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In this podcast, we speak to Carmen Többen who won the WorldSkills Gold Medal for best receptionist in Lyon, France last year.  After winning the Gold Medal at the SwissSkills competition in Bern in 2022 and the EuroSkills Gold Medal in Gdansk, Poland in 2023, Carmen used those exceptional experiences to win gold in Lyon. Carmen walks us through the prestigious WorldSkills competition by describing the different tasks she had to perform and explains how she trained for these four, very intense days.   We question Carmen on how she trained and managed to stay focused under immense pressure and how these competitions demand both physical and mental preparation.   Carmen also describes the comradery that these competitions create and how being able to compete against young people from around the world was a reward in itself. By sharing some memorable moments and talking us through the past three years of intensive training, our listeners can better understand how becoming the World's best receptionist demanded perseverance, confidence and a very strong network of support not only from her family, but also from the hotels that Carmen worked in during these competitions.  While working at the Baur au Lac, one of Zurich's most luxurious hotels, Carmen received first-class job training and the staff were thrilled to learn that she had won gold in Lyon. Carmen Többen studied at the Schulhotel Regina in Interlaken, Switzerland and received a Swiss Federal certificate as a Hotel Communication Specialist and went on to work at hotels in Thun and in Zermatt.  In 2023 she joined the Baur au Lac in Zurich as a hotel receptionist and went on to become a Front Office Supervisor.  In September of this year, she will continue her education by starting a Bachelor Degree in Hotel Management at the Lucerne Hotel School.     

Con la llegada de la temporada de viajes, muchos de nosotros comenzamos a planear nuestras escapadas a Europa. Entre los destinos más atractivos, Polonia se destaca, especialmente su ciudad costera de Gdansk, que este año ha sido nombrada Capital Europea de la Gastronomía. Lo que hace a Gdansk un lugar especial para los amantes de la buena comida.

Verter developed as a DJ within the Uzhgorod Techno Culture community, which has significantly influenced the promotion of high-quality underground electronic music in western Ukraine by hosting renowned Ukrainian and international DJs. Since 2020, Verter has been residing in Gdansk, Poland, where he continues to make appearances at local venues with his captivating and trippy selections. Keep an eye on Verter: https://soundcloud.com/verter-854004561 https://mixcloud.com/VerterUTC https://facebook.com/VerterUTC https://facebook.com/UzhgorodTechnoCulture Listen to more electronic music on Intaresu https://intaresu.com

Jay North, ‘Dennis the Menace' Star, Dies at 73 He played the young mischief maker on the CBS comedy for four seasons and was in ‘Maya,' a movie and TV show. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jay-north-dead-dennis-the-menace-1236182969/ WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM AND ENDING FUNDING TO CERTAIN UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATIONS https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-and-ending-funding-to-certain-united-nations-organizations-and-reviewing-united-states-support-to-all-international-organizations/ Trump's tariffs are the end of globalisation Europe can't fight a trade war When regimes end, they end in phases. Communism died over a period of 10 years, starting with the strike at the Gdansk shipyard in 1980. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the great symbolic episode, and the 1991... View Article

I dag har vi med oss Camilla Aastorp Andersen, Inger Reidun Fleischer og Anne Marte Sneve - tre sterke jenter som alle trener Hyrox og deltar i konkurranser. Hør deres erfaringer og tanker rundt det å trene Hyrox. I tillegg snakker vi om trening, mental forberedelse, og hvordan man kan forberede seg både fysisk og mentalt. Enten du er en erfaren utøver eller bare nysgjerrig på HYROX, kanskje du får litt inspirasjon til å ta steget selv. .

El episodio de esta semana de El Placer de Viajar nos lleva a Beceite, en Teruel, y a la polaca Gdansk y su historia de lucha contra el comunismo. Esta semana El Placer de Viajar nos presenta dos destinos muy diferentes y a miles de kilómetros tanto de forma literal como simbólica: Carmelo Jordá y Kelu Robles se han decidido por un pueblo de Aragón, Beceite, y por una ciudad de Polonia llena de historia y de historia contra la dictadura comunista: Gdansk. El episodio empieza en Beceite, un pueblo sorprendente de la provincia de Teruel que lo tiene todo: rutas de senderismo espectaculares, pozas naturales, buena gastronomía… Beciete está cerca ya de la provincia de Tarragona y además de sus paisajes espectaculares tiene una característica que lo hace un destino todavía más especial: es el pueblo con más piscinas naturales de España, así que es un destino ideal para bañistas, pese a estar bastante lejos del mar. El Parrizal es una de sus mejores rutas de senderismo en la localidad, puede tener entre cinco y ocho kilómetros de longitud –según el formato que se elija– y cuenta con alicientes como unas pinturas rupestres y una mina abandonada. Además, se ha preparado muy bien para que todo el mundo pueda recorrerla. Hay más pozas en las que bañarse, algunas en el propio pueblo, y también está en las cercanía el Embalse de Pena, que es uno de los más antiguos de la provincia de Teruel y en el que también nos podremos dar un baño. Además, es un pueblo con mucha historia y que ha sabido conservar su arquitectura tradicional y tiene unas fiestas muy divertidas en las que participa una parte increíble de la población. Y en la segunda parte del programa Carmelo y Kelu cuentan con una gran invitada: la periodista y escritora Manena Munar, una clásica del periodismo de viajes en nuestro país que ha colaborado con muchísimos medios de comunicación. Manena ha vivido en lugares como Washington, Varsovia o Filipinas, donde escribió su primer libro Y Soplará el Amihan, que habla de ese país en dos momentos de su historia. Sin embargo, en el programa se ha hablado de uno de sus trabajos más ambiciosos: la novela Sol de invierno, editada por Ediciones Atlantis, que habla de Gdansk en un momento totalmente apasionante de sus historia: al principio de los años 80, en aquella Polonia lista para el cambio de la mano del sindicato de Solidaridad, que nació en esa ciudad costera, y que fue el primer país de Europa del Este que se libró del yugo de la dictadura en aquel año mágico de 1989. Manena habla de cómo era vivir en Polonia en aquel momento, de las bellezas de Gdansk, una de las ciudades más hermosas del país, y de algunos aspectos del país de entonces y de ahora y del inmenso cambio que ha vivido desde la caída del comunismo. Escríbenos, explícanos qué te gusta más y si hay algo que no te gusta tanto de El Placer de Viajar, dinos de qué destinos quieres que hablemos y si quieres que tratemos algún tema y, por supuesto, pregúntanos lo que quieras en el correo del programa: elplacerdeviajar@libertaddigital.com.

Relationen mellan Marguerite Duras och den nästan fyrtio år yngre Yann Andréa var inte okomplicerad. Men stark. Elisabeth Hjorth skildrar deras möte. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Essän sändes för första gången den 4 maj 2017.En bar. Ganska elegant, trevlig. En man och en kvinna sitter vid ett av borden. Han är vacker, olycksbådande. Kvinnan har åldrats, hon måste fortfarande älskas. Någon betraktar paret, det finns alltid en betraktare. Betraktaren är jag.När Marguerite Duras och hennes följeslagare Yann Andréa möts första gången är hon en erfaren författare och han en bedrövad ung man. Det är i alla fall så mötet gestaltas i hennes sena roman ”Yann Andréa Steiner”.1980 börjar järnridån ska i sina grundvalar av de strejkande arbetarna i Gdansk. Duras placerar mötet med Yann i denna politiska kontext, i ett Europa sargat av minnen och förtryck. Hon har ännu inte skrivit ”Älskaren” som ska ge henne läsare över hela världen och som hon själv kallar en flygplatsroman hon skrev när hon var full. Hon har haft framgångar med sina filmer men skrivandet har gått i stå. Ensamheten i det stora huset vid Atlanten är stor som Europas ensamhet. Det är nu som hon möter en 38 år yngre man och de inleder ett beroende av varandra lika starkt som beroendet av alkoholen och skrivandet.Marguerite Duras film ”India Song” visas på en liten biograf i staden där Yann bor. Efteråt går de till en bar. Det är Yann, hans filosofistuderande kompisar och så Marguerite. Hon dricker två whisky och han följer henne till parkeringen där hennes Renault 16 står. Han frågar om hon har några älskare. Hon säger: ”Inte nu längre”. Han frågar hur snabbt hon kör. Hon svarar: ”I 140, liksom alla som har en R16”.Yann börjar skriva till Marguerite. Han älskar henne redan, så som man älskar en författare för böckerna hon skrivit, för att de handlar om en själv. Det är korta brev, små biljetter nästan. Marguerite svarar inte, men hon sparar Yanns rader. Sedan ska hon säga att de är det bästa han har åstadkommit i textväg. Sedan ska hon säga att hon tyckte om rösten i breven, den som skulle bli rösten i hennes liv.När breven slutar komma blir Marguerite nervös. Hon är redan beroende av dem. Varför har han tystnat? Hon kan inte tro att han förlorat intresset, kanske har han dött? Hon skriver tillbaka och kontakten återupptas. En dag ringer Yann för att tala om att han kommer på besök. ”När kommer ni?”, frågar hon. ”Imorgon klockan elva”, svarar han.Det är så det går till när Duras gör Yann till litteratur. Det är inte första gången, och han är inte den ende. I Duras böcker rör sig människorna i hennes liv ständigt. De blir mytiska och främmande, antar nya former, byter namn och historier med varandra.En ny bar, den liknar den första. Bara en annan stad, de har kört hela dagen. Mest av allt älskar mannen och kvinnan att åka i bilen tillsammans. Att stanna på en bar eller ett café och hitta på historier om människorna de ser.När Yann väl anlänt med bussen den där dagen stannade han kvar till Marguerite Duras död sexton år senare. Han blev hennes musa, hennes assistent, hennes beskyddare. Han renskrev hennes bilder av deras gemensamma tillvaro, han räddade kanske hennes liv. Hon var ensam, hon drack. Hon behövde en vän, men hävdar envist att Yann var hennes älskare.Den kärlek till Yann som går att spåra i Duras böcker, starkast i ”Emily L”, inverterad i ”Älskaren”, närvarande i bok efter bok, blir en litterär gåta. En kvinna som har levt med krig och förlorat ett barn, som är besatt av att skriva och vars författarskap dignar under nittonhundratalets blodiga historia. Hur ska hon älska en man som är så ung? En pojke vars begär driver honom till barerna på nätterna, i jakt på vackra män från Buenos Aires och Santiago. Detta är inte den tonåriga Marguerite Duras kärlek till en kinesisk miljardär, inte heller den uppoffrande smärtsamma kärleken till maken Robert L, som återvände från koncentrationsläger och tillfrisknade under hennes vård. Kärleken mellan Marguerite och Yann är märkt av litteratur, av den förödande och fruktbara sammanblandningen av liv och skrivande.Yann älskar Marguerites böcker. Hon älskar honom för hans röst, hans kropp, hans tankar. Denna åldrade kvinnas kärlek är luttrad och hjärtskärande, på en gång illusionsfri och påstridig. Det är en skyddslös kärlek, galen, den vet för mycket, den vet allt, men den förstår inte. Åldern, erfarenheten, visdomen kan inte hjälpa hjärtat.Och han? Mannen är för ung. Han är för intelligent. Han är för upptagen med att undersöka om livet är värt att leva.När Yann kommer till Marguerite är hans pengar slut. Hon betalar för vinet och maten. De talar i timmar, om att skriva, om att läsa. Marguerite säger att hon lätt skulle byta alla Roland Barthes böcker mot platserna i Indokina där hon växte upp. Barthes rådde henne en gång att återvända till stilen i hennes första ”så enkla och så förtjusande” romaner. Hon förlåter honom aldrig för hans nedlåtenhet. Hon vägrar vara nyanserad och tolerant. Så länge hon levde och efter sin död karaktäriseras detta raseri som pinsamt, ovärdigt, kvinnligt. Hon ger generationer kvinnor hopp genom att vara så genant som ingen kvinna får vara.Är det pinsamheten som får Yann att vända sig bort? Som får honom att säga: ”Ni kommer att överges av alla, för ni är galen, omöjlig att stå ut med”. Är det galenskapen som får honom att återvända, ständigt? Som får honom att gå tillbaka till henne när gryningen reser sig ur havet, lämna sina älskare och återvända till huset och kontrollera att manuskriptet hon arbetar med ligger kvar på bordet?Yann Andréa älskar Marguerite Duras böcker, men böckerna är hon. Hans liv blir hennes. Han låter sig förvandlas till en litterär karaktär, och beskriver det själv så. När hon är död fortsätter han författa brev till henne.Hon för sin del kan inte motstå någon som är så barnslig, som vill ha allt och allt på en gång. Hon vill ha denna nya kropp, lång och mager. Hon vill höra denna otroligt mjuka röst som är kunglig och återhållen. För att behålla honom måste hon hota med att kasta manuskriptet i havet.Marguerite Duras vet att kärleken till Yann Andreá blir acceptabel om hon utelämnar det pinsamma, om hon låter det vara en historia om två intellektuella som är besatta av litteratur. Hon vägrar. Yann är hennes älskare. Hon tvekar att skriva ner det, men gör det ändå: ”Efteråt sa ni att jag hade en osannolikt ung kropp” Yann kommer att förneka att han någonsin sagt något så löjligt, att det någonsin funnits en sådan historia.Den är en hård historia. Marguerite skriver: ”Ibland är jag rädd från det att ni vaknat. Liksom alla män förvandlas ni till kvinnomördare varje dag, om så bara för några sekunder”. Yann får vredesutbrott och de skrattar tillsammans när det är över. Hon skriver: ”Det händer att jag grips av ömhet för den sortens människor som vi är”.Lika centralt som raseriet är för Duras författarskap är förmågan till ömhet. I hennes sista bok ”Det är allt”, delvis en dialog med Yann, ligger denna ömhet i öppen dager tillsammans med hotet av den nära förestående separationen.Det är ingen bar längre, det är en dödsbädd. Den vackre mannen frågar: ”Hur skulle ni beskriva mig? Den döende kvinnan svarar: ”Outgrundlig. Den mest förtrollande människa jag mött. Ett gammalt svin.” Hon svarar: ”Jag älskar er. Adjö.”Elisabeth Hjorthförfattare, etiker och professor i litterär gestaltning LitteraturMarguerite Duras:Yann Andréa Steiner. Översättning Kennet Klemets, Ellerströms förlag, 2017.Horan på den normandiska kusten. Översättning Kennet Klemets, Ellerströms 2015.Det är allt. Översättning Kennet Klemets, Ellerströms, 2013.Emily L. Översättning Britt Arenander, Modernista, 2011.Dödssjukdomen. Översättning Marie Werup, Modernista, 2007Blå ögon svart hår. Översättning Kerstin Hallén, Albert Bonniers förlag, 1988. FaktaMarguerite Duras föddes 1914 och växte upp franska Indokina. Hon betraktas som en av 1900-talets framträdande och säregna författare och filmare. Bland hennes rika produktion kan nämnas ”Älskaren”, ”Smärtan”, ”En fördämning mot stilla havet”, ”Hiroshima, mon amour” och ”Att skriva”. Under 2000-talet har svenska översättningar av hennes böcker utgivits på hela sex olika förlag. Duras dog 1996.Yann Andréa (1952-2014) hette egentligen Yann Lemée

