personal-computers-ebook/dp/B0846535TR

The BBC Micro - Interview with Hermann Hauser Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 99 for May 2020 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where we look at home computers of the 70's and 80's across the globe, not just the U.S. This episode is one in a series of episodes on one of the iconic British machines that was so important to the home computer revolution: The BBC Micro. In episode 97, I had an interview with one of the key members of the BBC Micro team: Mr. Steve Furber. In this episode, with Steve's help, I was able to get an interview with another key member of that team: Mr. Hermann Hauser. Last episode (#98) I summarized the history of the BBC Micro and I don't want to repeat that here, but I want to give you just a bit of information about Hermann to help set the stage for the interview to follow: Chris Curry and Mr. Hauser set up a company called Acorn Computer Ltd. and in January 1979 they launched their first product: a microcomputer kit named Acorn System 75. The name Acorn was chosen because the microcomputer system was to be expandable and growth-oriented and appeared before "Apple Computer" in a telephone directory. Their follow-up product was a microcomputer called the Atom. After it had been released into the market, Acorn (due to an idea proposed by Hermann) decided to build an improved 6502-based machine with far greater expansion capabilities: the Proton. Hauser quickly pulled in Steve Furber (who had been working for Acorn on a voluntary basis) and Sophie Wilson to help complete a revised version of the Proton which met the specifications that the British Broadcasting Corporation was shopping around to find a partner for their planned literacy program. BBC visited Acorn and were given a demonstration of the Proton. Shortly afterwards, the literacy program computer contract was awarded to Acorn, and the Proton was launched in December 1981 as the BBC Micro. Hermann Hauser believes that if he had had just a little more foresight all those years ago, the world would now talk about Acorn compatible rather than IBM compatible computers. Wouldn't that be interesting? Anyway, I'm very excited and proud to have gotten an interview with Hermann and I enjoyed talking with him very much. I hope you enjoy it as well. I'm still planning, in upcoming episodes, to cover all of the usual topics on the Beeb, such as its history in depth, tech specs, modern upgrades, Web sites and a ton of other information about this machine. Before we jump into the interview, I'll spend just a moment to let you know about any new acquisitions I've managed to get for the hobby and any hobby-related things I've been working on. Please enjoy! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Heathkit ET-3400 Microprocessor Trainer - https://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml ET-3400 Microprocessors Book 1 - https://archive.org/details/6800-Microprocessors-Book-1and-2-Heathkit-1985 Oh! Pascal by Michael Clancy - https://www.amazon.com/Oh-PASCAL-Doug-Cooper/dp/0393954455 Software Tools in Pascal - Brian Kernighan - https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Pascal-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0201103427/ Personal Pascal for the Atari ST https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Pascal-Atari-1040-Version/dp/B000Q9VAOU https://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n1/pascalandmodula2.html Upcoming Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20 to register August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ - going virtual Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/

The BBC Micro: History Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 98 of the Floppy Days Podcast for April, 2020! I hope everyone is staying safe in these days of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. One day we'll look back at this as a strange time in all our lives. Again, for the podcast, we are finishing up the tail-end of the year 1981 in the personal computer timeline and the primary topic of this and the next couple of podcasts will be the BBC Micro. I talked with Steve Furber, one of the primary developers of the Beeb, in the last episode concerning his part in and thoughts about those heady times. In this episode I'm going to cover a more general history of the BBC Micro to give everyone a view of why the machine was developed and its huge impact on personal and educational computer history, especially in the UK. For the UK listeners, you'll likely be very familiar with the Beeb's history. For the US listeners, and listeners in other parts of the world, you may be less familiar with the story. I know that until I dove into the research for this episode, I only had a cursory familiarity with this machine and had no inkling of its true place in computer history. For future episodes, software, emulators, books, Web sites, modern upgrades, etc. will be explored. I hope you enjoy this short excursion into the history of a machine that I've come to love and respect. Links Mentioned in the Show: Thoughts and Memories - Richard Broadhurst Richard's Games on the Complete BBC Micro Games Archive - http://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?rt_R=&rt_B=&rt_M=&rt_P=&rt_U=&rt_W=&rt_L=&search=broadhurst&on_T=on&on_Y=on&on_P=on&on_A=on&on_G=on&on_S=on&on_Z=on&on_C=on&sort=b Richard's Games Videos on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1eiw5ttGL3ZagVI0c_vSe19KNALTwuXX New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Fusion magazines - https://fusionretrobooks.com/ Erebus - Oric Atmos SD Interface - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Erebus-Oric-Atmos-sd-card-flash-cart-Oric1-/174120579582 Home Computer Course and Home Computer Advanced Course magazines https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Course https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_01/ Spectrum DIV/MMC Future - https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/sinclair/divmmcfuture.html HP85Disk project - https://www.tindie.com/products/hp85disk/hp85disk-disk-emulator-for-hp85-series-computers/ BBC Micro formatted CF card and ROM - http://www.retroclinic.com/ Upcoming Shows After VCF PNW 2020 was cancelled in March, an individual allowed exhibitors to post their own videos to this website - http://www.retrofair2020.com/ CoCoTALK! hosted a live, virtual CoCoFEST! Saturday April 18th. You can view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4qkRI1JyqU&feature=youtu.be July 10 - 12, VCF Southeast, in conjunction with Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20, expect to open registration on April 30th August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Portland OR - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ CANCELLED Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/ References There is a docudrama "Micro Men" about the early 80s and winning the joint government/BBC contract to produce a computer that would be the focus of the initiative. 78 page PDF by Tilly Blyth of the Science Museum: "The legacy of the BBC Micro - effecting change in the UK's cultures of computing" "Now the Chips are Down: The BBC Micro (Platform Studies)" by Alison Gazzard - https://amzn.to/2yLnYdf

The BBC Micro - Interview with Steve Furber Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 97 for February 2020 of the Floppy Days Podcast. This episode kicks off a series of episodes on one of the iconic British machines that was so important to the home computer revolution: The BBC Micro. This machine has an amazing history and continues to have a very large following among vintage computer enthusiasts. What better way to start off this series than by beginning with an interview with someone who was right on the front lines in the development of the machine. Those of you who aren't familiar with Steve Furber will be much more familiar after listening to the interview that I was able to get with him for this show. Steve worked at Acorn Computers in the decade of the 1980's where he was the principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM microprocessor. I'm very honored to have been able to talk with Steve for about 50 minutes and am elated that I'm able to bring this interview to you this month. Next month, we'll kick off some episodes to cover all of the usual topics on the Beeb (as it's affectionately called), such as its history in depth, tech specs, modern upgrades, Web sites and a ton of other information about this machine. Before we jump into the interview, I'm a bit behind in letting you know about any new acquisitions I've managed to get for the hobby and any hobby-related things I've been working on, so I'll try to do some catch-up there. Please enjoy the show and let me know what you thought of it. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Juiced.GS - https://juiced.gs/ SDrive MAX 810 case, Gavin at Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max The SDrive MAX daughterboard and basic case idea are thanks to the great work of Steve Boswell - atari8bit.net TRS-80 PC3 LCD - Robert Baruch - https://www.tindie.com/products/halfbakedmaker/lcd-replacement-for-trs-80-pc-3-sharp-pc-125x/ Incognito for Atari 800 - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 BBC Micro CF formatted card and ROM - http://www.retroclinic.com/ BBC Micro single joystick adapter - https://www.ebay.com/itm/283745815116?ViewItem=&item=283745815116 Astra 1620 dual disk drive for Atari 8-bit - http://gury.atari8.info/hardware/162.php "Adventures with the Atari" by Jack B. Hardy - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-adventures-with-the-atari "Atari Pilot for Beginners" by Jim Conlan and Tracy Deliman - https://archive.org/details/Atari_Pilot_For_Beginners/mode/2up C64 Maxi - https://retrogames.biz/thec64 Upcoming Shows March 21-22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computer:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest March 21, Indy Vintage Computer Club Expo, Camby, IN - https://www.facebook.com/events/188334755647918/ April 18-19, 2020, CoCoFest, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east July 21 - July 26, 202, KansasFest, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Portland OR - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ Feedback "Micro Men" (movie) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459467/ The Home Computer Course (magazine) - https://archive.org/details/TheHomeComputerCourse

Interview with Norbert Kehrer, Flashx20 Hello, and happy 2020 to all the listeners out there. As the final episode of 2019 I'm bringing to you a bonus show on the Epson HX-20. I was able to get an interview with a gentleman who has developed a terrific piece of software that qualifies as a modern upgrade for the HX-20, called flashx20. That gentleman is Mr. Norbert Kehrer and he was kind enough to talk with me about his software and how it's used. I think you'll find it interesting, especially if you have a machine and can give his software a whirl. Next month I will begin a series of episodes on one of the groundbreaking machines in the UK, the BBC Micro. I haven't decided yet how many episodes there will be, but I was able to get an interview with an early computer pioneer involved with the development of the BBC Micro, so I intend to be as thorough as possible in the coverage of the machine. Stay tuned for more on that. For this episode, I will talk a bit about my new vintage computer acquisitions and what I've been up to, as well as the usual news about upcoming vintage computer shows and a bit of feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Atari: A Visual History by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/ MagPi magazine issue #88 - Retro Computing with Raspberry PI 4 - https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ BBC Micro Joystick Adapter - https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Acorn-BBC-Micro-Dual-Double-Atari-Amiga-Joystick-Adapter-715/124010566212 Compact Flash Adapter for the BBC Micro - http://www.retroclinic.com/ Upcoming Shows March 21-22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest April 18-19, 2020, CoCoFest, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ Interview with Norbert Kehrer Norbert's Emulators - http://members.aon.at/nkehrer/flashx20.html

