Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast

Welcome to Episode 66 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where we try to relive our youth by talking about computers nearly as old as we are. Vintage Computer Festival Midwest #11 recently happened on Sep. 10 and 11, 2016 in Elk Grove Village, IL and I managed to find my way there again this year. Once again, I had an incredible time at the event and thought I'd share some of it with you. I managed to get a few interviews, meet several people I had never met before, catch up with old friends, and come home with far more items than I left with. So, I plan to give you a quick run-down of the event through my eyes and I hope you find this interesting. Links Mentioned in the Show: my presentation, you can find it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTiEZl30Fg Edladdin controllers - http://www.edladdin.com Podcast on the Exidy Sorcerer - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-17-the-exidy-sorcerer-live-from-vcfse-20 Peter Bartlett - http://bartlettlabs.com/ Evan Wright - http://mrwrightteacher.net/ Transkey II - http://ataribits.weebly.com/transkey-ii.html John Strong - http://strongware.net/ Jim Brain - http://store.go4retro.com/ Chicago TI-99/4A User Group - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=HomePage Cosmac Elf - http://www.cosmacelf.com/news/win-an-elf-at-vcfmw.html 00:00 Theme Song 01:20 Ads 01:49 Intro 02:34 CoCo Crew Ad 03:21 Presentations Discussion 05:53 My Presentation (audio) 27:56 My Exhibit 31:21 Intro to Peter Bartlett Interview 32:00 Peter Bartlett Interview 34:54 Intro to Evan Wright Interview 35:35 Evan Wright Interview 44:41 Intro to Simon Wells Interview 45:18 Simon Wells Interview 59:26 My Purchases 1:07:36 What I didn't buy, TI-99 UStream, and Cosmac Elf Exhibit 1:11:19 Conclusion

Welcome to Episode 65 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where a summer computer camp for middle-aged geeks is the highlight of our year. My name is Randy Kindig. This is a very special edition of Floppy Days produced and contributed by my good friend Mike Whalen and it includes sound bites from many of the attendees of this year's annual week-long KansasFest Apple II event that always happens in Kansas City, Missouri. Mike is a long-time Apple II and retro-computer fan and one of the hosts of the currently-dormant Electric Dreams BBS Podcast. I met Mike at the one-and-only KansasFest event that I've been able to attend thus far, that being in 2014. I would certainly recommend the event to anyone that enjoys getting together with a large number of vintage computer nuts for an entire week, living the college dorm life, and generally immersing themselves in the out-of-date-but-still-loads-of-fun Apple II computer. It's one of things that you must experience at least once, although for most people it tends to be like Lay's Potato Chips: no one can stop at just one. I'm amazed at the effort and quality Mike put into this podcast. I want to thank him and the Apple II KFest community for allowing me to air this ode to KFest on Floppy Days. Enjoy! KansasFest Website - http://kansasfest.org KansasFest talks on Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/kansasfest KansasFest HackFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/hackfest/ KansasFest Door Contest from 2015 - http://www.kansasfest.org/2016/07/door-signs-2015/ YouTube playlist of Dr. Steven Weyrich's KFest-related Parody Songs - http://bit.ly/2dkQfvc Twitter Accounts for some of the folks involved: @a2fan -- Sean Fahey @the_jongleur -- Michael Mulhern @quinndunki -- Quinn Dunki @callapple -- Call A.P.P.L.E. @retroconnector -- Charles Mangin @kevinsavetz -- Kevin Savetz @CT6502 -- Chris Torrence @textfiles -- Jason Scott @65816guy -- Dagen Brock @ultramagnus_tcv -- Mike Whalen Call-A.P.P.L.E. - http://www.callapple.org Call-A.P.P.L.E.'s "Nibble Viewpoints - Business Insights From The Computing Revolution" by Mike Harvey Reactive Micro - http://reactivemicro.com/wiki/Main_Page 8-Bit Weapon - http://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/ Bits With Byte - http://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/bits-with-byte BlipTastic by ComputeHer - http://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/bliptastic Charles Mangin's RetroConnector - http://retroconnector.com/ Quinn Dunki's Blog - http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/ Nibble Magazine - http://www.nibblemagazine.com/ Mike has provided links in the show notes for Web sites that can help you find out more about the attendees you heard in this episode and about KFest itself ; just go to floppydays.com for the full list. If you wish to contact Mike about this episode, you can find some contact information for him in the show notes. I very much encourage you to provide feedback for the show at iTunes or on the Web site, via email at [email protected], via Twitter at @floppydays or on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays . I also want to mention that Floppy Days is also a member of the Throwback Network, a network of retro-themed podcasts. Check it out at http://www.throwbacknetwork.net. For one more way to listen, Floppy Days is also available for streaming at stitcher.com. Until the next show, pull out a vintage computer and compute as if it were yesterday. Bye!

The HP-85B Microcomputer, Part 2 Hello, and welcome to episode 64 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where old computers come to live. I'm Randy Kindig and I'm happy to bring you this episode this month. This episode is Part 2 about the HP Series 80 line of microcomputers. Last month I interviewed 2 well-known members of the HP Series 80 community, Everett Kaser former HP engineer who worked on the Series 80 and runs kaser.com and Vassilis Prevelakis of series80.org. This month, they are back to help me talk about the history of these fabulous machines. It's a fascinating conversation with two gentlemen who have a lot of love of and knowledge about these machines. I want to thank Everett for providing the intro to this episode with his memories of the Series 80. Before getting into the meat of the program, I do intend to talk briefly about any new vintage computer acquisitions, upcoming shows and feedback. Ok, let's fire up the ol' HP-85 and see what we can learn. Links Mentioned in the Show: Co-hosts Everett Kaser Website - http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html Vassilis Prevelakis Website - http://series80.org New Acquisitions Compute's Atari Collection Volume 2 Edladdin Joystick - http://www.edladdin.com/ Book - Microcomputer Experimentation with the Intel SDK-85 by Lance Leventhal and Colin Walsh - https://www.amazon.com/Microcomputer-Experimentation-Intel-Sdk-85-Leventhal/dp/013580860X Shows VCFMW - September 10-11, 2016, Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/independent-festivals/vintage-computer-festival-midwest/ Chicago International Faire - Saturday, October 15th, Evanston Public Library - Contact Faire Chairman Hal Shanafield for more info. VCFe-CH - Vintage Computer Festival Europe, Zurich, Switzerland, November 19-20, 2016 - http://vcfe.ch Feedback Andy Collins blog - http://www.randomorbit.co.uk/?p=50 List of TRS-80 Clones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TRS-80_clones Modern kit computers: Breil Computers, the australian MicroBee (http://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/) http://rc2014.co.uk/ (Via Tindie) https://hackaday.io/project/9077-trs-80-model-1-on-a-pic32 https://hackaday.io/project/5565-trs-80-compatible-clone https://hackaday.io/project/75-z80-microcomputer-system

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 11, Sep 10-11, 2016, Elk Grove Village, IL This a special interview show to help get the word out about an upcoming event: Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. This will be the eleventh iteration of this event and I talk with Jason Timmons, one of the main organizers of the event. He tells us all about the event, including guest speakers that will be there, exhibits, vendors and much more. If you can make it to the Chicago area the weekend of September 10 & 11, 2016, I highly recommend that you drop in and enjoy the show. Links VCF Midwest home page - http://vcfmw.org VCF Midwest 11 Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/events/1552273738417440/ VCF Midwest Twitter - https://twitter.com/vcfmidwest ECCC home page - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/ Jim Brain, Retro Innovations - http://store.go4retro.com/ GoFundMe page for show donations - https://www.gofundme.com/vcfmw

Welcome to episode 62 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where a little smoke once in a while is a hazard of the hobby. In the vintage computer timeline, we are still in the 1979 to 1980 timeframe. This month we are covering the HP-85 desktop computer, or actually the entire series of which the HP-85 was a part known as the HP Series 80. I struck gold when I found the two gentlemen who are co-hosting this episode with me. First is Everett Kaser, who worked for HP for 20 years and was intimately involved in the development and support of the HP-85. Secondly, we have Vassilis Prevelakis, who runs one of the best resources about the HP Series 80 in existence today, hpseries80.org. Once we started talking, and I interviewed the two gentlemen, I realized we were going to need a multi-part show to cover the large amount of information and history around this significant platform. So, the first show will be the interview with Everett and Vassilis and next month we will get into history, tech specs, emulation, Web sites, and all of the other information I like to cover. Before we get into that, however, I will cover new acquistions, a little news, and some feedback I've received. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To American Computer Museum, Bozeman, MT - http://www.compustory.com/ Micropendium (TI99 Magazine) Site - http://www.99er.net/micropendium.html HP41 PPC ROM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-3SI5jRHv8 HP Calculator Poster at VCALC.NET - http://vcalc.net/#posters Museum of HP Calculators - Museum Document Sets on Flash Drive - http://www.hpmuseum.org/cd/cddesc.htm News VCF West - August 6-7, 2016, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCFMW - September 10-11, 2016, Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/independent-festivals/vintage-computer-festival-midwest/ Chicago International Faire - Saturday, October 15th, Evanston Public Library - Contact Faire Chairman Hal Shanafield for more info. VCFe-CH - Vintage Computer Festival Europe, Zurich, Switzerland, November 19-20, 2016 - http://vcfe.ch Feedback List of modules for the HP-41 - http://www.hp41.org/LibView.cfm?Command=View&ItemID=1232 Interview Everett Kaser Website - http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html Vassilis Prevelakis Website - http://series80.org