ANTIC Episode 115 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk lots of contest news, Mr. Paint, a DIY Atari-themed monitor, and lots of other Atari 8-bit news.  Plus, we find a book on “exhausting” Atari games! READY! 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Magazine ATR by Issue #4 to #95 - Rory McMahon - https://discord.com/channels/1071168010427060324/1071168010427060327/1340108131690348607  https://www.eurogamer.net/40-years-on-rescue-on-fractalus-remains-a-rare-reminder-of-the-magic-of-lucasfilm-games  Computer Dealer Demos: Selling Home Computers with Bouncing Balls and Animated Logos by Patryk Wasiak, Institute for Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland - https://www.academia.edu/10744534/Computer_Dealer_Demos_Selling_Home_Computers_with_Bouncing_Balls_and_Animated_Logos?email_work_card=title  Why the N tools?” By Thomas Cherryhomes:  https://fujinet.online/2025/02/21/atari-why-the-n-tools/  Video - https://youtu.be/BUR_KRTRWk0  1090XL Expansion case: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/318373-1090xl-remake/page/41/#findComment-5620900  Link to STLs: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1084156  Upcoming Shows Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/  VCF East - April 4-6, 2025 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org  Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/  VCF Europe - May 3-4 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/  Retrofest 2025 - May 31-June1 - Steam Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon, UK - https://retrofest.uk/  Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo - June 14 - New Westminster, BC, Canada - https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/index.html  VCF Southwest - June 20-22, 2025 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/  Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - June 20-22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/  Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se   Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/  VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub  YouTube Videos The Atari 800 Quick Repair Guide ! - Paul Westphal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R7CpvJLERk  Atari Pioneers Spill: 80s Gaming's Untold Stories! - Convention Coverage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YexxqfHUeik  Cutting Edge, Atari XL/XE 64 bytes intro - Freddy Offenga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcoGgFd-3Nc (From LoveByte 2025 - https://lovebyte.party/ ) "Abundance" 128 Byte Intro Atari XL/XE - gorgh Atari - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HmWxcGVrg  New at Archive.org  https://archive.org/details/addison-wesley-adventures-voor-uw-atari-xlxe  https://archive.org/details/addison-wesley-afmattende-spelen-voor-uw-atari-600-xl-800-xl  https://archive.org/details/great-lakes-atari-digest-june-1989-vol-1-no-4  https://archive.org/details/great-lakes-atari-digest-october-1989-vol-1-no-8  https://archive.org/details/catch-on-to-computers-with-atari-logo-post-cereal  https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-april-1987-vol-7-num-4-atari-articles  https://archive.org/details/salespersons-guide-to-the-atari-400-home-computer-system/page/n1/mode/2up  https://archive.org/details/excalibur-magazine/  https://archive.org/details/capitol-hill-atari-owners-society-software-library-disk-catalog-march-1987  https://archive.org/details/atari-price-list-june-1982-and-letters/mode/2up  https://archive.org/details/grand-rapids-atari-systems-supporters-software-library-disk-catalog-1987  Commercial Atari XE Computer System Commercial (1988) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjWEE5r8Rak  Feedback Chris Lorenzo - Vintage Gaming Memories (YouTube) - Atari Addict Collectors Issue Magazine 

Jonny berättar att han varit på en resa med sina killkompisar till Gdansk. En i resesällskapet föreslog att de skulle berätta varför de tycker om varandra. I tur och ordning fick de på en sunkig bar i Gdansk berätta varför vänskapen dem emellan är så viktig som den är. Johannes och Tomas har en liknande erfarenhet från en svensexa. Det blev ett oväntat gråtkalas när de i tur och ordning berättade varför de tycker om personen som var på väg att gifta sig. De snackar även om en undersökning gjord av Kamratposten som besvarades av nästan 1 700 barn i åldern 8–14 år. De hade bland annat ställt frågan: ”Vem vill du helst prata med när du är ledsen?”. Största delen (46 procent) svarade att de pratar med mamma när de är ledsna, medan endast sju procent svarade att de pratar med pappa om det är något som tynger.

Simpelt koncept idag: Marcus avlägger en rapport efter fyra dagars fylleslag i Gdansk! Allt om rom med rom med rom, karaoke, grått kött och annat. Stötta på Swish: 123 039 67 96 Live 08:30-09:30 i videoformat på Twitch måndag-fredag: @gamanglive

Episode 361 - Chatting with the Champ STO 2025 This week the cast catch up with the 2025 Sith Taker Open Champion Dom Flannigan and chat about his take on CIS that saw him take the top spot and the big event of the year! We round out the show with some chat about the recent Polish System Open X-Wing Championship final from Gdansk and a couple of Standard loadouts coming from the XWA. Sith Taker Open 2025 https://www.longshanks.org/event/22439/ Gdansk PSO X-Wing Championship 2024 https://longshanks.org/event/15021/ Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam, Tim and special guest Dom Flannigan Producer - Tim Recorded 10/02/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Mingle Game Song “Round and Round” Lyric Video | Squid Game: Season 2 | Netflix Used without permission - it's just for fun!

A new allowance for uniformed services, a corruption investigation into the Government Strategic Reserves Agency, historical albums missing from the WWII museum, a massive fire in Gdansk, Poland in space, and much more!Thanks for tuning in!Let us know what you think and what we can improve on by emailing us at info@rorshok.com You can also contact us on Twitter & Instagram @rorshokpoland Like what you hear? Subscribe, share, and tell your buds.We want to get to know you! Please fill in this mini-survey: https://forms.gle/NV3h5jN13cRDp2r66Wanna avoid ads and help us financially? Follow the link: https://bit.ly/rorshok-donate

In this episode, we look at a week of important gatherings on European defence, culminating with an Ursula Von der Leyen visit to Poland and the specially chosen port city of Gdansk. Related Weekly Outlook: https://visegradinsight.eu/eu-focus-on-security-in-gdansk-rutte-urges-war-readiness/

ANTIC Episode 114 - Andy Diller Returns! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have special guest Andy Diller for a FujiNet update and to let us know about all the great things he's working on… READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kay's Book “Terrible Nerd”  New Atari books scans at archive.org  ANTIC feedback at AtariAge  Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge  Interview index: here  ANTIC Facebook Page  AHCS  Eaten By a Grue  Next Without For  Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to ANTIC Interview 450 - Robert Leyland: AtariArtist, KoalaPainter, MicroIllustrator  Kay's 2024 wrapped - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2024-119233408  Lee Pappas ANALOG disks treasure hunt: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378256-lee-pappas-analog-disks-treasure-hunt/  https://github.com/scttgs0/titan-prototype-atari8  S.T.A.R. newsletter - https://www.atariorbit.org/star/  Rogul game: https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/01/16/rogul-an-interview-with-wojciech-bocianski/  http://bocianu.atari.pl/  YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOm0njTd4tI  Installing Altirra on ARM Macs - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/  News TNFS GUI for OSX & Windows (nwah) - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/tnfsd-gui?tab=readme-ov-file#tnfs-server-manager  FujiNet Virtual Printer Output Examples (Thom Cherryhomes) - https://fujinet.online/2025/01/22/fujinet-virtual-printer-examples/  FujiNet and GitHub (Thom Cherryhomes) - https://youtu.be/aYwUGnfU5c0  FujiNet NOS By Example (Thom Cherryhomes) - https://fujinet.online/2025/01/08/fujinet-nos-a-network-only-dos/  Atari 65XE in laptop form on Hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/05/atari-65xe-in-laptop-form/  New season 2025 of the High Score Club: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378830-new-season-2025-of-the-high-score-club/  https://forums.atariage.com/forum/60-8-bit-high-score-club/  Replacement Case for 800XL Coming to Kickstarter Q2 2025 - joeventura - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378702-replacement-case-for-800xl/  from Atariteca: Inufuto releases «Mieyen» for Atari 8-bit and 60 other retro systems: Article at Atariteca - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/01/inufuto-lanza-mieyen-para-atari-8-bits.html YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRwCAygyeI (Atari 8 Bits For Ever) A8E - Atari 800 Emulator - https://www.zerstoerung.de/  A JavaScript emulator built using A8E - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/224709-jsa8e-javascript-atari-800-xl-emulator-online/  BW-DOS 1.5 update - https://github.com/HolgerJanz/BW-DOS  Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com  Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/  VCF East - April 4-6, 2025 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org  Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/  VCF Europe - May 3-4 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/  Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo - June 14 - New Westminster, BC, Canada - https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/index.html  VCF Southwest - June 20-22, 2025 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/  Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - June 20-22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/  Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se  Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/  VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  YouTube Videos Using Atari with FujiNet to build source from Github Part 2: The Princess and the Frog - Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbV50iHFN4  Atari 8-bit Vs. Commodore 64 TV commercial - DashRetroTV - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpsQTVoXq3U  I Won Atari 8-Bit eBay Auction for $71.00 : Was It Worth It? - Into the Vertical Blank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhys9krXtA  How to implement a Hopfield network in BASIC on the ATARI 800 - BASIC Hacking - 11 - Jean Michael Sellier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqAEClxrCsw  ATARI Party! - Retro Repair Roundup Episode #71 - Retro Repair Roundup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cybgH9hKC2Y  Atari 8-bit computer 400/800: The first gaming PC? - Stay Forever Podcast (German) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMJkq2D4oyc  Commercial https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpsQTVoXq3U  Feedback Stray Pointers Podcast - with the Antic hosts  Closing Andy Diller's site - https://www.atariorbit.org/   

Thanks for joining us today! As always, we hope that our travel nonsense translates into your travel success! For more on how to frame your river cruising or any of our other show notes, ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠! In this episode, we can answer: What our New Year's Travel Resolutions are? The wonderful things about Gdansk and Warsaw. The top things you need to know about Europe. Get our take on how we create trips and ensure that every person on every trip enjoys themselves every time! For a full rundown on our conversation, check out our show notes ⁠⁠here⁠⁠! Now follow us on ALL the social media! Facebook   ⁠⁠@babciaandyiayia⁠⁠ Instagram   ⁠⁠@babciaandyiayia⁠⁠ TikTok   ⁠⁠@babciaandyiayia⁠⁠  (We LOVE your questions too!) Have ideas or questions about what you'd like us to cover? Please e-mail us your questions or ideas at babciaandyiayia@gmail.com Visit our blog and website by clicking ⁠⁠here⁠⁠!!

Thanks for joining us today! As always, we hope that our travel nonsense translates into your travel success! For more on how to frame your river cruising or any of our other show notes, ⁠click here⁠! In this episode, we can answer: What our New Year's Travel Resolutions are? The wonderful things about Gdansk and Warsaw. The top things you need to know about Europe. Get our take on how we create trips and ensure that every person on every trip enjoys themselves every time! For a full rundown on our conversation, check out our show notes ⁠here⁠! Now follow us on ALL the social media! Facebook   ⁠@babciaandyiayia⁠ Instagram   ⁠@babciaandyiayia⁠ TikTok   ⁠@babciaandyiayia⁠  (We LOVE your questions too!) Have ideas or questions about what you'd like us to cover? Please e-mail us your questions or ideas at babciaandyiayia@gmail.com Visit our blog and website by clicking ⁠here⁠!!