The Epson HX-20, Part 2, With Earl Evans Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 95 of the Floppy Days Podcast for November, 2019, where once again this month (in Part 2) we will continue talking about one of the world's first portable computers: The Epson HX-20. I'm extremely happy to again have my good friend, and vintage computer podcast legend, Mr. Earl Evans, as my co-host for this episode. It turned out we had so much material to cover that I ended up breaking this topic into 2 parts. Last month was part 1, where Earl and I covered HX-20 history, tech specs, and peripherals. This month will be part 2, in which Earl and I will continue coverage by discussing how to use the machine, emulators, software, ads and appearances, modern upgrades, Web sites and more. In addition, I will include an interview with a gentleman who has done recent work around the HX-20 in the area of emulation, Mr. Pontus Rodling. First, however, I will spend a few minutes talking about my recent acquisitions in the vintage computing space and what I've been up to, then I'll cover upcoming shows. Links Mentioned in the Show: Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnX7d0Ty9A4 New Acquisitions book "The BBC Micro an expert guide" by Mike James - https://www.amazon.com/B-C-Micro-Expert-Guide/dp/0003831175 SDrive Max from Vintage Computer Center (810) for Atari 8-bit - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max Incognito for Atari 800 - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 CPC 464 RGB-to-SCART cable - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amstrad-CPC-464-6128-High-Quality-POWERED-RGB-Scart-Cable-TV-Video-Lead/261898189777 - Retro Computer Shack CPC M4 upgrade - http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/M4_Board Upcoming Shows Dec 7, 2019, World of Commodore 2019, hosted by the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) at the Admiral Inn Mississauga - https://www.tpug.ca/…/09/announcement-world-of-commodore-2…/ March 21-22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/…/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-north…/ April 18-19, 2020, CoCoFest, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/…/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com Ads and Appearances http://starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=171 Epson announced the HX-20 to the world in this famous double page ad spread from 1982. Its compact size is obviously the big selling point here - http://www.ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/epson-hx20/creativecomp0183-2a.jpg another four page ad from Epson UK. Epson apparently wanted to make it clear that only they had the foresight to devise such a compact computing platform. As depicted in the ad, the HX-20 is equally at home in the office, on the plane, in a power station and at home. - http://www.ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/epson-hx20/practicalcomputing128202a.jpg Modern Upgrades MH-20 by Martin Hepperle - https://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/hx-20/MH-20-Display-Controller.zip Flashx20 by Norbert Kehrer - http://members.aon.at/nkehrer/flashx20.html Emulators "eHC-20"-EPSON HC-20 / HX-20 emulator for Win32 (Toshiya Takeda) - http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/ M.A.M.E. - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator / MAME 0.184 ROMs - https://edgeemu.net/details-25542.htm HXEmu by Pontus Rodling - https://frigolit.net/projects/hxemu/ Community Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/405903130000150/ Forums AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/search/?q=epson%20hx-20 https://stardot.org.uk/forums/index.php Web Sites An HX-20 Enthusiast Site - Julian Ward - https://web.archive.org/web/20161023223930/http://classway.com/hx20/index.html - contains FAQ, memory map, description of utilities (on WayBackMachine) Epson HX-20 Programs - Courtney McFarren - http://www.geocities.ws/abcmcfarren/hx20/hx20.htm - software downloads (BASIC listings), memory map, memory dump, information on interfacing with the HX-20 Review in Byte Magazine Volume 8, Number 9 - https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-09/1983_09_BYTE_08-09_Portable_Computers_in_Depth#page/n201/mode/2up - compares HX-20 and TI CC-40 GanjaTron's site - http://www.ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/epson-hx20/index.html - nice description of the HX-20 Epson HX-20 Review in Creative Computing by David Ahl - https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n3/101_Epson_HX20_computer.php Epson HX-20 Tips and Tricks by Martin Hepperle - https://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/hx-20/Epson%20HX-20%20-%20Tips-Tricks.pdf TV ad for the HX-20 (1982) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnX7d0Ty9A4 Wickensonline - information from sites now only on the Wayback Machine (archive.org) - https://web.archive.org/web/20160323052226/http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/hx-20/index.html Epson HX-20 Operations Manual (from the Epson support site) - https://files.support.

The Epson HX-20 Part 1 Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 94 of the Floppy Days Podcast for October, 2019, where this month we will be talking about one of the world's first portable computers: The Epson HX-20. Thank you, Terry Stewart, for your thoughts about the HX-20 to lead off the show. For those that want more information from Terry, check out his Website and Youtube channel where he has a terrific video on the HX-20, as well as lots of information on other vintage computers. I'm extremely happy to announce that my good friend, and one of the godfathers of vintage computer podcast, Mr. Earl Evans, will be my co-host for this topic. It's always a thrill to have Earl join me on this podcast as he and his Retrobits podcast were the inspiration for Floppy Days. It turned out that Earl not only knows the gentleman I interviewed last month, Chris Rutkowski, but he also used to work for Epson and supported the HX-20 and its successor the PX-8. He also owns a couple of machines. As a result, Earl is able to provide great insights into the HX-20 and is a perfect color commentator for this topic. I know you'll enjoy Earl's contributions to this show. It turned out we have so much material to cover that I'm breaking this topic into 2 parts. This month will be part 1, and Earl and I will cover HX-20 history, tech specs, and peripherals. Next month will be part 2, in which Earl and I will continue coverage by discussing how to use the machine, emulators, software, ads and appearances, modern upgrades, Web sites and more. In addition, I was able to get interviews with a couple of gentlemen who have done recent work around the HX-20 in the areas of emulation and modern upgrades. So, we have a lot to cover and a short time to get there! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions and What I've Been Up To Atari 8-bit modern power supplies and video cables from Corey Koltz - https://www.8bitclassics.com/ Nu-Brick power supplies (Kevin Ottum) - Facebook Tandy PC-1 LCDs by Robert Baruch - https://www.tindie.com/products/halfbakedmaker/lcd-replacement-for-trs-80-pc-1-sharp-pc-1211/ Commodore The Amiga Years by Brian Bagnall - https://amzn.to/2WocDrz Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Dreams-Britain-Learned-Computer/dp/1472918339 101 Programming Tips for the TI99 by Len Turner - https://amzn.to/2q1ylpe TI's Compute Collection Vol. I by Compute - https://amzn.to/31WpG4F Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more by Gary Plowman - https://amzn.to/2NnerNl Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-moore/atari-projects/paperback/product-24223087.html SDrive Max cases (1050 and 810) from Steve Boswell - https://atari8bit.net/sdrive-max-cases/ Upcoming Shows (https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows) Nov 2, 2019, Chicago TI International World's Faire, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ Dec 7, 2019, World of Commodore 2019, hosted by the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) at the Admiral Inn Mississauga - https://www.tpug.ca/2019/09/announcement-world-of-commodore-2019 March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com

Interview with Chris Rutkowski, Epson QX10 & ValDocs Hello and welcome to episode 93 of the Floppy Days Podcast. We're still in the year 1981 for computer introductions and next up on the docket is the venerable Epson HX-20, oft-considered the very first laptop computer. It spawned an entire series of laptop computers from Epson, such as the PX-8 and QX-10. In this episode, I have an interview with Mr. Chris Rutkowski. Chris worked for or at Epson during the days of the HX-20 and the other machines. Although Chris didn't work directly on the HX-20, as he was more focused on the QX-10 and software for it (such as ValDocs), Chris has a great perspective on what it was like to work at Epson at that time. In the next episode I will then talk in detail about the HX-20, including the usual topics of history, specs, software, magazines, ads, Web sites, emulators and more. After talking with Chris, I was very impressed with the work that he did and impact that he made on the fledgling microcomputer industry. Not only did he work on the design of the QX-10, Chris came up with the idea for the VALDOCS software for the QX-10 that included the HASCI keyboard (Human Application Standard Computer Interface) while at Rising Star Industries. I hope you enjoy this interview! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions AVG cart for Atari 8-bit - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/278212-avgcart/ Faster Than Light: Atari ST - https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Light-16-Bit-Revolution/dp/1732355215 by Jamie Lendino Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language (book) by Mark Jones Lorenzo - https://www.amazon.com/Endless-Loop-Programming-All-purpose-Instruction/dp/1974277070 ZX Spectrum +2 RGB to SCART cable - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260949446667 Run/Stop-Restore (book) by Leonard Roach - https://www.amazon.com/Run-Stop-Restore-Anniversary-Lenard-Roach/dp/1456719246 Upcoming Shows Sep 7-8, Retro Computer Festival 2019, The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/53612/Retro-Computer-Festival-2019-7th-8th-September/ Sep 14, Atari Party East, basement of Bill Lange in Somerset, NJ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/281252672436874/ Sep 14-15, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Sep 21-22, Acorn World Exhibition 2019, The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54006/Acorn-World-Exhibition-2019-21st-22nd-September-2019/ Sep 27-29, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com Oct 18-20, Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com Nov 2, Chicago TI International World's Faire, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ Interview with Chris Rutkowski VCF Pacific Northwest 2019 - Chris Rutkowski, "The birth of the Business PC – how volatile markets evolve" - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/archives-show-summaries/vcf-pnw-archives/vcf-pnw-2019/ October '82 Byte - p.291 An introduction to the Human Applications Standard Computer Interface, Part 1: Theory and Principles by Chris Rutkowski - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-10/page/n289 November '82 Byte - p.379 An Introduction to the Human Applications Standard Computer Interface, Part 2: Implementing the HASCI Concept by Chris Rutkowski - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n403 "A Gathering of Magicians," from the CBC Television series "Man Alive" (1984) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRhyUp7dTE

Hello, welcome to Floppy Days Podcast #92, coming to you in July, 2019. This month, I'm bringing to you an interview I've had in my backlog for almost 2 years now. Thank goodness, most of the information on Floppy Days is timeless, so the interview is just as relevant today as it was then. Anyway, I'm very happy to present an interview with Mr. Dave Lagerquist, who was the editor of both the CLOAD cassette magazine, which was produced for the TRS-80 Model I and Model III, and Chromasette cassette magazine, which was produced for the Tandy Color Computer. As usual, I will cover a few new acquisitions, a run-down of upcoming shows and other news, a piece of feedback, and then we'll get right into the meat of the interview. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions C64 mini - https://www.amazon.com/C64-Mini-not-machine-specific/dp/B07GMV1X1K Atari 400/800 Programmer's Guide Poster by Steve Boswell - https://www.redbubble.com/people/choccyhobnob/works/39504539-basic-programmers-guide-from-1981?asc=u&c=1128814-wall-art&p=poster&ref=work_collections_grid "Vintage Commodore 128 Personal Computer Handbook: 2019 Survival Edition" by Margaret G Morabito - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vintage+commodore+128+personal+computer+handbook+2019&crid=1158ZFH5M3RKJ C64/128 composite/s-video cable - http://www.8bitclassics.com C64/128 composite/s-video to Commodore 1702 monitor cable - http://www.8bitclassics.com Atari USB power supply - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/32717 News Atari Projects - covering Floppy Days - http://atariprojects.org/2019/06/22/listen-to-the-floppy-days-podcast-1-4-hours vintage computer shows Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Upcoming Shows KansasFest, July 15-21, 2019, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West, Aug 3-4, Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California - http://vcfed.org/…/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Commodore Vegas Expo, August 10-11, Plaza Hotel & Casino, Desert Wind Salon, 1 Main Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Fujiama 2019 - Monday, August 26, 2019 to Sunday Sep. 1, 2019 (ONE WHOLE WEEK!). Fujiama 2019 will be held at the Schützenhaus, Lengenfeld, Germany. http://www.abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/ VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - Sep. 14-15, 2019 - http://vcfmw.org/ Tandy Assembly - Springfield, OH, Sep. 27-29, 2019 - http://www.tandyassembly.com Portland Retro Gaming Expo Oct 18-20 http://www.retrogamingexpo.com Chicago TI International World's Faire - Nov 2, 2019 - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ - The 37th annual Chicago TI International World Faire will take place on the weekend of November 2, 2019, in Evanston, IL Feedback Anthony Beckett - www.thepcmuseum.com Andy Collins - YouTube video of prototype of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum donated to The Centre for Computing History by John and Kate Grant of Nine Tile Ltd. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPEclMvAA3A&t=340s Interview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromasette https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/182224/games_from_the_trash_the_history_.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_magazines#C