VCF West Official Site - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/

Welcome to episode 60 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where vintage in the term vintage computers simply means "cool". My name is Randy Kindig. I am happy to bring you this month the follow-up or second of two episodes on the HP41C programmable calculator. Once again, I have two stellar members of the HP41 community, Richard J. Nelson and Gene Wright, with me to bring you all the information you care to know about the HP41. That includes a wrap-up to the history of the machine, tech specs, books, software, newsletters, modern upgrades, emulation, current Web sites, and so much more. Before that, I do want to discuss a few new acquisitions that have come my way, as well as some feedback I've received from listeners. Links Mentioned in the Show: Books "Easy Course in Programming The HP-4"1 by Ted Wadman and Chris Coffin, illustrated by Robert Bloch - http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Course-Programming-HP-41/dp/0931011094 "Programming the TI-59 and HP-41 Calculators" by Paul Garrison - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ti-59-Hp-41-Calculators-Garrison/dp/0830624422 "Extend Your HP-41" by W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz - http://www.amazon.com/Extend-Your-Hp-41-W-Mier-Jedrejowicz/dp/0951073303 A Guide to HP Handheld Calculators and Computers by W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz Modern Upgrades The new HP 41CL webpage: http://www.systemyde.com/hp41/ Clone Calculators - http://www.swissmicros.com/ HHP-16K EPROM Emulator - http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/category/component-projects/hp-41-ppc/ Emulation emulation site - http://www.hp41.org/Emulation.cfm V41 (Windows) by Warren Furlow - https://www.educalc.net/326089.page SIM41W (Windows) by Alvaro Gerardo Suárez VB41CX .NET (Windows) by Ron van Tilburg i41CX and i41CX+ (iOS) by Antonio Lagana on Apple App Store Calc41C (iOS) by Jonathan Watmough on Apple App Store X-41 (Mac OS X) by Frederic Bronner - https://sourceforge.net/projects/x-41/ GENESIS-41 (Mac OS X) by Laurent Spohr - http://www.laurent-spohr.com/Main/HP-41CX_Emulator.html my41cx (Mac OS X) by Miroslav Perovic - http://www.my41cx.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/1-my41cx-microcode-emulator Android 41CV by Martin Hansen go41c (Android) by Olivier De Smet Web Sites HHC (HP Handheld Computer) Conference - http://hhuc.us/ TI-58/59 Failures and Maintenance Tips Web site (Gene Wright) - http://www.rskey.org/gene/calcgene/59diag.htm "The HP-41 System – 30 Years Old" by Richard J Nelson - http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/The%20HP-41%20System%20V3.pdf Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-41C HP41.org - http://www.hp41.org/Intro.cfm by Warren Furlow HP site by Matthias Wehrli - http://www.hp-collection.org/ a lot of information about accessories for the HP-41 HP-41 Scientific Calculator Fan Club on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/hp41fanclub/ HPCC.org - http://www.hpcc.org/calculators/hp41.html HP Calculator Repairs - http://www.fixthatcalc.com/index1.php Rick Furr's vcalc.net Calculator Reference - http://www.vcalc.net - has purchaseable "Calculators of HP" poster for $25 with shipping in the U.S. Retrobits Podcast on the HP-41C by Earl Evans - http://retrobits.libsyn.com/show-070-the-hp-41c-programmable-calculator Jake Schwartz' PAHHC Handheld Electronics - http://www.pahhc.org/ - has HP calculator calendars for sale, PPC DVD Jean-Marc Baillard's HP-41C programs - http://hp41programs.yolasite.com Programmable calculators (Victor Toth) - http://www.rskey.org/CMS/ The Museum of HP Calculators (Dave Hicks) - http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp41.htm Museum Document Sets - http://www.hpmuseum.org/cd/cddesc.htm

Hello, all, and welcome to the next installment of the podcast that says "vintage electronics: I WANT IT". I'm Randy Kindig and I'm your host. This episode is the first of a 2-parter on the Hewlett Packard HP-41 line of programmable calculators. The HP-41 is a seminal example of programmable calculators from the late 70's and into the 80's and is still very desirable and sought after today. I was lucky enough to find 2 gentlemen to co-host who are well-known among the active HP calculator community that exists today: Richard J. Nelson, who has written, edited, and published as much HP-41 material as anyone ever. And Gene Wright who is on the HP Handheld Conference Committee and he was a TI fan before becoming "hooked" on the HP-41. In this first part on the HP-41, I interview the co-hosts and then we cover the history of the calculator line in detail. Next month, with the same co-hosts, we will cover Web sites, emulation, software, and much more. To start out, as usual, I will cover my new vintage computer acquisitions, a little news, and some feedback. I hope you enjoy this and please let me know what you think. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Kim UNO - http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence SpartaDOS X Supercart - https://www.bitsofthepast.com/?product=super-spartados-cartridge News New TI Newsletter - Yesterdays News by Ralph Rees - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251850-yesterdays-news/?hl=%2Byesterdays+%2Bnews#entry3507067 https://storybundle.com/tech - "Nerd History Bundle" A Microsoft Life by Stephen Toulouse - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0557735297/?tag=flodaypod-20 Gates by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671880748/?tag=flodaypod-20 Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071358927/?tag=flodaypod-20 Terrible Nerd by Kevin Savetz - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1939169003/?tag=flodaypod-20 Irregularity by Jared Shurin - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0992817218/?tag=flodaypod-20 The Google Way by Bernard Girard - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1593271840/?tag=flodaypod-20 Priming the Pump by David Welsh and Theresa Welsh - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979346800/?tag=flodaypod-20 Book site for Priming the Pump - http://www.microcomputerpioneers.com/ Upcoming Shows Last Chicago CocoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL KansasFest - July 19-24, 2016 - https://www.kansasfest.org Atari Party - Saturday, July 30, at 12 PM - 5 PM in PDT, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 E 14th St, Davis, California 95616 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1069851796370777/ VCF west - Aug 6-7 - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/uncategorized/vcf-west-is-back/ VCF midwest — Sep 10-11, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-midwest/ PRGE Oct 21-23 http://www.retrogamingexpo.com TI International World's Faire - Sat. Oct. 15 at Evanston Public Library Feedback a two-minute pitch video for The Secret History of Gaming on the Mac being written by Richard Moss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tL2kC3QqeU The Secret History of Gaming on the Mac Web site - https://unbound.co.uk/books/macgaming Interview and History Gene's TI-58/59 Failures and Maintenance Tips Web site - http://www.rskey.org/gene/calcgene/59diag.htm Contains probably the most information about the HP 41 series out there: http://hp41.org/ The HP 41CL replacement CPU board web page: http://www.systemyde.com/hp41/ Keith Jarett, "HP 41 in Orbit," Personal Computing (October/November 1984), pp. 50-54. - http://web.archive.org/web/20000621003759/http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/dsh/artifacts/GC-hewlett-.htm HHC (HP Handheld Computer) Conference - http://hhuc.us/ References "The HP-41 System – 30 Years Old" by Richard J Nelson - http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/The%20HP-41%20System%20V3.pdf Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-41C

Ralph Rees, Editor, VAST TI-99 Newsletter Hi, everyone and welcome to episode 58 of the Floppy Days Podcast. I’m Randy Kindig. To sort of finish off the TI-99 series of episodes I’ve been running, I have an interview-only show for you this month. This interview is with Ralph Rees, president and newsletter editor of the VAlley of the Sun TI-99ers (VAST) back in the 1990’s. He produced his high quality newsletter directly on a TI-99 system and received quite a few compliments about it while it was still being published. Ralph still has an extensive TI-99 collection today. This interview was conducted on June 7, 2015. Links: The Western Horizon Technologies FTP server - ftp://ftp.whtech.com

Welcome to this special episode of Floppy Days, live from Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 4.0! A group of podcasters at the show got together and did this fun little podcast. Learn more about the show and about your favorite podcasters.

Welcome to episode 56 of the Floppy Days Podcast where old computers come to life again. I’m Randy Kindig. I want to thank Ian Baronofsky and Rick Reynolds for providing their thoughts and memories of the TI-99 computer. This is the fifth and final installment in a series of episodes on the TI-99/4A home computer. This episode will cover TI-99 ads, user groups and shows, emulation, buying one today, community, and Web sites. My very special co-hosts for this episode are again two well-known figures in the TI-99 community: Chris Schneider, who produces the SHIFT838 newsletter and Rich Polivka, who manages the popular 99er.net Web site. They provide a ton of information about the amazing TI-994/A home computer. I hope you enjoy this. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Juiced.GS Apple II Newsletter - https://juiced.gs/ Commodore 64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by Danny Davis - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0861611454/?tag=flodaypod-20 The ZX81 Pocket Book by Trevor Toms - http://www.amazon.com/dp/095073022X/?tag=flodaypod-20 Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners (Usborne Computers & Electronics) - Lisa Watts, Mike Wharton - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0860207358/?tag=flodaypod-20 News Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm Floppy Days Logo Contest Poll - https://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays/permalink/1699121653679601/?qa_ref=qd TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast with Peter Cetinski - http://www.trs80trashtalk.com Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer Podcast with David Greelish - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_Veit.html VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-3 TI Fest West 2016 - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/248617-pnw-ti-994a-fest-west-2016-april-30th/ - April 30, Centralia WA KansasFest, 28th edition - https://www.kansasfest.org/ - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24 Atari Party = http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/ - Saturday, July 30th, 2016, 12 p.m -5 p.m., Yolo County Public Library, Davis, CA Vintage Computer Festival West - August 6-7 at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCF MIDWEST 11 September 10-11, 2016, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - 11th annual Expo at the Oregon Convention Center on October 21-23, 2016 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ Feedback Retrocomputer Museum - http://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/ Web browser project on the TI written by Stuart Conner - http://www.avjd51.dsl.pipex.com/ti/ti.htm#internet_web_browser TI game that allows people to play chess against each other on the web by Corey Anderson - http://myti99.com Ads “TI’s Home Computer. This is the one!” Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU4HTefxmc Another Bill Cosby video ad - $100 rebate (1983) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1nB71Ndmvs Another video ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trNcXw6nRU0 User Groups and Shows Chicago TI-99/4A Users Group - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire Rich attended the 18th faire in 2000 - http://www.99er.net/chicago/chicago.html TI99ers On-Line User Group - http://www.ti99ers.org/news.php TI-99 Club in Vienna, Austria still has regular meetings - http://ti99blog.webs.com/ TI User Group (UK) - In operation for 27 years - http://www.ti99ug.co.uk/index.php TI-99 Italian User Club - http://www.ti99iuc.it/ Emulation Classic99 by Harmless Lion - www.harmlesslion.com/software/classic99 MESS (Multiple Emulator Super System) - http://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php/MESS Using MESS along with TIIMAGETOOL - http://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php/TIImageTool Win994a - TI99/4A Simulator for Windows by Cory Burr - http://www.99er.net/win994a.shtml ‘ASM994A’ program - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229206-using-asm994a/ TI-99 For Windows (TI99W) by Fred Kaal - http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ JS99er - http://www.js99er.net V9T9 Emulator - http://eswartz.github.io/emul/ TIGAMEROOM - http://www.ti99iuc.it/web/go?94RUNC PC99 from CaDD electronics - http://www.cadd99.com Community TI 99er’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2209774843/ 99er.net Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Ti-994a-Home-Computer-Page-196432643721232/timeline/ Yahoo Online Groups - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ti99-4a/info , https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TI994A/info AtariAge - http://ti99.atariage.com/ Google+ -

