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

Topic: 1970

In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared.

Topic/Feedback links:

• Recollections about the development of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)





• The evolution of Forth (forth.com)





• Shakey the Robot (YouTube)





• 75 years of innovation: Shakey the Robot (SRI)





• conways game of life (Google search)





• Martin Gardner’s Scientific American article (Scientific American, Oct 1970)





• DRAM (Wikipedia)





• Aquarius+ (GitHub)





• Aquarius+ (AtariAge)





• The current state of the Aquarius computer (YouTube, VCF West 2023)

Retro Computing News:

• UTM





• Adrian Black becomes a full-time retro content creator





• WiFi Retromodem V3





• ThinkPad 701C





• Restoring the 701C butterfly laptop (YouTube)





• IBM ThinkPad 701C “butterfly” keyboard (YouTube)





• Tezza Stewart is back! (YouTube)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• US Robotics (1997)





• US Robotics X2 (with Woz)





• Hayes: Say Yes to the Future

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• EOR #$FF (David Youd)
  
  
  
  • EOR #$FF on archive.org
  
  
  
  

Auction Picks:

• Carrington:
  
  
  
  • Toaster Mac cotton dust cover
  
  
  
  
  
  • C64 canvas dust cover
  
  
  
  
  
  • Embarrassed by your Amstrad?
  
  
  
  





• Earl:
  
  
  
  • C64/V20 keyboard cover
  
  
  
  





• Paul:
  
  
  
  • Tandy 200 with a black screen
  
  
  
  
  
  • Apple Interactive Television Box (original auction gone now, different one)
  
  
  
  
  
  • iMac VGA-revealing cover
    
    
    
    • See also: iMac G3 description (mac27.net)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  • Computer Napoleonics (SSI)
    
    
    
    • See also: Computer Napoleonics (Paul’s, on archive.org)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  • BBC Micro, US version, sort of
    
    
    
    • See also: BBC Micro B US (Chris’ Acorns, Computing History)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  • AC-3 in its box (Radio Shack acoustic coupler)
  
  
  
  
  
  • The Controller in its box
  
  
  
  

A2Stream file:

• a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr270.a2stream

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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