Episode 145 - Interview with Paul Terrell, The Byte Shop - Part 4 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics  Arcade Shopper   FutureVision Research  Hello, and welcome to episode 145 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for November, 2024.  I am Randy Kindig, your host for this audio tribute to the amazing variety of home computers that existed in the late 70's thru the 80's, before the influence of Big Blue changed the landscape forever. This month I'm continuing the series of interviews I've been doing recently with Paul Terrell.  As we have discussed, Paul Terrell is a name well-known in the annals of computer history; probably most famously for his kickstart of Apple Computer through the purchase of one of Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's first batches of Apple I computers for his Byte Shop.  The Byte Shop was a very early computer store that was one of the few that existed in the world, at the time. In this interview, we continue to focus primarily on The Byte Shop, how it got started, what it was like, and much more.  This is part 4 of a 4-part series on just that topic with Paul.  If you want to know what it was like to run a computer store in those early days, this is the interview for you!  Along the way, you'll learn even more about just what the home and hobby computer scene was like in those days. In future episodes, Paul and I will discuss other topics around his long and distinguished career, such as the aforementioned dealings with the fledgling Apple Computer, and other ventures in which Paul was involved after the Byte Shop, including a business that rented software. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Episodes 8 (https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-8-the-trs-80-model-i-part-i) and 9 (https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-9-the-trs-80-model-i-part-2), containing interviews with David and Theresa Welsh, authors of the book “Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution”. Lobo MAX-80 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-80  HP-97 Calculator and repair: https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp6797.htm  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-67/97  https://www.ebay.com/usr/waterhosko  Upcoming Shows Show list I maintain for the remainder of the current year - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/current-year-vintage-computer-show-schedule)  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  Atari Party 2024 - Dec. 7 (noon - 4p.m.) - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - http://atariparty.org/  Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com  Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/  VCF East - April 4-6, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org  Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/  Interview with Paul Terrell (3) Apple-1 Prototype Polaroid Photographs Given to Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop in 1976 - https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348985606984001-steve-jobs-3-apple-1-prototype-polaroid-photographs-given-to-paul-terrell-of-the-byte-shop-in-1976/?cat=3  Ray Borrill's Data Domain blog - https://www.landsnail.com/thedatadomain/remember.htm 

ANTIC Episode 112 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have several Christmas ideas for you, we tell you about projects that would allow creating a new reproduction Atari 800XL, and we wet our appetites for the current Atari's hot sauce while wearing their ugly Christmas sweater … READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kay's Book “Terrible Nerd”  New Atari books scans at archive.org  ANTIC feedback at AtariAge  Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge  Interview index: here  ANTIC Facebook Page  AHCS  Eaten By a Grue  Next Without For  Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines by Sarah A. Bell - https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262375870/page/169/mode/2up?q=savetz  Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie by Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman - https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262380553/  MIT Press: Open Access Materials - https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access  A Treasure Chest of Ampex Tapes Saves Early Computer History - https://www.ampex.com/a-treasure-chest-of-ampex-tapes-saves-early-computer-history/  Atari 400/800 Reference Card (Atari BASIC and Microsoft BASIC) by Nanos Systems Corp. - https://archive.org/details/1984-03-anticmagazine/page/102/mode/2up  Best of Creative Computing (Volumes I & III): https://archive.org/details/Best_of_Creative_Computing_Vol_1_1978_Creative_Computing_Press  https://archive.org/details/bestofcreativeco0003unse  Cassette repair - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCGJ7GQF  Stray Pointers podcast with the ANTIC crew - Jim Lawless - https://straypointers.com/e/s2e19.htm  Recent Interview Shows ANTIC Interview 442 - Bob Stein, Atari Research ANTIC Interview 443 - Rick Reaser, Current Notes Magazine ANTIC Interview 444 - Nick Kennedy, SIO2PC and ATR ANTIC Interview 445 - Vince Cate, The Critical Connection News Ugly Christmas sweaters - https://atari.com/collections/holiday-collection?filter.p.product_type=Sweatshirts&sort_by=manual  Atari Hot Sauce - https://atarisauce.com/  Christmas Critters: https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/11/anuncian-demo-de-christmas-critters.html  And at AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/375904-christmas-critters-wip-game-demo/  he just released an “engine prototype demo” - https://tigerskunk.itch.io/atari-xmasdemo  And Saberman has already done a quick video on it - https://youtu.be/efP2WOLnxvY  Revive Machines is working on the injection molds of RM 800XL, the modern FPGA recreation of the Atari 800XL - Philsan69: https://x.com/philsan69/status/1856461217792999494?s=58  https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html  Clear Case Kickstarter for 800XL has begun (Nov. 1) - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seethruit/injection-molded-clear-case-for-atari-800xl-computer/  Brian Reifsnyder Designs an "Advanced Remake" of Atari's 800XL Mainboard - https://www.hackster.io/news/brian-reifsnyder-designs-an-advanced-remake-of-atari-s-800xl-mainboard-95cbc0823bb3.amp  AtariBASICs November newsletter - John Zielke - https://ataribasics.com/  Atari Addict Collector's Magazine - https://www.pixel.addict.media/shop/atari-addict-magazine  Atari Programmers Society Newsletter: https://archive.org/details/wire-taps-atari-programmers-society-newsletter-april-1986-vol-4-num-4  v1n6 1983 - https://archive.org/details/wiretaps-v1n6  Cartridge extender card for the Atari 1200XL - ReifsnyderB - https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/cartridge-extender-card-for-the-atari-1200xl/  Improved Keyboard on an XE - https://amzn.to/4i10QZz  Vintage Computer Center starting back up (Gavin Haubelt) - http://www.vintagecomputercenter.com  FastBASIC install/debugger - Eric Carr https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOm8Mq4qFA  400 mini it is available from Amazon Germany for $54 plus shipping. - https://www.amazon.de/-/en/RETROGAMES-THE400MINI/dp/B0CRYXTL82  Upcoming Shows REMAINING IN 2024 Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  Atari Party 2024 - Dec. 7 (noon - 4p.m.) - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - http://atariparty.org/  2025 Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com  Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/  VCF East - April 4-6, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org  Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/  Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/  YouTube Videos The Atari 1200xl - Atari's 8-bit red-headed stepchild - Power of Vintage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLTJzZ7-I8  Atari XE memory extension (512 KB) in 2 easy ways - RetroKernal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvBkMEnONgs  Atari 65 XE vs Commodore 64 | 70s 80s Computer System Competition TV Commercial - VideoGames Replay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMNGMHKZ0w  Atari Computers Sales, Marketing Strategy 80's TV Commercial - VideoGames Replay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7kY9pkFxM  Atari 800 Game: Scram (1980 Atari) - Old Classic Retro Gaming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XRtICfBuQ  CHM: Oral History of Nolan Bushnell - https://youtu.be/izYWqhUGBGA?si=M4T43I-tJ2mp2EhA  New at Archive.org  https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-jan-1989-vol-9-num-1-atari-articles  https://archive.org/details/atari-price-list-june-1982-and-letters  https://archive.org/details/europa-america-aventuras-com-o-atari  https://archive.org/details/computer-83-special-section-the-oregonian-june-16-1983  “The Dirty Book”: https://archive.org/details/the-dirty-book-v-2-n-2  https://archive.org/details/TheDirtyBookV2N1  Referenced by - https://bsky.app/profile/lainenooney.bsky.social/post/3lbldh3w2hk2m  A Word From Our Sponsor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMNGMHKZ0w  New at GitHub https://github.com/pvbestinfoo/Atari_8-Bit_Rom_Image_File_Explorer  https://github.com/sidneycadot/sam  https://github.com/dpicken/atari-hw  https://github.com/JSJvR/atari-8-bit-utils  https://github.com/GRHOnline/Mono8bitmap  https://github.com/fredlcore/1K-RainBox   

Hello, everyone! This is Episode 21 of "The Show 6 Podcast", where we bring you the highest quality coverage of the Play! Pokémon Championship Series for Pokémon GO! We explore the plays, the players, and everything else happening in the competitive scene.This week, we talk about the Gdańsk and Buenos Aires Regional Championships, where TontonBatteuse cooked the competition, and Nesabethan stole Gold! Alolan Raticate wins its first Regional Championship, Azumarill is almost ubiquitous, Dunsparce is rolling into top usage, and Nesabethan shows that Shadow Quagsire still has the sauce! These topics, and a whole lot more! We hope you enjoy this episode. Leave us a review on whichever platform you are listening!With that said, if you're ready, Lock In, press play, and good luck, have fun!

Pokemon lore goes deep. So deep in fact that it's up to your friendly DrewTooMany investigators to ask the hard hitting questions that you all want to know. Is Andrew taller than a Palkia? Find out! Oh yeah and we talk about the current meta of the Pokemon TCG too I guess - Gdansk, LAIC, Stellar crown blah blah blah...

Join the Littleroot Lessons Discord! --- https://discord.gg/8tvrcgRcTT The Gdansk Regionals happened over the weekend, and it came down to a weather war in the finals! The new Sun TR Charizard team had made big waves leading up to Gdansk, but it wasn't enough to take over the dominant Archaludon Pelipper team that's been around since the start! If you want to support what we do now that our ad cents are gone, you can! Use this link to help us grow! --- https://anchor.fm/littlerootlessons/support Follow us on Twitter --- https://twitter.com/LRLessons | https://twitter.com/MuzikalVGC | https://twitter.com/Mrmissouri25 | https://twitter.com/jaymcg10 | https://twitter.com/rhovgc You can also find us on Twitch! --- https://twitch.tv/Muzikal | https://twitch.tv/MrMissouri25 | https://twitch.tv/jaymcg1010 For other inquiries, feel free to contact us at littlerootlessons@gmail.com Outro | GlitchxCity | Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: Route 225 Lofi Remix | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfAP_Al0uTg

The Gdansk Regional Championships are this weekend and Ethan Wilde joins the podcast to provide our updated tier list and meta predictions. Ethan recently finished in the Top 8 of the Lille Regional Championships with Lugia Vstar and he breaks down the decisions he has made and why a 1-2 line of Cinccino is optimal.  NAKAMACON IS BACK!  November 4th & 5th in Orange Park, Fl, purchase tickets at https://nakamabar.com/nakamacon-2023/ Use code Beachcourt at checkout for $10 off your 2 day Gold Pass Join us November 4th & 5th for your chance to challenge the Elite 4 and win Surging Sparks Pokemon Merchandise. Thanks to Nakama Anime Cafe for being an official sponsor of the Beach Court Podcast! They offer a traditional Japanese dining experience right here in our backyard of Orange Park, FL. Nakama also has a karaoke bar right next door... So you can grab some grub and then head next door to sing along to your favorite Pokemon songs! Find more details at: https://nakamabar.com/nakama-cafe/ Tell them that Beach Court Podcast sent you :)   Follow the Beach Court Podcast Socials: LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/beachcourtpod Follow the Beach Court Podcast crew on Twitter: Eric - https://twitter.com/RidgewayTCG Maddox - https://twitter.com/MaddoxTCG Parker - https://twitter.com/Squint_PTCG Follow Ethan on Twitter: https://x.com/emothann Get Coaching from Ethan: https://t.co/N0Fw57JgyP  #pokemon #pokemontcg #beachcourtpodcast #Regionalchampionships #podcast #Gdansk #Lugia #top8 #tierlist #metapredictions

G'day battlers, and welcome to the G'day Battlers Podcast! This week we talk all about the Lille Regional Championship, the finals of the Louisville Regional Championships, and Locals raging on through Australia! Also, Steve is officially in Gdansk for the Regional this weekend!   Follow us on X: https://x.com/GdayBattlers  Subscribe on YouTube:  @GdayBattlers 

Pokemon TCG Pocket is here, there was a MASSIVE event over in China this weekend, and Gdansk regionals is happening this weekend! Become a Spotify subscriber and gain access to a 30 minute bonus episode every single week! Thanks to Dragon Shield for being an official sponsor of the Uncommon Energy Podcast! They make the best sleeves, accessories, and gaming products in the entire industry. Get 5% off your order by using code "UEPOD" online at: https://dragonshield.com/?ref=uncommonenergy

ANTIC Episode 111 - “Is Kay Really Funny, or is it Just a Courtesy Snicker?” In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We go over the ABBUC Software Contest winners, we cover PRGE, Kay accelerates his interview publishing schedule, and we ask the question: Is Kay really funny, or are Randy's snickers simply courtesy?  You decide … READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kay's Book “Terrible Nerd”  New Atari books scans at archive.org  ANTIC feedback at AtariAge  Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge  Interview index: here  ANTIC Facebook Page  AHCS  Eaten By a Grue  Next Without For  What we've been up to PRGE - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/  Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution by David and Theresa Welsh - https://amzn.to/40l4vv1 (sponsored link)  Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 439 - Making Modern Atari Hardware  ANTIC Interview 440 - Ed Sabo, UltraBASIC  ANTIC Interview 441 - Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer  News ABBUC 2024 Software Contest: https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/10/ruff-in-trouble-ganador-del-abbuc-2024.html  https://abbuc.de/2024/10/ergebnis-abbuc-softwarewettbewerb-2024-result-abbuc-software-competition-2024/  ABBUC Magazines -  https://abbuc.de  4th ATASCII Compo 2024 - Presentation Pre-Launch for Clear Case for 800XL has begun: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seethruit/injection-molded-clear-case-for-atari-800xl-computer/ https://forums.atariage.com/topic/373926-pre-launch-for-clear-case-for-800xl-has-begun/  Bouncy World Server Available - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/09/27/bouncy-world-server-available/  Replacement cartridge slot - Screaming at the Radio - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/373896-replacement-cartridge-slot/  Mastertronic Collectors Archive - Atari (8-Bit) Mastertronic Checklist - https://mastertronic.co.uk/atari-mastertronic-checklist/  Upcoming Shows Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub  YouTube Videos Atari XL/XE -=Go! Tony Go!=- - Saberman RetroNews - Atari XL/XE -=Go! Tony Go!=-  LIVE from PRGE 2024 Day 1: AtariAge New Releases & WIP - ZeroPage Homebrew - LIVE from PRGE 2024 Day 1: AtariAge New Releases & WIP (FIXED!)  Videos of the ABBUC winners, such as: Atari XL/XE -=Eat Me!=- ABBUC Software Contest 2024 - Saberman RetroNews - Atari XL/XE -=Eat Me!=- ABBUC Software Contest 2024  1K Rainbox - Saberman RetroNews - Atari XL/XE -=1K RainBox=- ABBUC Software Contest 2024  My Atari 800 prints out the news and weather every morning! - Sascha Segan - My Atari 800 prints out the news and weather every morning! New at Archive.org  https://archive.org/details/horten-computer-welt-11-85-preise/ https://archive.org/details/brace-bits-vol-3-no-1/BraceBits%20vol1%20no4/ https://archive.org/details/@allan52?query=portland Github https://github.com/marktmiller/atari-8-bit-forth-projects/tree/main/fig-forth1.1/FP%20library https://github.com/ivop/saprtools