Hello, welcome to Floppy Days Podcast #55. This a special interview show to help get the word out about an upcoming event: Vintage Computer Festival Southeast version 4. My special guest is Earl Baugh of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society. He tells us all about the event, including special guest speakers that will be there, exhibits, gaming areas, a workshop where you can learn to solder and much more. If you can make it to Roswell, Georgia, the weekend of April 2 & 3, 2016, I highly recommend that you drop in and enjoy the show. Links VCF East 4.0 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/302393381/help-fund-the-vintage-computer-festival-southeast-1

Hello and welcome to a special episode (#54) of the Floppy Days Podcast. For this episode, I am announcing involvement in a new podcast that I’m very excited about. Peter Cetinski, a well-known figure in the TRS-80 community as a result of some great software that he’s written for the platform, contacted me and others about doing a podcast about the TRS-80 line. This is a major line of historically significant computers and has sorely needed its own podcast. I wanted to help kick off the new podcast and promote it, so I invited all the members of the podcast to come onto Floppy Days and talk about it. Please enjoy. Links Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/trs80trashtalk/ Web Site - http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/ Pete Cetinski’s TRS-80 Software Page - http://pski.net/category/retro/ Peter Bartlett’s Web Site - http://bartlettlabs.com/ Ian Mavric’s Web Site - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/

This is a special interview-only episode. I’m very happy to announce that my special guest for this show is Don French, co-designer of the TRS-80 Model I computer and long-time Tandy employee. Don has a long and storied history with Tandy. The TRS-80 Model I, the machine that saved Tandy and spawned a long line of historically significant computers, was his brainchild. He worked closely with Steve Leininger to develop the Model I. In addition, you’ll hear that he worked with Bill Gates, Paul Allen and many other giants of the microcomputer industry. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed talking with Don. Links “Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution” by Welsh, Theresa; Welsh, David (2011-02-23). The Seeker Books. - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004P8JNIS/?tag=flodaypod-20 Q&A With Don French at Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/interviews/

Welcome to episode 52 of the Floppy Days Podcast where we talk about our beloved old computers like some guys talk about their old cars. I’m Randy Kindig. I want to thank Michael Glaser for providing his thoughts and memories of the TI-99 computer. No, this hasn’t suddenly turned into a TI-99 podcast. However, this IS the fourth in a series of what now will be 5 episodes on the TI-99/4A home computer. There just turned out to be so much material on this very interesting machine and so much interest in the community, that this turned out to be quite an extended series. Having already covered history and technical topics on previous episodes, I had originally intended this episode to cover everything from software and magazines to Web sites, but by the time my co-hosts and I had gotten through the material it turned out to be over 2 hours of audio and I decided to break it into 2 parts. This episode will cover TI-99 software, books, magazines, ads and user groups while the next one will cover emulation and Web sites. My very special co-hosts for this episode are two more luminaries in the TI-99 community: Chris Schneider, who produces the SHIFT838 newsletter and Rich Polivka, who manages the popular 99er.net Web site. They provide a very interesting perspective on the TI-99 and I think you will enjoy this show. One final thought. It was 3 years ago this month, on Sunday, Feb. 17, that I posted the very first episode of Floppy Days. It’s incredible to think that here we are 51 episodes later, still going strong. I was new to the podcasting game at that time, unsure how well the show would be received or if anyone would care, but determined to do this because it seemed like a tremendous amount of fun to learn about all the old computers from the 70’s and 80’s. I’ve been blown away by the interest and support from the community and have made an awful lot of friends along the way. I honestly and deeply want to thank everyone who helped me produce this show, provided an interview, or simply provided words of encouragement. Who would have thought that there would be 1,000 or so geeks like me out there who would care enough about old computers to listen to me ramble on month after month. All I can say, is thank you so much, and please keep listening because I have a lot of ideas for interesting shows for some time to come. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions “The Atari Book Volume 2” - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BKS5SHU/?tag=flodaypod-20 “Kids and the Commodore 64” by Edward H. Carlson - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0942386779/?tag=flodaypod-20 News Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm Floppy Days Logo Contest Poll - https://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays/permalink/1699121653679601/?qa_ref=qd VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-3 TI Fest West 2016 - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/248617-pnw-ti-994a-fest-west-2016-april-30th/ - April 30, Centralia WA KansasFest, 28th edition - https://www.kansasfest.org/ - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24 Vintage Computer Festival West - August 6-7 at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCF MIDWEST 11 September 10-11, 2016, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - 11th annual Expo at the Oregon Convention Center on October 21-23, 2016 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ Feedback F18A Video Upgrade by Matthew Hagerty - http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-7-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0 ArcadeShopper.com by Gregory McGill - http://www.arcadeshopper.com/ Interview With Co-Hosts SHIFT838 newsletter by Chris Schneider - http://shift838.wix.com/shift838 Rich Polivka’s 99er.net - [email protected] Magazine/Newsletters Repository of newsletters, magazines, books, software - ftp://ftp.whtech.com Books Bill Gaskill’s “Cartridge Collection Kit” - http://www.99er.net/cartkitreview.html Software Turbo Forth for the TI-99/4A by Mark Wills - http://turboforth.net Extended BASIC 2.7 Suite Cartridge by Tony Knerr - http://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Extended-Basic-2-7-Suite/p/44354005/category=15846004

The TI-99/4A - Tech Specs, Peripherals, Modern Upgrades with Tursi This show is a continuation of the on-going series about the TI-99/4A computer. In the last couple of episodes, I had TI-99 fans Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills on the show and interviewed them about their experiences with the TI-99 and then we covered the history of the machine. In this show, I have a new co-host, Mike Brent, better known as Tursi or Harmless Lion, the creator of the Classic 99 emulator and so much more. After a short interview with Tursi, we discuss the technical aspects of the TI-99, including the tech specs, peripherals, modern upgrades, and connectivity to modern computers. It’s an information-filled show, so I hope you enjoy it. Before we get into that, I’ll discuss a few new vintage computer-related acquisitions that have come my way, give you the scoop on upcoming shows, and share with you a few pieces of feedback I’ve received about the show from listeners. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Bill Degnan’s VintageComputer.net - http://www.vintagecomputer.net Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm New Acquisitions “The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)” - Jimmy Maher, The MIT Press - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262017202/?tag=flodaypod-20 Tiny Pascal for the TRS-80 Model I - https://archive.org/details/Tiny_Pascal_1982_Tandy News Amigospodcast - http://www.amigospodcast.com/ TRS-Box - Dropbox client for MISE/M3SE equipped TRS-80 - http://pski.net/trs-box/ Upcoming Shows VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-3 VCF Midwest 11 September 10-11, 2016, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ Feedback TI-99 Beginner’s Video by Roland - https://youtu.be/I-S-BmJCV_c Roland’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/VectrexRoli/ Interview with Co-host Tursi’s Web Site - http://www.harmlesslion.com Classic 99 Emulator by Tursi - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=Classic99 PS/2 Keyboard Adapter for the TI-99 by Tursi - http://atariage.com/forums/blog/567/entry-11851-a-ps2-keyboard-on-a-ti-994a/ UberGROM Simulator by Tursi - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=uber Modern Upgrades/Connectivity F18A Video Upgrade by Matthew Hagerty - http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-7-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0 Extended BASIC 2.7 Suite Cartridge by Tony Knerr - http://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Extended-Basic-2-7-Suite/p/44354005/category=15846004 Turbo Forth for the TI-99/4A by Mark Wills - http://turboforth.net FBForth by Lee Stewart - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/210660-fbforthti-forth-with-file-based-block-io-post-1-updated-12082015/ NanoPEB and CF7+ - http://webpages.charter.net/nanopeb/ HDX update for the RS232 card by Fred Kaal - http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ Reference Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

The TI-99/4A - History, with Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills This is the second in a multi-part series on the TI-99/4A computer. For this history segment, I was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills. Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of all things TI and possesses some very interesting hardware items related to the TI-99. Mark is the author of TurboForth for the TI-99/4A and has been involved in the TI-99/4A scene pretty much since 1983. He’s also English, living in the UK, so he has a rather British take on the home computer wars. I will cover TI-99 history with the help of these two gentlemen. I think you will find this very interesting! Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Bill Degnan’s VintageComputer.net - http://www.vintagecomputer.net Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm New Acquisitions Tricky Tutorial #5 (Player/Missile Graphics for the Atari - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tricky-tutorial-no--5-player-missile-graphics_28271.html Tricky Tutorial #6 (Sound and Music) for the Atari - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tricky-tutorial-no--6-sound-and-music_28278.html Tricky Tutorial #11 (Memory Map) for the Atari - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tricky-tutorial-no-11-memory-map-tutorial_28283.html Atari Logo - http://www.atarimagazines.com/v2n6/logo.html Atari 130XE Package from Ron Luks - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208571288938997&set=gm.1662349070709066&type=3&theater REX for M100 - http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REX Club 100 - Club for the TRS-80 Model 100 - http://www.club100.org/ TRS-80 Model 100 Mailing List Subscription Page - http://lists.bitchin100.com/listinfo.cgi/m100-bitchin100.com HP-85B Owner’s Guide and Programming Manual - http://www.greendyk.nl/hp85/ News Stan Veit Audiobook Podcast, published by David Greelish - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_Veit.html RetroChallenge 2016/01 - http://www.retrochallenge.org/ The M3SE Project by Peter Bartlett - http://bartlettlabs.com/M3SE/ Vintage is the New Old - http://vintageisthenewold.com VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL Feedback Quantum Link - https://www.tinytickle.co.uk/quantum-link/ History Bill Gaskill’s TI-99 Timeline - http://www.ti99ers.org/timeline/timeline.htm Ron Albright’s “Orphan Chronicles” - https://archive.org/details/tibook_the-orphan-chronicles Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

The TI-99/4A - History, Interview with Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills In the home computer timeline, I’m currently covering computers released in the era from 1979 to 1980. Next up is the TI-99/4A. When I went to research the TI-99 I found an incredible amount of information about the machine and an involved, vibrant community surrounding it. As a result, I pulled in as many experts as I could find to be involved in providing information about this very interesting machine. I got so much involvement, and found so much information, that I will be covering the TI-99 for the next several shows. That will include the typical topics, such as history, tech specs, modern upgrades, emulation, Web sites and much more, as well as interviews with some TI luminaries. As I typically like to cover the history of the machine first, that will be the topic of the first couple of shows. For the history segment, I was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills. Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of all things TI and possesses some very interesting hardware items related to the TI-99, as you will hear. Mark is the author of TurboForth for the TI-99/4A and has been involved in the TI-99/4A scene pretty much since 1983. He’s also English, living in the UK, so he has a rather British take on the home computer wars. Since the interview piece I typically do with the co-hosts before covering the main topic took so long and turned out to be so interesting in it’s own right, I decided to break out the interview into its own show and the next show will then cover just the TI-99 history with the help of these two gentlemen. Links Mentioned in the Show: Mark’s Forth for the TI-99/4A - http://turboforth.net Tursi’s (Mike Brent) Website - http://harmlesslion.com Classic99 TI-99 Emulator - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=classic99 F18A video upgrade - http://codehackcreate.com SID Master 99 Card - Marc Hull - http://www.dsapsc.com/what-is-sid.html ForTI - Forth-driven sound card - http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/forti.htm ninerpedia - http://ninerpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page FTP Site at whtech.com - ftp://whtech.com/ Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire

Welcome to a special interview-only episode of the Floppy Days Podcast. For this show, we have an interview conducted by Kevin Savetz, interviewer-extraordinaire from the Antic Podcast. Kevin conducted this interview 2 years ago. Since the interviewee and topic are not Atari-related, but are very much vintage computer related, Kevin and I thought perhaps Floppy Days would be a good medium for publishing this interview. Wayne Green, Computer Magazine Publisher Wayne Green was founder of 73 magazine; Byte magazine; Kilobyte, which became Kilobaud, then Kilobaud Microcomputing; 80 Micro magazine for the TRS-80; Hot Coco for the TRS-80 Color Computer; Run for the Commodore 64, inCider magazine for the Apple II; and several other computer magazines. This interview took place over Skype on January 29, 2013, when I was doing research for a book about the very first personal computer magazines — Byte, Kilobyte, and Creative Computing. Although I've decided not to write the book, I am publishing the interviews that I did for them. Wayne Green died on September 13, 2013, eight months after we did this interview. Teaser quotes: "Sharing is the big deal for me. When I find something fun, interesting, I have to share it." "Steve Jobs ... I heard about the Apple computer so my wife and I stopped by to visit him. ... He took me out to the garage and showed it to me. He says, 'What do you think?' I said 'I think you've got a winner. There's a first computer conference is going to be in Atlantic City in two weeks. Be there.' He says 'Oh, I can't afford to fly.' I said, 'Take a bus. Be there.'" "Amelia Earhart kept her plane at my dad's airport. ... I used to play in that when I was a kid. ... I'm one of the few people who knows exactly what happened to her." Links: Obituary: http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-radio-publications-pioneer-visionary-iconoclast-wayne-green-w2nsd-sk An article remembering Wayne: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474900/windows-pcs/goodbye-wayne-green--and-thanks-for-the-memories.html Wayne Green FBI file: https://archive.org/details/Wanye_Green_FBI_FOIA_Request_Response Kilobaud Microcomputing issues: https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine

This episode is part 3 of a 3-part series on the Tandy Color Computer, also known as the CoCo. I have special guest hosts to help me again this month: John Linville and Neil Blanchard of the “CoCo Crew Podcast”. Join us as we discuss Coco magazines, books, software, modern upgrades, emulation, Web sites and much more. I also go over my new acquisitions, tell you about upcoming vintage computer shows and cover some podcast feedback. Finally, we also have audio segments from no less than 4 different CoCo fans who share with us their memories and thoughts about the Tandy Color Computer. Thank you to Michael Moore, Rick Adams, Jon Day, and Tony Cappellini for your contributions. Note that Floppy Days now has a Facebook page where you can discuss the show or vintage computers in general. Search for “Floppy Days” on Facebook. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Bill Degnan’s Historical Computers and Vintage Computer Restoration - http://www.vintagecomputer.net “History of Commodore Computers” poster by Bill Degnan - http://vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm New Acquisitions/What I’ve been Up To Floppy Days Podcast Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556099237981844/ Floppy Days Discussion Thread on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/238436-floppy-days-podcast-discussion-thread/ Upcoming Floppy Days Show Schedule - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/webpage/category/Upcoming%20Show%20Schedule Intellivision Entertainment Computer System (ECS) - http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/ecs.shtml Upcoming Shows AmiWest 2015 - http://www.amiwest.net/ Oct. 14-18, Sacramento, CA Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ Dec. 4-6, 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada VCF SE 4.0 - April 2nd and 3rd, 2016, Roswell, GA Feedback Bill Degnan’s GE television for vintage computers - http://vintagecomputer.net/ge/GE_Computer-Monitor-Television.jpg George Phillips’ Doctor Who Video done on a TRS-80 4P - http://members.shaw.ca/gp2000/drwho.html Vintage Computer Forum for the TRS-80 - http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?46-Tandy-Radio-Shack Magazines/Newsletters Chromasette - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromasette Compute! - http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/ Hot CoCo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20CoCo%20(Searchable%20image)/ Micro 80 - http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/literature_magazines_micro-80_archive.htm TRS-80 Microcomputer News - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/MicroNews/MicroNews.html 80 Micro - https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine The Color Computer News The Color Computer Magazine - https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine CoCo Nutz! Magazine - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/NUTZ/Nutz.html Rainbow Magazine - https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine Books book archive with a lot of the mentioned books - https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/docs Getting Started with Color BASIC (Tandy) Going Ahead with Extended Color BASIC (Tandy) TRS-80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming by William Barden, Jr. Color Computer Graphics by William Barden, Jr. TRS-80 Color Computer Graphics by Don Inman “Unravelled” series by Spectral Associates: Color BASIC Disk BASIC Extended BASIC Super Extended BASIC The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 by Dale L. Puckett and Peter Dibble The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 Level II by Dale L. Puckett and Peter Dibble Tandy’s Little Wonder by F.G. Swygert - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Tandy's_Little_Wonder “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 Software Dungeons of Daggorath - https://www.facebook.com/DungeonsOfDaggorathForum Castle of Tharoggad - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Castle_of_Tharoggad Downland - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Downland Cave Walker - http://www.mobygames.com/game/cave-walker Rescue on Fractalis! - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Rescue_on_Fractalus Koronis Rift - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Koronis_Rift FahrFall - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_coco_fahrfall Editor/Assembler - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/EDTASM%2B Logo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/TRS-80%20Color%20Logo%20(Tandy).pdf Super Logo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/Super%20Logo%20(Tandy).zip eForth - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/eFORTH%20(Frank%20Hogg%20Laboratory).zip Color File - https://archive.org/details/Color_File_1981_Tandy Color Scripsit - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Applications/Color%20Scripsit%20(Tandy).pdf Spectaculator - https://archive.org/details/coco2cart_Spectaculator_1983_26-3104_Ta

This episode is part 2 of a 3-part series on the Tandy Color Computer, also known as the CoCo. I have special guest hosts to help me this month: John Linville and Neil Blanchard of the “CoCo Crew Podcast”. Join us as we discuss Coco tech specs, peripherals and pulling it out of the box. I also go over my new acquisitions, a short overview of VCF Midwest 10 that occurred on August 29 & 30, tell you about upcoming vintage computer shows and cover some podcast feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 New Acquisitions Atlanta Historical Computing Society (AHCS) - http://atlhcs.org/ HP-85B - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ Peter Bartlett’s Model I System Expander (MISE) - http://bartlettlabs.com/ Ian Mavric’s FreHD Hard Drive Emulator - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator News - Upcoming Shows AmiWest 2015 - http://www.amiwest.net/ 10/14 - 10/18, 2015, Holiday Inn Express, Sacramento, CA Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ 12/4 - 12/6, 2015 VCF SE 4.0 - April 2-3, 2016 Interview CoCo Crew Podcast - http://www.cyberears.com/index.php/Show/audio/6139

Hello, welcome to a bonus interview-only edition of the Floppy Days Podcast, the podcast about the obsolete computers of the late 70’s through the 80’s, but which we love anyway. I’m Randy Kindig, the person who brings you this nostalgia on a monthly basis. I’ve had many vintage computer authors on Floppy Days in the past and I like to discuss new books when they come out, one: because books on vintage computing are rare and two: I like to help and encourage new books on my favorite hobby. My special guest today is Evan Koblentz. Evan’s here to discuss his new book, “From the abacus to smartphone: The evolution of mobile and portable computers.” Evan will tell you all about why you should run, not walk, and go get this interesting book. Enjoy! Links Evan’s Web Site - http://www.snarc.net/ Book Web Site - http://abacustosmartphone.com

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Floppy Days, the show about home computers of the late 70’s through the 80’s. The next machine up to cover on the timeline is the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer, affectionately known as the CoCo. Since there’s SOO much information to cover about this interesting machine, it will be a multi-parter, with the first episode covering the history of the CoCo. I was lucky enough to get one of the authors of THE CoCo history book, my good friend Boisy Pitre, to come on the show and co-host this with me. We’re going to cover the history of the CoCo from before its inception, through its introduction, until its eventual cancellation. Boisy provides a fantastic perspective on the life and career of this machine and I think you’ll enjoy it. Before delving into the main part of the show, I’ll cover a little bit of news, new acquisitions and feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions FreHD - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator BEST Electronics - http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ News Uthernet II Order Page - http://www.a2retrosystems.com/order.htm Uthernet II FAQ - http://www.a2retrosystems.com/support.htm#faq Video from Terry Stewart on the Amstrad CPC 464 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOuPuE194fo&feature=em-subs_digest VCF Midwest 10 - August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL Feedback WinUAE - http://www.winuae.net/ picture of Brent Santin’s Vic-20 setup - http://sleepingelephant.com/denial/wiki/images/d/d4/VIC-20_80_column_setup.jpg VIC-20 information Wiki - http://sleepingelephant.com/denial/wiki/index.php?title=DenialWIKI_Home VIC-20 Mega-Cart - http://mega-cart.com Doug Crawford’s blog for vintage activities: https://abitoutofplace.wordpress.com/ Tomy Tutor Information - http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/ The Trash Compactor - http://www.trs-80.org/norcom-tc-iii/ Interview with Co-host Boisy Pitre CoCoRx - https://github.com/boisy/CoCoRX “Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design” by Boisy Pitre - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0134044703/?tag=flodaypod-20 Twitter - @boisypitre Email - [email protected] “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 Boisy’s Blog - http://latenightcoco.blogspot.com

