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RETRO ENTRE AMIGOS – PROGRAMA 13x09 – Toda la verdad sobre RP2025 ¡Saludos a todos los amigos del retro! Recuperamos nuestras andanzas en este mes de mayo para traeros unas horitas de programa con diversas temáticas, entre ellas: Repaso de lo que fue y no fue RetroPixel 2025 con múltiples anécdotas, saludos y confesiones verdaderas. Sabréis la intrahistoria de cosas que sucedieron ¡ Leemos correos de los oyentes y, por supuesto, presentamos la PELI DEL MES: En este caso, de la mano del Sr. Rosa (aka Capitán Vespertino, aka cirtxelacs, aka Imsai, aka mote de la semana), el “filme” KUNG FUSION. Me temo que no va a dejar a nadie indiferente. Aprovechamos para anunciar que haremos en su debido momento un PPOLY. Me explico… los oyentes (sufridores) del programa, votaran cual ha sido la Peor Peli Of Last Year con votos seguramente a través de nuestra página Web www.retroentreamigos.com con la intención de que nos digáis cual ha sido la PEOR PEOR de todas! No os preocupéis que avisaremos con tiempo ¡!. Como juego elegido para el mes, el jovencísimo Alex, nos acerca una titulo de la querida Super Nintendo llamado “Super Star Wars”. Siempre nos alegra tener títulos de esta consola que, creemos que definió una época de calidad única y más de cuando la saga Star Wars era “magia” para algunos de nosotros. En el momento del debate, nos acercamos a un asunto de cierta actualidad y hablamos de los precios de los juegos y los comparamos con aquellos que comprabamos en los 80s y 90s. Hablamos si debería volver un Paco Pastor y hacer un “recorte” de precios o bien esta todo correcto como esta… con juegos que “no existen” físicamente pero que tu si que pagas con tu dinero “físico”… en fin…. Cosas modernas…. Contrastadas con algunas antiguas que no nos importa traer a la mesa “bastante cuadrada” Todo esto y muuuuuuuuuucho menos. Regado con historias e historietas de cada uno de nosotros. Recordad que ESTÁIS INVITADOS a acudir un día al programa… solo tenéis que proponérnoslo ¡! Ckultur & La Alegre Pandilla

One of our listeners think it would be a good idea for us to talk about the 2006 Chimbu Deven's historic-fiction "Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi". We too think this is a great idea. 23am Pulikesi is one of the best comedies of Tamil cinema in the last 20 years featuring Vadivelu, Nassar, Ilavarasu, Sriman, Thambi Ramaiah, Manobala and many others. We have Anantha, Ashoka and Rajiv touch upon the film, its comedy, the performances, the homage it pays to its predecessor: Uthama Puthiran, how it could be a modern office-drama masquerading as a period-piece and several other things. ps: Rajiv has his own crime-fiction podcast on Spotify named "Detective Mathimaran". You can listen to it here.

We've talked about the history of microchips, transistors, and other chip makers. Today we're going to talk about Intel in a little more detail.  Intel is short for Integrated Electronics. They were founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Noyce was an Iowa kid who went off to MIT to get a PhD in physics in 1953. He went off to join the Shockley Semiconductor Lab to join up with William Shockley who'd developed the transistor as a means of bringing a solid-state alternative to vacuum tubes in computers and amplifiers. Shockley became erratic after he won the Nobel Prize and 8 of the researchers left, now known as the “traitorous eight.”  Between them came over 60 companies, including Intel - but first they went on to create a new company called Fairchild Semiconductor where Noyce invented the monolithic integrated circuit in 1959, or a single chip that contains multiple transistors.  After 10 years at Fairchild, Noyce joined up with coworker and fellow traitor Gordon Moore. Moore had gotten his PhD in chemistry from Caltech and had made an observation while at Fairchild that the number of transistors, resistors, diodes, or capacitors in an integrated circuit was doubling every year and so coined Moore's Law, that it would continue to to do so. They wanted to make semiconductor memory cheaper and more practical. They needed money to continue their research. Arthur Rock had helped them find a home at Fairchild when they left Shockley and helped them raise $2.5 million in backing in a couple of days.  The first day of the company, Andy Grove joined them from Fairchild. He'd fled the Hungarian revolution in the 50s and gotten a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Then came Leslie Vadász, another Hungarian emigrant. Funding and money coming in from sales allowed them to hire some of the best in the business. People like Ted Hoff , Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor. That first year they released 64-bit static random-access memory in the 3101 chip, doubling what was on the market as well as the 3301 read-only memory chip, and the 1101. Then DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory in the 1103 in 1970, which became the bestselling chip within the first couple of years. Armed with a lineup of chips and an explosion of companies that wanted to buy the chips, they went public within 2 years of being founded. 1971 saw Dov Frohman develop erasable programmable read-only memory, or EPROM, while working on a different problem. This meant they could reprogram chips using ultraviolet light and electricity. In 1971 they also created the Intel 4004 chip, which was started in 1969 when a calculator manufacturer out of Japan ask them to develop 12 different chips. Instead they made one that could do all of the tasks of the 12, outperforming the ENIAC from 1946 and so the era of the microprocessor was born. And instead of taking up a basement at a university lab, it took up an eight of an inch by a sixth of an inch to hold a whopping 2,300 transistors. The chip didn't contribute a ton to the bottom line of the company, but they'd built the first true microprocessor, which would eventually be what they were known for. Instead they were making DRAM chips. But then came the 8008 in 1972, ushering in an 8-bit CPU. The memory chips were being used by other companies developing their own processors but they knew how and the Computer Terminal Corporation was looking to develop what was a trend for a hot minute, called programmable terminals. And given the doubling of speeds those gave way to microcomputers within just a few years. The Intel 8080 was a 2 MHz chip that became the basis of the Altair 8800, SOL-20, and IMSAI 8080. By then Motorola, Zilog, and MOS Technology were hot on their heals releasing the Z80 and 6802 processors. But Gary Kildall wrote CP/M, one of the first operating systems, initially for the 8080 prior to porting it to other chips. Sales had been good and Intel had been growing. By 1979 they saw the future was in chips and opened a new office in Haifa, Israiel, where they designed the 8088, which clocked in at 4.77 MHz. IBM chose this chip to be used in the original IBM Personal Computer. IBM was going to use an 8-bit chip, but the team at Microsoft talked them into going with the 16-bit 8088 and thus created the foundation of what would become the Wintel or Intel architecture, or x86, which would dominate the personal computer market for the next 40 years. One reason IBM trusted Intel is that they had proven to be innovators. They had effectively invented the integrated circuit, then the microprocessor, then coined Moore's Law, and by 1980 had built a 15,000 person company capable of shipping product in large quantities. They were intentional about culture, looking for openness, distributed decision making, and trading off bureaucracy for figuring out cool stuff. That IBM decision to use that Intel chip is one of the most impactful in the entire history of personal computers. Based on Microsoft DOS and then Windows being able to run on the architecture, nearly every laptop and desktop would run on that original 8088/86 architecture. Based on the standards, Intel and Microsoft would both market that their products ran not only on those IBM PCs but also on any PC using the same architecture and so IBM's hold on the computing world would slowly wither. On the back of all these chips, revenue shot past $1 billion for the first time in 1983. IBM bought 12 percent of the company in 1982 and thus gave them the Big Blue seal of approval, something important event today. And the hits kept on coming with the 286 to 486 chips coming along during the 1980s. Intel brought the 80286 to market and it was used in the IBM PC AT in 1984. This new chip brought new ways to manage addresses, the first that could do memory management, and the first Intel chip where we saw protected mode so we could get virtual memory and multi-tasking.  All of this was made possible with over a hundred thousand transistors. At the time the original Mac used a Motorola 68000 but the sales were sluggish while they flourished at IBM and slowly we saw the rise of the companies cloning the IBM architecture, like Compaq. Still using those Intel chips.  Jerry Sanders had actually left Fairchild a little before Noyce and Moore to found AMD and ended up cloning the instructions in the 80286, after entering into a technology exchange agreement with Intel. This led to AMD making the chips at volume and selling them on the open market. AMD would go on to fast-follow Intel for decades. The 80386 would go on to simply be known as the Intel 386, with over 275,000 transistors. It was launched in 1985, but we didn't see a lot of companies use them until the early 1990s. The 486 came in 1989. Now we were up to a million transistors as well as a math coprocessor. We were 50 times faster than the 4004 that had come out less than 20 years earlier.  I don't want to take anything away from the phenomenal run of research and development at Intel during this time but the chips and cores and amazing developments were on autopilot. The 80s also saw them invest half a billion in reinvigorating their manufacturing plants. With quality manufacturing allowing for a new era of printing chips, the 90s were just as good to Intel. I like to think of this as the Pentium decade with the first Pentium in 1993. 32-bit here we come. Revenues jumped 50 percent that year closing in on $9 billion. Intel had been running an advertising campaign around Intel Inside. This represented a shift from the IBM PC to the Intel. The Pentium Pro came in 1995 and we'd crossed 5 million transistors in each chip. And the brand equity was rising fast. More importantly, so was revenue. 1996 saw revenues pass $20 billion. The personal computer was showing up in homes and on desks across the world and most had Intel Inside - in fact we'd gone from Intel inside to Pentium Inside. 1997 brought us the Pentium II with over 7 million transistors, the Xeon came in 1998 for servers, and 1999 Pentium III. By 2000 they introduced the first gigahertz processor at Intel and they announced the next generation after Pentium: Itanium, finally moving the world to the 64 bit processor.  As processor speeds slowed they were able to bring multi-core processors and massive parallelism out of the hallowed halls of research and to the desktop computer in 2005. 2006 saw Intel go from just Windows to the Mac. And we got 45 nanometer logic technology in 2006 using hafnium-based high-k for transistor gates represented a shift from the silicon-gated transistors of the 60s and allowed them to move to hundreds of millions of transistors packed into a single chip. i3, i5, i7, an on. The chips now have over a couple hundred million transistors per core with 8 cores on a chip potentially putting us over 1.7 or 1.8 transistors per chip. Microsoft, IBM, Apple, and so many others went through huge growth and sales jumps then retreated dealing with how to run a company of the size they suddenly became. This led each to invest heavily into ending a lost decade effectively with R&D - like when IBM built the S/360 or Apple developed the iMac and then iPod. Intel's strategy had been research and development. Build amazing products and they sold. Bigger, faster, better. The focus had been on power. But mobile devices were starting to take the market by storm. And the ARM chip was more popular on those because with a reduced set of instructions they could use less power and be a bit more versatile.  Intel coined Moore's Law. They know that if they don't find ways to pack more and more transistors into smaller and smaller spaces then someone else will. And while they haven't been huge in the RISC-based System on a Chip space, they do continue to release new products and look for the right product-market fit. Just like they did when they went from more DRAM and SRAM to producing the types of chips that made them into a powerhouse. And on the back of a steadily rising revenue stream that's now over $77 billion they seem poised to be able to whether any storm. Not only on the back of R&D but also some of the best manufacturing in the industry.  Chips today are so powerful and small and contain the whole computer from the era of those Pentiums. Just as that 4004 chip contained a whole ENIAC. This gives us a nearly limitless canvas to design software. Machine learning on a SoC expands the reach of what that software can process. Technology is moving so fast in part because of the amazing work done at places like Intel, AMD, and ARM. Maybe that positronic brain that Asimov promised us isn't as far off as it seems. But then, I thought that in the 90s as well so I guess we'll see.        