The Osborne 1 with Lee Felsenstein Welcome to episode 91 of the Floppy Days Podcast for May, 2019. In the timeline for personal computer introductions, we are now in the year 1981. For this episode we are going to be talking about the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation (OCC). It was powered by the Z80 CPU at a blazing 4MHz, weighed 24.5 lb, cost US$1,795, and ran the CP/M operating system. It was powered from a wall socket, as it had no on-board battery, but is a portable device since it can be hand-carried when packed. The computer shipped with a large bundle of software that was almost equivalent in value to the machine itself. The Osborne 1 was the brain child of Adam Osborne and was brilliantly engineered by Lee Felsenstein. So, who better to have help me talk about the machine than Lee Felsenstein himself! For this show, we're going to spend some time with Lee talking about the history surrounding the Osborne 1. Finally, Lee will leave us and I will cover the usual computer topics such as tech specs, emulators, Web sites, and more. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To VCF Southeast April 27, 28, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ VCF East May 3-5, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ TI-95 Stats Library - https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instrument-Statistics-Guidebook-Cartridge/dp/B00PHOS6SW Oric Atmos cassette cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIC-1-ORIC-ATMOS-CASSETTE-TAPE-RECORDER-CABLE-LEADS/321775032876 Atari 800 S-video cable - https://www.8bitclassics.com/shop/computers/atari-8-bit-computer/atari-xlxe-5-pin-din-to-s-video-composite-av-cable/ Nunchuk 64 - https://github.com/djtulan/nunchuk64 Upcoming Shows June 8-9 Pacific Commodore Expo NW (PaCommEx) at The Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex, discussion is on the forum at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=14 KansasFest, July 15-21, 2019, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West, Aug 3-4, Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fujiama 2019 - Monday, August 26, 2019 to Sunday Sep. 1, 2019 (ONE WHOLE WEEK. Fujiama 2019 will be held at the Schützenhaus, Lengenfeld, Germany. Visit atarixle's Fujiama page, Krupkaj's parties photos or mathy meetings page. VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - Sep. 14-15, 2019 - http://vcfmw.org/ Tandy Assembly - Springfield, OH, Sep. 28-29, 2019 - http://www.tandyassembly.com Portland Retro Gaming Expo Oct 18-20 http://www.retrogamingexpo.com Chicago TI International World's Faire - Nov 2, 2019 - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ - The 37th annual Chicago TI International World Faire will take place on the weekend of November 2, 2019, in Evanston, IL Feedback HT1080Z, the Hungarian School Computer - http://zimix.hu/ht1080z-the-hungarian-school-computer/ Popular Magazines/Newsletters Portable Companion - http://www.vintage-computer.com/portablecompanion.shtml (Bill Degnan) The entire run is on archive.org - https://archive.org/details/theportablecompanion Also at Yesterbits - https://yesterbits.com/scans/the-portable-companion-magazine/ (Paul Hagstrom) Books/Manuals in 1984, Adam Osborne and computer industry author and columnist John C. Dvorak coauthored a book about the experience, from Adam Osborne's point of view - Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation. Using the Osborne 1 computer Paperback – 1983 by T. G Lewis - https://www.amazon.com/Using-Osborne-computer-T-Lewis/dp/083598141X Technical manual - http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/osborne/o1techm.pdf User's Reference Guide - http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/osborne/osborne1/Osborne_1_Users_Reference_Guide_1981.pdf Field Service Manual - http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/osborne/2F00040-00_Service2ndEdition_1983.pdf Osborne CP/M User Guide by Thom Hogan - https://archive.org/details/osborne-cpm-users-guide_2nd-ed/page/n45 Ads and Appearances EZ Money (2005) Maniac - Season 1 (2018) User Groups FOG info at bitsavers.org - http://bitsavers.org/bits/Users_Groups/FOG/ FOGhorn collection at Computer History Museum - https://www.computerhistory.org/search/?q=foghorn Modern Upgrades If you really want to replace the drives, there are several designs, kits or ready to use flash-to-Shugart replacements available. An example is the Floppyflash. HxC Floppy Emulators supported machines/compatibility list - https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/support.htm where it lists the Osborne 1 Video showing GoTek floppy emulator in Osborne 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZdQVYXK2PM Osborne 1 "Portable" Computer Reborn with a Raspberry Pi - https://blog.hackster.io/osborne-1-portable-computer-reborn-with-a-raspberry-pi-51f

Episode 90 - Interview with Lee Felsenstein (Osborne 1) Welcome to episode 90 of the Floppy Days Podcast for April, 2019. In the timeline for personal computer introductions, we are now in the year 1981. For this episode, and actually the next couple as well, we are going to be talking about the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. It was powered by the Z80 CPU, weighed 24.5 lb, cost US$1,795, and ran the CP/M operating system. It was powered from a wall socket, as it had no on-board battery, but is a portable device since it can be hand-carried when packed. The computer shipped with a large bundle of software that was almost equivalent in value to the machine itself. The Osborne 1 was the brain child of Adam Osborne and was brilliantly engineered by Lee Felsenstein. So, who better to have help me talk about the machine than Lee Felsenstein himself. To kick off this series, we're going to spend some time with Lee talking about his time before and after the Osborne 1. And then in the next show we will talk about the history surrounding the Osborne 1 itself. Finally, we will cover the usual computer topics such as tech specs, emulators, Web sites, and more. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions BBC Micro repair/accessories - Mark Haysman http://www.retroclinic.com Pi Co-processor for BBC Micro - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ACORN-BBC-MASTER-128-INTERNAL-RASPBERRY-PI-MULTI-CORE-CO-PROCESSOR-KIT/264220089777 ZX Spectrum +2A RGB to SCART cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-3-2A-2B-High-Quality-RGB-Scart-Video-Cable-TV-Lead/260830045368 VIDHD - To order VidHD boards ($135 USD + S/H), email [email protected] and include the desired quantity and shipping address. VIDHD video - https://youtu.be/ehQpC2-NEBM Exidy Sorcerer Cassette software in WAV format from Terry Stewart - https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2017-01-23-software-for-real-sorcerers.htm Upcoming Shows the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS)! April 27-28, Toolbox LA (https://toolbox.la) Chatsworth, California - The CLASS website is on-line at http://www.portcommodore.com/class and discussion of CLASS is in the shared forum area with CommVEx at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 VCFSE 7.0 is scheduled for April 27, 28, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ VCF East May 3-5, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ June 8-9 Pacific Commodore Expo NW (PaCommEx) at The Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex, discussion is on the forum at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=14 KansasFest, July 15-21, 2019, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West, Aug 3-4, Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fujiama 2019 - Monday, August 26, 2019 to Sunday Sep. 1, 2019 (ONE WHOLE WEEK) - Schützenhaus, Lengenfeld, Germany. Visit atarixle's Fujiama page, Krupkaj's parties photos or mathy meetings page. VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - Sep. 14-15, 2019 - http://vcfmw.org/ Tandy Assembly - Springfield, OH, Sep. 28-29, 2019 - http://www.tandyassembly.com Portland Retro Gaming Expo Oct 18-20 http://www.retrogamingexpo.com Chicago TI International World's Faire - Nov 2, 2019 - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ - Evanston, IL Lee Felsenstein Interview http://www.leefelsenstein.com/ https://www.patreon.com/lfelsenstein

The Apple III - Part 3 with David Fradin Welcome to episode 89 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where we love our computers and programmable calculators of the 70's and 80's (and even into the 90's). As mentioned on the last episode, we've moved in to the year 1981 for computer introductions and have been discussing the much maligned but misunderstood Apple III for the past couple of shows. This episode will be the last in the series about that machine. This episode we focus on an interview with someone who was responsible for the Apple III line at Apple in his tenure there, Mr. David Fradin. David was product manager for that line and has some insights into the challenges of managing and marketing it. Before we get to the interview, I will briefly talk about what I've been up to and about some new-to-me vintage computer acquisitions. I'll also run through the upcoming vintage computer show schedule for 2019, which is pretty full, and I have a bit of feedback to share. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Lotharek store - http://lotharek.pl Juiced GS - https://juiced.gs/ News George Keremedjiev obituary - https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bozemandailychronicle/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=190783242 Barbara Keremedjiev museum plans - https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/widow-vows-to-keep-and-strengthen-bozeman-s-american-computer/article_7ce68773-e575-5b9f-9f5e-1df61bfdf61c.html Floppy Days Episode 5 with George Keremedjiev Interview - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-5-the-american-computer-museum BASIC 10-Liners Contest - http://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/kopie-von-games-list-2019-1 Upcoming Shows VCF Pacific Northwest 2019, March 23-24, 2019 at Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington - http://www.vcfed.org/vcf-pnw Midwest Gaming Classic, Milwaukee, WI, April 12-14, 2019 - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS), April 27-28, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the Toolbox LA (https://toolbox.la) Chatsworth, California - CLASS website http://www.portcommodore.com/class , discussion of CLASS is in the shared forum area with CommVEx at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 VCFSE 7.0, not yet scheduled, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ VCF East, May 3-5, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Pacific Commodore Expo NW (PaCommEx), June 8-9, The Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex, discussion is on the forum at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=14 KansasFest, July 15-21, 2019, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West, Aug 3-4, Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fujiama 2019 - August 26, 2019 to Sep. 1, 2019, Schützenhaus, Lengenfeld, Germany. Visit atarixle's Fujiama page, Krupkaj's parties photos or mathy meetings page VCF Midwest, Elk Grove Village, IL, Sep. 14-15, 2019 - http://vcfmw.org/ Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH, Sep. 28-29, 2019 - http://www.tandyassembly.com Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Oct 18-20 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com TI International World's Faire - late Oct/Nov New event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Feedback https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/HT%E2%80%931080Z Interview "Building Insanely Great Products: Some Products Fail, Many Succeed… This is their Story: Lessons from 47 years of experience including Hewlett-Packard, Apple, 75 products, and 11 startups later" by David Fradin - https://www.amazon.com/Building-Insanely-Great-Products-Hewlett-Packard-ebook/dp/B01N7AKWWS David on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfradin/ "The Mistakes Apple Made With the Apple III" - https://spicecatalyst.com/the-mistakes-apple-made-with-the-apple/ "Why I Failed with the Apple III and Steve Jobs Succeeded With the Macintosh" - https://blog.aha.io/why-i-failed-with-the-apple-iii-and-steve-jobs-succeeded-with-the-macintosh/ by David Fradin