Hello, welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and this a special interview show to help get the word out about an upcoming event: Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. This will be the tenth iteration of this event and I talk with Jason Timmons, one of the main organizers of the event. He tells us all about the event, including guest speakers that will be there, exhibits, vendors and much more. If you can make it to Chicago, IL the weekend of August 29 & 30, 2015, I highly recommend that you drop in and enjoy the show. Links VCF Midwest home page - http://vcfmw.org VCF Midwest Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/events/820722747964784 VCF Midwest Twitter - https://twitter.com/vcfmidwest ECCC home page - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/ Jim Brain, Retro Innovations - http://store.go4retro.com/ GoFundMe page for show donations - http://www.gofundme.com/vcfmw10

The TRS-80 Model III and 4 On the personal computer timeline, we’re currently in the 1979 to 1980 time frame. I do apologize that this month’s topic, the TRS-80 Model III and 4, is being presented slightly out of order in that there were a couple of machines introduced a little prior to this that I plan to cover. However, as I already had this one recorded I decided to present it now rather than hold up publishing an episode just to maintain a precise order. As usual, I have a short preamble before we get into this month’s topic, covering new acquisitions, upcoming shows, and a little bit of feedback. I was lucky enough to get author and vintage computer collector Michael Nadeau to agree to co-host this episode with me, so this should be a fun and interesting episode. Links Mentioned in the Show: News New book from Evan Koblentz "Abacus to smartphone, The evolution of mobile and portable computers” - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1514810301/?tag=flodaypod-20, https://www.createspace.com/5596053 Retro Computing News, Stuart Williams, Editor & Publisher - http://retrocomputingnews.com VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL Interview with Co-Host - Michael Nadeau Michael’s Classic Tech Site - https://classictech.wordpress.com/ Collectible Microcomputers” by Michael Nadeau -http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764316001/?tag=flodaypod-20 Magazines/Newsletters TRS8BIT - http://trs-80.org.uk/Tandy_Page_2x.html - current magazine produced today 80-U.S. Journal - http://www.trs-80.org/80-us-journal/ TRS-80 Microcomputer News - http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-microcomputer-news/ 80 Microcomputing/80 Micro - https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine Books “Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution” by Welsh, Theresa; Welsh, David (2011-02-23). The Seeker Books - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004P8JNIS/?tag=flodaypod-20 Modern Upgrades FreHD TRS-80 Hard Drive Emulator - http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html Ian Mavric’s TRS-80 Store - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator Hi-Res Graphics Board (HRG) - Improved Grafyx HRG board - Ian Mavric (Australia) - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/hires/hires.htm Emulation TRS32 - http://www.trs-80emulators.com/ - Matthew Reed's emulators, utilities, and development tools for TRS-80 Models 1/3/4. Windows and DOS XTRS - http://www.tim-mann.org/xtrs.html - Tim Mann’s TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P Emulator for Unix SDLTRS - http://sdltrs.sourceforge.net/index.html Current Web Sites Matthew Reed’s web site - http://www.trs-80.org Terry Stewart video of Model 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjkjIN1pe_A vwestlife video of Model 4D - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycjNyud0RMc TRS-80 Model 4p movie streaming Dr. Who from floppy (gp2k00) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SkfJgMuERo TRS-80 on Wikipedia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/model-iii/

Jason Scott Presentation at VCF Southeast 3.0 in Roswell, GA, May 2, 2015. This is the Floppy Days Podcast on vintage computing and my name is Randy Kindig. This is a special episode featuring Jason Scott of archive.org fame. Many of you will be familiar with Jason Scott and the work he does in helping to preserve media and content, including content associated with our beloved vintage computers. You may or may not be as familiar with the work also being done to emulate vintage computers and vintage gaming platforms in a browser. On May 2, 2015 Jason Scott gave a presentation to the crowd at VCF Southeast entitled “Every Computer in Your Browser-The Internet Archive Emulated Software Collection.” Jason and the VCFSE organizers were kind enough to agree to allow me to rebroadcast this presentation on Floppy Days to help get the word out about all the great work being done to preserve our machines. Jason also had presentation material to go along with the talk that I am posting on the Floppy Days site for your enjoyment. Jason Scott is a Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive (archive.org), home of the Wayback Machine and 20 petabytes of saved media and content, provided for free for all. As the software curator, he is responsible for JSMESS project and integration into the Internet Archive's seemingly-endless pile of software, making it playable. He lives in Hopewell Junction, NY, mere hundreds of feet from where the CPUs of Nintendo 64s were manufactured. Jason is also a filmmaker. He is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, BBS: The Documentary, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP. Links Presentation material - http://imgur.com/gallery/cNX4E

Welcome to part 3 of the now 3 part episode covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers. This episode will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, and much more. I’m very happy to have pretty much the entire Atari 8-bit podcasting group as special guest hosts helping me cover these topics. This includes Wade from Inverse Atascii (http://inverseatascii.info/ ) , Rob of Player/Missile (http://playermissile.com/ ), Jack of RCR (http://rcrpodcast.com/ ), Kevin from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ), and Brad from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ). Enjoy!! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions “Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC” by Philip C. Seyer - http://www.amazon.com/Atari-player-missile-graphics-BASIC-Philip/dp/0835901122 “All About the Commodore 64, Volume Two” by Craig Chamberlain - http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Commodore-Craig-Chamberlain/dp/0942386450 “Inside Atari DOS” Compiled by Bill Wilkinson, OSS - http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Atari-DOS-Bill-Wilkinson/dp/0942386027 “Presenting the Atari ST, Volume I” - http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-the-Atari-St/dp/091643933X “The VisiCalc Book, Atari Edition” by Donald H. Beil - http://www.amazon.com/Visicalc-Book-Donald-H-Beil/dp/0835983943 BASIC XL for the Atari - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Basic%20XL Action! for the Atari - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ACTION News Commodore Vegas Expo - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex July 18-19, 2015, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 27th Annual KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/ July 14 –19 in Kansas City, Missouri. Amiga 30th Anniversary Event https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/890300835/amiga-30th-anniversary-in-california Saturday, July 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Kickstarter runs until April 18 VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL Interview transcript site (Kevin Savetz) - http://computingpioneers.com Feedback “32 Basic Programs for the Apple Computer” by Tom Rugg - http://www.amazon.com/32-BASIC-programs-Apple-computer/dp/0918398347 Books PDFs of so many Atari 8-bit books - http://www.atarimania.com/documents-atari-atari-400-800-xl-xe--books_1_8.html Atari Inc. Business is Fun - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0985597402/ User Groups and Shows SPACE: St Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts - http://www.spaceweb.us/wiki/Main_Page Circa 1994 list of user groups - http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/freenet_material/6.16and32-BitComputersSupportArea/3.ReferenceDesk/35UserGroupListing.php big list of newsletters from various clubs - http://mcurrent.name/magslist.html 400/800 debut announcement in Winter 1979 - http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/wci_games.html Atari Bit Byter User Club (ABBUC) - http://www.abbuc.de/ Modern Upgrades Ultimate 1MB - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67 4MB Flash Megacart - http://herale.org/4MB_FLASH_MEGACART 8-bit stereo upgrade - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=45 Dragon cart - http://www.atari8ethernet.com Randy’s review of all the storage alternative options on Antic Episode 17 - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-17-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-holiday-special Side 2 - Compact Flash cartridge - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=68 SIO2SD - SD interface - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=49 MyIDEII - CF cartridge from AtariMax - http://www.atarimax.com/ Connectivity to Modern Computers SIO2PC (AtariMax) - http://www.atarimax.com/sio2pc/documentation/ SIO2PC (Lotharek) - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=98 Contiki for Atari - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ataricc65lib/ Contiki configurator / image download - dsk format - http://contiki.cbm8bit.com Wades ASP Server source for Null modem connection - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222959-xm301-modem-to-x86-pc-for-file-transfer/?p=2959967 Emulation Windows: Altirra - http://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html or Atari800 - http://atari800.sourceforge.net/ Mac: Atari800MacX - http://www.atarimac.com/ Linux: Atari800 Android: Colleen iOS: see iOS Atari Emulation Guide at Antic site by Chris Olsen - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/webpage/category/IOS%20Atari%20Emulation%20Guide In Browser - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_atari Web Sites Vendors BEST Electronics (Brad Koda) - http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ B&C ComputerVisions (Bruce Carso) - http://www.myatari.com/ Video 61 & Atari Sales (Lance Ringquist) - http://members.tcq.net/video61/index.html Eight-Bit Fix (Paul Westphal) - http://www.eightbitfix.com/ Others AtariMania (books, magazines, software) - http://www.atarimania.com/ AtariAge (news, forums) - http://www.atariage.com Archive.org - https://archive.org/ AtariArchives (books, magazines) Kevin Savetz - http://www.atariarchives.org/ Atari FTP Archive (software) - http://ftp.pigwa.net/

In this special joint podcast, live from VCF Southeast 3.0, we discuss our favorite parts of the show, play a game of “Never Have I Ever”, and more! Podcast Title: “Inverse Antic Personal Computing Floppy Maccast” Hosts: Antic - Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz, Brad Arnold Floppy Days - Randy Kindig Inverse Atascii - Wade Ripkowski History of Personal Computing - David Greelish RetroMacCast - James Savage

Hi Everyone, and welcome to this special edition of The History of Floppy Days… uh, I mean, One o’clock, Two o’clock, Three o’clock Personal Computing! No, that’s not right… No… wait, it’s the combo podcast of Floppy Days AND The History of Personal Computing podcast! We’re live, here at the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast and I’m your host, David Greelish! Please join me in welcoming my co-hosts, Jeff Salzman and Randy Kindig! We have three significant machines to discuss on this special podcast, as we’re celebrating three significant milestones in the history of personal computing this year. First, it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the DEC pdp-8, then it’s the fortieth anniversary of the Altair 8800, and lastly, it’s the thirtieth anniversary of the Commodore Amiga. Links: PDP-8 Bernhard Baehr's PDP-8/E Simulator for Macintosh - http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/pdp8e/pdp8e.html Willem van der Mark's PDP-8/E Simulator in Java - http://www.vandermark.ch/pdp8/index.php?n=PDP8.Emulator A very portable simulator for PDP-8, works on virtually any modern OS - http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ PDP-8 at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8 Altair 8800 “Remembering Ed Roberts” at Classic Computing - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/Blog/Entries/2010/10/10_Remembering_Ed_Roberts.html “What Both of the Big Computer Museums Forgot to Mention…” at Classic Computing - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/Blog/Entries/2015/2/1_Both_Big_Computer_Museums_Forgot_to_Mention....html Podcast Links The History of Personal Computing podcast Electric Dreams BBS podcast

Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and I’m your host. This is an interview-only episode of Floppy Days. I was recently at Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 3.0 in Roswell, GA, and I had a chance to sit down with John Linville. John is a legend in the Tandy Color Computer circles and has produced a cartridge for the CoCo containing a fun game called Fahrfall. This is an exciting development for the CoCo community and John tells us all about it. Links Internet Archive link, where you can play Fahrfall - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_coco_fahrfall Fahrfall blog - http://fahrfall.blogspot.com/ John’s Other Blogs - http://vdgtricks.blogspot.com/, http://retrotinker.blogspot.com/ Most up-to-date Fahrfall gameplay video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc3iKXOxUH8

Welcome to part 2 of the now 3 part episode covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers. This episode will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, magazines, tech specs, and much more. I’m very happy to have pretty much the entire Atari 8-bit podcasting group as special guest hosts helping me cover these topics. This includes Wade from Inverse Atascii, Rob of Player/Missile, Jack of RCR, Kevin from Antic, and Brad from Antic. We also have memories from Bill of Antic. Enjoy!! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions MCX-128 for MC-10 (YouTube, FozzTexx) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5d5C2F-88 CoCo List - [email protected] “Z80 Microcomputer Handbook” by William Barden, Jr. - http://www.amazon.com/Z-80-Microcomputer-Handbook-William-Barden/dp/0672215004 Juiced.GS (Quarterly Apple II Journal) - https://juiced.gs/ “Fundamentals of TI-99/4A Assembly Language” by M.S. Morley - http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-TI-99-4A-assembly-language/dp/0830617221 News Fahrfall - new cartridge game developed for the CoCo by John Linville - http://fahrfall.blogspot.com/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5do3j7eb4 VCF SE 3.0 - http://www.vintage.org/2015/southeast/ - Saturday, May 2 & Sunday, May 3, 2015 Kings Market Shopping Center, Roswell, Georgia Commodore Vegas Expo - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex July 18-19, 2015, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 27th Annual KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/ July 14 –19 in Kansas City, Missouri. Amiga 30th Anniversary Event https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/890300835/amiga-30th-anniversary-in-california Saturday, July 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Kickstarter runs until April 18 VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL Feedback Rama operating his computer (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPR76sWm8U8 Andy Collins blog - www.randomorbit.co.uk Peripherals Cassette Specs/Usage - http://www.atariarchives.org/dere/chaptC.php SIO Specs - http://www.atarimax.com/jindroush.atari.org/asio.html Disk Specs - http://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/ Magazines Atari User - http://atariuser.com/portal/ AtariMagazines.com - http://atarimagazines.com for more, see http://playermissile.com/magazines.html

Hello, welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and this a special interview show to help get the word out about an upcoming event: Vintage Computer Festival Southeast. This will be the third iteration of this event and I talk with Earl Baugh, of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society. He tells us all about the event, including special guest speakers that will be there, exhibits, gaming areas, a workshop where you can learn to solder and much more. If you can make it to Roswell, Georgia, the weekend of May 2 & 3, 2015, I highly recommend that you drop in and enjoy the show. Links VCF East 3.0 - http://www.vintage.org/2015/southeast/ Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/20859909/help-fund-the-vintage-computer-festival-southeast-0

Hello, welcome to Floppy Days Episode #34. This is a special bonus episode and the topic of this show is the upcoming (as of this podcast) 2015 24th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest on April 25 & 26 at the Heron Point Convention Center in Lombard, IL. I interview Bob Swoger, secretary of the Glenside Computer Club, which sponsors the show. He talks all about the show and he gives the scoop about what you can expect to see there. Although the intent of this episode was to primarily cover the CoCoFest, it turns out that Bob has a very interesting and storied history with vintage computers. One final note: The "Man from Canada" mentioned by Bob several times is Markus Blumrich of Grandora, SK, Canada. I hope you enjoy it. Links: Glenside Computer Club - http://ncmedals.com/glenside/index.htm Cloud9, Cool Stuff for Your CoCo - http://www.cloud9tech.com/ CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts - http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco LogiCall - http://ncmedals.com/glenside/LogiCall.html Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 6.0 2011 LogiCall (video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-R4UfU9_Cw Casey’s Restaurant & Bar - http://www.caseysrestaurant.com/home.aspx

I’m particularly excited to be bringing you this 2-part episode because I will be covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers. This first episode will cover the history of these machines and next month I will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, magazines, tech specs, and much more. Even more exciting, for both episodes I have several special guest hosts helping me cover these topics. I think you’re going to enjoy these. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Raspberry Pi - http://www.raspberrypi.org/ A2CLOUD - http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ A2SERVER - http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/ Apple II Pi - http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/wordpress/ Arduino - http://www.arduino.cc/ “Collectible Microcomputers” by Michael Nadeau - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764316001/?tag=flodaypod-20 Network cartridge for the Atari 8-bits by Mark Dusko and Dan Winslow - Antic Interview #21 - (http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-21-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-dan-winslow-mark-dusko-atari-8-bit-ethernet-project “Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictoral History” by Peggy A. Kidwell and Paul E. Ceruzzi - http://www.amazon.com/LANDMARKS-DIGITAL-COMP-PB-KIDWELL/dp/1560983116 Paul Ceruzzi in episode 30 of Floppy Days - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-30-paul-ceruzzi-smithsonian “Apple Assembly Language Programming” by Malcolm Whapshott - http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Assembly-Language-Programming-Wapshott/dp/0810471205 News Electric Dreams BBS Podcast - http://www.edbbspodcast.com/ - Mike Whalen and Jeff Salzman From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years! - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1195082866/from-bedrooms-to-billions-the-amiga-years?ref=nav_search Upcoming Shows Midwest Gaming Classic - http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ April 11 & 12, 2015, Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel VCF East X - http://www.vintage.org/2015/east/April 17-19, 2015, Wall, New Jersey The 24th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ April 25 & 26, 2015, Heron Point Convention Center, 645 West North Avenue, Lombard, IL VCF SE 3.0 - http://www.vintage.org/2015/southeast/ - Saturday, May 2 & Sunday, May 3, 2015 Kings Market Shopping Center, Roswell, Georgia Commodore Vegas Expo - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex July 18-19, 2015, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 27th Annual KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/ July 14 –19 in Kansas City, Missouri. Amiga 30th Anniversary Event https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/890300835/amiga-30th-anniversary-in-california Saturday, July 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Kickstarter runs until April 18 VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL References Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family “Atari Inc.:Business is Fun” by Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0985597402/?tag=flodaypod-20

Evan Koblentz comes on and talks all about the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0. Special co-hosts Earl Evans (Retrobits & RCR) and Michael Mulhern (RCR). Links and stuff: VCF East at vintage.org - vintage.org/2015/east/ VCF East Facebook - facebook.com/vcfeast VCF East Twitter - twitter.com/vcfeast Evan’s book project: the campaign - https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/3wNcc Facebook - facebook.com/abacustosmartphone Twitter - twitter.com/abacustophone

I wanted to bring to you this month a special interview-only episode which is a bit different. My guest on this show is Mr. Eric Enge, who was an executive at Phoenix Technologies, most well-known as the company that clean-roomed an IBM PC compatible ROM BIOS and helped spark an era of IBM PC clones. This is a piece of computer history that may not be particularly well-known, but was an important milestone nonetheless. Enjoy. Links: Phoenix Technologies - http://www.phoenix.com/ Phoenix Technologies at wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies Stone Temple Consulting (Eric’s site) - https://www.stonetemple.com/about-eric-enge/ Eric at LinkedIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericenge

Hi, everyone and welcome to a special interview-only episode of Floppy Days. My name is Randy Kindig and I’m the host of this podcast. This interview is with Paul Ceruzzi, curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C and author of several computer history books. Those books include “A History of Modern Computing”, “Computing: A Concise History”, “Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History” and more. Paul also sits on the Honorary Council of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Links Paul’s personal website - http://www.ceruzzi.com/ The MIT Press Catalog of Paul Ceruzzi - http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/paul-e-ceruzzi Computer History Museum Honorary Council - http://www.computerhistory.org/honorary/?fn=Paul&ln=Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi Collection on Konrad Zuse - http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00219 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262032554/flodaypod-20 - “A History of Modern Computing” by Paul E. Ceruzzi, The MIT Press

Hello and welcome to episode 29 of Floppy Days. My name is Randy Kindig and I’m the host of this podcast. This is a special interview-only episode of Floppy Days. I’m very excited to have with me today the authors of the various editions of the computer history book entitled “Fire in the Valley”; that being Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. I think a majority of the listeners will be familiar with the book. I have mentioned it several times before on this podcast and have used it as a reference for the vintage computers I’ve covered. Many listeners will also be familiar with the movie “The Pirates of Silicon Valley” starring Anthony Michael Hall as a young Bill Gates and Noah Wyle as a young Steve Jobs which was made based on the book. I was amazed when I recently contacted the authors about coming onto Floppy Days and both of them immediately responded that they would be happy to. Pay special attention to our conversation at the end of the interview, which may hint at something special to come on Floppy Days. Before we begin, I do want to warn you that the Skype quality for this interview was not the best at times. Nevertheless, I think you will enjoy it!! Links: “Fire in the Valley” 2nd Edition at Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071358927/?tag=flodaypod-20 “Fire in the Valley” 3rd Edition at Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1937785769/?tag=flodaypod-20 “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer, Third Edition” by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger at the Pragmatic Bookshelf - https://pragprog.com/book/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley “The Pirates of Silicon Valley” at IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_38 “The Pirates of Silicon Valley” at Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009NSCS0/?tag=flodaypod-20 Paul Freiberger’s Site - “Fire in the Valley: the Making of the Personal Computer” - http://www.paulfreiberger.com/book/fire-valley-making-personal-computer/ Swaine’s World - Michael Swaine’s Blog on Writing and Technology - http://www.swaine.com/wordpress/category/about/ Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/FireInTheValley Paul Freiberger Contact Information: [email protected] Michael Swaine Contact Information: Blog: www.swaine.com Email: [email protected] Twitter: @pragpub or @mswaine