Otro programa quemandero dedicado a la informática clásica, en este programa especial recordamos el ordenador IMSAI 8080, uno de los primeros ordenadores que se utilizó en la película de los años 80 juegos de guerra. Con invitados de auténtico lujo expertos en la materia como son Eduardo Arancibia, Eduardo Cruz, Raúl y Pablo "Apple collector".

Chris is restoring this vintage IMSAI computer with a Z80 CPU and memory cards connected to the S100 bus, and some things are starting to work! Here, Chris uses the front panel to start a ROM program that can read hex code from a paper tape. The loaded code then prints "HELLO WORLD", as one must do. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------

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The Osborne Effect isn't an episode about Spider-Man that covers turning green or orange and throwing bombs off little hoverboards. Instead it's about the impact of The Osborne 1 computer on the history of computers. Although many might find discussing the Green Goblin or Hobgoblin much more interesting. The Osborne 1 has an important place in the history of computing because when it was released in 1981, it was the first portable computer that found commercial success. Before the Osborne, there were portable teletype machines for sure, but computers were just starting to get small enough that a fully functional machine could be taken on an airplane. It ran 2.2 of the CP/M operating system and came with a pretty substantial bundle of software. Keep in mind, there weren't internal hard drives in machines like this yet but instead CP/M was a set of floppies. It came with MBASIC from Microsoft, dBASE II from Ashton-Tate, the WordStar word processor, SuperCalc for spreadsheets, the Grammatik grammar checker, the Adventure game, early ledger tools from PeachTree Software, and tons of other software. By bundling so many titles, they created a climate where other vendors did the same thing, like Kaypro. After all, nothing breeds competitors like the commercial success of a given vendor. The Osborne was before flat panel screens so had a built-in CRT screen. This and the power supply and the heavy case meant it weighed almost 25 pounds and came in at just shy of $1,800. Imagine two disk drives with a 5 inch screen in the middle. The keyboard, complete with a full 10-key pad, was built into a cover that could be pulled off and used to interface with the computer. The whole thing could fit under a seat on an airplane. Airplane seats were quite a bit larger than they are today back then! We think of this as a luggable rather than a portable because of that and because computers didn't have batteries yet. Instead it pulled up to 37 watts of power. All that in a 20 inch wide case that stood 9 inches tall. The two people most commonly associated with the Osborne are Adam Osborne and Lee Felsenstein. Osborne got his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1968 and went to work in chemicals before he moved to the Bay Area and started writing books about computers and started a company called Osborne and Associates to write computer books. He sold that to McGraw-Hill in 1979. By then he'd been hanging around the Homebrew Computer Club for a few years and there were some pretty wild ideas floating around. He saw Jobs and Wozniak demo the Apple I and watched their rise. Founders and engineers from Cromemco, IMSAI, Tiny BASIC, and Atari were also involved there - mostly before any of those products were built. So with the money from McGraw-Hill and sales of some of his books like An Introduction To Microcomputers, he set about thinking through what he could build. Lee Felsenstein was another guy from that group who'd gotten his degree in Computer Science at Berkeley before co-creating Community Memory, a project to build an early bulletin board system on top of a SDS 940 timesharing mainframe with links to terminals like a Teletype Model 33 sitting at Leopold's Records in Berkeley. That had started up back in 1973 when Doug Englebart donated his machine from The Mother of All Demos and eventually moved to minicomputers as those became more available. Having seen the world go from a mainframe the size of a few refrigerators to minicomputers and then to early microcomputers like the Altair, when a hardware hacker like Felsenstein paired up with someone with a little seed money like Osborne, magic was bound to happen. The design was similar to the NoteTaker that Alan Kay had built at Xerox in the 70s - but hacked together from parts they could find. Like 5 inch Fujitsu floppy drives. They made 10 prototypes with metal cases and quickly moved to injection molded plastic cases, taking them to the 1981 West Coast Computer Faire and getting a ton of interest immediately. Some thought the screen was a bit too small but at the time the price justified the software alone. By the end of 1981 they'd had months where they did a million dollars in sales and they fired up the assembly line. People bought modems to hook to the RS-232 compatible serial port and printers to hook to the parallel port. Even external displays. Sales were great. They were selling over 10,000 computers a month and Osborne was lining up more software vendors, offering stock in the Osborne Computer Corporation. By 1983 they were preparing to go public and developing a new line of computers, one of which was the Osborne Executive. That machine would come with more memory, a slightly larger screen, an expansion slot and of course more software using sweetheart licensing deals that accompanied stock in the company to keep the per-unit cost down. He also announced the Vixen - same chipset but lighter and cheaper. Only issue is this created a problem, which we now call the Osborne Effect. People didn't want the Osborne 1 any more. Seeing something new was on the way, people cancelled their orders in order to wait for the Executive. Sales disappeared almost overnight. At the time, computer dealers pushed a lot of hardware and the dealers didn't want to have all that stock of an outdated model. Revenue disappeared and this came at a terrible time. The market was changing. IBM showed up with a PC, Apple had the Lisa and were starting to talk about the Mac. KayPro had come along as a fierce competitor. Other companies had clued in on the software bundling idea. The Compaq portable wasn't far away. The company ended up cancelling the IPO and instead filing for bankruptcy. They tried to raise money to build a luggable or portable IBM clone - and if they had done so maybe they'd be what Compaq is today - a part of HP. The Osborne 1 was cannibalized by the Osborne Executive that never actually shipped. Other companies would learn the same lesson as the Osborne Effect throughout history. And yet the Osborne opened our minds to this weird idea of having machines we could take with us on airplanes. Even if they were a bit heavy and had pretty small screens. And while the timing of announcements is only one aspect of the downfall of the company, the Osborne Effect is a good reminder to be deliberate about how we talk about future products. Especially for hardware but we also have to be careful not to sell features that don't exist yet in software.