Episode 144 - Interview with Don French and Steve Leininger, Co-Designers of the TRS-80 Model I Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics  Arcade Shopper   FutureVision Research  Hello, and welcome to episode 144 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for October, 2024.  I am Randy Kindig, your host for this audio ode to the home computers of the past. This month I have a special treat for you.  At the recent Tandy Assembly, which I will talk about in more detail later in the podcast, not only were there a lot of great people, exhibits, vendors, and camaraderie, but we were also blessed with having Steve Leininger as one of the guest speakers along with his partner in the development of the TRS-80 Model I, Don French! I recently had an interview with Steve Leininger (episode 142: https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-142-interview-with-steve-leininger-designer-of-the-trs-80-model-i ), thanks to his willingness to be interviewed at the recent VCF Southeast in Atlanta.  That was a milestone for my podcast, as I had always wanted to talk with Steve.  I also had interviewed Don French several years ago, prior to his attending Tandy Assembly in 2017, in episode 53 (https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-53-interview-with-don-french-co-designer-of-the-trs-80-model-i ).  This time, however, I was able to get an interview with Don and Steve together in the same interview!  That in itself was amazing and I think you'll really enjoy the back-and-forth between the two gentlemen who are obviously and correctly proud of the work they did to bring the TRS-80 to the world and Tandy into the computer business. Next month, I will talk about another computer rescue that came my way recently, and which is also tied into Tandy Assembly and Radio Shack computers.  I'll not go into any further detail here as I don't want to spoil the story for you next month.  But believe me, it will be fun both to tell and to listen to. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Soldering kits from FutureVision Research The Soldering Basics Kit  The BEAM Bot Soldering Kit  The Demonstrator Soldering Kit  Tandy Assembly 2024 - https://www.tandyassembly.com/  Drive cable for the TRS-80 Model I from Ian Mavric - https://www.ebay.com/str/trs80universe  RAM card for Tandy PC2/Sharp PC1500 from Jeff Birt - https://www.soigeneris.com/sharp-pc-1500-memory-modules  Upcoming Shows Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  Show list I maintain for the remainder of the current year - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/current-year-vintage-computer-show-schedule)   

How are EMS companies navigating the tumultuous world of electronics manufacturing and supply chain, as recent disruptions like port closures and hurricanes put the industry's resilience to the test yet again. Join Shawn DuBravac, IPC chief economist and futurist, as we tackle the resolutions of these challenges while dipping our toes in the ongoing debates surrounding automation and jobs. Explore how this strategic industrial action, timed at year-end, may impact the supply chain landscape, especially with businesses keen on avoiding surplus inventory. We also emphasize the pressing need to attract younger talent by updating traditional labor roles, ensuring a balanced approach to efficiency and job security.Venture further into the economic trends, like IPC's book-to-bill and in4ma's half year report, impacting the manufacturing sector amid the slow growth of bookings and the looming U.S. election. Shawn and I dissect how interest rate expectations influence investment decisions, alongside assessing the potential headwinds for market expansion. Shawn briefly comments on the presidential candidates' strategies to enhance domestic manufacturing, including the decoupling from China and proposed tariffs and investment incentives. With insights from an international lens, we highlight the reliance on Mexico within the U.S. supply chain, bringing a comprehensive understanding of the interconnected global landscape.I also provide some insight from the EMS leaders I talked to at IPC EMS Seminar in Gdansk last month.Like every episode of EMS@C-Level, this one was sponsored by global inspection leader Koh Young (https://www.kohyoung.com) and Adaptable Automation Specialist Launchpad.build (https://launchpad.build).You can see video versions of all of the EMS@C-Level pods on our YouTube playlist.

BUFFALO, NY- October 17, 2024 – A new #research paper was #published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science), Volume 16, Issue 19 on September 18, 2024, entitled, “Fibroblast growth factor 21 inversely correlates with survival in elderly population – the results of the Polsenior2 study.” As noted in the abstract, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a liver-secreted hormone involved in regulating lipid, glucose, and energy metabolism. Its serum concentration increases with age and is elevated in various diseases. FGF21 is currently being investigated for its potential as a biomarker and therapeutic target. In their paper, Polish researchers Gabriela Handzlik, Aleksander J. Owczarek, Andrzej Więcek, Małgorzata Mossakowska, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Anna Chudek, Magdalena Olszanecka-Glinianowicz, and Jerzy Chudek from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, and the Medical University of Gdansk aimed to assess the prognostic value of FGF21 in an older, population-based cohort from the PolSenior2 study. The researchers report that in a sub-analysis of 3,512 individuals aged 60 and older, stratified into tertiles based on FGF21 levels, the survival estimate was worse in participants with middle and high FGF21 levels compared to those in the lowest tertile. These findings were supported by univariable Cox regression analysis, where participants in the middle and high FGF21 tertiles, after adjusting for age, had a 1.43-fold (HR 1.31; 95% CI, 1.05–1.62) and 2.56-fold (HR 1.94; 95% CI, 1.59–2.37) increased risk of mortality, respectively, compared to the lowest tertile. In multivariable Cox regression analysis, the highest FGF21 levels were independently associated with increased mortality (HR 1.53; 95% CI, 1.22–1.92), regardless of co-morbidities and blood parameters. "These results indicate that higher serum FGF21 concentration is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in the general population of older adults.” DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206114 Corresponding author - Gabriela Handzlik - ghandzlik@sum.edu.pl Video short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPrI68nbLE Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://aging.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Faging.206114 Subscribe for free publication alerts from Aging - https://www.aging-us.com/subscribe-to-toc-alerts Keywords - aging, fibroblast growth factor 21, survival, population-based study, longevity About Aging-US The mission of the journal is to understand the mechanisms surrounding aging and age-related diseases, including cancer as the main cause of death in the modern aged population. The journal aims to promote 1) treatment of age-related diseases by slowing down aging, 2) validation of anti-aging drugs by treating age-related diseases, and 3) prevention of cancer by inhibiting aging. (Cancer and COVID-19 are age-related diseases.) Please visit our website at https://www.Aging-US.com​​ and connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ X - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AgingJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1X4HQQgegjReaf6Mozn6Mc MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM

I recap the top 3 women and all Team USA skaters from the 2024 JGP in Gdansk, Poland: Mao Shimada (JPN) Kaoruko Wada (JPN) Nayeon Ko (KOR) Cleo Park (USA) Elizabeth Hansen / William Church (USA) Saya Carpenter/ Ignacio Maravilla (USA) Reagan Moss/ Jakub Galbavy (USA) Katarina Wolfkostin / Dimity Tsarevski Yahli Pedersen / Benjamin Starr (USA)

By Davy Crockett  During the first half of the 1980s, Bernd Heinrich, of Vermont, was the fastest ultrarunner in America. In 2007, he was the fifth person to be inducted into the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame. Today, few know of him and his amazing running records and accomplishments. He was unique from most other ultrarunners of his time in that rather than competing in many races, he was very selective in his race choices. When he ran, he had specific goals to win or set records, with laser focused training for these few specific events. Using this approach, he was able to win and set several American records. Heinrich appeared suddenly on the ultrarunning scene, setting a record in his very first ultra, and he quickly rose to the top of the sport. He was named “Ultrarunner of the Year” three of the first four years of Ultrarunning Magazine's existence. He had a quiet nature and never sought for the running spotlight, but eventually was one of the few to be inducted in the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame. As a boy, Heinrich grew up living deep in a forest in war-torn Germany. In his life priorities, running was secondary to his true love, observing, researching, teaching and writing about nature. During his intense running years, he was able to find a balance to become a world-renowned expert in his professional naturalist career, studying birds, bees, and other animals and insects. Ultrarunning historian, Nick Marshall wrote about Heinrich in 1984, “Often runners don't know much about the backgrounds of individuals whose athletic accomplishments may be very familiar to them, so it is quite nice to see one of our sport's star gain recognition as a successful pioneer in a totally unrelated field.” Learn about the rich and long history of ultrarunning. There are now eleven books available in the Ultrarunning History series on Amazon, compiling podcast content and much more. Learn More. If you would like to order multiple books with a 30% discount, send me a message here. Childhood in Germany Forest in The Hahnheide Bernd Heinrich was born in Bad Polzin, Poland in 1940 to Gerd Heinrich (1898-1984) and Hildegarde Maria (Burovna) Heinrich (1917-2012). His father became an internationally known research biologist and a German pilot during World War I. Near the end of World War II, he and his family fled their large farm near Gdansk to escape advancing Russian troops in 1944 and crossed what would be the future border for East Germany. Henrich recalled, “The times were not easy. The biggest problem was filling our bellies. Papa decided that the best chance of finding food would be in the forest. We came across a large reserve called “the Hahnheide,” and within it a small empty hut used before the war by a nature club from Hamburg. The forester in charge gave us permission to move in. We lived deep in the forest for five years. We had no work and hardly ever any money.” They survived by foraging for nuts, berries, mushrooms, and hunting small rodents and ducks. This experience began his love for nature and was “a rare mix of survival and enchantment.” Mushrooms in The Hahnheide Heinrich recalled, “We were totally immersed in nature. Like most animals, our major concern was finding food. I didn't like picking berries because I had to move so slowly, from bush to bush. I much preferred picking mushrooms when I could run at will through the damp forest, feeling the soft green moss under my bare feet.” Young Heinrich collected beetles and birds' eggs for his family's food supply. He became obsessed with the creatures around him. “I had no playmates and never owned a toy. Yet I didn't feel deprived. Who needs toys after having seen caterpillars from up close and knowing they can turn into moths?” Heinrich became fascinated with bugs and insects. When he was nine, he drew a birthday card for his father and on the back; he wrote that he had collected 447 beetles of 135 species.

ANTIC Episode 110 - Are the Grandkids Listening!? In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Kay makes TI users unhappy, VCFMW recap, we drool over an Atari Home Computer Demonstration Center display, we bid farewell to an Atari podcast, and Randy uses a word he wouldn't want his grandkids to hear… READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kay's Book “Terrible Nerd”  New Atari books scans at archive.org  ANTIC feedback at AtariAge  Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge  Interview index: here  ANTIC Facebook Page  AHCS  Eaten By a Grue  Next Without For  Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to TI Fest West 2017 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/260465-fest-west-2017/page/15/  Kay as Radio Survivor podcast guest about Famous Computer Cafe - Podcast #342 – The Famous Computer Cafe  ComputerLand radio commercials: https://archive.org/details/ComputerLand_Radio_Commercials  https://archive.org/details/ComputerLand_Micro_Minutes_commercials  VCFMW - https://vcfmw.org  Indus GT drive https://atariprojects.org/2021/06/20/purchase-and-install-a-64k-ram-upgrade-for-an-indus-gt-floppy-drive-30-60-mins/  https://atariprojects.org/2021/06/20/run-the-cp-m-operating-system-on-your-atari-8-bit-computer-using-an-upgraded-indus-gt-floppy-drive-30-60-mins/  10502PC cable - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=157  6502 Software Gourmet Guide & Cookbook by Robert Findley - https://archive.org/details/6502sggac  FujiNet-PC and Fujitzee - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-pc/releases  Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 438 - John Carlsen, Atari Summer Employee - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-438-john-carlsen-atari-summer-intern  News FujiNet update (RAPID 11) https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/08/10/fujitzee-fujinet-game-system-gets-new-game/ https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/08/13/bouncy-fun/ Atari Calculator/Colleen Calculator information https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/113119855733880407  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Calculator  NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google.com/  Inverse ATASCII update and final episode SE8EB1 - Best of/Worst of - https://inverseatascii.info/2024/08/31/s8eb1-best-of-worst-of/  SE8EB2 - https://inverseatascii.info/2024/09/15/s8eb2-summary-announcement/ Into the Vertical Blank https://intotheverticalblank.com/  (from Philsan) RM 800XL project by @rm_800xl continues. Trademark is now registered and Revive Machines is working on injection molds: Revive Machines - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html  Trademark - https://t.co/XccGGybXQ1  Atari Basics newsletter - https://ataribasics.com/newsletter-hub/  XCF12 - https://thingiverse.com/thing:6710517  “F-16 Falcon Strike” - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/08/primer-teaser-de-f-16-falcon-strike.html  Mention of Atari computer in “It's no longer as simple as hitting the print button” (Bluefield, WV) - https://www.bdtonline.com/opinion/its-no-longer-as-simple-as-hitting-the-print-button/article_a533a3a8-5c1a-11ef-ba19-831e933a50bd.html  NUC plus4 - https://ataribits.weebly.com/nucplus4.html  Upcoming Shows Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/  Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub  YouTube Videos Carol Shaw's Road To River Raid - Revealing Gaming's History - Game Informer - https://archive.org/details/youtube-1OcT5zJzVV0  90 Minutes With Atari CEO Wade Rosen | All Things Nintendo - https://archive.org/details/youtube-yn8GTA4HMCU  Decent USB Host: USB, Wifi and Bluetooth on Atari 8-bit computers - Screaming at the Radio! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaEhkeXd_A  Santosp Atari XE Remake Motherboard Build Part 1 - flashjazzcat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMweiI8sOU  Atari 8-Bit Series: Part 7: 410 Program Recorder - 8 Bit Milli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqy997uL84  1090XL Video With New Cards - reifsnyderb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsrE2A81y4  Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk  New at Archive.org  https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-february-1989-vol-9-num-2-atari-articles  https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-july-1984-vol-4-num-7-atari-articles  https://archive.org/details/alog-pagewriter  https://archive.org/details/portland-atari-club-computer-news-january-1988  https://archive.org/details/portland-atari-club-computer-news-august-1988  https://archive.org/details/portland-atari-club-computer-news-april-1988  https://archive.org/details/atari-roots-rev-2-r-1 Computer studio catalog at SDH Feniks - Warsaw - https://archive.org/details/fhkd_katalog_feniks_warszawa_zelazna_32_ Github https://github.com/snorklerjoe/atari8-ham-terminal https://github.com/BartGo/forth-atari https://github.com/stefanschramm/retroload https://github.com/mwenge/attackofthemutantcamels https://github.com/ivop/8x8-fonts  

In episode 123, we travel to Gdynia and Gdansk in Poland.  We recap our visit to this cruise port area in Poland as part of a two-week Baltic-Scandinavia cruise itinerary. Attractions reviewed on this episode include: Gdansk Old Town Historic churches Solidarity Museum Malbork Castle Our top restaurant recommendation for pierogi …and more   If you have more days to spend in Gdansk, listen to our prior episodes: The Best Things To Do In Gdansk Poland The Best Places To Visit Near Gdansk Poland   The Places Where We Go Resources PODCAST: Released every other week in your favorite podcast app WEBSITE & BLOG www.theplaceswherewego.com SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER YOUTUBE: The Places Where We Go YouTube Channel INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theplaceswherewego TWITTER / X: https://twitter.com/theplaceswhere1 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ThePlacesWhereWeGo EMAIL: Write to us at comments@theplaceswherewego.com GEAR WE USE: The Places Where We Go Amazon Storefront We'll see you at the places where we go. Julie & Art   AFFILIATE LINK DISCLOSURE The Places Where We Go contains affiliate links and is a member of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. If you make a purchase using one of these Amazon links, we may receive compensation at no extra cost to you. Read our disclaimer and privacy policy for more information.