Main Topic: The TRS-80 Model II At this point in the podcast run, we are still in the late 1970’s time frame, and the TRS-80 Model II falls into that time frame for its release. As usual, we’ll cover the history, technical specs, peripherals, Web sites, books, emulation and much, much more. I am joined by special guest host Myles Wakeham who will help me cover this machine. But first, I’ll cover new acquisitions, news, feedback, and an interview with Myles before diving into the TRS-80 Model II. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Holmes Engineering IM-2 TRS-80 Model I Memory Upgrade - http://www.trs-80.org/holmes-internal-memory/ News CoCo Coding Contest - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/CoCoCoding_1980_Contest The MISE Project - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/ DynoSprite - https://www.github.com/richard42/dynosprite RetroChallenge - http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-2012sc/ VCF East X - http://www.vintage.org/2015/east/exhibit.php Feedback OSI Challenger advertisement on the back cover of the Dec 1980 Byte magazine - https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-12/1980_12_BYTE_05-12_Adventure#page/n403/mode/2up Magazines/Newsletters/Books/Manuals manual for the TRS 80 Model II in PDF - http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/trs80m2/doc/Model_2_Operation_Manual_(19xx)(Tandy).pdf Trs-80 Means Business: Trs-80 Model II, With 64K (Diskette and Book) Hardcover – July, 1982 by Ted G. Lewis - http://www.amazon.com/Trs-80-Means-Business-Model-Diskette/dp/0471875651 User's Handbook to the Trs-80 Model II Computer Paperback – June, 1983 by Jeffrey R. Weber - http://www.amazon.com/Users-Handbook-Trs-80-Model-Computer/dp/0938862014/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418176303&sr=1-5&keywords=trs-80+model+II VisiCalc for the TRS-80 model II and model 16 computers (Microcomputer power series) 1982 by Edouard J Desautels - http://www.amazon.com/VisiCalc-TRS-80-model-computers-Microcomputer/dp/0697099555/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418176303&sr=1-7&keywords=trs-80+model+II Ads Marketing brochure for the Model II - http://www.trailingedge.com/trs80/TRS80Mod2.pdf Modern Upgrades FreHD hard drive emulator - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator Emulation MESS - http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=trs80m2 Videos Model II Ramblings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0ABstKl4Q Unboxing a TRS-80 Model II by Devin2277 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTc7ceIwREA Reassembling the TRS-80 Model II (4 parts) by Devin2277 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKtbOwDVed0 Current Web Sites oldcomputers.net - http://oldcomputers.net/trs80ii.html home page of Kees Stravers - http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.html Ira Goldklang’s TRS-80 Revived Site @ trs-80.com - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/model-ii/ VanNatta Computer History - http://www.vannattabros.com/history2.html old-computers.com - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=243 Dave’s Old Computers - http://classiccmp.org/dunfield/trs80/index.htm Digibarn Computer Museum - http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/trs80-model2/ PDF documentation for the Tandy TRS-80 model II - http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/trs80m2/doc/index.html Bill Degnan’s Model II Restoration Project - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=184 Computer Museum of FJKraan (Yet Another Computer Museum) - http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/trs80m2/ References Wikipedia - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Model_II_and_12

Main Topic: The OSI Challenger series of computers At this point in the podcast run, we are still in the late 1970's time frame, and the OSI machines fall into that time frame for their release. No vintage computer historical journey would be complete without including these very important machines. As usual, we'll cover the history, technical specs, peripherals, Web sites, books, emulation and much, much more. I am joined by special guest host Terry Stewart of the Classic Computers website who will help me cover these machines. In addition, we are joined by OSI aficionados Mark Csele and David Fenyes who share their first-hand memories of the OSI. But first, I'll cover new acquisitions, news, and feedback before diving into the OSI. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions/What I've Been up to TI-99 Extended BASIC Suite cartridge - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extended-Basic-v2-7-Suite-Cartridge-/231378985072 Microsoft BASIC II for the Atari 8-bit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Microsoft_BASIC CoCo SDC SD Card Interface for the TRS-80 Color Computer - http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/ News CSDB intro competition - http://csdb.dk/event/?id=2286 Ben Heck's Apple 1 Replica - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwO8CTSLTkiiDKhVfiUXyuzfbHMPOYVPj VCF East 10.0 - http://www.vintage.org Donkey Kong Junior for C64 - http://csdb.dk/release/?id=134342 Another Apple-1 Goes for Auction - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/03/us-auction-apple-idUSKBN0IN0ZX20141103 Atari: Game Over Movie - http://video.xbox.com/movie/atari-game-over/4B8575C6-BD05-48E8-92C9-C61BA57E8025 C64 Reset Magazine - http://reset.cbm8bit.com/ Ads COMPUTE! ISSUE 1 / FALL 1979 / PAGE 101 - Review of the Challenger 1P - http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue1/3227_2_REVIEW_THE_CHALLENGER_1P.php Software ad from Micro magazine, August 1981 - http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/images/osiImages/AardvarkAd-Aug1981Micro.jpg Aardvark - http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Aardvark.html price list at osiweb.org - http://www.osiweb.org/ads_and_catalogs/OSI%20software%20list.pdf Books SAMS C4P Service Manual - http://www.osiweb.org/manuals/SAMS-C4P-Service-Manual.pdf Micro on the OSI - http://www.osiweb.org/books/Micro_on_the_OSI.pdf Third Book of OSI - http://www.osiweb.org/books/Third_Book_of_OSI.pdf Manuals/Catalogs OSI Catalog - circa 1980 - http://www.osiweb.org/ads_and_catalogs/OSI_brochure.pdf OS65D v3.0 User Manual - http://www.osiweb.org/manuals/OS-65D_V3.0_usermanual.pdf OS65D Tutorial and Ref Manual - http://www.osiweb.org/manuals/OS65D%20Tutorial%20and%20Ref%20Manual.pdf OSI 8K BASIC in ROM MANUAL - http://www.osiweb.org/manuals/OSI_8K_Basic_in_ROM.pdf The C4P User's manual. Shipped with C4P systems - http://www.osiweb.org/manuals/c4man.pdf OS-65D V3.2 Dissasembly Manual - http://www.osiweb.org/manuals/OS65D_Dissasembly_Manual.pdf Emulation WinOSI Emulator for Win32 - http://osi.marks-lab.com/ OSI JavaScript Emulator - http://www.pcjs.org/devices/c1p/ MESS - http://www.mess.org Buying and Using One Today (eBay and replicas) Notes on modern replacements for hard-to-find OSI components - http://www.osiweb.org/misc/osi-replacement-parts.txt Briel Computers Superboard III Replica - http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=39 Current Web Sites Dave's OSI Repository (David Fenyes) - http://www.osiweb.org/ OSI Forum - http://www.osiweb.org/osiforum/ Mark's Ohio Scientific/Compukit UK101 Archive - http://osi.marks-lab.com/ Ohio Scientific Instruments Company facts and history - http://superboard.com.sapo.pt/seite4.html Professor Mark Csele - Ohio Scientific Computers - http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/OhioScientific.html The Ohio Scientific C4P Page at 6502.org - http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/computer/osi-c4p/ oldcomputers.net - http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html - some information about the various OSI models old-computers.com - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=572&st=1 The Ohio Scientific Inc. Challenger 1P and 4P: As seen in Tezza's classic computer collection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQUhFoBDGT0 Tezza's OSI C4P Adventure - http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2014-06-30-fixing-C4P-ram-expansion-board.htm Wikipedia - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Scientific

This is a special interview-only show with none other than Terry Stewart, aka Tezza, of the classic-computers.org.nz Web site. Terry is long-time member of the vintage computing community and has done the community a great service by producing excellent videos about each member of his extensive vintage computer collection. If you haven’t had a chance to see any of Terry’s videos, you definitely should check them out; they’re on YouTube and you can subscribe to his channel. You should also check out his Web site, which has tons of useful information about each machine as well as troubleshooting tips, a forum, and much more. Terry was kind enough to co-host the Floppy Days episode on the OSI Challenger series of computers and since the episode ran a little long I decided to pull out the interview into its own show. Please enjoy and let Terry know that you appreciate the great work that he does. Terry’s Classic Computers - http://classic-computers.org.nz New Zealand Computer Museum - http://www.techvana.org.nz/ New Zealand winds - http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63231922/140kmh-winds-leave-path-of-damage A bit on the roaring 40s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties

Special interview-only episode with Pepe Tozzo, author of Retro-Electro: Collecting Technology from Atari to Walkman. Book "Retro-Electro: Collecting Technology from Atari to Walkman" at Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0789313022/?tag=flodaypod-20

News, upcoming vintage computer shows, feedback. Special co-host Jim Battle of compucolor.org and audio clips from Graham and Garry Epps! Main topic: The CompuColor II Links Mentioned in the Show: What I’ve Been Up To/New Acquisitions VCF Midwest - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/, https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/ TI CC-40 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Compact_Computer_40 TI PC-200 Printer - http://www.datamath.org/Sci/Galaxy/PC-200.htm News Kickstarter Funded ‘Commodore 64: A Visual Compendium’ Hits Online Stores - http://www.funstock.co.uk/commodore-64-a-visual-commpendium-c64-book SpeccyJam website - http://www.speccyjam.com/ SpeccyJam 2014 Games page - http://www.speccyjam.com/games/ The Living Computer Museum is hiring a Sr. Vintage Software Developer - http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/TemplateMain.aspx?contentId=45 Reddit’s Retrobattlestations BASIC week is back on its 3rd edition - http://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/2fn1zq/basic_week_3_under_the_sea/ Dartmouth BASIC Simulator - http://dtss.dartmouth.edu Glenside Color Computer Club - http://glensideccc.com/newindex.shtml Dartmouth BASIC Contest initial information - http://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/2ee4l5/cocofest_dartmouth_time_sharing_system_contest/ Amstrad CPC-464 Contest happening in Spain - http://concursocpc.byterealms.com/concurso2014/ Vintage Is The New Old - http://www.vintageisthenewold.com or http://www.vitno.net Commodore is Awesome - http://awesome.commodore.me History of Personal Computing Podcast - http://www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com/ 32nd Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire VCF East 10.0 - http://www.midatlanticretro.com/ Emulation JavaScript CompuColor II Emulator by Jim Battle - http://compucolor.org/emu/ccemu.html MESS (emulation) - http://www.mess.org/ Current Web Sites/Links/Mail Lists Computer Closet - http://www.computercloset.org/CompuColorII.htm OldComputers.com - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=560&st=1 OldComputers.net - http://oldcomputers.net/compucolor-ii.html Instruction Manual - http://oldcomputers.net/Compucolor-II-Instruction-Manual.pdf Programming and Reference Manual - http://oldcomputers.net/Compucolor-II-Prog-Ref-Manual-rev-1.pdf Software Library Newsletter - http://oldcomputers.net/Compucolor-II-Library-Newsletters.pdf ComputerWorld, May15, 1978 - http://books.google.com/books?id=ycJb-Oo9BoIC&lpg=PA73&ots=7ZVosHzlhr&dq=compucolor%20georgia&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q=compucolor%20georgia&f=false CompuColor.org - A tribute to the CompuColor II (Jim Battle) - http://www.compucolor.org/ CompuColor II video on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_jWcgwgmwg CompuColor ad at vintagecomputing.com - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/580/retro-scan-of-the-week-compucolor-ii Earl Evans’ episode about the CompuColor II on the Retrobits podcast - http://retrobits.libsyn.com/show-092-a-close-encounter-the-compu-color-ii Chess on the CompuColor at the Chess Programming Wiki - https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Compucolor+Chess DiskVacuum project reads and explores Compucolor II disks (Jim Battle) - http://www.gadgetfactory.net/2014/01/diskvacuum-project-reads-and-explores-compucolor-ii-disks/ THE GIANNA GIAVELLI BLOG - interesting discussion on why the Apple II succeeded and the CompuColor failed - http://thegiannagiavelliblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/apple-falling-apart-without-jobs.html CompuColor’s used at the EPCOT Universe of Energy for Ride Operator Consoles - http://progresscityusa.com/energy/tech_console.htm References Wikipedia - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compucolor_II Closing Throwback Network - http://www.throwbacknetwork.net Jim Battle Links Two videos Jim recorded to help sell his compucolor on ebay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_jWcgwgmwg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjYM2bXhrM Longer tour of the machine- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRA6fcwBpc Demonstration of what it looks like when you delete a file - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNl5C_4ZGY ISC portion of bitsavers.org - http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/intelligentSystemsCorp/ Jim Battle website, with email link and links to his other vintage computer sites - http://www.thebattles.net Page with all Jim’s vintage computer stuff - http://thebattles.net/jimsjunk.html Jim’s Wang 2200 Site - http://www.wang2200.org