We've covered Xerox PARC a few times - and one aspect that's come up has been the development of the Bravo word processor from Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi, and team. Simonyi went on to work at Microsoft and spearheaded the development of Microsoft Word. But Bravo was the first WYSIWYG tool for creating documents, which we now refer to as a word processor. That was 1974.  Something else we've covered happened in 1974, the release of the Altair 8800. One aspect of the Altair we didn't cover is that Michael Shrayer was a tinkerer who bought an Alatir and wrote a program that allowed him to write manuals. This became the Electric Pencil. It was text based though and not a WYSIWYG like Bravo was. It ran in 8k of memory and would be ported to Intel 8080, Zylog Z-80, and other processors over the years leading into the 80s. But let's step back to the 70s for a bit. Because bell bottoms.  The Altair inspired a clone called the IMSAI 8080 in 1975. The direct of marketing, Seymour Rubenstein started tinkering with the idea of a word processor. He left IMSAI and by 1978, put together $8,500 and started a company called MicroPro International. He convinced Rob Barnaby, the head programmer at IMSAI, to join him. They did market research into the tools being used by IBM and Xerox. They made a list of what was needed and got to work. The word processor grew. They released their word processor, which they called WordStar, for CP/M running on the Intel 8080. By then it was 1979 and CP/M was a couple years old but already a pretty dominant operating system for microcomputers. Software was a bit more expensive at the time and WordStar sold for $495. At the time, you had to port your software to each OS running on each hardware build. And the code was in assembly so not the easiest thing in the world. This meant they wanted to keep the feature set slim so WordStar could run on as many platforms as possible. They ran on the Osborne 1 portable and with CP/M support they became the standard. They could wrap words automatically to the next line.  Imagine that.  They ported the software to other platforms. It was clear there was a new OS that they needed to run on. So they brought in Jim Fox, who ported WordStar to run on DOS in 1981. They were on top of the world. Sure, there was Apple Write, Word, WordPerfect, and Samna, but WordStar was it. Arthur C Clarke met Rubenstein and Barnaby and said they "made me a born-again writer, having announced my retirement in 1978, I now have six books in the works, all through WordStar." He would actually write dozens more works.  They released the third version in 1982 and quickly grew into the most popular, dominant word processor on the market. The code base was getting a little stale and so they brought in Peter Mierau to overhaul it for WordStar 4. The refactor didn't come at the best of times. In software, you're the market leader until… You thought I was going to say Microsoft moved into town? Nope, although Word would eventually dominate word processing. But there was one more step before computing got there.  Next, along with the release of the IBM PC, WordPerfect took the market by storm. They had more features and while WordStar was popular, it was the most pirated piece of software at the time. This meant less money to build features. Like using the MS-DOS keyboard to provide more productivity tools. This isn't to say they weren't making money. They'd grown to $72M in revenue by 1984. When they filed for their initial public offering, or IPO, they had a huge share of the word processing market and accounted for one out of every ten dollars spent on software.  WordStar 5 came in 1989 and as we moved into the 90s, it was clear that WordStar 2000 had gone nowhere so WordStar 6 shipped in 1990 and 7 in 1991. The buying tornado had slowed and while revenues were great, copy-protecting disks were slowing the spread of the software.  Rubinstein is commonly credited with creating the first end-user software licensing agreement, common with nearly every piece of proprietary software today. Everyone was pirating back then so if you couldn't use WordStar, move on to something you could steal. You know, like WordPerfect. MultiMate, AmiPro, Word, and so many other tools. Sales were falling. New features weren't shipping.  One pretty big one was support for Windows. By the time Windows support shipped, Microsoft had released Word, which had a solid two years to become the new de facto standard. SoftKey would acquire the company in 1994, and go on to acquire a number of other companies until 2002 when they were acquired. But by then WordStar was so far forgotten that no one was sure who actually owned the WordStar brand.  I can still remember using WordStar. And I remember doing work when I was a consultant for a couple of authors to help them recover documents, which were pure ASCII files or computers that had files in WordStar originally but moved to the WSD extension later. And I can remember actually restoring a BAK file while working at the computer labs at the University of Georgia, common in the DOS days. It was a joy to use until I realized there was something better. Rubinstein went on to buy another piece of software, a spreadsheet. He worked with another team, got a little help from Barnaby and and Fox and eventually called it Surpass, which was acquired by Borland, who would rename it to Quattro Pro. That spreadsheet borrowed the concept of multiple sheets in tabs from Boeing Calc, now a standard metaphor. Amidst lawsuits with Lotus on whether you could patent how software functions, or the UX of software, Borland sold Lotus to Novell during a time when Novell was building a suite of products to compete with Microsoft. We can thank WordStar for so much. Inspiring content creators and creative new features for word processing. But we also have to remember that early successes are always going to inspire additional competition. Any company that grows large enough to file an initial public offering is going to face barbarian software vendors at their gates. When those vendors have no technical debt, they can out-deliver features. But as many a software company has learned, expanding to additional products by becoming a portfolio company is one buffer for this. As is excellent execution.  The market was WordStar's to lose. And there's a chance that it was lost the second Microsoft pulled in Charles Simonyi, one of the original visionaries behind Bravo from Xerox PARC. But when you have 10% of all PC software sales it seems like maybe you got outmaneuvered in the market. But ultimately the industry was so small and so rapidly changing in the early 1980s that it was ripe for disruption on an almost annual basis. That is, until Microsoft slowly took the operating system and productivity suite markets and .doc, .xls, and .ppt files became the format all other programs needed to support.  And we can thank Rubinstein and team for pioneering what we now call the software industry. He started on an IBM 1620 and ended his career with WebSleuth, helping to usher in the search engine era. Many of the practices he put in place to promote WordStar are now common in the industry. These days I talk to a dozen serial entrepreneurs a week. They could all wish to some day be as influential as he. 

Chapter 0036 - 0037 Narrative  Chapter 0036 Pop!  Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (1948 - Present)  Sword of Ba Heer (Shroud of the Avatar) Chuck Taylor All Stars (1932 - Present)  Chapter 0037 Pop! Gorf (1981) Tempest (1981) Ex LAX (1906 - Present) Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975) Console Rundown  PDP-1 Altair 8800 IMSAI 8080 Apple I and II  Atari 2600 Commodore PET Intellivision TRS-80  Atari 400 and 800 ColecoVision TI-99/4 Sinclair ZX80 Commodore 64 Console Wars! NES vs. Sega Master System SNES vs Sega Genesis PlayStation 2 vs. Xbox PC vs Mac The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964)

Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music I'm Kay Savetz, and this is ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit podcast. This interview, however, is about events that happened before Atari released its first computers. This interview is with Dorothy Siegel, a pioneer in computer music. The music she created was on an IMSAI 8080 computer and a clarinet. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of a show called Personal Computing '78 held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. In 1979, Creative Computing Magazine published a record album, also titled First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival. The 12" 33 RPM record was of music performed at the festival: 18 pieces, including Dorthy's. Dorothy was co-founder of Newtech, along with her husband Michael Abram and business partner Stuart Newfeld, a company that built add-on music cards for two S-100 bus computers: the IMSAI 8080 and the Southwest Technical Products Corporation 6800. The Newtech Music Cards cost $59.95 each. (Newtech was not the same company as NewTek, the company that sold the Video Toaster in the 1990s.) Dorothy performed Johann Wanhal's Rondo from Sonata in B-flat for Clarinet and Piano. The IMSAI, with three Newtech music boards, performed the piano part, and Dorothy accompanied it on clarinet. I'm going to play the song now. It's about four minutes long. Regarding Dorothy's song, the album notes read: "Newtech's music card for the S-100 bus is essentially a digital-to-analog converter controlled by an output port on the computer. The analog output is fed into amplifiers to be heard. This approach to computer music synthesis is extremely flexible since hypothetically any possible sound can be created. In actual practice the performance of the music circuitry is somewhat limited by the speed of the host computer. Each card can produce up to three voices output to one channel. Newtech's music software consists of a BASIC program which converts music into binary tables, and a machine-language interpreter to play the music with three voices and different envelopes. The piece on this record uses three cards each playing one voice." Check the show notes for an extensive list of links to people that we talk about and the articles that Dorothy wrote for ROM Magazine and Popular Electronics. You can hear the entire First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival at VintageComputerMusic.com or buy the album on a remastered audio CD directly from Dave Ahl of Creative Computing Magazine. This interview took place January 7, 2014, when I was doing research for a book about the first personal computer magazines. Although I've decided not to write the book, I am publishing the interviews that I did while doing the research. Personal Computing '78 flyer Popular Electronics magazine, January 1975 Edward Miller's Piece for Clarinet & Tape Stan Viet Electro-Harmonix ANTIC Interview 332 - Mike Matthews, founder of Electro-Harmonix ANTIC Interview 280 - David and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine Samuel Abram, Dorothy's son ROM Magazine Issue 4: Scott Joplin on Your Sci-Fi Hi-Fi by Dorothy Siegel ROM Magazine Issue 5: Make Me More Music, Maestro Micro by Dorothy Siegel Popular Electronics November 1979: CP/M: The Standard Microcomputer Software Interface by Dorothy Siegel Listen to/download First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival album Buy the album on a remastered audio CD from Dave Ahl

I don't think it will come to many as much of a surprise for my fondness for the tv show, Whiz Kids which originally aired for a very brief 8 months from October 5, 1983 to June 2, 1984. In those 8 months, 18 episodes aired and I loved the show, I loved it so much that even recorded many of the episodes on a now lost BetaMax collection of tapes. When Whiz Kids first aired I was 10, was really into the BASIC programming language, creating my own games, learning about BBS systems using my 300 baud modem for my Commodore 64. I quickly outgrew the Commodore and received an IBM PC which I would use for many years. I owned (and still do) many computers, Apple II, Apple IIC, Apple IIGS, TRS-80, Commodore 128, Atari 400 and 800, etc etc - right now I am writing this on a Windows 10 machine powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 processor with 32gb of RAM, Navi RX 5000 video card, liquid cooling and many other little amazing things that allow me to edit all of my podcasts, video and anything else needed.  Why am I going off on this tangent? Well, because I have been interested in computers since I was in 2nd grade, Whiz Kids came around at a time when I wanted to learn more about what a computer could do and the show absolutely fed my dopey head with fun ideas.  I will always appreciate Whiz Kids and Matthew Labyorteaux's role as Richie Adler. My goal in life at 10 was to own a RALF computer which was a Frankenstein-type of monstrosity with an IMSAI PCS 80/30 computer at the heart but what I really wanted was all those cool blinking lights. I think the desire to own such a complicated machine birthed my love of vintage modular HIFI stereo equipment, recording devices from 1960's and 70's, my collection of vintage synthesizers, guitars, amps and a lot more that my wife will one day try to get me to part with. I only hope I can convince my son to fall in love with these items so they don't end up in a garage sale (my 1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom for $65 is a fear). Today, my recording setup is not unlike RALF, I use a Mackie digital mixer, Focusrite Scarlett audio interface, Shure SM7B microphone - I have XLR cables routed everywhere and other wires aplenty and I would never have it any other way! When I fire up my recording computer and get on the line with Chris, Kim, Leah or one of the many people who take the time to discuss all of these wonderful shows with me, I feel RALF is alive in my setup, I might not have the Intel 8080 processor from the IMSAI powering my Mac but deep within the Intel i7's multi-cores is the power behind RALF. I am now officially rambling so I am just going to conclude with this, Whiz Kids left an impression on me and was very important to my development and perhaps it even taught me to WANT things! I will always cherish this light-hearted crime drama about nerdy hackers in southern California. It's a sweet and worthwhile show.