Interview with Steve Leininger, Designer of the TRS-80- Model I Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics  Arcade Shopper   0                                 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 13 sec              Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 42 sec              Intro 9 min 03 sec             bumper - Peter Bartlett  9 min 11 sec              New Acquisitions 17 min 11 sec             bumper - Ian Mavric  17 min 19 sec            Upcoming Computer Shows 21 min 53 sec            bumper - Myles Wakeham 21 min 58 sec            Meet the Listeners 28 min 37 sec            Interview with Steve Leininger 1 hr 20 min 29 sec    Closing This particular episode has a special meaning for me, personally.  You see, as I've mentioned on earlier episodes, the TRS-80 Model I from Tandy/Radio Shack was my first home computer (even though my first programmable device was a TI58C calculator).  I recall the joy and wonder of playing with the machine (it wasn't called the Model I at that time; just the TRS-80; as it was the first of the line) in the local Radio Shack store in 1977 and 1978 and the incredible rush of owning one in 1979; after my wife purchased a Level I BASIC machine for me as a gift for college graduation.  That machine only had 4K of RAM and 4K of ROM (Tiny BASIC), as it was the entry-level machine, but it was a thing of beauty.  I felt like I could do anything with that machine, even though my justification to the wife was that we could track our checkbook and recipes on it.  I think she knew better, but went along with it anyway.  The computer came with everything you needed, including a tape drive and black-and-white monitor, which was good for a poor recent college graduate.  I quickly, as finances allowed with my new engineering job, upgraded the computer to 16K of RAM and Level II BASIC (a powerful Microsoft 12K ROM BASIC) and enjoyed the machine immensely, even using it in my job supporting the build-out of a new nuclear power plant back in those days. I eventually sold off the Model I, in favor of a computer that had color graphics and sound (the Atari 800), but have always continued to have a huge soft spot for that first computer. When I started the Floppy Days Podcast, one of the people that has always been on my bucket list to interview has been Steve Leininger, who, along with Don French while at Radio Shack designed the TRS-80 Model I, among other things.  A few years back, I had the opportunity to participate in an interview with Steve for the Trash Talk Podcast, when I was co-hosting that show, but an ill-timed trip to the hospital for my son meant that I was not able to participate.  While my son's health is of paramount importance, of course, I always wanted to get another chance to talk with Steve.  Not only was Steve the designer of one of my favorite home computers of all time, but he also was a fellow Purdue University Boilermaker, who graduated just a year before I started there.  The thought that I could have met Steve on campus if I'd been there just a year earlier was very intriguing to me, and fueled my desire to talk with Steve even more. In the last episode (#141 with Paul Terrell) I talked about VCF Southeast in Atlanta in July of 2024.  After I had made plans to attend that show, I was flabbergasted to find out that Earl Baugh, one of the show organizers, had somehow managed to contact Steve and get him to come to the show!  I have to thank Earl for the work he did to make that happen.  Here was my opportunity to certainly meet Steve, and perhaps even talk with him!  I prepped some questions, just in case I was able to get an interview. While at the show, I met Steve and asked him if he would be willing to do a short interview for Floppy Days while at the show.  Amazingly, he was very kind and agreed to do that.  We found a quiet room and I was able to talk with Steve for almost an hour.  This show contains that interview. Another note on this: as you'll hear in the interview, the connection to Steve is even stronger than I realized!  He not only went to my alma mater, but also grew up in some of the same towns that myself and my wife did.  We personally peripherally know some of his relatives.  Things like this really do make you think the world is small! One other, final, note: This interview even ties into the recent and continuing interviews I've been publishing with Paul Terrell.  As you'll hear in upcoming episodes with Paul, and in this interview with Steve, Steve actually worked at the Byte Shop before getting the first job with Tandy, and in fact his work at the Byte Shop directly led to him getting hired by Tandy to design the Model I. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I enjoyed getting it.  I am overjoyed I finally got the chance to talk to one of my vintage computer heroes, Steve Leininger! 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I really appreciate your time today, Steve.  Steve Leininger: Thank you for having me, Randy.  Randy Kindig: So let's start out maybe just by talking about where You live today, and what you do? Steve Leininger: I live in Woodland Park, Colorado, which is 8, 500 feet, right out in front of we got Pike's Peak out our front window. Randy Kindig: Oh. Oh, that's nice.  Steve Leininger: Yeah we get snow up through about June, and then it starts again about September. But it's not as much snow as you would imagine.  Randy Kindig: I've got property in Montana, and I lived out there for a couple of years,  Steve Leininger: so there you go.  Randy Kindig: We probably got more snow up there.  Steve Leininger: Hey, you asked what I did.  I'm involved with Boy Scouts, a maker space with a church based ministry firewood ministry, actually. Some people call it a fire bank. So we provide firewood to people who can't afford that.  Randy Kindig: Oh.  Steve Leininger: So it's like a food bank, but with fire, firewood.  Randy Kindig: I've never heard of that. Steve Leininger: We source the firewood. We cut it down and we split it. Lots of volunteers involved; pretty big project.  Randy Kindig: Yeah. Okay, cool. I also wanted to mention, I'm a fellow Boilermaker.  Steve Leininger: There you go.  Randy Kindig: I know you went to Purdue, right?  Steve Leininger: I did go to Purdue.  Randy Kindig: Did you ever get back there?  Steve Leininger: Yeah, and in fact they've got a couple learning spaces named after us. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay.  Steve Leininger: We've been donating to our respective alma maters. My wife went to IU.  Randy Kindig: Oh, is that right? Oh my.  Steve Leininger: Yeah, oh my and me. Yeah, the fact that the family who's all IU, their family tolerated me was, quite a remarkable thing.  Randy Kindig: Okay.  I find it interesting because I think you graduated in 76, is that right? Steve Leininger: 74.  Randy Kindig: Oh, 74.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. Yeah. I was there from … Randy Kindig: Oh yeah, you actually were gone before I started.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. So I was there from 70 to 73. 70 to 70 four. When I graduated in four years, I got both my bachelor's and master's degree by going through the summer. I managed to pass out of the first year classes because of some of the high school stuff yeah.  Randy Kindig: Okay. I started in 75, so I guess we just missed each other.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. Yeah. You're the new kids coming in.  Randy Kindig: Yeah. . So I, I found that interesting and I wanted to say that. Do you keep up with their sports program or anything like that? Steve Leininger: Yeah, they play a pretty good game of basketball in fact, I ribbed my wife about it because she was from the earlier days, the Bobby Knight days at IU that were phenomenal.  Randy Kindig: Yeah, exactly. For those of you listening, I'm talking with Steve Leininger, who was the primary developer, if not the developer, of the TRS 80 Model I.. Steve Leininger: I did all the hardware and software for it. I'll give Don French credit for sticking to it and getting a project started. And for refining, refining our product definition a little bit to where it was better than it would have been if I would have stopped early.  Randy Kindig: Okay. And I have talked with Don before. I've interviewed him on the podcast, and I met him at Tandy Assembly. But I'm just curious, when you were hired into Tandy and you were told what you were going to do; exactly what were you told?  Steve Leininger: They had a 16 bit microprocessor board that another consultant had developed. And they were trying to make a personal computer out of this. It was the Pace microprocessor, which was not a spectacular success for National, but it was one of the first 16 bit processors. But they had basically an initial prototype, might have been even the second level of the thing. No real documentation, no software, ran on three different voltages and didn't have input or output. Other than that, it was fine. I was brought in because I was one of the product one of the engineers for the development boards, the development board series for the SCAMP, the S C M P, the National Semiconductor had a very low cost microprocessor that at one point in time, I benchmarked against the 8080 with positive benchmarks and ours was faster on the benchmarks I put together, but as I was later told there's lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. But so they said take a look at using that, their low cost microprocessor that you were working with. And it really wasn't the right answer for the job. Let's see, the Altair was already out. Okay. That was the first real personal computer. The Apple, the Apple 1 was out. Okay. But it was not a consumer computer. Okay. They, it was just, it was like a cookie sheet of parts, which was very similar to what was used in the Atari games at the commercial games. Okay. pong and that kind of stuff at that time. And I had been working, after Purdue, I went to National Semiconductor. There's a long story behind all that. But in the process, some of us engineers would go up to the Homebrew Computer Club that met monthly up at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. We're talking Wilbur and Orville Wright kinds of things going on. Yeah. Everyone who was in the pioneering version of computing had at one time been to that meeting. Randy Kindig: It's very famous. Yeah.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. And Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were basically a couple guys working out of their garage at the time. I was still working at National Semiconductor, but I also had a Moonlight job at Byte Shop number 2. The second computer store in all of California. Randy Kindig: And So you worked with Paul Terrell. Steve Leininger: I actually worked with one of, yeah, Paul, I actually worked for Paul's I don't know if it was a partner, Todd, I don't even remember the guy's name. But I just, it was.  Randy Kindig: I was curious because I'm talking to Paul right now and getting interviews. Steve Leininger: Yeah. I, I'm sure we met, but it wasn't anything horribly formal. Since it was the number two shop, it still wasn't the number one shop, which Paul worked out of. And so we had an Apple 1 there. I actually got the job because I when I When I went in there, they were trying to troubleshoot something with what looked like an oscilloscope that they pulled out of a tank, and so it had, audio level kind of bandwidth, but could not do a digital circuit. And I said what you really need is a, I told him, a good tectonic scope or something like that. He said do you want a job here? I ended up moonlighting there, which was, as fortune would have it, was a good deal when the folks from Radio Shack came down to visit. Because when they came down to visit the sales guy wasn't there. We'll let the engineer talk to them, they almost never let the engineers talk to them.  Randy Kindig: So you had to talk with them.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. It was John Roach, Don French, and it was probably Jack Sellers, okay and Don was probably the; he was the most on top of stuff electronically because he was a hobbyist of sorts. The other two guys: Mr. Sellers ran the engineering group. John Roach was the VP of manufacturing. And they were basically on a parts visit. They do it once a year, once, twice a year. And they also did it with Motorola and a couple other places. But I told him about this microprocessor and that I was writing a tiny BASIC for it. Okay. Tiny BASIC was a interpreted basic that a guy named Li-Chen Wang actually had the first thing in Dr. Dobbs, Dr. Dobbs magazine. We're talking about, we're talking about things that you don't realize are the shoulders of giants that turned out to be the shoulders of giants. And in fact, we reached out to Mr. Wang as we were working on it. We thought we had the software already taken care of because I'm jumping ahead in the story, but we were going to have Bob Uterich, and you'd have to chase that back. We had him signed up to write a BASIC interpreter for us, but because he'd already done one for the 6800, and it was included in Interface Age magazine. on a plastic record. You remember the old plastic records you could put in a magazine?  Randy Kindig: Yeah, I did see that.  Steve Leininger: Yeah, so this was called a floppy ROM when they did it. Yeah. So if you had the right software and everything you could download the software off of the floppy ROM and run it on 6800. I think he used the Southwest Technical Products thing. And so we'd signed him up to do the BASIC. This was independent of the hardware design I was doing. And he went into radio silence on us; couldn't find him. And so we get to, in parallel, I was using the Li-Chen Wang plan to do at least a demo version of BASIC that would run on the original computer. And when the demo went successfully on Groundhog Day in 1977. This is the time frame we're talking about. I I started work on July 5th, the year before it. With Tandy? Yeah. Okay. We rolled into town on the 3rd, and of course they're closed for the 4th. And on the 5th I started, and there was the wandering around in the desert at the beginning of that, and Don's probably talked about how I was moved from there to their audio factory and then to the old saddle factory. Tandy used to be primarily a leather company before they bought Radio Shack in 1966 or something like that. And anyway, when the software didn't come out, I ended up writing the software, too. So I designed all the hardware and all the software. I didn't do the power supply. Chris Klein did the power supply. And, a little bit of the analog video circuitry, but it was very little part of that. Because we were just making a video signal. I did all the digital stuff on that. Yeah.  Randy Kindig: So the software ended up being what was the level one ROM, right?  Steve Leininger: Yeah, the level one ROM started out as the Li-Chen Wang BASIC. But he had no I. O. in his software, so I was doing the keyboard scanning. I had to do the cassette record and playback. Had to implement data read and data write Peek and poke, which is pretty simple. Put in the graphic statements. Yeah, oh, and floating point. Now, floating point, luckily, Zilog had a library for that, but I had to basically, this was before APIs were a big deal, so I basically had to use their interface, To what I had written and had to allocate storage, correct? We're talking about 4K bytes of ROM. I know, yeah. Very tiny, and to put all the I. O. in there, and to make it so that you could be updating the screen, when you're doing the cassette I put two asterisks up there and blinked the second one on and off, you remember that?  Randy Kindig: Oh yeah. Steve Leininger: Sort of as a level set.  Randy Kindig: Yeah.  Steve Leininger: And someone said, oh, you should have patented that thing. And actually I have seven or eight patents, U. S. patents, on different parts of the computer architecture.  Randy Kindig: Oh, do you?  Steve Leininger: But not the blinking asterisk, which is probably a patentable feature.  Randy Kindig: Yeah, I wish I'd had that on other machines, that I ended up having. So that would have been nice, yeah. I liken what you've done with what Steve Wozniak did, for the Apple II. You're somebody I've always wanted to talk to because I felt like you were one of the important pioneers in their early years. What do you have to say about that? Do you feel like what you did was ... Steve Leininger: in retrospect, yes. And I have a greater appreciation for people like the Wright Brothers. If you think about the Wright Brothers they took all their stuff from their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop down to Kill Devil Hills. We now know it as Kitty Hawk. But they would take the stuff down there by train, and then they would have to put it in horse driven wagons. Think about that. And people would ask them, what are you going to use the airplane for? It's what are you going to use a home computer for? Yeah, to maintain recipes and to play games.  Randy Kindig: Do your checkbook.  Steve Leininger: Do your check, home security. There's a whole lot of stuff that we talked about. And other giants entered the field: Multiplan, which became Lotus 1 2 3, which became Excel. Not the same company, but the idea, could you live without a spreadsheet today? Very difficult for some things, right?  Randy Kindig: Yeah. Yeah, it's ubiquitous.  People use it for everything. Yeah. Yeah. So you've been, I talked with David and Teresa Walsh. Or Welsh, I'm sorry, Welsh. Where they did the book Priming the Pump. Steve Leininger: That's very that's pretty close to the real thing.  Randy Kindig: Is it? Okay. They named their book after what you did and said; that you primed the pump for home computers. Can you expand on that and tell us exactly what you meant by that?  Steve Leininger: It again goes back to that shoulders of giants thing, and I forget who said that; it's actually a very old quote, I can see further because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. And I think the thing that we brought to the table and Independently, Commodore and Apple did the same thing in 1977. There were three computers that came out inexpensive enough that you could use them in the home. They all came with ROM loaded BASIC. You didn't have to load anything else in. They all came with a video output. Some had displays. Some Commodore's was built in. One of ours was a Clip on and you had to go find one for the apple. For the Apple, yeah. Apple had a superior case. Apple and Radio Shack both had great keyboards. Randy Kindig: apple was expandable, with its... Steve Leininger: yeah, Apple Apple was internally expandable, yeah. And, but it cost $1,000. Without the cassette. Without the monitor. It wasn't the same type of device.  Randy Kindig: I was a college student. And, I looked at all three options. It was like the TRS-80; there are Radio Shacks everywhere.  You could go in and play with one; which was nice. And they were inexpensive enough that I could actually afford one. Steve Leininger: And, Radio Shack can't duck the, if you did something wrong, you had to fix it.  Randy Kindig: That's right. Let's see here. So initially the idea was to have a kit computer by Tandy? Steve Leininger: Yeah. I'm not sure whose idea that was. It made some kind of sense. Because that's the way the Altair was, and Radio Shack did sell a number of kits, but in the process of still kicking that around, saying it could be a possibility. I was one of the ones that said it could be a possibility. Within the same group that I did the design work from, they also would take kits in that people had built and troubleshoot the things if they didn't work. We had a couple engineers that would see if you connected something wrong or something.  If you didn't, sometimes it was a matter that the instructions weren't clear. If you tell someone to put an LED in, yeah. You specifically have to tell them which way to put it in. And might be an opportunity to tweak your timing. Yeah. Anyway, we get this clock in, and it was a digital clock. Seven segment LEDs probably cost 50 bucks or more. Which is crazy. But It says, put all the components in the board, turn the board over, and solder everything to the board. And, pretty simple instructions. This had a sheet of solder over the entire bottom of the board. Someone figured out how to put two pounds of solder on the back of this thing. And, as we all got a great chuckle out of that, You realize, oh, you don't want to have to deal with a computer like this. You really don't. And Lou Kornfeld, who was the president at the time, didn't really want the computer. But he said, it's not going to be a kit. All right. That, that, that took care of that. great idea. Great idea.  Randy Kindig: Were there any other times when you thought the computer might, or were there any times, when you thought the computer might not come to fruition? Any snags that you had that made you think that maybe this isn't going to work?  Steve Leininger: Not really. I was young and pretty well undaunted. Randy Kindig: Pretty sure you could,  Steve Leininger: yeah I, it wasn't any, it wasn't any different than building one at home. I'd been building kits since, night kits, heath kits, that kind of stuff, since I was a kid. And home brewed a couple things, including a hot dog cooker made from two nails and a couple wires that plugged into the wall. Don't try that at home.  Randy Kindig: No kidding.  Steve Leininger: But, it's funny if you If you look it up on, if you look that kind of project up on the internet, you can still find a project like that. It's like what's it called? Anvil tossing, where you put gunpowder under an anvil, shoot it up in the air. What could possibly go wrong? Don't,  Randy Kindig: It's very well documented in books like Priming the Pump, Stan Veit's book, which I assume you're familiar with, and Fire in the Valley, what your involvement was with the Model 1. But there was some mention of your involvement with the Expansion Interface and other TRS 80 projects. What else did you work on while you were there?  Steve Leininger: The Color Computer, the Expansion Interface. The model three to a little.  Randy Kindig: Okay.  Steve Leininger: Little bit. The model two was the big one. And point I just got tired of the management there.  Randy Kindig: Did you? Okay.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. I my mind was going faster than theirs, and they made the conscious decision to do whatever IBM has done, but do it cheaper. That, to me, that's not a. Didn't say less expensively either, so the whole thing just troubled me that, we're not going to be able to do anything new unless IBM has done it. And at about the same time the Macintosh came out and a superb piece of work. Yeah.  Randy Kindig: Okay. So what education training and previous work experience did you have at the time you got hired by Tandy that made you uniquely qualified for that project that they were looking for?  Steve Leininger: I'd been playing around with electronics since I was in the third grade. Actually, electricity.  Randy Kindig: The third grade, wow.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. My, my mom got me a kit that had light bulbs and bells and buzzers and wire from, I think it might have been the Metropolitan Museum. They had a kit. They, they've got a, they still today have an online presence. It, of course the materials have changed, but the kit had all these parts and it had no instructions. And I don't know if that was by design or it didn't have instructions, so I had to learn how to hook up wires and light bulbs and bells and switches to make it do things. And, in the process, I found out that if you put a wire right across the battery terminals, it gets hot. And, interesting stuff to know. Pretty soon, I was taking this stuff in to show and tell in the third grade. Look, and I was very early in electronics. It's electricity. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then my mom would take me to the library. She was quite a voracious reader, and I'd go to the library. technical section specifically the Dewey Decimal 621, which was electronics and things like that. Randy Kindig: you still remember that.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. And in the 590 series, there's some good stuff too. And I would usually take out a stack of books, even though I was a horrible reader because I'm dyslexic and ADD. So I have an attention span and reading problem. But the technical stuff I was reading about pipeline architecture processors while I was still in junior high. And not that was important to where I ended up, but it was important because I understood the words and data flow, and stuff like that. And between that and building the kits and things like that, I When we moved to Indianapolis, my dad moved jobs down to Indianapolis. Randy Kindig: Oh, you lived in Indianapolis?  Steve Leininger: Yeah. So I moved from South Bend down to Indianapolis. So I probably passed your house as . Actually we came down through Kokomo, but but yeah.  Randy Kindig: I actually grew up in that part of the state. Just south of South Bend.  Steve Leininger: Okay. So yeah La Paz, Plymouth,  Randy Kindig: yeah, Warsaw, Rochester.  Steve Leininger: Yeah, I was born in Rochester.  Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. So that's where I grew up in that area.  Steve Leininger: Okay, there you go. My dad's from Akron.  Randy Kindig: Are you serious?  Steve Leininger: I am serious.  Randy Kindig: Akron's where my wife grew up. And I was just 10 miles from there.  Steve Leininger: The general store there, Dan Leininger and Sons, that's my great grandfather. Randy Kindig: Really?  Steve Leininger: Yeah.  Randy Kindig: I'll be darned. Okay. Okay.  Steve Leininger: So now it all makes sense.  Randy Kindig: That's amazing.  Steve Leininger: Anyway, we started a garage band. This is before Apple's garage band. And I made my own amplifier. It basically had the sun sun amplifiers back end on the thing and a Fender Showman front end on it. Completely home brewed really loud amplifier. And I had a friend who had a guitar amplifier that was broken, and he had taken it down to the music store there. And after six weeks of not getting it back, they said we've had trouble with our technician and all that. I asked if I could go down and look at it, and in 15 minutes I had his amplifier fixed. And they said, do you want tom so you want a job? All right. Yeah, because I'd been doing, I'd had a paper route before and I don't think I was doing anything since we'd moved and ao I started working in a music store and they ended up with two music stores and then an organ store next door and I started repairing that kind of stuff. And this was the end of my first year in college. Went to the extension in Indianapolis.  Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. And Was that I U P U I?  Steve Leininger: IUPUI, yeah. Yeah. I, yeah, I U P U I.  Randy Kindig: Huh. I went there as well.  Steve Leininger: Yeah and learned Fortran there, got all my first year classes out, and then moved on up to the campus. And because we'd always go to the library, and because my mom would often take me to the library, the newsstand not too far from the library, and she'd get a couple magazines, but she let me get an electronic magazine. And, I didn't understand these things, pretty soon you start understanding the pic, you start understanding it. This is a resistor, I built a little shocker box based on a design in probably elementary electronics. And It's like a handheld electric fence.  Randy Kindig: Oh, wow.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. Think hot dog cooker. Anyway, so I learned some electronics that way. A lot of that was self taught. I learned quite a bit more by working in the music store, again, this was before I was taught any formal electronics. And actually when I moved up to campus on Purdue, I thought I was going to be a world class guitar amplifier designer. That's where I thought. And it turns out my analog gut feelings aren't, weren't as good as other people's. Paul Schreiber does a much better job with electronics, with analog electronics than I do. But digital electronics, I understood this stuff. I would hang out in the library and I'd read the trade magazines. So I was up to date on, I was way more up to date than a typical professor would be on current electronics. And in 1973, which was the end of my junior year, Electronics Magazine had an article on the Intel 8008. And I said, Oh, I understand this. See, I'd already been taking assembly language. Now they didn't teach assembly language programming in the electronics school. They had Fortran, but there was no way to get from Fortran to ..they weren't teaching programming languages. I had to go to the business school where I learned assembly language on the school's CDC 6600 mainframe.  Randy Kindig: Really?  Steve Leininger: Yeah.  Randy Kindig: Through the business school?  Steve Leininger: Yeah. And for those of you who have never tried assembly language programming, it looks like a foreign language until you just internalize it in your brain: there's ADD, A D and A D C for ADD with carry, and there's a whole bunch of different things. There's different ways to move data around, but you're only doing a few really basic things, and if you do it fast enough, it looks like it's instantaneous. That's the way even your phone works today. It's because you're doing it fast enough. It fools you.  Randy Kindig: Yep. Wow. Do you ever look back at these days, at those days, with amazement? As far as how far the industry has come?  Steve Leininger: Oh yeah. And, it's funny because you wouldn't, you couldn't probably, but you wouldn't start over again. I had to learn, I had to learn digital video. Actually the giant that I, whose shoulders I stood on there was the late Don Lancaster. He had a book called TV Typewriter Cookbook. And actually that came out a little bit later, but he had a TV typewriter series in Radio Electronics Magazine. And basically alphanumeric display. If you think about it, just the glass teletype, the keyboard display and a serial interface at the time that the RadioShack computer came out was selling for 999. Another 400 on top of what we were selling the whole computer for. Because we had a microprocessor in there. We didn't have a whole lot of options. We didn't have a whole lot of fluff. In fact Motorola said, send this to your schematics and your parts list and let's see if we can minimize your circuit. And after two weeks they sent it back. He said, you did a pretty good job here. . .  Randy Kindig: Okay. Huh. You still stay in touch with people at Tandy?  Steve Leininger: A few of them. It's actually been more lately. Because it's almost more interesting now. It's like the, I don't know whatever happened to Atwater and Kent, of the Atwater Kent radio. But, that's an old school radio that now you've got people that rebuild them and got them all polished up and all this kind of stuff. But for a while they ended up in the dump. I'm sure, there are some trash 80s that ended up in the trash.  Randy Kindig: I'm sure.  Steve Leininger: Yeah but I've gotten rid of lots of PCs that don't meet my needs anymore, right? Randy Kindig: Sure. Yeah, we all have, somewhere along the way. It seemed like you were really quiet there for a long time and that you were difficult to get in contact with. Steve Leininger: I wasn't really that difficult. I didn't maintain a social media presence on the thing, but things that I had my own consulting company for quite a while. I actually came back to Radio Shack two more times after I left. One was to come back as a technologist there. The politics still didn't work out well. Then I came back as a contractor to help them with some of their online things. I actually had a website called Steve's Workbench. Steve Leininger: And you can find it on the Internet Archive. The Wayback Machine. And it had some basic stamp projects. And we were going to do all sorts of other things. But I managed to upset the people at RadioShack. com. They didn't have a big sense of humor about someone being critical about the products that they'd selected. And I, I did a... I was going to start doing product reviews on the kits, how easy it was to solder, whether it was a good value for the money and all that kind of stuff. And I gave a pretty honest review on it. And Radio Shack didn't appreciate the power of an honest review. It's what makes Amazon what it is, right? You go in there and if there's something that's got just two stars on the reviews, Yeah, you really got to know what you're doing if you're going to buy the thing, right? And if you see something that's got a bunch of one star and a bunch of five star reviews Yeah, someone's probably aalting the reference at the top end. And so I mean they had such a fit that when they changed platforms For RadioShack. com, they didn't take Steve's Workbench with it And I basically lost that position. Radio Shack should own the makerspace business right now. They at one time, one time I suggested, you ought to take a look at buying Digikey or maybe Mouser. Mouser was right down the street from us. They already had their hands into Allied, but these other two were doing stuff, more consumer oriented, but they didn't. They were making, they were flush with money from selling cell phone contracts. And they thought that was the way of the future until the cell phone companies started reeling that back in. At a certain point, you don't want to be paying your 5 percent or 10 percent royalty to Radio Shack for just signing someone up.  Randy Kindig: Yeah. Okay. I didn't realize you had ever gone back and worked for them again.  Steve Leininger: Yeah, twice,  Randy Kindig: and so I'm curious, did you meet any other famous figures in the microcomputer revolution while you were working at Tandy?  Steve Leininger: At Tandy, let's see.  Randy Kindig: I'm just curious.  Steve Leininger: Yeah, Bill Gates, of course. I went out when we were working on level two BASIC. And Bill Gates I think was probably a hundred- thousand- aire at that time. And, working in a, thhey had a floor in a bank building in Seattle. He took me to the basement of his dad's law firm, and we had drinks there, and I went out to his house on the lake. This was not the big house. I've never been there. It was a big house on the lake, but it wasn't the one That he built later on. So I knew him early on run across Forest Mims a couple times. And of course, he's the shoulders upon which a lot of electronic talent was built and some of the stuff is lost. Jameco is actually bringing him back as a… Jameco is a kinda like a Radio Shack store online. It's yeah it is, it's not as robust as DigiKey or Bower, but they've held their roots.  Someone I've not met Lady Ada from Adafruit would be fun.  Randy Kindig: Yeah. Would, yeah.  Steve Leininger: I, that, that's another thing that, if we had something along those lines, that would have been cool, but the buyers weren't up, up to the task and they when you don't want criticism at a certain point you've got to quit doing things if you don't want to be criticized.  Randy Kindig: Sure. When you finally got the Model 1 rolled out and you saw the tremendous interest, were you surprised in the interest that it garnered?  Steve Leininger: I wasn't. I wasn't. In fact, there's a quote of me. Me and John Roach had a discussion on how many of these do you think we could sell? And, this is actually quoted in his obituary on the, in the Wall Street Journal. I, Mr. Tandy said you could build 3, 500 of these because we've got 3, 500 stores and we can use them in the inventory. And to take inventory. And John Roach thought maybe we could sell, up to 5, 000 of these things in the first year. And I said, oh no, I think we could sell 50, 000. To which he said, horseshit. Just like that. And that, now I quoted that to the Wall Street Journal, and they put that in his obituary. Yeah I don't know how many times that word shows up in the Wall Street Journal, but if you search their files you'll find that it was me quoting John Roach. So … Randy Kindig: I'll have to, I'll have to look for that, yeah, that's funny. So you were not surprised by the interest,  Steve Leininger: no, it, part of it was I knew the leverage of the stores I'd been working, when we introduced the thing I'd been working for the company for just over a year. Think about that. And it wasn't until just before probably, it was probably September or October when Don and I agreed on the specs. I'd keep writing it up, and he'd look at it. Don actually suggested that, demanded, he doesn't, in a, but in a good natured way, he made a good case for it, that I have, in addition to the cassette interface on there, that I have a way to read and write data. Because if you're going to do an accounting program, you got to be able to read and write data. I actually figured out a way to do that. There were a couple other things. John Roach really wanted blinking lights on the thing. And my mechanical, the mechanical designer, there said that's going to cost more money to put the LEDs in there. What are you going to do with them? And, Mr. Roach was, you know, familiar with the IBM probably the 360 by then? Anyway. The mainframes. Yeah, mainframes always had blinking lights on them.  Randy Kindig: Exactly.  Steve Leininger: And since it's a computer, it should have blinking lights. And Larry said, Larry the mechanical guy said what are you going to do with them? I said, I can't, I said I could put stuff up there, It's… Randy Kindig: What are they going to indicate?  Steve Leininger: Yeah. And then, he said, I'll tell you what, I'm going to make the case without holes for the lights and just don't worry about it. That was the end of the discussion. Mr. Roach was probably a little disappointed, but yeah, no one else had them,  Randy Kindig: it's funny to think that you'd have blinking lights on a microcomputer like that. Yeah. Yeah. Is there any aspect of the Model one development you would do differently if you were doing it today?  Steve Leininger: Yeah, I would, I would've put the eighth memory chip in with the, with the video display so you get upper and lower case. Randy Kindig: Yeah, there you go. Okay.  Steve Leininger: Might've put buffers to the outside world. We had the, the microprocessor was buffered, but it was, it was very short distance off the connector there. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot I would have changed. Software could have been written a little better, but when one person's writing all the software the development system that I had was a Zilog development system. And 30 character percent a second. Decorator, line printer. The fact that I got it done is actually miracle stuff.  Randy Kindig: Yeah, and you got it done in a year, right?  Steve Leininger: And it was all written in assembly language. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got it all done in a year.  Randy Kindig: That's a good year's work. Steve Leininger: It is.  Randy Kindig: Building a computer from scratch, basically, and then getting it...  Steve Leininger: and back then we had to program EEPROMs. We didn't have flash memory. Okay. Didn't hardly have operating systems back then. Not that I was using one. There was something in the Zilog thing, but yeah we were so far ahead of things, we were developing a product rather than a computer. And maybe that's the whole difference is that we had a product that you pull it up, plug it in, and it says these are TRS 80 and it wasn't the Model 1 until the Model 2 came out.  Randy Kindig: Yeah, exactly. It was just the TRS 80. Yeah. So I have to know, do you have any of the old hardware? Steve Leininger: I've got a Model 1. I don't use it except for demonstrations now. I actually have two. I've got one that works and one that's probably got a broken keyboard connector from taking it out of the case and holding it up too many times.  Randy Kindig: Were these prototypes or anything?  Steve Leininger: They are non serial production units. I've got the, I've got a prototype ROM board that's got the original integer basic that I wrote. I don't have the video boards and all that kind of stuff that went with it when we did the original demonstration. Let's see we had four wire wrapped, completely wire wrapped industrial wire wrapped versions that we used for prototyping the software. One went to David Lein, who wrote the book that came with the thing, the basic book. One I had at my desk and there were two others. Yeah. And they got rid of all of those. So a cautionary tale is if you do something in the future where you've got that prototype that was put together in Tupperware containers or held together with duct tape, you need to at least take pictures of it. And you might want to keep one aside. If it turns out to be something like the Apple III, you can probably get rid of all that stuff. If it turns out to be something like the Apple II, The RadioShack computer, the Commodore PET, you really ought to, enshrine that. The original iPhone. Apple did stuff that was, what was it, can't remember what it was. They had a they had a thing not unlike the... 3Com ended up getting them. Anyway the hand of the PDAs, no one knows what a Personal Oh, digital assistant. Yeah. Yeah. We call that a, we call that a phone ...  Randy Kindig: Palm Pilot. Yeah.  Steve Leininger: Yeah. Palm Pilot. That's the one. Yeah. I've got a couple of those. I've got three model 100's. I've got one of the early… Randy Kindig: Did you work on the 100s? Steve Leininger: I used it, but I didn't work on it. The design. No. Okay. That was an NEC product with Radio Shack skins on it.  Randy Kindig: Oh, that's right. That's right.  Steve Leininger: Kay Nishi was the big mover on that. Yeah. Let's see I've got an Altair and an ASR 33 Teletype. Yeah, we're talking about maybe the computer's grandfather, right? I've had a whole bunch of other stuff. I've probably had 40 other computers that I don't have anymore. I am gravitating towards mechanical music devices, big music boxes, that kind of stuff.  Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. Cool. Interesting. Steve, that's all the questions I had prepared. Steve Leininger: Okay.  Randy Kindig: Is there anything I should have asked about that?  Steve Leininger: Oh my,  Randy Kindig: anything you'd want to say?  Steve Leininger: Yeah, I, I've given talks before on how do you innovate? How do you become, this is pioneering kinds of stuff. So you really have to have that vision, man. The vision, I can't exactly say where the vision comes from, but being dyslexic for me has been a gift. Okay and this is something I tell grade school and middle school students that, some people are out there saying I, I can't do that because, it's just too much stuff or my brain is cluttered. Cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what's an empty desk the sign of? Embrace the clutter. Learn a lot of different things. Do what you're passionate about. Be willing to. support your arguments, don't just get angry if someone doesn't think the way you do, explain why you're doing it that way. And sometimes it's a matter of they just don't like it or they don't have the vision. The ones that don't have the vision, they never, they may never have the vision. I've quit companies because of people like that. But When you've got the vision and can take it off in your direction, it could just end up as being art. And I shouldn't say just art, art can be an amazing thing. And that behind these walls here, we've got a pinball machine and gaming conference going on. And it is nutcase. But is there stuff out there you look at and say, Oh, wow. Yeah. And I do too. Keep it a while going. Randy Kindig: Very cool. All right. That's a great stopping point, I think. All right. I really appreciate it, Steve taking the time to talk with us today.  Steve Leininger: Thanks, Randy.  