Floppy Days Episode 88 - The Apple III - Part 2 Hi, all, and welcome to Floppy Days #88 for December, 2018. I'm your host, Randy Kindig, and it's hard to believe that 2018 is coming to an end. I hope you all had a great year! As stated in the last show, we are into the year 1981 for computer introductions and we are covering the Apple II's more powerful sibling, the Apple III. This is part 2 of the 2-part series and will again have Paul Hagstrom, prolific podcaster himself, to help me cover this machine. We will continue where we left off the last show, and will cover magazines, books, software, emulators, Web sites and a whole lot more. Stay tuned to learn more than you ever wanted to know about the Apple III. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Tandy Assembly 2018 - http://www.tandyassembly.com/index.html Bartlett Labs (Peter Barlett) - MISE/M3SE/MIRE - http://bartlettlabs.com/ Ian Mavric - The Right Stuff - http://members.iinet.net.au/~ianmav/trs80/ Peter Cetinski - http://pski.net/category/retro/ Brendan Donahe - CoCoVGA - http://www.cocovga.com/ Jim Brain - Retro Innovations - http://store.go4retro.com/ Thomas McLaren - Digital Dinos - http://www.digitaldinos.com/ ZZap!64 Annual 2019 book - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/zzap-64-annual-2019-the-next-chapter TI-59 & gummy wheel repair kit - https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEXAS-INSTRUMENTS-TI-59-CALCULATOR-CARD-READER-GUMMY-WHEEL-REPAIR-KIT/264101043234 Soldering Station - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D57JT3F Atari 8-bit SIO cables - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=128 Atari 8-bit SIO2SD p https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=58 Atari 8-bit S-Drive Max - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EUVJYME Atari 410 Cassette Drive belt - https://www.ebay.com/itm/123508444012?ViewItem=&item=123508444012 Pi1541 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/PiDRIVE-Raspberry-Pi-HAT-1541-1581-Commodore-64-128-Vic-20-Emulator-OLED-Pi1541-/332860073409 Amiga External Drive Cable and Boot Selector - http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?88687-Gotek-Floppy-Drive-External-ROUND-cables Upcoming Shows The Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network will have three tables at the second annual Retro City Festival, taking place January 5-6, 2019 at the famous Fairplex, Expo Hall 9, 1101 W McKinley Ave. in Pomona, California (east of Los Angeles). - http://retrocityfestival.com - a yearly celebration of video game history VCF Pacific Northwest 2019 will take place March 23-24, 2019 at Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington. Details can be found at http://www.vcfed.org/vcf-pnw. Feedback "Sophistication and Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer" by Steven Weyhrich - https://www.amazon.com/Sophistication-Simplicity-Times-Apple-Computer/dp/0986832278 Jupiter Ace resources - https://jupiter-ace.co.uk Popular Magazines/Newsletters Apple III Dimensions (Apple) - https://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/apple-dimensions/ - 4 issues (tied to the recall/upgrade program) OnThree - https://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/on-three/ - '83 to '90 - Bob Consorti put in link to interview on Drop III Inches Open Apple Gazette - https://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/open-apple-gazette/ - '82 to '84 Apple Orchard - http://yesterbits.com/scans/apple-orchard-magazine/ - '80 to '84 Call-A.P.P.L.E. - https://www.callapple.org - '78 to ('90, '02 to '11, '15 to) present Softalk - https://archive.org/details/softalkapple - '80 to '84 Washington Apple Pi Journal - https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/ -'79 to '94 Books Osborne-McGraw Hill Guide to your Apple III - Stanley M. Miastkowski - http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/osborne-mcgraw-hill-guide-to-your-apple-iii/ Exploring Business BASIC - an almost-book by Taylor Pohlman: http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/exploring-business-basic/ "Using Apple Business Computers" by Kenniston Lord Jr - https://www.ebay.com/itm/1984-Operating-Programming-Apple-III-Computers-rare-book-on-the-Apple-III-/252985598982 Business BASIC for the Apple III by Eddie Adamis - https://www.amazon.com/Business-BASIC-Apple-Eddie-Adamis/dp/0471883883 — http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/business-basic-for-the-apple-iii/ BASIC Keywords for the Apple III also by Eddie Adamis - http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/basic-keywords-for-the-apple-iii/ [nearly identical to other Adamis book, just sorted differently] Software Resource Guide for Apple III and Apple III Plus Harware and Software (Apple): http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/resource-guide-for-apple-and-apple-plus-hardware-and-software/ Software - http://apple3.org/iiisoftware.html Ads & Appearances Night Shift (1982) - Chuck, the morgue night attendant, uses Visicalc on an Apple III to keep his girls' finances in order. Dick Cavett TV ads - Apple IIII easy to use - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOk-gA_j_Cw Dick Cavett TV Ad - Electronic Worksheet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk80YJ0H-ZU - Modern Upgrades CFFA2 / CFFA3000 - h

Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com Ian Mavric - [email protected] PSKI Software - http://www.pski.net

The Apple III - Part 1 Hello, everyone, and welcome to Episode 87 of the Floppy Days Podcast for November, 2018. In the timeline, we continue to cover machines that were released in the year 1980. The topic of this show is a machine that while it came from a very well-known computer company, was never popular enough to make a large splash in the computer market. Nevertheless, it was an important piece in the history of personal computers and I'm happy to bring it to you this month. Of course, the machine that we're talking about, as you already know from the excellent memories intro by Mike Maginnis, is the Apple II's more powerful brother, the Apple III. I'm very happy to have one of the well-known members of the Apple III community today, and co-host of the Apple III podcast "Drop III Inches" as well as a cohost of the RetroComputing Roundtable Podcast, Mr. Paul Hagstrom, assist me with this month's topic. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Little Darling Designs - (http://www.littledarlingdesigns.com) arcade joystick from Benj Edwards - https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1025119835179634689 Mega ST-1 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATARI-MEGA-ST-1-WITH-GOTEK-EMULATOR-VINTAGE-RETRO-COMPUTER-FULLY-WORKING/283035614842 voltage up/down transformer - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MPR3XQ ST trackball - atarifreakz on ebay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-520-1040-ST-STE-Mega-Falcon-computer-Amiga-500-600-1200-2000-Trackball/163273344945 Mega ST manual - MyAtari on eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mega-ST-Owners-Manul-New-Mint-Atari-Original/13089043845 Upcoming Shows Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Nov. 10-11, Springfield, OH TI International World's Faire - http://ctiug.sdf.org/ - Nov. 10, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - https://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ - December, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Feedback DEC Legacy - http://declegacy.org.uk 3D Monster Maze Copyright - https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2802 Peripherals III Plus IIe - http://www.6502lane.net/tag/titan/ References https://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2007-07-14/apple-iii-and-apple-iie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/archives/appleii/0002.php http://lowendmac.com/2015/apple-iii-chaos-apples-first-failure/ http://www.applelogic.org/AIIIDesignBugs.html

The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast with myself, Randy Kindig, and a whole host of vintage computers surrounding me, each one wanting their time in the limelight. This will be part 2 of the 2-part series on the Sinclair ZX80 & 81 computer line. Once again, I will have one of the grand-daddy's of vintage computer podcasting, Earl Evans, co-hosting with me as we complete the journey through one of the historically significant computers from across the pond. We will be covering the normal topics from where we left off the last show, so we'll be talking about peripherals, software, books & magazines, ads, emulators, Web sites and whatever else comes to mind. Before we do that, though, I do want to talk a bit about my new acquisitions and projects, let you know about upcoming shows so you can make your plans, and I might even have a little feedback. I want to thank Ian Bucknell for providing his thoughts and memories of the ZX81. Links Mentioned in the Show: Memories Ian Bucknell's Frankensteined ZX81 and other retro-computers - https://imgur.com/a/dD4xq New Acquisitions/Projects REX for Tandy Model 100/102 - http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REX Atari ST RGB to SCART cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-ST-High-Quality-RGB-Scart-Lead-Video-Cable-TV-AV-Lead-2mtr/250978089310 High Resolution VGA Cable for Atari ST - https://www.ebay.com/itm/142767407804 Sofia Atari 8-bit video board - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/274004-sophia-revc-dvi-board/ Upcoming Shows VCF West - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ , August 4-5, 2018 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Commodore Vegas Expo v14 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12676 , Aug. 11-12, 2018, Las Vegas, NV VCF Midwest - http://www.vcfmw.org/ - September 15-16, 2018, Elk Grove Village, IL Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ - Oregon Convention Center on October 19-21, 2018 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Nov. 10-11, Springfield, OH TI International World's Faire - http://ctiug.sdf.org/ - Nov. 10, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - https://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ - December, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Peripherals and Expansion list of ZX81 Peripherals in the Centre for Computing History collection - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi/archive.pl?type=Peripherals&platform=ZX81 Early Sinclair ZX81 peripheral adverts - http://www.retrogamescollector.com/early-sinclair-zx81-peripheral-adverts/ Cheetah 32K RAM Expansion Memopak 16K Memopak 64K Memotech 48k Ram Expansion ZX Panda 16K Expandable RAM for ZX81 Fuller FD System for ZX80/81 Mapsoft Keyboard for ZX81 Memotech ZX81 Keyboard and Buffer ZX81 Keyboard Upgrade ZX81 Push-Button Keyboard ZX81 I/O Board Sinclair ZX81 QS-Sound ZX81 QS-Mother Board ZON X-81 BASICARE Micro Systems Magazines and Newsletters Syntax ZX80 - https://archive.org/details/syntaxvol1no2 ZX Computing - http://magazinesfromthepast.wikia.com/wiki/ZX_Computing Sync - Jan/Feb '81 - https://archive.org/details/syncmagazine Sinclair Programs Sinclair User - http://magazinesfromthepast.wikia.com/wiki/Sinclair_User Timex/Sinclair User - https://archive.org/details/TimexSinclairUser ZX91 Newsletter - http://zx81.de/andre/zx91/_frame_e.htm Books Mastering machine code on your ZX81 Paperback – 1982 by Toni Baker - https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-machine-code-your-ZX81/dp/0835942619/ The ZX-81 Pocket Book by Trevor Toms - https://www.amazon.com/ZX81-pocket-book-Trevor-Toms/dp/0835995259/ 49 Explosive Games for the ZX-81 by Tim Hartnell - https://www.amazon.com/explosive-games-ZX-81-Reward-book/dp/0835920860/ Making the Most of Your ZX-81 by Tim Hartnell - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Most-Your-Zx-81-Hartnell/dp/0835941884/ Timex Ts1000 Computer/Sinclair Zx-81 Computer (Sams Computerfacts) Paperback – November, 1986 - https://www.amazon.com/Timex-Ts1000-Computer-Sinclair-Computerfacts/dp/0672089696/ Ins and Outs of the Timex T.S.1000/Z. X. 81 Paperback – April, 1983 by Don Thomasson (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Ins-Outs-Timex-T-S-1000-Z/dp/0861611187/ Fifty 1K/2K Games for the Zx 81 and Timex Sinclair 1000 by Alastair; Walsh, James and Holmes, Paul Gourlay (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Games-Timex-Sinclair-1000/dp/0835919781/ Understanding Your Z. X. 81 ROM Paperback – December, 1981 by Ian Logan - https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Your-Z-X-ROM/dp/0861611039/ Aerospace and Communication Satellite Applications of the Z. X. 81/Spectrum Computers: Programs for Cruise Missile Trajectory Simulation and Communication Satellites Orbital Position, with GraphicsPaperback – Import, November 1, 1983 by H.S. Bluston (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Aerospace-Communication-Satellite-Applications-Computers/dp/0907350089/ Turing Criterion: Machine Intelligent Programs for the 16K Z. X. 81 Paperback – November, 1982 by Dilwyn Jones (Author), etc. (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Turing-Criterion-