Nanoo Nanoo.Ryan Gosling is going back to space for Andy Weir's next book, which isn't even out yet but is already casting actors. This one has a working title of Project Hail Mary and features a lone scientist on a spaceship trying to save the world. Slightly higher stakes than The Martian, but Andy's books are always great.Astronauts are also going to use pee to build houses on the moon. Let's hope NASA has a large surplus of air fresheners to send up with them, because this cement is probably the most useful way to use human waste on the moon, but it's going to smell.Back on Earth, Niantic are trying to deflate the Pokecoin economy by severely lowering the minimum wage. Nobody seems to be happy with this, but Australia is just the test site, so it's coming to a phone near you soon.This week Professor took a trip to a far away planet to care for slimes, and DJ found out what happens when you swim with the cardsharks.Check in next week for probably less pee jokes. Probably.Andy Weir’s Space Film starring Ryan Gosling-https://variety.com/2020/film/news/phil-lord-chris-miller-ryan-gosling-astronaut-movie-1234607851/Introducing….Piss-ent: the new space cement-https://www.sciencenews.org/article/astronauts-lunar-exploration-cement-urine-urea-3d-printing-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619340478?via%3DihubPokeCoin: Gotta cash them all-https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/glcywi/tales_from_the_front_one_players_experience_with/Games PlayedProfessor–Slime Rancher – https://store.steampowered.com/app/433340/Slime_Rancher/Rating: 2/5DJ–Legends of Runeterra – https://playruneterra.com/en-us/Rating: 4.5/5Other topics discussedThe Martian (The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. The Martian, a 2011 novel by Andy Weir, served as the screenplay adapted by Drew Goddard. The film depicts an astronaut's lone struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind, and efforts to rescue him and bring him home to Earth.)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2018 American computer-animated superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Into_the_Spider-VerseAndy Weir (American novelist whose debut novel in 2011, The Martian, was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015.)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_WeirSean Bean Death Scene Compilation 1986-2016-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnzk5qAaNLkFirst Man (First Man is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle and written by Josh Singer. Based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen, the film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969. Steven Spielberg serves as an executive producer.)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Man_(film)Interstellar (2014 epic science fiction film directed, co-written and co-produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity.)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)Raid: Shadow Legends (freemium mobile and PC game developed and published by Israeli game developer Plarium Games.)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid:_Shadow_Legends-https://raidshadowlegends.com/Girl being hit by a truck while playing Pokémon Go-https://time.com/4405221/pokemon-go-teen-hit-by-car/Pokémon Go disrupt a funeral-https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-08/pokemon-go-blamed-for-brisbane-funeral-disturbance/7700332List of highest-grossing mobile games-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_mobile_gamesHarry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery forces you to pay - or wait - to save a kid from being strangled.-https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-27-harry-potter-hogwarts-mystery-is-ruined-by-its-in-game-paymentsHarry Potter mobile game maker defends child-choking scene which asks you to wait or pay money-https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-31-harry-potter-mobile-game-maker-defends-child-choking-scene-which-asks-you-to-wait-or-pay-moneyPokémon Go Hits $3B in Lifetime Revenue-https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pokemon-go-hits-3-billion-lifetime-revenue-1250983Wall-E: Do not Return to Earth Scene played by Fred Wllard-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNXNkdZVqs4Groucho Marx’s look-https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Groucho_Marx_-_portrait.jpgRC2014 is a simple 8 bit Z80 based modular computer originally built to run Microsoft BASIC. It is inspired by the home built computers of the late 70s and computer revolution of the early 80s.-https://rc2014.co.uk/Sgt. Slaughter On The Time Andre The Giant Fell Asleep Mid-Match-https://www.mandatory.com/wrestlezone/news/1060153-andre-the-giant-sgt-slaughter-zzzzAndre The Giant (2018 TV documentary film based on the life of French professional wrestler and actor André René Roussimoff (better known as André the Giant).)-https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6543420/Star Wars Day (Star Wars Day, May 4, celebrates George Lucas's Star Wars media franchise. Even though the holiday was not created or declared by Lucasfilm, many Star Wars fans across the world have chosen to celebrate the holiday. It has since been embraced by Lucasfilm and parent company Disney as an annual celebration of Star Wars.-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_DayAn Assemblage of Grandiose and Bombastic Grandiloquents (TNC podcast)-https://thatsnotcanon.com/grandiloquentspodcastHeavenly Shows and Unnecessary Letters (TNC Podcast)-https://thatsnotcanon.com/heavenlyshowspodcastShout Outs15 May 2020 – Fred Wilard passes away at 86 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman1/2020/05/16/comic-fred-willard-dies-at-86/#5461bf6d7f10Frederick Charles Willard, was an American actor, comedian and writer. He was best known for his roles in the Rob Reiner mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap; the Christopher Guest mockumentaries Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration and Mascots; and the Anchorman films. Willard’s other recurring sitcom roles included Family Matters,Sister, Sister, Mad About You, and Everybody Loves Raymond (the latter which resulted in Primetime Emmy nominations for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy for three consecutive years). He even appeared as the only human character in the animated film "WALL-E," a first for a Pixar film. Willard was one of Hollywood's busiest comedic actors with a career that lasted more than 50 years, playing clueless characters such as sidekick Jerry Hubbard on the satire "Fernwood 2 Night" in the 1970s. He recently finished filming the Netflix series “Space Force,” where he played actor Steve Carell’s father. He died from natural causes in Los Angeles, California.18 May 2020 – Ken Osmond passes away at 87 - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/arts/television/ken-osmond-eddie-haskell-dead.htmlKen Osmond, who played the duplicitous teenager Eddie Haskell on the long-running sitcom “Leave It to Beaver,” one moment a smarmy young man when talking to parents, the next moment a devilish troublemaker when the adults were out of sight. Mr. Osmond appeared in all six seasons of “Leave It to Beaver,” 1957 to 1963, one of the most-watched television sitcoms of the era, then reprised the role as an adult version of Eddie in the Disney Channel revival series “The New Leave It to Beaver” in the 1980s. After Leave It to Beaver ended in 1963, Osmond continued to make occasional appearances on such television series as CBS's Petticoat Junction, The Munsters, and a final return appearance on Lassie in the episode "A Matter of Seconds" as a motorcycle delivery man who offers the hitchhiking collie a lift in his sidecar. However, he found himself typecast as Eddie Haskell and had difficulty finding steady work. In 2008, Osmond told radio host Stu Shostak in a radio interview, "I was very much typecast. It's a death sentence. In Hollywood you get typecast. I'm not complaining because Eddie's been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by. In 1968, I bought my first house, in '69 I got married, and we were going to start a family and I needed a job, so I went out and signed up for the LAPD. As an officer on motorcycle patrol, he grew a mustache to disguise himself. In 1980, he was shot three times in a chase with a suspected car thief but escaped serious injury: One bullet was stopped by his belt buckle, the others by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988. He died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and peripheral artery disease in Los Angeles, California.19 May 2020 – Red Dead Redemption Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/red-dead-redemption-turns-10-years-old/1100-6477391/On May 18, 2010, Rockstar Games released Red Dead Redemption, an open-world Western video game, on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Universally acclaimed for its artistry, dramatic storytelling, and freedom of choice, the game sold 17 million copies. But despite the game's reputation today, it's important to remember a time when its success wasn't certain, and Rockstar's developers sought to distinguish it from the studio's prior accomplishments. It subsequently attained a 95 on Metacritic and received over 170 Game of the Year Rewards. It led to a revitalized interest in the Western genre, especially the "Spaghetti Western"revisionist works by Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci. And after eight years, players got a sprawling prequel, Red Dead Redemption 2, which built upon and deepened the themes of its predecessor. Taken together, the two games are an American epic about modernization, betrayal, and the demons of the past. The West may be dead, but that won't stop us from reminiscing and keeping its memory alive.Remembrances19 May 1825 – Henri de Saint-Simon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Saint-SimonClaude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon. He created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonianism that claimed that the needs of anindustrial class, which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. He said the primary threat to the needs of the industrial class was another class he referred to as the idling class, that included able people who preferred to be parasitic and benefit from the work of others while seeking to avoid doing work. Saint-Simon stressed the need for recognition of the merit of the individual and the need for hierarchy of merit in society and in the economy, such as society having hierarchical merit-based organizations of managers and scientists to be the decision-makers in government. Saint Simon's conceptual recognition of broad socio-economic contribution, and his Enlightenment valorization of scientific knowledge, soon inspired and influenced utopian socialism, liberal political theorist John Stuart Mill, anarchism through its founder Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who was inspired by Saint-Simon's thought and Marxism with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels identifying Saint-Simon as an inspiration to their ideas and classifying him among the utopian socialists. He died from suicide at the age of 64 in Paris.19 May 1935 - T. E. Lawrence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._LawrenceColonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities. In 1916, he was sent to Arabia on an intelligence mission and quickly became involved with the Arab Revolt as a liaison to the Arab forces, along with other British officers. He worked closely with Emir Faisal, a leader of the revolt, and he participated, sometimes as leader, in military actions against the Ottoman armed forces, culminating in the capture of Damascus in October 1918. After the war, Lawrence joined the Foreign Office, working with the British government and with Faisal. In 1922, he retreated from public life and spent the years until 1935 serving mostly in the Royal Air Force, with a brief period in the Army. For the RAF, he participated in the development of rescue motorboats. In the inter-war period, the RAF's Marine Craft Section began to commission air-sea rescue launches capable of higher speeds and greater capacity. The arrival of high-speed craft into the MCS was driven in part by Lawrence. He had previously witnessed a seaplane crew drowning when the seaplane tender sent to their rescue was too slow in arriving. He worked with Hubert Scott-Paine, the founder of the British Power Boat Company (BPBC), to introduce the 37.5 ft (11.4 m) long ST 200 Seaplane Tender Mk1 into service. These boats had a range of 140 miles when cruising at 24 knots and could achieve a top speed of 29 knots. He died from a traffic collision at the age of 46 in Bovington Camp, Dorset.19 May 2009 - Robert F. Furchgott – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._FurchgottRobert Francis Furchgott, Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems. In 1978, Furchgott discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). By 1986, he had worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism of action, and determined that EDRF was in fact nitric oxide (NO), an important compound in many aspects of cardiovascular physiology. This research is important in explaining a wide variety of neuronal, cardiovascular, and general physiologic processes of central importance in human health and disease. In addition to receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nitric oxide as a new cellular signal—shared in 1998 with Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad. Furchgott's discovery, that NO gas causes blood vessels to dilate, provided a long sought-after explanation for the therapeutic effects of Nitroglycerin used to treat Angina pectoris and was later instrumental in the development of the erectile dysfunction treatment drug Viagra. He died at the age of 92 in Seattle, Washington.Famous Birthdays19 May 1942 - Gary Kildall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_KildallAmerican computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers, rather than equipment controllers, and to organize a company around this concept. Although his career in computing spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection with IBM's unsuccessful attempt in 1980 to license CP/M for the IBM Personal Computer. Kildall and his wife Dorothy established a company, originally called "Intergalactic Digital Research" (later renamed as Digital Research, Inc.), to market CP/M through advertisements in hobbyist magazines. Digital Research licensed CP/M for the IMSAI 8080, a popular clone of the Altair 8800. As more manufacturers licensed CP/M, it became a de facto standard and had to support an increasing number of hardware variations. In response, Kildall pioneered the concept of a BIOS, a set of simple programs stored in the computer hardware (ROM or EPROM chip) that enabled CP/M to run on different systems without modification. CP/M's quick success took Kildall by surprise, and he was slow to update it for high density floppy disks and hard disk drives.After hardware manufacturers talked about creating a rival operating system, Kildall started a rush project to develop CP/M 2. By 1981, at the peak of its popularity, CP/M ran on 3000 different computer models and DRI had US$5.4 million in yearly revenues. He was born in Seattle, Washington.19 May 1944 – Peter Mayhew - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_MayhewPeter William Mayhew, was an English-American actor, best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's The Force Awakens before his retirement from the role. When casting the original Star Wars (1977), director George Lucas needed a tall actor who could fit the role of the hairy alien Chewbacca. He originally had in mind 6-foot-6-inch (1.98m) bodybuilder David Prowse, but Prowse chose to play Darth Vader. This led Lucas to cast Mayhew, who was working as an orderly in the radiology department of King's College Hospital, London. He became aware of a casting call for Star Wars which was filming at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. The 7-foot-3-inch (2.21m) tall actor was immediately cast as Chewbacca after he stood up to greet Lucas. Mayhew continued working as an orderly—at Mayday Hospital (now Croydon University Hospital)—in between filming the original Star Wars trilogy. Mayhew modelled his performance of Chewbacca after researching the behaviour of bears, monkeys and gorillas he saw at London Zoo. Lucas said Mayhew was "the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature and I learnt to always let him win". The character did not have any lines, the sounds he made being derived from sound recordings of animal noises. While Mayhew portrayed Chewbacca in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he was not in Star Wars: The Last Jedi but was listed in the credits as "Chewbacca Consultant". He was born in Barnes, Surrey.19 May 1946 – André the Giant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_GiantAndré René Roussimoff, best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Roussimoff stood at over seven feet tall, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess growth hormone, and later resulted in acromegaly. It also led to his being called "The Eighth Wonder of the World". He found success as a fan favorite throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, appearing as an attraction for various professional wrestling promotions. During the 1980s wrestling boom he was paired with the villainous manager Bobby Heenan and feuded with Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The two famously headlined WrestleMania III in 1987. Outside of wrestling, he was best known for appearing as Fezzik, the giant in The Princess Bride. After his death in 1993, he became the inaugural inductee into the newly created WWF Hall of Fame. He was later a charter member of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame; the latter describes him as being "one of the most recognizable figures in the world both as a professional wrestler and as a pop culture icon." Towards the end of his career, Roussimoff starred in several films. He appeared most notably as Fezzik, his own favorite role, in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. Both the film and his performance retain a devoted following. In shoot interviews, wrestlers have stated that he was so proud of being in "Princess Bride", he carried a copy of the movie everywhere he went, to watch whenever he could. Roussimoff has been unofficially crowned "the greatest drunk on Earth"for once consuming 119 12-US-fluid-ounce (350ml) beers (in total, over 41 litres (72imp pt)) in six hours. He was born in Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne.19 May 1955 – James Gosling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_GoslingJames Arthur Gosling, often referred to as "Dr. Java", Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. He wrote a version of Emacs called Gosling Emacs (Gosmacs) while working toward his doctorate. He built a multi-processor version of Unix for a 16-way computer system while at Carnegie Mellon University, before joining Sun Microsystems. He also developed several compilers and mail systems there. He is known as the father of the Java programming language. He got the idea for the Java VM while writing a program to port software from a PERQ by translating Perq Q-Code to VAX assembler and emulating the hardware. He created the original design of Java and implemented the language's original compiler and virtual machine. He also invented an early Unix windowing system called NeWS, which became a lesser-used alternative to the still used X Window, because Sun did not give it an open source license. He is known for his love of proving "the unknown" and has noted that his favorite irrational number is √2. He has a framed picture of the first 1,000 digits of √2 in his office. He was born near Calgary, Alberta.Events of Interest18 May 1980 – Eruption of Mount St. Helens - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._HelensOn March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. It initiated as a series of phreatic blasts from the summit then escalated on May 18, 1980, as a major explosive eruption. The eruption, which had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 5, was the most significant to occur in the contiguous 48 U.S. states. It has often been declared the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history. The eruption was preceded by a two-month series of earthquakes and steam-venting episodes, caused by an injection of magma at shallow depth below the volcano that created a large bulge and a fracture system on the mountain's north slope. An eruption column rose 80,000 feet (24km; 15mi) into the atmosphere and deposited ash in 11 U.S. states and significant ash in two Canadian provinces. At the same time, snow, ice and several entire glaciers on the volcano melted, forming a series of large lahars (volcanic mudslides) that reached as far as the Columbia River, nearly 50 miles (80km) to the southwest. hermal energy released during the eruption was equal to 26 megatons of TNT. Hundreds of square miles were reduced to wasteland, causing over $1 billion in damage (equivalent to $3.4 billion in 2019), thousands of animals were killed, and Mount St. Helens was left with a crater on its north side. More than 4,000,000,000 board feet (9,400,000m3) of timber was damaged or destroyed, mainly by the lateral blast. At least 25% of the destroyed timber was salvaged after September 1980. In areas of thick ash accumulation, many agricultural crops, such as wheat, apples, potatoes and alfalfa, were destroyed. As many as 1,500 elk and 5,000 deer were killed, and an estimated 12 million Chinook and Coho salmon fingerlings died when their hatcheries were destroyed.19 May 1999 – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was released - https://www.scifihistory.net/may-19.htmlOn this day in 1999, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace was released theatrically ... and most of us came crashing understandably back to Earth. Employment consultant firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimated that 2.2 million full-time employees missed work to attend the film, resulting in a US$293 million loss of productivity. According to The Wall Street Journal, so many workers announced plans to view the premiere that many companies closed on the opening day. The release on May 19, 1999 of the first new Star Wars film in 16 years was accompanied by a considerable amount of attention. The Phantom Menace was released almost 16 years after the premiere of the previous Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi. The film's premiere was extensively covered by media and was greatly anticipated because of the large cultural following the Star Wars saga had cultivated. It grossed more than $924.3 million (equivalent to $1.42 billion in 2019) worldwide during its initial theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1999, the second-highest-grossing film worldwide and in North America (behind Titanic), and the highest-grossing Star Wars film at the time.19 May 2005 – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith was released - https://www.scifihistory.net/may-19.htmlGeorge Lucas brought his Prequel Trilogy to its tragic close when Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith finally showed audiences what exactly went down when Jedi Master Anakin Skywalker embraced his inner demons and took the path to the Dark Side of the Force. Luke and Leia were born, delivering the film's only true hint of what things would inevitably lead to their father's redemption, but an Empire was forged in darkness once and for all on this day. Its theatrical release in most other countries took place on May 19 to coincide with the 1999 release of The Phantom Menace (the 1977 release of A New Hope and the 1983 release of Return of the Jedi were also released on the same day and month, six years apart).IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General EnquiriesEmail - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195