Whether it was a chip crisis or fake news (spoiler, Dieter thinks the latter is more likely), how did the inventory bubble, inflation and a slow economy become a perfect storm for the EMS market, and what strategies can companies use to weather the storm? Check out this episode of EMS@C-Level, where Dieter Weiss (in4ma and Data4PCB) joins me to dissect the OEM behaviors that led to this artificial surge in demand and subsequent market decline. We explore the harsh reality many companies face as they operate below capacity, with looming losses in 2024. Through insightful discussions, well researched data and real life examples, we highlight how strategic mergers and acquisitions can offer much-needed stability. While, those companies with a sharp focus on aerospace and defense sectors emerge as resilient players in this challenging environment. Dieter underscores the challenge of being a ‘me-too' business in a tough market.The EMS industry in Europe is a tale of two regions, and we break that down. Eastern Europe, dominated by global giants like Foxconn,  Flex and Jabil, contrasts sharply with the more fragmented landscape of Western Europe. We dive into the financial health and significant revenues of major players in both regions, while shedding light on the precarious and critical state of the European PCB industry. With recent closures and incidents adding to its woes, and stress in the supply chain, the future of European PCB manufacturing hinges on local production and a shift in OEM mentality. We tackle this pressing issue in our discussion, emphasizing the importance of supply chain security and independence from regions like China.The IPC seminar in Gdansk, Poland, on 25th September is a focal point for industry leaders to gather, collaborate, and forge better paths forward. This free event by IPC and in4ma is a must-attend for those looking to gain essential insights from top executives, as well as access real analysis from in4ma around the first six months of 2024. I am delighted to have been asked to host the event, conduct the keynote interview with a senior leader from one of the industries largest players, and moderate the leadership roundtable where we plan to explore the pendulum like swing from globalization to regionalization. I really hope I see you there!Join us for this episode and in person in Poland next month as we help navigate turbulent waters and uncover valuable information to help your business thrive amidst uncertainty.For more information check out https://in4ma.de/?lang=enTo register for next months IPC Day in Gdansk - https://www.ipc.org/event/ipc-day-gdansk-polandLike every episode of EMS@C-Level, this one was sponsored by global inspection leader Koh Young (https://www.kohyoung.com) and Adaptable Automation Specialist Launchpad.build (https://launchpad.build).You can see video versions of all of the EMS@C-Level pods on our YouTube playlist.