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Interview with John Grant - Developer of the OS & BASIC for the Sinclair ZX80 In the last show Earl Evans and I covered part I of the Sinclair ZX80/81 line of home computers; its history and tech specs. Before delving into part II, we're going to have a topic-relevant interview this month. I was able to, with the help of Kevin Palser, track down and interview Mr. John Grant, a man whose name we mentioned several times last month when going through the Sinclair ZX80 history. You see, John is literally the gentleman who wrote the operating system and BASIC for the ZX80. He still owns Nine Tiles today and still has the rights to that OS. I think you'll enjoy this discussion with a true vintage computer pioneer. Nine Tiles - http://www.ninetiles.com/ John Grant at LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngrantninetiles/ John's current work - https://uk5g.org/discover/read-articles/packet-routing-for-the-other-two-corners/

The Sinclair ZX-80 Hello and welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast for May, 2018, where we remind everyone of the days when everyone knew how to program a computer, not just use it for social media. My name is Randy Kindig and I host this podcast. We are coming near the end of the computers to be covered on this podcast that were introduced at the beginning of the 8-bit era, when things really started to take off, that being the year 1980. This month, we will be talking about a limited, inexpensive, but definitely historically significant line of computers known as the Sinclair Z80, ZX81, and Timex Sinclair 1000 and 1500. I was very happy to get an old friend, and vintage computer podcasting legend, Earl Evans to help me host this episode. Earl does a great job of researching and discussing vintage computers and his help was great. In addition, I was able to get some members of the Sinclair ZX80/81 community to provide memories and to help provide information, as well as assisting with going through the topic of emulation. As a result, there turned out to be so much information to present that it turned into 2 episodes. So, this month we will cover the history of the ZX80 computer line and tech specs and next month we will cover the remaining topics such as peripherals, software, emulation, magazine & newsletters, Web sites and more. I'm also working on a special interview with someone key to the development of the ZX80 that I'm hoping will come to fruition. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions and What I've Been Up To VCF Southeast 6 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ Streaming video and audio on an Atari 8-bit (from Nir Dary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9RllBv1pg Michael Tomczyk interview on Floppy Days - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-70-michael-tomczyk-vic-20 Sofia RGB board for Atari 8-bit - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/258702-new-development-gtia-in-cpld/page-1 F18A (TI-99) - http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-8-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0 Upcoming Shows Pacific Commodore Expo NW - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex - June 9-10, Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ , July 17-22, 2018, Kansas City, Missouri VCF West - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ , August 4-5, 2018 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Commodore Vegas Expo v14 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12676 , Aug. 11-12, 2018, Las Vegas, NV VCF Midwest - http://www.vcfmw.org/ - September 15-16, 2018, Elk Grove Village, IL Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ - Oregon Convention Center on October 19-21, 2018 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Nov. 10-11, Springfield, OH TI International World's Faire - http://ctiug.sdf.org/ - Nov. 10, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - https://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ - December, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Feedback Memotech MTX sites from Claus Baekkel www.mtxworld.dk http://www.nyangau.org/memotech/memotech.htm http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/mtx/mtx512.htm http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/cpm/cpm.htm Interview with Earl Evans Pi1541 - https://cbm-pi1541.firebaseapp.com/ History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

This is a special promo episode of Floppy Days for the upcoming VCF East XIII show, May 18-20, 2018. I speak with VC Federation Executive Director Evan Koblentz about the show. Please attend if you can! VCF East Web Site Connor Krukosky Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

The Intellivision Keyboard Component Hello everyone and welcome to Floppy Days #83 for April, 2018. My name is Randy Kindig and I host this little retrospective on vintage computers. I'm stepping outside the normal timeline for this particular episode in order to cover a vintage gaming console and an upgrade that could be purchased for it that turned it into a home computer. The gaming console is the Intellivision and the upgrade was called the Intellivision Keyboard Component. This system falls roughly into our current timeline, which sits currently at 1980, in that the Intellivision Master Componenet was released in 1979 and the Keyboard Component while work was started on it in 1978 it was never officially released except for about 4,000 units before it was officially canceled in 1982. Paul Nurminen, aka Nurmix, of the Intellivisionaries Podcast, came to me some time ago and suggested that we collaborate on a podcast about this system as he thought it might be interesting to Intellivisionaries and Floppy Days listeners alike. I agreed with him and we set about to pull together information and guests about this gaming/computing machine, code-named the Blue Whale, or whimsically occasionally called the Intelliputer. To that end, Paul was able to contact two gentlemen with intimate knowledge of the keyboard component. The first is Dave Rolfe, who was involved in the development of the keyboard component. The second is Frank Palazzolo, who is working on emulating the keyboard component. Paul will be co-hosting this show with me and we have a lot of information to pass on to you that I hope you find interesting. I'll first go over a few new acquisitions and upcoming shows and then we'll jump right into the interview with David, followed by Frank. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Introduction to BASIC Programming, Steven L. Mandell, 1979 - https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-BASIC-Programming-Steven-Mandell/dp/0314680829/ BASIC: A Guide to Structured Programming, Instructor's Manual by Dwyer, Crutchfield, Shore, and Kaufman, 1985 - https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Structured-Programming-Thomas-Dwyer/dp/0395356539 F18A (TI-99) - http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-8-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0 Sofia RGB board for Atari 8-bit - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/258702-new-development-gtia-in-cpld/page-1 CoCo3 RGB to SCART cable - https://boysontech.com/ SCART to HDMI converter box - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Scart-HDMI-to-HDMI-adapter-720-1080P-HD-Video-Converter-Box-for-HDTV-DVD-STB-BH-/183032163582?var=&hash=item2a9d912cfe Upcoming Shows CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ , April 21-22, HERON POINT CONVENTION CENTER, Lombard, IL VCF Southeast - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ , April 21 & 22, 2018, this year at the new location for the Computer Museum of America Roswell, GA TI Fest West - https://www.facebook.com/events/1857301137678595/ - Saturday, April 28 at 10 AM - 5:30 PM PDT, 901 C St, Vancouver, WA Vintage Computer Festival East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ , When: May 18-20, 2018, Where: InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ , July 17-22, 2018, Kansas City, Missouri VCF West - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ , August 4-5, 2018 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Commodore Vegas Expo v14 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12676 , Aug. 11-12, 2018, Las Vegas, NV Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Nov. 10-11, Springfield, OH Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ - Oregon Convention Center on October 19-21, 2018 other shows that will definitely occur but not yet announced: VCF Midwest - Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ , September TI International World's Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/ - November World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/ , December - Toronto Interview with Frank Palazzolo Frank Palazzolo - Keyboard Component - Knarfian on AtariAge, [email protected] https://youtu.be/y7QjvgwThFA - Frank on emulating vintage computers http://www.avoidspikes.com/dsplib/intv/index.html - Frank's Web site Ads Keyboard Component ads - http://www.intvfunhouse.com/gte/cat/ Community Mailing Lists Intellivision programming mailing list - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/intvprog/info Forums AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/forum/125-intellivision-aquarius/ Current Web Sites Keyboard Component information at intellivisionlives.com - http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/hardware/keyboard_tech.html KC at Intellivision Wiki - http://wiki.intellivision.us/index.php?title=Keyboard_Component Papa Intellivision - http://papaintellivision.com Joe z's website - http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/images/kbd/ Mattel Electronics Intellivision Master Component System and Keyboard Component commercial - https://youtu.be/UdveJuwHuGM Intellivis

The Acorn Atom and the Fifth Year of Floppy Days 1980 was a very prolific year for the development of personal computers around the globe and we continue to cover machines made in that year. This month's topic is a machine that was never made available in the United States. It was popular in parts of Europe and particularly in the Netherlands. The machine: The Acorn Atom. This is the first non-US machine I've covered and I have plans to cover other machines that were made outside of North America. I want to start out by thanking Walter Miraglia and Andy Collins for providing their thoughts and memories of the Acorn Atom. I have zero personal experience with the Atom, never having seen one or even heard of it prior to doing some recent research on non-US personal computers and deciding to cover it. So, it was great to have a couple of people who do have some experience with the machine volunteer to share their memories. To help me cover this machine, I found one of the foremost Atom experts on the forums, Mr. Roland Leurs, out of the Netherlands. He was kind enough to agree to provide his insight and expertise for this show. As you will hear, he knows this computer very well and really helps us understand its nuances. I think you will enjoy the knowledge he shares with us. As usual, I'll also talk about new acquisitions and what I've been up to, a bit of news, and a modicum of feedback before we get into the main topic. Before moving into new acquisitions, I wanted to stop for a moment and reflect on the 5th year anniverary of the show this month. It's really hard to believe that it's been 5 years and 82 shows since I first pulled out a microphone and took my first halting steps into podcasting. It's been a fun ride. The thing that I enjoy the most of anything about doing the podcast is the feedback, comments, emails, and more that I get. Every time someone says hi at a vintage computer show and tells me that they listen to the podcast, it gives me a thrill. When I see an episode get downloaded over 3,000 times, it amazes me. The friends that I've gained as a result of this hobby have been incredible. Every person who has come onto the show to help me cover a computer, talk with me for an interview, or provide thoughts and memories has become part of my circle of friends. I consider this a collaborative show. This is not Randy Kindig talking for an hour about a computer. Just about every show has had involvement from others in the community. I want you all to know how much all of those things are appreciated. I can definitively tell you I don't have any plans to end the podcast any time soon. If it ever quits being fun, then maybe, but you're stuck with me for a while yet. thank you everyone. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Juiced.GS - https://juiced.gs/ Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time by Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton - https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Game-Consoles-Commodore-Platforms/dp/0415856000 Indy Vintage Computer Club - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1082702455167563/ News C64 mini - http://www.techguide.com.au/news/now-can-relive-retro-computing-memories-mini-commodore-64/# Upcoming Shows CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ , April 21-22, HERON POINT CONVENTION CENTER, Lombard, IL VCF Southeast - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ , April 21 & 22, 2018, this year at the new location for the Computer Museum of America Roswell, GA Vintage Computer Festival East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ , When: May 18-20, 2018, Where: InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ , July 17-22, 2018, Kansas City, Missouri VCF West - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ , August 4-5, 2018 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Commodore Vegas Expo v14 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12676 , Aug. 11-12, 2018, Las Vegas, NV Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Oct. 13-14, Springfield, OH Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ - Oregon Convention Center on October 19-21, 2018 other shows that will definitely occur but not yet announced: VCF Midwest - Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ , September TI International World's Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/ - November World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/ , December - Toronto Feedback Ken Partridge - pictures from Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA (Facebook and Instagram) - search #floppydayschm Popular Magazines/Newsletters Acorn Programs Magazine - https://archive.org/details/acorn-programs Acorn User - https://archive.org/details/acornuser Books list of books at stardot - http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6791 Acorn Atom Technical Manual by Roger Wilson (??) - Publisher: Acorn Computers - PDF Scan - Hoglet's 2013