Today we're going to cover the Homebrew Computer Club. Gordon French and Fred More started the Homebrew Computer Club. French hosted the Home-brew Computer Club's first meeting in his garage in Menlo Park, California on March 5th, 1975. I can't help but wonder if they knew they were about to become the fuse the lit a powder keg? If they knew they would play a critical role in inspiring generations to go out and buy personal computers and  automate everything. If they knew they would inspire the next generation of Silicon Valley hackers? Heck, it's hard to imagine they didn't with everything going on at the time. Hunter S Thompson rolling around deranged, Patty Hearst robbing banks in the area, the new 6800 and 8008 chips shipping… Within a couple of weeks they were printing a newsletter. I hear no leisure suits were damaged in the making of it. The club would meet in French's garage three times until he moved to Baltimore to take a job with the Social Security Administration. The group would go on without him until late in 1986. By then, the club had played a substantial part in spawning companies like Cromemco, Osborne, and most famously, Apple. The members of the club traded parts, ideas, rumors, and hacks. The first meeting was really all about checking out the Altair 8800, by an Albuquerque calculator company called MITS, which would fan the flames of the personal computer revolution by inspiring hackers all over the world to build their own devices. It was the end of an era of free love and free information. Thompson described it as a high water mark. Apple would help to end the concept of free, making its founders rich beyond their working-class dreams.  A newsletter called the People's Computer Company had gotten an early Altair. Bob Albrecht would later change the name of the publication to Dr Dobbs. That first, fateful meeting, inspired Deve Wozniak to start working on one of the most important computers of the PC revolution, the Apple I. They'd bounce around until they pretty much moved into Stanford for good.  I love a classic swap meet, and after meetings, some members of the group would reconvene at a parking lot or a bar to trade parts. They traded ideas, concepts, stories, hacks, schematics, and even software. Which inspired Bill Gates to write his “Open Letter to Hobbyists” - which he sent to the club's newsletter.   Many of the best computer minds in the late 70s were members of this collective.  George Morrow would make computers mostly through his company Morrow designs, for 30 years. Jerry Lawson invented cartridge-based gaming.  Lee Felsenstein built the SOL, a computer based on the Intel 8080, the Pennywhistle Modem, and designed the Osborne 1, the first real portable computer. He did that with Adam Osborne who he met at the club.  Li-Chen Wang developed Palo Alto Tiny Basic. Todd Fischer would help design the IMSAI. Paul Terrell would create the Byte Shop, a popular store for hobbyists that bought the first 50 Apple 1 computers to help launch the company. It was also the only place to buy the Altair in the area.  Dan Werthimer founded the SETI@home project.  Roger Melen would found Cromemco with Harry Garland. They named the company after Crothers Memorial, the graduate student engineering dorm at Stanford. They built computers and peripherals for the Z80 and S-100 bus. They gave us the Cyclops digital camera, the JS-1 joystick, and the Dazzler color graphics interface - all for the Altair. They would then build the Z-1 computer, using the same chassis as the IMSAI, iterating new computers until 1987 when they sold to Dynatech.  John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch, had become a famous phreaker in 1971, having figured out that a whistle from a box of Captain Crunch would mimic the 2600 hertz frequency used to route calls. His Blue Box design was then shared to Steve Wozniak who set up a business selling them with his buddy from high school, Steve Jobs.  And of course, Steve Wozniak would design the Apple 1 using what he learned at the meetings and team up with his buddy Steve Jobs to create Apple Computer and launch the Apple I, which Woz wanted to give his schematics away for free and Jobs wanted to sell the boards. That led to the Apple II, which made both wealthy beyond their wildest imaginations and paved the way for the Mac and every innovation to come out of Apple since.  Slowly the members left to pursue their various companies. When the club ended in 1986, the personal computing revolution had come and IBM was taking the industry over. A number of members continued to meet for decades, using the new name, the 6800 club, named after the Motorola 6800 chip, which had been used in the Altair on that fateful day in 1975.  This small band of pirates and innovators changed the world. Their meetings produced the concepts and designs that would be used in computers from Atari, Texas Instruments, Apple, and every other major player in the original personal computing hobbyist market. The members would found companies that went public and inspired IBM to enter what had been a hobbyist market and turn it into a full fledged industry. They would democratize the computer and their counter-culture personalities would humanize computing and even steer computing to benefit humans in an era when computers were considered part of the military industrial complex and so evil.  They were open with one another, leading to faster sharing of ideas, faster innovation. Until suddenly they weren't. And the higher water mark of open ideas was replaced with innovation that was financially motivated. They capitalized on a recession in chips as war efforts spun down. And they changed the world. And for that, we thank them. And I think you listener, for tuning in to this episode of the history of computing podcast. We are so, so lucky to have you. Now tune in to innovation, drop out of binge watching, and go change the world. 

