RCR Episode 248: So long, 2021

Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: So long, 2021

At the tail end of 2021, we talk about our retrocomputing-based adventures during the year, with a little bit of a look ahead at what might come after.

Topic/Feedback links:

• Drop /// Inches, episode #11 (re: visiting Stanford archives)
• Mac networks game spreadsheet

Retro Computing News:

• The Mac Game of the Year was… Myst
• The RMC Cave soft open
• Overclocking the Tandy 102
• “I made my partner learn DOS in 2021”
• Building a new Commodore 1581 disk drive in 2021

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• BurgerTime (Intellivision)
• Myst (Japanese, Sunsoft)

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Piper Computer Kit 3

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  • Power Macintosh 8200/120 in original box
  • TRS-80 CoCo Videotext
  • Radio Shack tone dialer
• Earl:
  • Heathkit computer (looks like an H89?)
• Paul:
  • Ethernet microdock
  • PET modem
  • Jewelled mouse
  • 1977 British Airways Compute-a-Tour
  • See also: Dick Clark, New Year’s Eve 1977

Feedback/Discussion:

• @rcrpodcast on Twitter
• Vintage Computer Forum
• RCR Podcast on Facebook
• Throwback Network
• Throwback Network on Facebook

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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