David Needle, technology reporter David Needle is a technology reporter and editor based in Silicon Valley. He has worked for a variety of publications including: Computer World InfoWorld Personal Computing Information Week Computer Currents He has interviewed many technology giants of the early computer days, such as: Steve Jobs Bill Gates Dan Bricklin Jack Tramiel Nolan Bushnell Steve Leininger This interview occurred on November 3, 2016 Links: Dave interviews Steve Leininger - https://books.google.com/books?id=yS4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=steve+leininger+tandy&source=bl&ots=SOhJ_VmIPk&sig=rkv-wpHfieMH5rlOfSsNTu5kSaI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw1MGU6pDQAhWB6YMKHVgYCAMQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=steve%20leininger%20tandy&f=false

Tandy Pocket Computers, Part 2 Welcome to episode 80 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for December, 2017! This episode is part 2 of the coverage of the TRS-80 pocket computer line. In the timeline we're still in the year 1980, with the first of the pocket computer line, the PC-1, having been released in that year. Again, the TRS-80 icon known as Ian Mavric will be walking through various aspects of that computer line with me. We will be covering newsletters, magazines, emulation, Web sites, modern upgrades and much more. Web site: http://floppydays.com email: [email protected] Twitter: @floppydays Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays on iTunes and Stitcher (www.stitcher.com) part of the Throwback Network (www.throwbacknetwork.net ) Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5bhao6ixoxkzq52qlku5mfb43q?t=FloppyDays_Vintage_Computing_Podcast Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions CoCoSDC - http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/ REX - http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REX NADSBox - http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=NADSBox Model 100 Disk/Video Interface - https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/89_Tandy_DiskVideo_Interfac.php Paleotronic Retro-Technology Magazine Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paleotronic/paleotronic-retro-technology-magazine-microm8-3d-e/description News Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution by David and Theresa Welsh - http://www.microcomputerpioneers.com/prime/order.html Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest/ When: Saturday February 10th and Sunday February 11th, 2018 Where: Living Computers: Museum+Labs, 2245 First Avenue South, Seattle, WA CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ , April 21 & 22, 2018, Heron Point Convention Center, 645 West North Avenue, Lombard, IL Vintage Computer Festival East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ When: May 18-20, 2018 Where: InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ , July 17-22, 2018, Kansas City, Missouri other shows that will definitely occur but not yet announced: VCF Southeast - Roswell, GA - April VCF Midwest - Elk Grove Village, IL - September Tandy Assembly - OH - October TI International World's Faire - Chicago - Oct/Nov World of Commodore - Toronto - Dec Atari Party - keep eye open Magazines/Newsletters Pocket Computer Newsletter - http://www.pc-1500.info/ Status1500 - http://www.pc-1500.info/ TRS-80 Microcomputer News - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/MicroNews/MicroNews.html Compunotes - ads in Interface Age Magazine (could not find any links to these) Books 62-2086 TRS-80 Pocket Computer Programs, by Jim Cole ($1.95), published by Radio Shack - https://archive.org/details/119practicalprog00john 62-2312 Problem Solving on the TRS-80 Pocket Computer, by Don Inman and Jim Conlan, published by Radio Shack ($9.95) - https://www.amazon.com/Problem-solving-TRS-80-Pocket-Computer-Self-teaching/dp/0471092703 119 Practical Programs for the TRS-80 Pocket Computer, TAB Books, by John Clark Craig - https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Programmes-TRS-80-Pocket-Computer/dp/0830613501 26-3620 Getting Started on the PC-2, by HC Pennington, Gary Camp, Ralph Burris, published by Radio Shack ($12.95) - https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Sharp-Radio-Shack/dp/0936200111 Ads Isaac Asimov ad for PC-1 - http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/t80ppc/ad82a.jpg PC-2 ad - http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/t80ppc/h/pc2cat83.jpg PC-2/PC-3/PC-4 combined ad - https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/2468545035_68bb455023_b.jpg Emulation Pock'Emul Multi pocket computers emulator Forever1500 Sharp pockets emulator project in HTML5/JavaScript PC-1500A emulator MESS - http://www.mess.org/ Modern Upgrades http://www.tramsoft.ch/sharp_erweiterungen/index_en.html Toolkit: Four program-packages to extend the operating system DISCONTINUED E-Box: Allows to connect up to four devices to a PC-1500/A or CE-150 Parallel/Floppy-Interface: Allows to connect a printer and a floppy drive DISCONTINUED A/D Converter Standard Version: Eight channel 12-bit analog to digital converter for mobile data acquisition Memory module: Increase the memory (RAM) to 32K Community Community Mailing Lists [email protected] Forums AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/forum/174-tandy-computers/ Web Sites http://www.pc1500.com/ Tandy! Pocket! Mania! @ Floodgap Retrobits - http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tpm/ - Cameron Kaiser Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Pocket_Computer All and more about the Sharp PC-1500 and PC-1600 - http://www.pc-1500.info/ http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-models-pocket.htm http://pocket.free.fr/html/tandy/tandy_e.html http://radioshackcatalogs.com

Tandy Pocket Computers, Part 1 Web site: http://floppydays.com email: [email protected] Twitter: @floppydays Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays on iTunes and Stitcher (www.stitcher.com) part of the Throwback Network (www.throwbacknetwork.net ) Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5bhao6ixoxkzq52qlku5mfb43q?t=FloppyDays_Vintage_Computing_Podcast Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Amiga RGB to SCART cable - http://amigakit.amiga.store/catalog/ SCART to HDMI converter - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Scart-HDMI-to-HDMI-720P-1080P-HD-Video-Converter-Monitor-Box-For-HDTV-DVD-STB-BK/322819178099

Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Links: Stewart Cheifet Productions - http://cheifet.com/ Email - [email protected] Twitter - www.twitter.com/cheifet Facebook - www.facebook.com/cheifet Watch episodes of COMPUTER CHRONICLES - http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles Watch episodes of NET CAFE - http://www.archive.org/details/netcafe Stewart's interview on Triangulation with Leo Laporte - https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/114

The Commodore Vic-20, Part II Web site: http://floppydays.com email: [email protected] Twitter: @floppydays Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays on iTunes and Stitcher (www.stitcher.com) part of the Throwback Network (www.throwbacknetwork.net ) Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5bhao6ixoxkzq52qlku5mfb43q?t=FloppyDays_Vintage_Computing_Podcast Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Vic-20 Final Expansion - http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65219&sid=967941d7fa89090f137792181226c3b3 Vic-20 Cartzilla! - http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/Cartzilla.html Amiga mouse - new mint from MyAtari (B&C ComputerVisions, Atari Sales & Service) - http://myatari.com/ Amiga power supply - Ray Carlsen - http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/ Amiga emulator - Amiga Forever 7 - https://www.amigaforever.com/ News VCF Midwest 12 - http://vcfmw.org/ Evan Wright - http://mrwrightteacher.net/index.php Evan Wright's Cross Platform Text Adventure Generator - https://github.com/evancwright/Lantern Upcoming Shows Tandy Assembly - October 7-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ 35th Chicago TI International World's Faire - October 14, Evanston, IL Public Library, 9-4 - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World of Commodore - December 9-10, 2017 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - http://www.tpug.ca/world-of-commodore-2017/about/ Feedback Museum of Computing History's Retrofest - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43210/Retro-Computer-Festival-2017-16th-17th-September-2017/ Classic Game Fest - http://classicgamefest.com/ Magazines Commodore Free - http://www.commodorefree.com/ Books "Commodore, A Company on the Edge" by Brian Bagnall - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0973864966/?tag=flodaypod-20 "The home computer wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel" by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0942386752/?tag=flodaypod-20 "The First Home Computer: 30 Years Later" by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.academia.edu/2242039/The_First_Home_Computer_30_Years_Later Commodore VIC 20: A Visual History by Giacomo Vernoni (Kickstarter) Software (R) VIC-20 Cartridge Rarity & Gameplay listing by Ward Shrake and Paul LeBrasse - http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/funet/cbm/vic20/Cartlist.html (R) VIC-20 Cartridge Software Reviews a.k.a. Cartzilla! - http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/funet/cbm/vic20/Cartzilla.html User Groups and Shows World of Commodore - World of Commodore - December 9 & 10 - Toronto - http://www.tpug.ca/ CommVex - Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Pacific Commodore Expo at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle on June 10-11 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1171192169619276/ Modern Upgrades VIC-VODER (Raspberry Pi) Jim Brain's memory card - UltiMem VIC-20 Memory Expansion Cartridge - http://store.go4retro.com/ultimem-vic-20-memory-expansion-cartridge/ Vic-20 Mega-Cart - https://www.commodoreserver.com/CommodorePhotoDetails.asp?PID=55CD0F98F23E440782584E4E6C807A82 Behr-Bonz cart - http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56288 Final Expansion cart - http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65219&sid=967941d7fa89090f137792181226c3b3 Penultimate Cart - https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/index.php/penultimatecart Vic-20 Midi cartridge (Jim Brain) - http://store.go4retro.com/vic-20-midi-cartridge/ Commodore VIC-20 Expansion Port Cart Breadboard Breakout for Development - http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Commodore-VIC-20-Expansion-Port-Cart-Breadboard-Breakout-for-Development/332147938040 Commodore VIC-20 VIC20 cartridge development board-Atmel/Microchip/Arduino - http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Commodore-VIC-20-VIC20-cartridge-development-board-Atmel-Microchip-Arduino/332146114579 Commodore User Port Breadboard Breakout for C64 VIC-20 Development - http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Commodore-User-Port-Breadboard-Breakout-for-C64-VIC-20-Development-/332147938038 Joystick Breadboard Breakout for C64 VIC20 Atari 2600 VCS Development - http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Joystick-Breadboard-Breakout-for-C64-VIC20-Atari-2600-VCS-Development-/332147938039 Connectivity to Modern Computers Chris Osborne Raspberry Pi 1541 Emulator - http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/208/C64PiVideo Chris Osborne Teensy XUM1541 - http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/201/turning-a-teensy-into-a-floppy-controller UNO2IEC - https://github.com/Larswad/uno2iec/wiki/About-Uno2IEC,-the-Arduino-1541-emulator-Wiki-and-HowTo C64HDD - https://www.64hdd.com/index_en.html X1541 - http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html Emulation VICE - http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/ - VICE is now considered by many to be the best VIC 20 emulator available. Windows, OSX, DOS Javascript Vic-20 by Matt Dawson - https://www.mdawson.net/vic20chrome/vic20.php MESS (Multi-Emulator Super System)/MAME - http://www.mess.org/ Power20 - Mac - shareware - http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power20/ind