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us to innovate (and sometimes cope with) the future! Today we're going to look at an often forgotten period in the history of computers. The world before DOS.  I've been putting off telling the story of CP/M. But it's time. Picture this: It's 1974. It's the end of the Watergate scandal. The oil crisis. The energy crisis. Stephen King's first book Carrie is released. The Dolphins demolish my Minnesota Vikings 24-7 in the Super Bowl. Patty Hearst is kidnapped. The Oakland As win the World Series. Muhammad Ali pops George Forman in the grill to win the Heavyweight title. Charles de Gaulle opens in Paris. The Terracotta Army is discovered in China. And in one of the most telling shifts that we were moving from the 60s into the mid-70s, the Volkswagen Golf replaces the Beetle. I mean, the Hippies shifted to Paul Anka, Paper Lace, and John Denver. The world was settling down. And the world was getting ready for something to happen. A lot of people might not have known it yet, but the Intel 8080 series of chips was about to change the world. Gary Kildall could see it. He'd bought the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 when it came out in 1971. He'd been enamored and consulted with Intel. He finished his doctorate in computer science and went tot he Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey to teach and developed Kildall's Method, to optimize compilers. But then he met the 8080 chip.  The Intel Intellec-8 was an early computer that he wanted to get an operating system running on. He'd written PL/M or the Programming Language for Microcomputers and he would write the CP/M operating system, short for Control Program/Monitor, loosely based on TOPS-10, the OS that ran on his DECsystem-10 mainframe.  He would license PL/M through Intel but operating systems weren't really a thing just yet. By 1977, personal computers were on the rise and he would take it to market though calling the company Digital Research, Inc. His wife Dorothy ran the company.  And they would go into a nice rise in sales. 250,000 licenses in 3 years. This was the first time consumers could interact with computer hardware in a standardized fashion across multiple systems. They would port the code to the Z80 processors, people would run CP/M on Apple Its, Altair's, IMSaI, Kaypro, Epson, Osbourne, Commodore and even the trash 80, or TRS-80. The world was hectic and not that standard, but there were really 3 main chips so the software actually ran on 3,000 models during an explosion in personal computer hobbyists.  CP/M quickly rose and became the top operating system on the market. We would get WordStar, dBase, VisiCalc, MultiPlan, SuperCalc, Delphi, and Turbo Pascal for the office. And for fun, we'd get Colossal Cave Adventure, Gorillas, and Zork.  It bootstrapped from floppy disks. They made $5 million bucks in 1981. Almost like cocoaine money at the time. Gary got a private airplane. And John Opel from IBM called. Bill Gates told him to. IBM wanted to buy the rights to CP/M. Digital Research and IBM couldn't come to terms. And this is where it gets tricky. IBM was going to make CP/M the standard operating system for the IBM PC. Microsoft jumped on the opportunity and found a tool called 86-DOS from a company called Seattle Computer Products. The cool thing there is that used the CP/M Api and so would be easy to have compatible software. Paul Allen worked with them to license the software then compiled it for the IBM. This was the first MS DOS and became the standard, branded as PC DOS for IBM.  Later, Kildall agreed to sell CP/M for $240 on the IBM PCs. The problem was that PC DOS came in at $40. If you knew nothing about operating systems, which would you buy? And so even though it had compatibility with the CP/M API, PC DOS really became the standard. So much so that Digital Research would clone the Microsoft DOS and release their own DR DOS. Kildall would later describe Bill Gates using the following quote: "He is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry.” While Kildall considered DOS theft, he was told not to sue because the laws simply weren't yet clear.  At first though, it didn't seem to hurt. Digital Research continued to grow. By 1983 computers were booming. Digital Research would hit $45 million in sales. They had gone from just Gary to 530 employees by then. Gangbusters. Although they did notice that they missed the mark on the 8088 chips from Intel and even with massive rises in sales had lost market share to Unix System V and all the variants that would come from that. CP/M would add DOS emulation.  But sales began to slip. The IBM 5150 and subsequent machines just took over the market. And CP/M, once a dominant player, would be left behind. Gary would move more into research and development but by 1985 resigned as the CEO of Digital Research, in a year where they laid off 200 employees.  He helped start a show called the Computer Chronicles in 1983. It has been something I've been watching a lot recently, researching these episodes and it's awesome! He was a kinda and wicked smart man. Even to people who had screwed him over.  As many would after them, Digital Research went into long-term legal drama, involving the US Department of Justice. But none of that saved them. And it wouldn't save any of the other companies that went there either. Digital Research would sell to Novell for $80 million in 1991 and various parts of the intellectual property would live on with compilers, interpreters, and DR DOS living on. For example, as Caldera OpenDOS. But CP/M itself would be done.   Kildall would die in a bar in Monterey, California in 1994. One of the pioneers of the personal computer market. From CP/M to disk buffering the data structure that made the CD, he was all over the place in personal computers. And CP/M was the gold standard of operating systems for a few years.  One of the reasons I put this episode off is because I didn't know how I would end it. Like, what's the story here. I think it's mostly that I've heard it said that he could have been Bill Gates. I think that's a drastic oversimplification. CP/M could have been the operating system on the PC. But a lot of other things could have happened as well. He was wealthy, just not Bill Gates level wealthy. And rather than go into a downward spiral over what we don't have, maybe we should all be happy with what we have.  And much of his technology survived for decades to come. So he left behind a family and a legacy. In uncertain times, focus on the good and do well with it. And thank you for being you. And for tuning in to this episode of the History of Computing Podcast. 