KansasFest 2014 through the eyes of a first-timer!

News, upcoming vintage computer shows, feedback. Main topic: The APF Imagination Machine Links Mentioned in the Show: News KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org Book “Apple Files” by David Miller - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0835901912/?tag=flodaypod-20 Book “Apple II the DOS Manual Disk Operating System” by Apple Computer - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QTD2SA/?tag=flodaypod-20 CFFA3000 - http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php Book “The HP Way - How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company” by David Packard - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097V3ELU/?tag=flodaypod-20 Model I System Expansion (MISE) - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/ F18A VGA for the TI-99/4A - http://codehackcreate.com/archives/30 VCF Midwest - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/, https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/ VCF East 10.0 - http://www.midatlanticretro.com/ Feedback RetroChallenge 2014 Summer Challenge - http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-2012sc/ Terry Stewart’s RetroChallenge Entry - http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2014-06-30-fixing-C4P-ram-expansion-board.htm Emulation APF emulator for the PC (Enrique Collado of Spain) - http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/apf0308.zip MESS (emulation) - http://www.mess.org/ Current Web Sites/Links/Mail Lists Yahoo Mailing List - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apf_consoles_and_computers Archive.org Console Library for the APF - https://archive.org/details/apfm1000_library APF Imagination Machine Owner’s Manual - http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/images/Manuals/78_APF_Imagination_Machine-Manual.pdf APF Technical Reference Manual - http://classictech.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/1980-apf-imagination-machine-technical-reference-manual-1-80.pdf APF BASIC Language Reference Manual - http://hcvgm.org/Static/Manuals/APF/APF%20BASIC%20Language%20Reference%20Manual.pdf APF Imagination Machine BASIC tokenized file - http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/APF_Imagination_Machine_BASIC_tokenized_file commented APF BIOS by Adam Trionfo - http://hcvgm.org/Static/Hacking/Roms/APF_ROM.zip Digital Press Video Game Database - http://www.digitpress.com/faq/apf.htm Orphaned Games (Adam Trionfo) - http://www.orphanedgames.com/APF/ The Old Computer ROMs - http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=APF/Imagination-Machine APF Imagination Machine Demo at YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzppKYQzcQ Old-computers.com - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=584 Homebrew Software - http://www.orphanedgames.com/APF/homebrew_cartridges/homebrew_cartridges.html Newsletters/User Groups - http://hcvgm.org/APF_UserGroup.html Info World May, 1980 - http://books.google.com/books?id=XT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT13#v=onepage&q&f=true Popular Science May, 1980 - http://bit.ly/1oKpRF1 article on Ed Smith, one of the designers of the APF, Black Enterprise, Dec. 1982 - http://bit.ly/1vUPSu2 Popular Science November, 1981 - http://bit.ly/1pv8pED References Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_Imagination_Machine APF Page (Larry Greenfield) - http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/ Home Computer and Video Game Museum (Lance Squire) - http://hcvgm.org/APF_Imagination_Machine.html Closing Throwback Network - http://www.throwbacknetwork.net

In this special joint podcast, live from KansasFest 2014, we discuss our favorite parts of KFest, play a game of 2 Truths and 1 Lie, and more! Podcast Title: “Retro Open ANTICHertz Mac Quarter Poly Floppy Drop” Hosts: Antic - Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz Drop III Inches - Mike Maginnis, Paul Hagstrom Floppy Days - Randy Kindig IndieSider - Ken Gagne No Quarter - Carrington Vanston, Mike Maginnis 1 MHz - Carrington Vanston Open Apple - Mike Maginnis, Quinn Dunki Polygamer - Ken Gagne Retro Computing Roundtable - Carrington Vanston, Paul Hagstrom, Steve Weyhrich RetroMacCast - John Leake Intro Song - “Lazy Hazy Crazy KFest” lyrics created and sung by Steve Weyhrich

Bonus episode. Interview with Peter Bartlett, TRS-80 Model I enthusiast and creator of the Model I System Expander (MISE). MISE is a fantastic device that gives the TRS-80 hi-res graphics, VGA, compact flash storage, joystick port, networking and more. Links mentioned in the episode: The MISE Project - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/ Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - http://trs-80.com/ 80-GRAFIX high-resolution add-on for the Model I - http://www.trs-80.org/80-grafix/ Alpha Products joystick for the Model I - http://www.trs-80.org/alpha-joystick/ Armored Patrol (joystick game) - http://www.trs-80.org/armored-patrol/ Elliot Burton - http://www.pressherald.com/2014/03/20/death_takes_a_generous__colorful_thread_from_fabric_of_portland_/

Bonus episode this month. Interview with Apple II Enthusiast Ken Gagne about KFest, Open Apple Podcast, Juiced.GS and more. Open Apple Podcast - http://www.open-apple.net/ KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/ Juiced.GS - https://juiced.gs/

Main topic: The VideoBrain Family Computer. Special guest host Jeff Salzman (Vintage Volts)! Links Mentioned in the Show: News EasyFlash 3 - http://skoe.de/easyflash, http://go4retro.com/products/easyflash TRS-80 MISE - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/ Kfest - http://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF Midwest - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/, https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/ A2CLOUD - http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ A2SERVER - http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/ ProTERM is now officially free - http://lostclassics.apple2.info/announcements/19/proterm-a2/ ADTPro - http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ Raspple II - http://appleii.ivanx.com/rasppleii/ Apple II Pi - http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/wordpress/ Intro Jeff Salzman RetroChallenge 2014 Summer Challenge - http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-2012sc/ Bumper Clip of VideoBrain from Today Show in 1978 with Jane Pauley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmxrtUuZa-4 Tech Specs Fairchild F8 Microprocessor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_F8 Fairchild Semiconductor Website - http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ Fairchild Semiconductor on WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor Fairchild Channel F System - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F APL Programming Language on WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) “A Programming Language” Book on Amazon by Kenneth Iverson - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471430145/?tag=flodaypod-20 Emulation Multi-Emulator Super System (MESS) - http://www.mess.org/ FPGA Implementation of the VideoBrain - kevtris on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac49BKNNlCo Current Web Sites Bill Loguidice, Armchair Arcade - http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/taxonomy/term/1135 AtariProtos.com - http://www.atariprotos.com/othersystems/videobrain/videobrain.htm Article from Interface Age - http://bit.ly/1rBJMvi November 1978 Popular Science ad for the VideoBrain - http://bit.ly/1nzsTMU VideoBrain video on YouTube (Glankonian) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GgAMdWN4Q The Old Computer Museum - http://oldcomputermuseum.com/videobrain.html Yahoo group - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/channel_f_and_videobrain/info VideoBrain info at orphanedgames.com - http://www.orphanedgames.com/videobrain/ The Old Computer.com ROM’s - http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=VideoBrain/Family-Computer-101 VideoBrain Unwrapped by Kevin Horton - http://blog.kevtris.org/blogfiles/videobrain/videobrain_unwrapped.txt Sean Riddle’s VideoBrain Info - http://www.seanriddle.com/videobrain.html References Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videobrain “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer” by Stan Veit on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1566640237/?tag=flodaypod-20 Closing Throwback Network - http://www.throwbacknetwork.net Vintage Volts Website (Jeff Salzman) - http://vintagevolts.com/

Recorded live from VCFSE 2.0 in Roswell, GA! Main topic: The Exidy Sorcerer. Special guest host David Greelish! Links Mentioned in the Show: Books 32 BASIC Programs for the Exidy Sorcerer by Tom Rugg - http://www.amazon.com/32-BASIC-programs-Exidy-Sorcerer/dp/0918398355 Emulation JSorcerer - Java based - http://www.liaquay.co.uk/sorcerer/ Multi-Emulator Super System (MESS) - http://www.mess.org/ Current Web Sites The Exidy Sorcerer as seen in Tezza’s Classic Computer Collection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEnsYJOjh2k Exidy Sorcerer Hardware Review from Creative Computing - http://www.trailingedge.com/~dlw/comp/exidyrv.html Exidy Sorcerer at oldcomputers.net - http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html The Trailing Edge - Exidy Sorcerer information (documentation, catalogs, price lists, ROMs) - http://www.trailingedge.com/exidy/ The Exidy Sorcerer at DigiBarn - http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/exidy-sorcerer/ The Center for Computing History - history, books, magazine articles - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5396/exidy-sorcerer-ii/ Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Exidy-Sorcerer-Computer/153210461406202 The Old Computer ROM and Emulation Site - downloads of many Sorcerer programs and ROMs - http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Exidy/Sorcerer Archive.org - https://archive.org/search.php?query=exidy%20sorcerer Sorcerer ROMs at NitroROMS - http://nitroroms.com/list/Exidy%20Sorcerer/by-name/page-1 References Golden Age Arcade Historian Blog - http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of-exidy_20.html Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer Closing Throwback Network (http://www.throwback.net) Classic Computing Website (David Greelish) - http://www.classiccomputing.com