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Interview with Ian Mavric, TRS-80 Recycler This is an interview-only episode of Floppy Days. I was able to catch up with someone well-known in the TRS-80 community, Mr. Ian Mavric, or Mav for short. Mav bills himself as a TRS-80 recycler who also sells a lot of upgrades for the TRS-80 line of computers, including the FreHD, hi-res boards, the Quinnterface and others. He's also a member of the TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast and writes for the TRS8BIT newsletter. Mav is very active in the TRS-80 community and I was very happy to be able to sit down with him and talk about everything in which he's involved. Links: Mav's web site - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/ To order FreHD parts - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator To order FreHD Clearly Superior sets - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/clearlysuperior/ TRS-80 Model 4 Hi-Res boards - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/hires/hires.htm Fred Vecoven, Inventor of FreHD - http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html Mav can be found on the following internet Tech Forums: VCFEDs TRS-80 Forum - http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?46-Tandy-Radio-Shack Yahoo TRS-80 Group - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TRS-80/info Yahoo TRS-80 Club Group - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/trs80club/info Usenet comp.sys.tandy - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sys.tandy Mav writes a quarterly column in TRS8Bit Newsletter - http://trs-80.org.uk/index.html Sites which may interest TRS-80 Purists: SYDTRUG - Sydney TRS-80 User's Group - http://sydtrug.org/ Pascal Holdry's TRS-80 en France - http://prof-80.fr/ Ira Goldlkang's TRS-80.Com - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/ TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast - http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/

Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 5.0 Post-show Hi, everyone and welcome to episode #75 of the Floppy Days Podcast. I'm your host, Randy Kindig. It's July, 2017, and I have a special episode for you where I cover the VCFSE 5.0 show that took place April 29-30 this year in Roswell, Georgia. When I say I "cover" the show, what I really mean is that I give you a limited perspective of the show from my eyes, as an exhibitor at the event. I will be talking about the exhibit I was a part of, some of the people I met, and purchases or sales that I made. The largest part of this episode, however, are the interviews that I was able to get at the show. They were interesting and fun for me. I hope you enjoy it, and if you were not able to make it to VCFSE this year, please consider attending next year. It's well worth the effort to get there. Links Mentioned in the Show: VCFSE 5 presentation videos - https://vimeo.com/user50868990 The Guru Meditation - http://www.thegurumeditation.org/ Video of meeting Bill & Anthony of the The Guru Meditation for the first time at VCFSE 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=KKxc4Irm5mw&index=3&list=PLhK8ZGIwZnnNFbpeNWUGghFx8C2VQLqET Bob Payne's store on eBay with NOS TRS-80 items - http://stores.ebay.com/intenseenergy/ Video by Nir Dary of Multi-Dash game using Multi-Link hardware - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhA40kM3O4o "Don't Mess with Texas" TI-99 Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSUhE03XFw Bill Lange's Atari light pen article - http://atari8bitads.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-light-pen-is-here-and-now-its-gone.html 00:00 Theme Song 01:23 Ads 01:52 Intro 03:11 Exhibit Discussion 08:47 Tandy Assembly Ad 09:35 My Acquisitions, items sold, or give-aways 16:57 Thomas Liebert Interview 28:45 Jon Guidry Interview 49:44 Amiga Bill & Anthony Interview 1:41:54 Conclusion 1:44:52 Out-takes

Interview with Giacomo Vernoni, author Commodore Vic 20: A Visual History Hello and welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast. I'm Randy Kindig, your host. This is a special interview-only episode. I was able to track down Giacomo Vernoni(Jockamo VERnoni), a computer historian who recently published a book called "Commodore Vic 20: A Visual History". As I've been covering the Vic-20 on recent shows, it thought it was very timely and that it would be great to interview someone who is very familiar with the machine and liked it well enough to publish a book about it. It was awesome to catch up with Giacomo and talk with him for a little while. This interview took place on April 1st, 2017. Links: Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/958354463/commodore-vic-20-a-visual-history-hardback-book Giacomo's site - www.oldcomputr.com Giacomo's older Italian site - http://vecchicomputer.com

The Commodore Vic-20, Part I Hello, everyone, and welcome to Episode 73 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where modern computers are simply considered peripherals to the classic computers. My name is Randy Kindig. In the computer timeline, we're still squarely in the year 1980. In that year, a breakthrough computer, with a great keyboard, color graphics and sound was announced for under $300. Of course, if you've been listening to the last few episodes of the podcast, you know that we're talking about the Commodore Vic-20. William Shatner said it best in the TV ads of the time: "The wonder computer of the 1980's: The Commodore Vic-20". So far on Floppy Days, we've covered the history of the machine from the perspective of three different gentlemen: Brian Bagnall, historian; Neil Harris, member of the Vic Commando Team; and Michael Tomczyk, leader of that same Vic Commando Team and assistant to Jack Tramiel. In this episode, friends and fellow podcasters Jeff Salzman and Todd George, help me go through tech specs, peripherals, books, magazines, emulators, Web sites, and more for this groundbreaking machine. As there was a lot of material to cover, rather than making an extra-long episode, I'm breaking this topic up into 2 different shows. So, I hope you enjoy part 1 of this episode about the Vic-20. Before we do that, I want to thank Brent Santin and Peter Cetinski for sharing their memories of the Vic-20. Later in the episode Brent has some additional memories that he shares with us as well. Web site: http://floppydays.com email: [email protected] Twitter: @floppydays Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays on iTunes and Stitcher (www.stitcher.com) part of the Throwback Network (www.throwbacknetwork.net ) Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5bhao6ixoxkzq52qlku5mfb43q?t=FloppyDays_Vintage_Computing_Podcast Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions ZX Spectrum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum TRS-80 Quick Printer II - http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-quick-printer/ TRS-80 Assembler/Editor - https://books.google.com/books?id=VjAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34 News ZX Spectrum BASIC Jam - https://itch.io/jam/zx-spectrum-basic-jam Upcoming Shows Pacific Commodore Expo at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle on June 10-11 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1171192169619276/ KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Vintage Computer Festival West - August 5-6, 2017, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCFMW - September 9-10, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/805945506224113/ Tandy Assembly - October 6-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ Chicago TI International World's Faire - October 15, Evanston, IL - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World of Commodore - first weekend in December - Toronto - http://www.tpug.ca/ Indy-area Vintage Computer Get-together - https://www.facebook.com/events/418655208501577/ Feedback Mauricio Vives photos from VCF Southeast on Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/gp/mvives/N02Q99 Computer Chronicles episode with the correct pronunciation of Tramiel - https://youtu.be/AMD2nF7meDI?t=262 NY Times article on correct pronunciation of Tramiel - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/technology/jack-tramiel-a-pioneer-in-computers-dies-at-83.html ASVARO Electronics Flea Market - http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/ Peripherals http://sleepingelephant.com/denial/wiki/index.php?title=Peripherals

Interview with Neil Harris, Member of the Vic Commando Team Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast, where classic computers will always have a home. My name is Randy Kindig. This is the final of four consecutive episodes where I talked to gentlemen who were either involved with the development of the historically significant Commodore Vic-20, or who have written books on its history. In this episode Neil Harris is my guest. Neil was a key member of the Vic Commando Team within Commodore, the team that was responsible for the introduction of the Vic-20 and helping it to become the first home computer to sell 1 million units. Neil also later worked for Atari, when the Tramiels left Commodore and purchased Atari from Warner. Neil helps me walk through the history of the Vic through the eyes of someone on the front line. I think you'll find this interesting. Before we get to that, I have a few housekeeping items to cover and then we'll get into the meat of the podcast. Web site: http://floppydays.com email: [email protected] Twitter: @floppydays Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays on iTunes and Stitcher (www.stitcher.com) part of the Throwback Network (www.throwbacknetwork.net ) Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5bhao6ixoxkzq52qlku5mfb43q?t=FloppyDays_Vintage_Computing_Podcast Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions VTech PreComputer 1000 - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/324 News Upcoming Shows VCF Southeast 5.0 - April 29 & 30, 2017, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ TI Fest West - Saturday April 29th from 9 am to 5 pm, Oak Tree Restaurant in Woodland, Washington - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260465-fest-west-2017/ Pacific Commodore Expo at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle on June 10-11 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1171192169619276/ KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Vintage Computer Festival West - August 5-6, 2017, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCFMW - September 9-10, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/805945506224113/ Tandy Assembly - October 7-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ Chicago TI International World's Faire - October 15, Evanston, IL - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World of Commodore - first weekend in December - Toronto - http://www.tpug.ca/ Feedback Bally Alley Astrocast Podcast (Adam Trionfo and others) - http://www.ballyalleyastrocast.libsyn.com/ Interview Neil Harris interview for the Antic Podcast - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-188-neil-harris-commodore-atari-genie

Interview with Brian Bagnall, Author "Commodore, A Company on the Edge" Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast, where old computers survive to tell another tale. My name is Randy Kindig. In the previous couple of episodes, I covered the history of the Vic-20 computer with the help of Neil Harris, Brian Bagnall, and Michael Tomczyk. Although I used some audio clips from each of those gentlemen to walk through the history timeline, I actually have a full-blown interview with each that I want to share with you over the span of three episodes. I've already published the interview with Michael Tomczyk, leader of the Vic Commando Team and assistant to Jack Tramiel. Next up, I am publishing the interview with Brian Bagnall, author of the book "Commodore, A Company on the Edge" and who is working on the follow-up book "Commodore: The Amiga Years". Before we get to that, I will very briefly cover upcoming shows and a bit of feedback, but then we will get right into the interview with Brian Bagnall. Web site: http://floppydays.com email: [email protected] Twitter: @floppydays Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays on iTunes and Stitcher (www.stitcher.com) part of the Throwback Network (www.throwbacknetwork.net ) Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5bhao6ixoxkzq52qlku5mfb43q?t=FloppyDays_Vintage_Computing_Podcast Links Mentioned in the Show: News Over 150 Commodore VIC-20 Cartridges In Under 1½ Hours by Kieren Hawkin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej5CS4Wv9UE Upcoming Shows VCF East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/, March 31-April 2, 2017, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ CoCoFest - April 22 & 23, 2017 - Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml VCF Southeast 5.0 - April 29 & 30, 2017, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ TI Fest West - Saturday April 29th from 9 am to 5 pm, Oak Tree Restaurant in Woodland, Washington - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260465-fest-west-2017/ Pacific Commodore Expo at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle on June 10-11 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1171192169619276/ KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Vintage Computer Festival West - August 5-6, 2017, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCFMW - September 9-10, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/805945506224113/ Tandy Assembly - October 6-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ Chicago TI International World's Faire - October 15, Evanston, IL - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World of Commodore - first weekend in December - Toronto - http://www.tpug.ca/ Feedback Atari XEGS Cart by Cart Podcast - http://xegs8bit.com/ Interview "Commodore, A Company on the Edge" by Brian Bagnall - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0973864966/?tag=flodaypod-20

Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Vic-20 Commando Team Leader at Commodore Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcasts, where old computers are the best computers and new old computers are even better. Last month, I covered the history of the Vic-20 computer with the help of Neil Harris, Brian Bagnall, and Michael Tomczyk. Although I used some audio clips from each of those gentlemen to walk through the history timeline, I actually have a full-blown interview with each that I want to share with you over the span of three episodes. For this episode, I will be publishing the interview with Michael Tomczyk. Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team. He was happy to talk about his time at Commodore and turned out to be a very interesting interview and a great guy with which to talk. Before we get to that, I do have a few housekeeping items to cover, such as a few new acquisitions, some brief news, and a bit of feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Ultimate 1MB - http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67 "Atari DOS 2.5:1050 Disk Drive Owner's Manual" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_DOS "Art of Atari" book by Tim Lapetino - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1524101036/?tag=flodaypod-20 News BASIC 10-liners contest - http://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/basic-10liners-2017 RetroChallenge 2017/04 - http://retrochallenge.tuxdriver.com/ Upcoming Shows VCF East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/, March 31-April 2, 2017, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ CoCoFest - April 22 & 23, 2017 - Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml VCF Southeast 5.0 - April 29 & 30, 2017, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ TI Fest West - Saturday April 29th from 9 am to 5 pm, Oak Tree Restaurant in Woodland, Washington - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260465-fest-west-2017/ Pacific Commodore Expo at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle on June 10-11 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1171192169619276/ KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Vintage Computer Festival West - August 5-6, 2017, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCFMW - September 9-10, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/805945506224113/ Tandy Assembly - October 6-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ Chicago TI International World's Faire - October 15, Evanston, IL - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World of Commodore - first weekend in December - Toronto - http://www.tpug.ca/ References "The home computer wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel" by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0942386752/?tag=flodaypod-20 "The First Home Computer: 30 Years Later" by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.academia.edu/2242039/The_First_Home_Computer_30_Years_Later

The Commodore Vic-20 - History, with Brian Bagnall, Michael Tomczyk, and Neil Harris Welcome to episode 69 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where our computers may be old, but that's why we love them. In the vintage computer timeline, we are in 1980. The next computer I want to discuss that debuted that year is the Commodore Vic-20. The Vic-20 is significant because it was the first color computer to sell for less than $300, at a time when other home computers with color graphics were 2 to 4 times that amount. It also was the first home computer of any type to sell over 1 million units. In this first episode about the Vic-20, I want to cover the history of this machine: why it was developed, some of the stories around its development, what happened after its release, and when it was canceled. To that end, I contacted some notable persons that were involved with the roll-out and support of the Vic-20, as well as a person who was involved in documenting Commodore's history. The first person I contacted was Michael Tomczyk, who was an assistant to Jack Tramiel at Commodore and who led the so-called "Vic Commando Team". Michael was intimately involved in the marketing and support of the Vic. In addition, a key member of his team, Neil Harris, agreed to help with this episode as well. And, finally, I talked with Brian Bagnall, who you might recognize as the author of "Commodore: A Company on the Edge". This is an amazing line up of people who are very familiar with the Vic-20 and its history and I'm very lucky to have been able to get their assistance with telling its story. Before we jump into that, I will cover a few new vintage computer items I've acquired, cover a bit of news, and cover a bit of feedback I've received. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions NADSBox - http://www.club100.org/catalog.html "Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro (Platform Studies)" Hardcover by Alison Gazzard - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262034034/?tag=flodaypod-20 Compute's Gazette - https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette "33 challenging computer games for TRS-80/Apple/PET Paperback" by David Chance - https://www.amazon.com/challenging-computer-games-TRS-80-Apple/dp/0830612750 "Atari Playground" by Fred D'Ignazio - https://www.amazon.com/Atari-playground-Fred-DIgnazio/dp/0810457709 Fred D'Ignazio Interview on ANTIC - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-53-fred-dignazio-prolific-writer Juiced.GS - https://juiced.gs/ News Vintage Computer Party in Indy - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260834-indianapolis-area-vintage-computer-club/?hl=%2Bindy#entry3668612 Vintage is the New Old - http://www.vintageisthenewold.com Upcoming Shows VCF East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/, March 31-April 2, 2017, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ CoCoFest - April 22 & 23, 2017 - Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml VCF Southeast 5.0 - April 29 & 30, 2017, Roswell, GA - http://vcfse.org/ KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex VCFMW - September Tandy Assembly - October 6-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ Chicago TI International World's Faire - November World of Commodore - first weekend in December - Toronto Feedback Andy Collins' blog about the Interak-1 - http://www.randomorbit.co.uk/?cat=122 References "Commodore, A Company on the Edge" by Brian Bagnall - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0973864966/?tag=flodaypod-20 "The home computer wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel" by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0942386752/?tag=flodaypod-20 "The First Home Computer: 30 Years Later" by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.academia.edu/2242039/The_First_Home_Computer_30_Years_Later

Interview with Bill Kemper, HP Employee and HP Series 80 Software Engineer Hello, again, and welcome to episode 68 of the Floppy Days Podcast. This will be a fairly short, interview-only show. As a final piece of the recent series of podcasts on the HP Series 80 family of machines, I was able to sit down and talk with Mr. William Kemper. Bill worked directly on software for the HP Series 80 and later was the manager of software engineering for the line until it was canceled. He then continued on for some time with HP until the merger with Compaq around 2002. In the interview, we discuss Everett Kaser, who worked for Bill, and who was one of my co-hosts for the HP Series 80 podcasts. Links Mentioned in the Show: HP Series 80 Forum at groups.io - https://groups.io/g/hpseries80

The HP Series 80 (HP83/85/86/87) This episode is the third and final in a series about the Hewlett Packard HP-85 computer, or more accurately, the entire line of similar computers known as the HP Series 80. Once again, I have the tremendously knowledgeable duo of Everett Kaser and Vassilis Prevelakis helping me impart information to you about that venerable line of historically significant desktop computers. In this episode, we will primarily be covering tech specs, peripherals, expansion, magazines and newletters, books, emulation, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, buying one today, community and Web sites. Wow, now that I list this out, it's obvious we have a lot to cover. In addition, I will briefly talk about my new vintage computer acquisitions, feedback and perhaps a little news. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Vic-20 Behr-Bonz Cart - http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7513 TI-59 Gummy Wheel Repair Kit - http://www.ebay.com/itm/TEXAS-INSTRUMENTS-TI-59-CALCULATOR-CARD-READER-GUMMY-WHEEL-REPAIR-KIT-/262695021491 TI Calculator Keyboard - https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-Keyboard-Graphing-Calculators/dp/B00007K7JE Atari Macro Assembler - http://mixinc.net/atari/amac.htm TI-99 Multi-Plan, Porting from Excel - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/245707-porting-from-ms-excel-spreadsheets-to-ms-multiplan-on-the-ti99/ new C64 podcast - Reset magazine - https://soundcloud.com/reset-magazine/reset-podcast-e01-the-hewson-episode Upcoming Shows VCF East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/, March 31-April 2, 2017, InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, 12 E. Ogden Ave., downtown Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 Tandy Assembly - Chillicothe, Ohio, The event will tentatively be held on the weekend of 6-8 October 2017 Tech Specs Audio of William Tell Overture from Vassilis Prevelakis recorded as his HP-85B was playing the piece - HP85-WilliamTell.mp3 Speech-Synthesis card - article in Professional Computing - V1N1 page 45 "Series 80 Talks Back" by Loren Koehler - https://groups.io/g/hpseries80/files/Professional%20Computing%20Magazine/Professional%20Computing%20V1N1-1984.pdf Popular Magazines/Newsletters HP's Basic Exchange Newsletter - available from Museum of HP Calculators document archive or at HP Computer Museum - http://www.hpmuseum.org/software/swcdp.htm#be Professional Computing - for Hewlett Packard Personal Computer Users, 1984-1985 - https://groups.io/g/hpseries80/files/Professional%20Computing%20Magazine News 80s - until late '84 migrating readers to Professional Computing - http://www.biblewitness.org/technical/HP_Series-80/ Books/Manuals HP 85 Owner's Manual and Programming Guide - http://www.series80.org/PDFs/HP85-MainBW.pdf The Introduction to the HP-86B - http://www.series80.org/PDFs/HP86B-Intro.pdf The Introduction to the HP-87 - http://www.series80.org/PDFs/Intro87.pdf Software The Forth ROM was recovered with the help of Everett Kaser and Don Person, but was written by Larry Woestman. The following ZIP file contains source code as well as image files for the HP-85 and HP-87: HP-85 / HP-87 Forth ROM: HP_Series_80_Forth.zip André Koppel wrote some utilities for the HP-87 called SYSEXT, which he transferred to a ROM. This can be downloaded together with a manual in German from http://www.akso.de/index.php?id=hp_series_80&L=1 Modern Upgrades expansion - PRM-85 (Bill Kotaska (USA), with support from John Shadbolt (UK)) e-mail if interested HP85 recreation with an FPGA - FPGA HP85B SD or CF card interface - HP85DISK - HP-85 Disk Emulator using AVR and MicroSD card for classic HP series 80 computers - https://github.com/magore/hp85disk by Mike Gore Connectivity to Modern Computers Transferring diskette images from an HP-86/7 to a PC via a serial connection - based on an article by Pete Goffinet published in the PPC Computer Journal (V3N1, January/February 1984) - http://www.series80.org/Articles/uploading-disk-images.html transfer data from an HP85 computer with 5.25" double floppy drive to DOS or UNIX - http://www.series80.org/Articles/xfer-to-dos.txt Emulation Series 80 Emulator by Everett Kaser - http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html Series 80 Emulator by Oliver De Smet - https://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/hpseries80 go87 - Free HP 87 emulator for android - https://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/home/go87 Community https://groups.io/g/hpseries80 http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/ Current Web Sites http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html http://www.series80.org/index.html Museum of HP Calculators - Dave Hicks - http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp85.htm - lots of manuals for the Series 80 HP Computer Museum - http://hpmuseum.net/ Jon Johnston, founder and curator lost his life in April 2016 HP Memory Project - http://www.hpmemo