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Retro entro Amigos – Episodio 7x03 – Jalowin Hola a todos y sed más que bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de REAM. Nos vais a permitir en que esta ocasión tomemos como temática principal del programa… esta “fiesta” de Halloween y por lo tanto hablemos de juegos de miedo, del MIEDO en si mismo e intentemos averiguar charlando desenfadadamente que nos lo infunde y si hay en los juegos antiguos y menos algo de eso que andamos buscando. Muchas preguntas de los oyentes (aunque ya os digo que se han quedado algunas en el tintero pero que no olvidamos y que traeremos el próximo mes), el compañero Seth Garamonde con una recomendación muy particular y cartas perdidas en el tiempo de la mano del mismísimo IMSAI. En su sección “Misterios de 8 Bit y menos”, McLeod_Ideafix nos acerca el verdadero MISTERIO que rodea el cartucho “Driver test” para MSX y una versión “fantasma” de Commodore que dicen, que cuentan, que algunos han visto. Por supuesto... AVANCE DEL SORTEO DE LA RETROCESTA. El amigo Samu nos detalla cómo va a ser el sorteo aunque recordad que daremos detalle, foto e instrucciones precisas en una sección dedicada en nuestra página www.retroentreamigos.com Todo esto, y bastante menos… con quejas destempladas un tanto injustas y alguna anécdota reciente que aún no hemos terminado de asimilar XD Nos vemos en mes que viene que será DICIEMBRE… Uff!!!. Ya somos MAS retro que cuando empezamos. Vamos a acabar como IMSAI que cuando termina un juego actual... ya ha pasado a ser RETRO. Ckultur + La alegre pandilla

nuestro compañero David entrevista en el programa de hoy a Imsai, del podcast Retro entre amigos

Retro Entre Amigos – Episodio 6x09 Volvemos un nuevo mes en el que vamos a prestar especial atención a nuestras conclusiones sobre lo que ha sido RetroPixel 2018 pero que, por supuesto, no se quedará solamente ahí De entrada, hacemos nuestro pequeño y humilde homenaje a Pepe Mediavilla que nos ha dejado recientemente. Posteriormente, tenemos una sección a la que tal vez tendríamos que llamar “confesiones verdaderas”. No puedo contar mucho por aquí... oídlo a ver que os parece. El compañero McLeod_Ideafix nos trae sus “Misterios de 8 bits y menos” en la que nos desvela un oscuro secreto... ¿Por qué los pixeles de mi ordenador de 8 bits no son CUADRADOS? POR FIN tendremos la finalización del MUNDIALMENTE FAMOSO concurso del compañero Imsai sobre el “Saboteur”. Tenemos al ganador ¡!!. Contemplad el resultado al tiempo que nosotros mientras el z80 se recalienta calculando la lista. Todo esto... y bastante menos… acercándonos cada mes a vosotros igual que habéis hecho estos días atrás cuando habéis venido a vernos, a saludarnos, a decirnos que nos estáis oyendo, que os acompañamos, que os hacemos reír, pensar y sonreír de cuando en cuando. Tan solo una palabra... GRACIAS siempre por estar ahí. No habría REAM si no estuvierais porque… ¿sabéis?... esos “amigos” de “Retro Entre Amigos” sois VOSOTROS. Ckultur + La alegre Pandilla

Hola a todos ¡!! Volvemos con un programa especial que hemos llamado PRE RetroPixel 2018. En el primer bloque vamos a contar un poco que cosas están confirmadas y cuales prácticamente ya listas para nuestro evento que, como sabéis, se celebrará los días 7 y 8 de ABRIL de 2018 en la ciudad de MALAGA. Tendreis siempre las ultimas noticias y novedades en nuestra pagina www.retroentreamigos.com en este hilo: http://www.retroentreamigos.es/retropixel-2018-informacion-y-mas/ Por otro lado, no dejamos algunas de las secciones habituales como las QUEJAS (bastantes) de los oyentes, preguntas indiscretas y temáticas diversas. El compañero SETH GARAMONDE se atreve a reconmendarnos UN LIBRO.. no os lo perdáis ¡!! La sección “Os traigo un juego” se nos antoja polémica ya que por un lado hay una importante división de opiniones sobre el anterior “Treasure of USAS” para MSX2 y por otro el amigo FERNANDO BASKET MASTER nos acerca un titulo tal vez “tapado” en la época llamado LOTUS TURBO SPRIT. Todo un PRE GTA?.... lo comentamos y lo jugamos ¡!!! McLeod_ideafix se acerca en su sección “Misterios de 8 Bits y menos” con una interesante pregunta “¿QUE MICROORDENADOR ERA UNA ESTUFA Y CUAL ES EL MOTIVO?. Una sección con un contenido esta vez bastante técnico, pero al tiempo poco tiempo poco conocido (para algunos como yo, por ejemplo) IMSAI se nos acerca con una nueva entrega de su CONCURSO MALDITO (XD). Oíd en directo sus explicaciones y sorprenderos al saber que PODEIS SEGUIR CONCURSANDO ¡!. Todo esto y mucho menos, en un programa especial de desagravio a la maravillosa región de Galicia y sus paisanos, bien regado con copas de humor, sorna, y tapas de cachondeo a la plancha!!. Nos vemos en RETROPIXEL MALAGA 2018 ¡!!. No faltéis ¡!!!!!!!!!!! Josua Ckultur + La Alegre Pandilla

Hola a todos amigos. Nos alegra acercarnos hasta vuestros oídos con un nuevo programa de "RetroEntreAmigos" o REAM como se suele abreviar. En esta ocasión, vamos a hablar de temas diversos (vaya novedad). No obstante, haremos mención de nuestro paso por RETROCONSOLAS ALICANTE 2017 con impresiones sobre el evento y las personas que se congregaron por allí. Por supuesto.. daremos un mini repaso XD a la SNES Mini PERO aprovecharemos la ocasión para tocar un poco todo este MINI Universo que se nos esta echando encima y que amenaza con destruir nuestros bolsillos El compañero IMSAI hará el ALEGRE SORTEO de su seccion y lo hace utilizando un AMSTRAD que se tomará su tiempo en "recalcular" su respuesta XD En la seccion "misterios de 8 bits y menos", el compañero Mcleod_Ideafix repasará algunas de las ultimas noticias conocidas sobre el Spectrum NEXT y tambien dedicará un tiempo para analizar el hardware "Dandanator". Un periferico de nueva creación que abre puertas muy economicas al uso actual de nuestros ZXs Seth Garamonde nos traera el juego "Wild Guns" y Equinoxe nos acerca la "carta en el tiempo" de un usuario de MSX que consideraba a los poseedores de Amiga como "pijos" XD Todo esto y mucho menos que me dejo en el tintero.. en tres horas y media de mucho retro y bastante abuelo cebolleta. Nos vemos pronto !!! Josua Ckultur + La Alegre Pandilla

Hola a todos !!! Sed mas que bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de Retro Entre Amigos. Tenemos entre manos esta "vuelta al cole" pero permidnos, en este caso....hacer que toda la primera parte del programa este dedica al gran ALFONSO AZPIRI... el artista, el maestro y... sobre todo, LA PERSONA. Compartid con nosotros unos minutos recordando anecdotas con el, ya que tuvimos el privilegio de compartir algunos momentos muy especiales. Por otro lado, aprovechamos para hacer publica la proxima EDICION FISICA del juego "Abu Simbel Profanation" para Commodore 64. Nada menos que una edici EXTENDIDA y física del clásico juego además contando con la ayuda y el apoyo nada menos que de VICTOR RUIZ. El compañero McLeod Ideafix, inagura temporada y sintonia para darnos bastantes pinceladas tanto de su "work in progress" en el core del Amstrad CPC para el ZXUno además de responder preguntas de los oyentes. Todo esto y mucho menos.. con invitados, con una nueva propuesta por parte de IMSAI en la que podreis participar si lo deseais este mismo mes... y ... sobre todo... con una vuelta al cole un tanto triste... ya que no estamos todos... nos falta Alfonso.. uno de los nuestros. Hasta siempre, MAESTRO Saludos Ckultur

Hola a todos amigos !!! Bienvenidos al caluroso Verano que apunta a tostarnos por dentro y por fuera !!! Arrancamos con programa Estival y de tres horas y media de largo. Parece que habia suficiente aire acondicionado para resistir !!!. En esta ocasión, el tema de portada que nos ocupa es el de las "RETRO REPARACIONES" en el que todos los retro amigos contarán sus experiencias reparando y dejando reparar sus vetustos equipos. En la sección "Misterios de 8 bits y menos", el amigo McLeod_Ideafix nos hablará de un fantastico complilador para Spectrum de factura española y algunas cosillas sobre el Spectrum NEXT. IMSAI nos acercará en esta ocasión un juego para AMSTRAD que nos ha dejado sorprendidos.. se trata de "El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc" Lo vamos a probar durante este mes que tiene muy buena pinta !!! Cartas en el tiempo, bla bla bla sin censuras, quejas de los oyentes, defensa de los mismos y, en general, mucho retro y mucha opinión viejuna y un tanto curtida para estas tardes de Verano que, lo unico que hacen es recordarnos aquellos Veranos sin fin de nuestra juventud. Espero que lo disfruteis tanto como lo hemos hecho nosotros al grabarlo. Nos vemos en la piscina !!!! Saludos Josua Ckultur