ANTIC Episode 109 - Host Wars In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad and Randy cover VCFSE, Kay finishes archiving the Famous Computer Cafe and gets some great material from Dan Kramer and Larry Summers, and the hosts trade barbs… READY! Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to Larry Summers:  Excalibur - https://archive.org/details/excalibur-2nd-manual-type-apx  https://archive.org/details/Functional_Specification_for_The_Arabian_Adventures_Packet_Technologies  https://archive.org/details/Out_of_Ataris_Game_San_Jose_Mercury_News_1982-06  https://archive.org/details/Chris_Crawford_recommendation_letter_for_Larry_Summers  https://archive.org/details/Atari_81_v1n4_1981-05  Superboots business plan - https://archive.org/details/superboots-business-plan  Dan Kramer:  https://archive.org/details/atari-management-recognition-award  https://archive.org/details/atari-controller-design-focus-groups-report-1981  https://archive.org/details/a-qualitative-investigation-of-programmable-videogame-controllers  https://archive.org/details/atari_silvia  https://archive.org/details/cx2800  https://archive.org/details/cx2800-notes  https://archive.org/details/atari-direct-video-pcb  https://archive.org/details/atari-5200-controller-schematics-kramer-dan  Famous Computer Cafe - https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe?sort=-addeddate  Book “Best of SoftSide - Atari Edition” - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-best-of-softside-atari-edition  https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast/  News Atari Insights newsletter V1#1 - John Zielke - http://www.ataribasics.com  Atari Opens Enrollment for its 2024 Summer Camp Program: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/atari-opens-enrollment-2024-summer-171700449.html  https://atari.com/collections/summer-camp  New drop-in replacement mechanical keyboard for the Atari 800 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368661-new-drop-in-replacement-mechanical-keyboard-for-the-atari-800/  Article on how to repair the split collars on an Atari 800 - https://atari.timhinds.com/atari-800-keyboard-restoration/  AtariProjects - http://atariprojects.org - Jason Moore  Inverse ATASCII Podcast - https://inverseatascii.info/ - Wade Ripkowski  The content presented at the Atari Last Party 2024 (the oldest demo party in Poland) has been added to the atarionline.eu Fujinet server  ABBUC #157 magazine - German edition - http://abbuc.de  A8Pico to win from ABBUC: Send the answer to the question: "What is the chorus in the Atari song?" You can find the answer on Wolfgang's YouTube channel: (https://www.youtube.com/@RetroWK ) Send answer by e-mail to a8pico2024@abbuc.de  Enhanced 600XL PCB by kveldulfur - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/367934-enhanced-600xl-pcb-by-kveldulfur/  Atari FastBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic  Upcoming Shows Atari Expo 2024 in Santiago Chile— Aug 3rd&4th.—http://www.expoatari.cl  Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/   Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se   VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/  World of Retrocomputing 2024 Expo - September 14-15 - Kitchener, ON, Canada - https://www.facebook.com/events/s/world-of-retro-computing-2024-/1493036588265072/  Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  YouTube Videos FlashJazzCat SIDE3 Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoXGLvUAs84  Lotharek SIDE3 Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVFxVjqLbQk  MAC/65 Assembler Editor and Atari 8-bit Machine Language Programming - Part 1 - David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WdSPvqSIME  MAC/65 Assembler Editor and Atari 8-bit Machine Language Programming - Part 2 - David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQPw1myNLb4  The Atari 2024 Expo Preview - CmosGames (in Spanish) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-3S8UzdDs  Rewind 2 - a demo for Atari XL/XE by New Generation, Zelax & Radiance - VoyAtari - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuWEEms1IX4  Now there's a Decent keyboard for each Atari 8-bit computer - Screaming at the Radio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiBLV-qH9To  New at Archive.org  Bluegrass Region Atari Computer Enthusiasts newsletters https://archive.org/details/brace-bits-vol-3-no-1/ https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-march-1987-vol-7-num-3-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-december-1986-vol-6-num-12-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-october-1988-vol-8-num-10-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-august-1986-vol-6-num-8-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-february-1989-vol-9-num-2-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/alog-displaymaker-alog-computing https://archive.org/details/alog-maillist-alog-computing  