Hola a todos !!. Volvemos este mes de Noviembre con nuevos ratos y nuevos temas para compartir con vosotros. En especial, vamos a dedicarle un rato a charlar sobre qué es mas o menos ese "bicho" del coleccionismo de todo tipo que parece perseguir a algunos hasta ser profundamente obsesivos y, a veces, infelices. Tambien los casos de coleccionismo "sostenible" y experiencias personales de los contertulios Nuestro compañero Joe Morgan, nos trae un juego muy muy interesante para ZX Spectrum de nueva factura llamado "Multidude". No os lo perdais. McLeod_ideafix, nuestro "sabio de guardia", nos acerca un nuevo FAQ sobre el ZX UNO, desvelando (un poquito) cosas que estan ocurriendo en su escena y tambien respondiendo de viva voz a las preguntas de algunos oyentes. En su seccion "reinsertando al yayotrasto", nuestro compañero Imsai nos acerca de la mano de Ckultur ese caro pero interesante aparato llamado "1541 Ultimate" Todo esto y mucho menos, con nuestra pequeña aportación a la noche de Halloween, con historias no contadas, con aficion desmedida por todo esto y, por encima de todas las cosas, alegria de compartir con cuatro amigos y con vosotros un ratito.. os regalamos estos minutos de nosotros. Sientate en nuestra mesa e imaginate que aún tienes 18 años !!! Hasta el mes proximo Saludos Josua Ckultur

Hola a todos amigos .. estrenamos temporada !!! No vamos a hacer el chiste facil de "La vuelta al cole" porque algunos hemos estado estudiando todo el Verano y no nos hemos ido a nuestro apartamento en Torrevieja que nos tocó en el Un, dos Tres.. (ufff.. que mayores somos !!!) Bueno... seguimos en la brecha y en esta ocasion hacemos un pequeño especial "robos y latrocinios varios" en el que "la alegre pandilla" se nos confiesa ante todos y nos contarán pequeños (o grandes) robos en los que han sido participes. Al hilo de todo ello, en la sección "cartas en el tiempo", nuestro compañero Francis nos mostrará como se "autoplagiaban" algunos al principio de los 80s armados tan solo de un modesto Vic20. Estrenamos NUEVA sección comandada por el gran IMSAI llamada "Reinsertando al Yayotrasto" en el que trataremos mes a mes, diversos aparatos para traer hasta el siglo XXI a nuestras queridas máquinas pero todo desde un nivel muy muy de usuario final. Por ultimo, y en un tono bastante mas serio, hablaremos con nuestro buen amigo Nicogalis y la polemica levantada en algunos sitios en relación a sus creaciones originales para Amiga CD32 Todo esto y mucho menos.. ataviado de rosco flotador todavía y helados de crocanti... son nuestras casi tres horas de bla bla, jua jua y vamos que nos vamos Ah !!! despedimos al gran "Alex fanboy" que parte hacia tierras granadinas a "estudiar" (eso dice) y solo deseamos que vuelva pronto y nos traiga historias interesantes de ese piso que va a compartir con otras CUATRO estudiantes !!! XD Hasta el mes próximo !!! Josua Ckultur

Retro Entre Amigos - Episodio 4x03 Hola a todos!!! Este mes, tenemos el placer de haceros llegar el podcast que grabamos el pasado día 31 de Octubre como invitados del evento "RetroConsolas Alicante 2015". Gracias absolutas a Fran GAllego y a las demás personas de la organización que lo hicieron posible. Por supuesto... GRACIAS enorme a todos aquellos que llenasteis el auditorio y que nos hicisteis sentir MEJOR que en casa. En esta ocasión, hemos decidido tratar un tema "ligero" como es el de "Vida después de la muerte" XD en el que los amigos contertulios hablarán de sus experiencias en el mas alla videojueguil. Como siempre, tendremos "las cartas en el tiempo" con una carta sobre el AMSTRAD que no tiene desperdicio. El amigo IMSAI nos "traera un juego" que.... para que no decaiga... también de AMSTRAD. Entre todo eso y la presencia especial de ChemAmstrad en la mesa... la polemica esta mas que servida. Espero que lo disfruteis TANTISIMO como lo hemos hecho nosotros estando alli con todos los que os acercasteis. Nos vemos en Retro Barcelona 2015!!! Saludos Josua Ckultur

Retro Entre Amigos - Episodio 3x11 Cuando parecía que no podiamos tener mas calor... llega RetroEntreAmigos para "calentar" el ambiente. En esta ocasion, os traemos tres horitas de programa incluyendo todo tipo de nostalgia videojueguil posible Entre otros asuntos, trataremos temas candentes como "¿Que odiamos nosotros del mundillo?", haciendonos eco así del topic iniciado en el foro de Fasebonus. Tendremos correo de los oyentes, a nuestro amigo Seth Garamonde con "Reinsertando al Yayogamer" con nuevas y "Excitantes" palabrejas. En la sección "Cartas en el tiempo"... será nada menos que Imsai quien nos aporte unas cartas de usuarios de Amstrad que no tienen desperdicio.. NI LAS RESPUESTAS :) McLeod_Ideafix vendrá nuevamente a aportarnos respuestas Espectrumeras y una NUEVA y bastante interesante visión del ZX Spectrum VEGA ya que ha tenido la oportunidad de probarlo y de hablar en persona con Chris Smith. El compañero "Pequeño Nipon" nos traerá en.. "os traigo u juego" a un fantastico shoot em up para varias plataformas llamado "Star Soldier" Todo esto y mucho menos.. liado como poco.. en el debate y en la quietud.. es REAM. Entra por esta puerta al pasado que os ofrecemos y no dejes que el ahora te distraiga... ¿Quien quiere E3 cuando podemos disfrutar de System 3???? Un saludo a todos y a disfrutarlo P.D. Atentos al proximo que es aniversario y queremos que colaboreis!!!!

Listen along as David Greelish and Jeff Salzman discuss the history of the IMSAI 8080 and Processor Technology Sol computers. The IMSAI 8080 is a Tier One computer presented as the first Altair clone computer. As such, it was chosen to be the first computer we choose in a follow up podcast after the Altair. […]

Llegando a tiempo a su manera, el programa RetroEntreAmigos número 07 esta aquí con mas de dos horas de nuevos y polémicos asuntos. En esta ocasión, trataremos algunos temas bastante espinososos como - ¿Somos los coleccionistas unos simples “chalaos” por las cajas? - ¿Qué sucede cuanto te has terminado un juego… acaba o tiene vida después? En la sección “Misterios de 8 bit y menos” nuestro buen amigo McLeod_Ideafix nos explicará qué son las scanlines, por qué las echamos de menos y algunas maneras de traerlas de vuelta. Como primicia excepcional, nuestro compañero de fatigas Imsai nos va a traer como juego del mes en su sección “Os traigo un juego” un sorprendente juego de AMSTRAD llamado “Inside Outing”. No os lo perdáis!! Por último, intentad oir si o si uno de los bloques en los que creo que mas polémica se generan llamado “ME CONFIESO… soy un negado en ….”, donde nuestro alegres contertulios darán rienda suelta a sus experiencias y nos contarán secretos inconfesables.. o no.. XD Espero que os divierta y entretenga tanto o mas que a nosotros haciéndolo Un saludo a todos Josua Ckultur

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Schmidt, the programmer responsible for ADTPro. Beyond his own program, David has also contributed to the development of Davex, GSport, AppleCommander, CiderPress, OpenEmulator, DiscFerret, CFFA3000 — and much, much more. Collectively, the show’s hosts marvel at the deluge of Apple II games that are […]

  RSTS PDP - find out what it means to meWelcome to Show 062!  This week's Topic: The PDP-11 Minicomputer! Topics and links discussed in the podcast... It's not retro, but you can hook it up to retro stuff (that's one of my main purposes)...the Propeller 32-bit 8 core microcontroller!  Electronics super-fun...Another interactive fiction environment - have a look at Eamon, and the many games available for it!The Wikipedia page on the PDP-11 - a good starting point.  And one for RSTS as well...Here's a nice picture of a PDP-11/20 front panel.  See those switches?  Remind you of an IMSAI?Man, Bitsavers.org has an incredibly impressive collection of vintage computer manuals, in PDF format.  Nice.I know, you want to play with a PDP-11 emulator, don't you?  Admit it!  And then, have a look at SIMH...FAQ on the PDP-11, lots of reading here!  Make sure to check out the models that were made!More info sources on the PDP-11, here, and here...For a look at the PDP-11's big brother, point your browser to PDP Planet! Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com. For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page! Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan. Thanks for listening! - Earl  

  You are standing in a thick forest.  There is a podcast playing.Welcome to Show 060!  This week's Topic: Zork - The Great Underground Empire! Topics and links discussed in the podcast... Wikipedia link list - Zork, Infocom, and Interactive Fiction.  Check it out!The American Radio Relay League - find out about hamfests (where you might find some cool retro computers), and the ham radio hobby in general...An Apple I, for only $666.66?  Not any more.  But have a look at the vintage ad, it's great!"Shall we play a game?"  No scarier words were ever spoken by a sentient computer system - and you could hook up to it with an IMSAI.  Check out the IMSAI page dedicated to the movie Wargames (in which an IMSAI system is used quite prominently...)Be sure to download and enjoy the debut edition of the Classic Computing Podcast by David Greelish!And while you are podcast surfing, do not miss the September edition of 1 MHz, the Apple II Podcast - Carrington Vanston covers Ballyhoo, an Infocom game.  (And yes, it inspired me for this week's show...and to start playing Zork I once again!  Thanks Carrington!) Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com. For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page! Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan. Thanks for listening! - Earl