Episode 141 - Interview with Paul Terrell, The Byte Shop - Part 2 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics  Arcade Shopper   Hello, and welcome to episode 141 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for July, 2024.  I am Randy Kindig, your host, as always, for this historical perspective on obsolete-but-still fun technology. This month I'm bringing you a follow-on interview episode from last month.  As we discussed then, Paul Terrell is a name well-known in the annals of computer history; probably most famously for his kickstart of Apple Computer through the purchase of one of Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's first batches of Apple I computers for his Byte Shop.  The Byte Shop was a very early computer store that was one of the few that existed in the world, at the time. In this interview, we continue to focus primarily on The Byte Shop, how it got started, what it was like, and much more.  There will be even more content in future episodes, as Paul and I had a pretty lengthy discussion on just this topic.  If you want to know what it was like to run a computer store in those early days, this is the interview for you!  Along the way, you'll learn even more about just what the home and hobby computer scene was like in those days. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To VCF Southeast - https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast/  Upcoming Shows Show list I maintain for the remainder of the current year - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/current-year-vintage-computer-show-schedule)  Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/   Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se   VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/  World of Retrocomputing 2024 Expo - September 14-15 - Kitchener, ON, Canada - https://www.facebook.com/events/s/world-of-retro-computing-2024-/1493036588265072/  Teletext 50 - Sep 21-22 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - https://www.teletext50.com/  Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/  AmiWest - October 25-27 - Sacramento, CA - https://amiwest.net/  Chicago TI International World Faire - October 26 - Evanston Public Library (Falcon Room, 303), Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/   Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we   Interview with Paul Terrell (3) Apple-1 Prototype Polaroid Photographs Given to Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop in 1976 - https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348985606984001-steve-jobs-3-apple-1-prototype-polaroid-photographs-given-to-paul-terrell-of-the-byte-shop-in-1976/?cat=3  Ray Borrill's Data Domain blog - https://www.landsnail.com/thedatadomain/remember.htm 

ANTIC Episode 108 - Randy's Eyes Are Bleeding!  In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Kay visits VCFSW and the National Videogame Museum, tapes from the famous Computer Cafe are found, Atari acquires Intellivision, and Randy's eyes start bleeding from watching YouTube videos 24x7… READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kay's Book “Terrible Nerd”  New Atari books scans at archive.org  ANTIC feedback at AtariAge  Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge  Interview index: here  ANTIC Facebook Page  AHCS  Eaten By a Grue  Next Without For  Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to VCF SW, National Videogame Museum - https://nvmusa.org  Titan - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/?do=findComment&comment=5472194  Development disk for Tom Hudson's "Adventure at Vendenberg A.F.B." - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/?do=findComment&comment=5472339  Sunday Driver - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/page/110/#comment-5473357  Famous Computer Cafe - https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe  Steve Roberts - https://microship.com/  A8PICO by Electrotrains - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351546-a8picocart-unocart-on-a-raspberry-pi-pico/  USB-C power supply adapter from Mozzwald - https://mozzwald.com/product/atari-8-bit-usb-c-power-adapter/  Atari photo shoot at IVCC - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC  Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 437 - Dr. Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Atari Research Labs and Apple Multimedia Lab - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-437-kristina-hooper-woolsey-atari-research-labs-and-apple-multimedia-labs  News FujiNet RAPID 7& 8 - Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/rapid/  video on using CONFIG-NG the alternative CONFIG for Atari - video by Andy Diller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2is_kDYQHpA  How Google's Rampant Sunnyvale Expansion Is Erasing Atari's History - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/04/how-googles-rampant-sunnyvale-expansion-is-erasing-ataris-history  https://www.facer.io/u/atari - Atari watch faces for smart watches  AtariAge thread on the RetroScaler from AliExpress - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/366479-aliexpress-retrotink-equivalent-2x-scaler-with-hdmi-output  Revive RM 800XL box design! X - @rm_800xl https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rm800xl/posts/pfbid0qBHXgugtivW3bxNdi7Xgem47UJ4qvHZ21R1KVoE2CBih8kQ6CWffYza2VeHSvF2al  Mastodon - https://mastodon.world/@Philsan/112496346203027800  Atari acquires Intellivision! - https://x.com/atari/status/1793616648890470410  Living Computer Museum is dead: https://hackaday.com/2024/06/25/paul-allens-living-computers-museum-and-labs-to-be-auctioned/  https://web.archive.org/web/20240601173624/https://livingcomputers.org/  New game “Shift” - https://h4plo.itch.io/shift  Atari 50 Update - https://www.engadget.com/ataris-50th-anniversary-collection-is-getting-a-hefty-update-with-nearly-40-additional-games-150827022.html  Wireless tape player interface from Piotr Bugaj: https://www.facebook.com/100001704984361/videos/1625370131610834/ https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/06/nuevo-dongle-inalambrico-para-atari-8.html  Thanks to @TheTime, Tandy Trower's Character Set Editor published by APX is finally available after all these years: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/236768-the-atari-interview-discussion-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5460894 https://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-character-set-editor_30042.html  Kay's 2015 interview- http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-77-tandy-trower-atari-product-manager  1050 mini. Brand new floppy drive for Atari XL by Piotr Bugaj: https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/64347  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd96Mcosqo  New 576NUC+ 4-in-1 Expansion Module - The NUCplus4 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355107-new-576nuc-4-in-1-expansion-module-the-nucplus4/  Upcoming Shows KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 (in-person), July 27-28 (virtual) - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - https://www.kansasfest.org/  Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21,  2024 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/  Nottingham Video Game Expo - July 20-21 - The Belgrave Rooms, Nottingham, U.K. - https://www.nottsvge.com/  Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2024/   Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/   Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se   VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/  Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we  YouTube Videos Atari 800XL with GTIAdigitizer and RGB2HDMI - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG3qhwUELaY  Atari 810 drives with issues - Adrian's Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfU0w883jGE  A8PicoCart for the Atari 8-bit machines - Building and testing - Arctic Retro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWXNF7n6Xw  Soldering-Up an A8PicoCart for your Atari - The VintNerd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8cQarAvKoU  Atari 400 Mini cartridges and disk drive - GameRoomOfThrones - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7A_aiusVY94  Atari 8-Bit: Mikie (Final), Missile Command Arcade w/ Trak-Ball (Final), Shift (Exclusive Final) - ZeroPage HomeBrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPlb47Fbk0  New at Archive.org  Atari Technische Informatie NR 12 Printer-Problemen - https://archive.org/details/atari-technische-informatie-nr-12-printer-problemen  James Copland on the Computer Cafe - https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1985-02-08_James_Copland  Jersey Atari Computer Group Newsletter, July, 1985 - https://archive.org/details/jacg-newsletter-1985-july-vol-4-no-11  JACG newsletters scanned spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing  Scene World podcast Ep. #189 - THE400 Mini with Darren Melbourne - https://archive.org/details/scene_world_podcast_episode189_april_2024  AtariUser Magazine Summer (July) 1992 - https://archive.org/details/atari-user-1992-07  Feedback 8 Bit Workshop website - https://8bitworkshop.com/dithertron/#sys=atari8.d'image=seurat.jpg

Episode 140 - Interview with Paul Terrell, The Byte Shop - Part 1 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics  Arcade Shopper   Hello, and welcome to episode 140 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for June, 2024.  I am Randy Kindig, your guide to this journey through vintage computer goodness. This month I'm bringing you another interview episode.  Paul Terrell is a name well-known in the annals of computer history; probably most famously for his kickstart of Apple Computer through the purchase of one of Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's first batches of Apple I computers for his Byte Shop.  The Byte Shop was a very early computer store that was one of the few that existed in the world, at the time.  I've had an earlier introductory interview with Paul where numerous topics were covered in a more general manner.  I also talked with Paul about his time at Exidy working on the sorcerer computer.  In this interview, we focus primarily on The Byte Shop, how it got started, what it was like, and much more.  Through several conversations with Paul, the interview ran quite long, so this is part I of The Byte Shop discussion.  If you want to know what it was like to run a computer store in those early days, this is the interview for you!  Along the way, you'll learn even more about just what the home and hobby computer scene was like in those days. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To American Computer and Robotics Museum - https://acrmuseum.org/  Vtech Pre-Computer Unlimited - https://vtech.fandom.com/wiki/PreComputer_Unlimited  USB-C Power Adapter for Atari 8-bit - https://mozzwald.com/product/atari-8-bit-usb-c-power-adapter/  USB-C Power Adapter for Apple IIc - https://mozzwald.com/product/apple-iic-usb-c-power-delivery-adapter/  Upcoming Shows Show list I maintain for the remainder of the current year - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/current-year-vintage-computer-show-schedule)  KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 (in-person), July 27-28 (virtual) - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - https://www.kansasfest.org/  Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21,  2024 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/  Nottingham Video Game Expo - July 20-21 - The Belgrave Rooms, Nottingham, U.K. - https://www.nottsvge.com/  Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2024/   Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/   Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se   VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/  Teletext 50 - Sep 21-22 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - https://www.teletext50.com/  Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/  AmiWest - October 25-27 - Sacramento, CA - https://amiwest.net/  Chicago TI International World Faire - October 26 - Evanston Public Library (Falcon Room, 303), Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/   Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we   Meet The Listeners Brian Cox's site FVResearch.com - https://www.fvresearch.com/   

ANTIC Episode 107 - 4 Times! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we realize there are 4 times as many interview episodes as regular episodes and what that might say, Kay visits the Strong Museum, Randy attends the Indy Classic Expo, and Brad drools over a keyboard for the 400 Mini… READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kay's Book “Terrible Nerd”  New Atari books scans at archive.org  ANTIC feedback at AtariAge  Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge  Interview index: here  ANTIC Facebook Page  AHCS  Eaten By a Grue  Next Without For  Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to Strong Museum - https://www.museumofplay.org/  Atari BASIC Tutorial book - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-atari-basic-tutorial  Indy Classic Expo, April 16 & 17 - http://indyclassic.org  80-column card for 1090XL - Brian Reifsnyder - https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/80-column-rpp-board-for-the-atari-1090xl1091xl/  Disk archiving setup, using FujiNet - new project by Randy at Jason Moore's Atari Projects - https://atariprojects.org/2024/04/06/archive-atari-8-bit-computer-disks-from-a-real-floppy-to-a-virtual-disk-using-fujinet-15-30-minutes/  News Andy Diller's tnfs server for FujiNet - tnfs.Atari8bit.net or FujiNet.Atari8bit.net  Other FujiNet goodness from Andy - https://atari8bit.net/projects/software/fujinet-server-status/  Tim Lapetino Interview - https://www.creativebloq.com/features/atari-creative-director-tim-lapetino-interview  BASIC 10-Liner Contest winners announced! - https://www.homeputerium.de/  Vitoco has bundled Atari 8 Bit computer games competing in the BASIC 10 Liners Contest 2024 into a single disk - https://www.vitoco.cl/atari/10liner/NOMAM2024.atr  New Game! Missile Command Arcade (VBXE) - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/365388-new-game-missile-command-arcade-vbxe/  VCF East update by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.facebook.com/groups/atari8bitcomputers/permalink/7361112970592812/  FujiNet RAPID #6 from Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/rapid/  Atari XF 351 floppy drive clone - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/64292  Atari 8-bit machines comparison table - MrFish - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/289798-atari-8-bit-machines-comparison-table/?do=findComment&comment=5453949  keyboard for the 400Mini - ScreamingAtTheRadio - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/363964-i-made-a-keyboard-for-my-400mini/  RastaConverter - Jakub "Ilmenit" Dębski: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/200118-images-generated-by-rastaconverter/  https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/04/rastaconverter-beta-9-renuevan-el.html  PAS 6502 - added Atari 8-bit support - https://syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/pas6502/devlog/717309/new-machine-support-and-some-fixes  Upcoming Shows VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/  Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info  Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21,  2024 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/  KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 (in-person), July 27-28 (virtual) - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - https://www.kansasfest.org/  Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2024/   Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/  Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se   VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/   Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29, 2024 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/  Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we   YouTube Videos Let's install a monitor jack and upgrade the RAM on a US Atari 600XL - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyWtzC96kZo  Simius Sophia 2 : Atari 800XL Install - Vintage Gaming Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOD4ifpz0S8  https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/sophia-2-dvi-output-gtia-replacement  ATARI XL / XE += GUNNER =+ BASIC 10LINER CONTEST 2024 - Atari 8 Bits For Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2RkDt__3s  Atari XL/XE -=Tetris=- BASIC 10 Liner Contest 2024 - Saberman RetroNews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjh_k55Hjeo  Every Atari 8-Bit Game in the BASIC 10 Liner Contest 2024 - ZeroPage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBBVvFsBX8  New at Archive.org  https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-november-1986-vol-6-num-11-atari-articles  https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-september-1986-vol-6-num-9-atari-articles https://archive.org/details/solo-flight-microprose