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Episode 144 - Interview with Don French and Steve Leininger, Co-Designers of the TRS-80 Model I Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper FutureVision Research Hello, and welcome to episode 144 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for October, 2024. I am Randy Kindig, your host for this audio ode to the home computers of the past. This month I have a special treat for you. At the recent Tandy Assembly, which I will talk about in more detail later in the podcast, not only were there a lot of great people, exhibits, vendors, and camaraderie, but we were also blessed with having Steve Leininger as one of the guest speakers along with his partner in the development of the TRS-80 Model I, Don French! I recently had an interview with Steve Leininger (episode 142: https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-142-interview-with-steve-leininger-designer-of-the-trs-80-model-i ), thanks to his willingness to be interviewed at the recent VCF Southeast in Atlanta. That was a milestone for my podcast, as I had always wanted to talk with Steve. I also had interviewed Don French several years ago, prior to his attending Tandy Assembly in 2017, in episode 53 (https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-53-interview-with-don-french-co-designer-of-the-trs-80-model-i ). This time, however, I was able to get an interview with Don and Steve together in the same interview! That in itself was amazing and I think you'll really enjoy the back-and-forth between the two gentlemen who are obviously and correctly proud of the work they did to bring the TRS-80 to the world and Tandy into the computer business. Next month, I will talk about another computer rescue that came my way recently, and which is also tied into Tandy Assembly and Radio Shack computers. I'll not go into any further detail here as I don't want to spoil the story for you next month. But believe me, it will be fun both to tell and to listen to. New Acquisitions/What I've Been Up To Soldering kits from FutureVision Research The Soldering Basics Kit The BEAM Bot Soldering Kit The Demonstrator Soldering Kit Tandy Assembly 2024 - https://www.tandyassembly.com/ Drive cable for the TRS-80 Model I from Ian Mavric - https://www.ebay.com/str/trs80universe RAM card for Tandy PC2/Sharp PC1500 from Jeff Birt - https://www.soigeneris.com/sharp-pc-1500-memory-modules Upcoming Shows Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we Show list I maintain for the remainder of the current year - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/current-year-vintage-computer-show-schedule)
Interview with Steve Leininger, Designer of the TRS-80- Model I Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 13 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 42 sec Intro 9 min 03 sec bumper - Peter Bartlett 9 min 11 sec New Acquisitions 17 min 11 sec bumper - Ian Mavric 17 min 19 sec Upcoming Computer Shows 21 min 53 sec bumper - Myles Wakeham 21 min 58 sec Meet the Listeners 28 min 37 sec Interview with Steve Leininger 1 hr 20 min 29 sec Closing This particular episode has a special meaning for me, personally. You see, as I've mentioned on earlier episodes, the TRS-80 Model I from Tandy/Radio Shack was my first home computer (even though my first programmable device was a TI58C calculator). I recall the joy and wonder of playing with the machine (it wasn't called the Model I at that time; just the TRS-80; as it was the first of the line) in the local Radio Shack store in 1977 and 1978 and the incredible rush of owning one in 1979; after my wife purchased a Level I BASIC machine for me as a gift for college graduation. That machine only had 4K of RAM and 4K of ROM (Tiny BASIC), as it was the entry-level machine, but it was a thing of beauty. I felt like I could do anything with that machine, even though my justification to the wife was that we could track our checkbook and recipes on it. I think she knew better, but went along with it anyway. The computer came with everything you needed, including a tape drive and black-and-white monitor, which was good for a poor recent college graduate. I quickly, as finances allowed with my new engineering job, upgraded the computer to 16K of RAM and Level II BASIC (a powerful Microsoft 12K ROM BASIC) and enjoyed the machine immensely, even using it in my job supporting the build-out of a new nuclear power plant back in those days. I eventually sold off the Model I, in favor of a computer that had color graphics and sound (the Atari 800), but have always continued to have a huge soft spot for that first computer. When I started the Floppy Days Podcast, one of the people that has always been on my bucket list to interview has been Steve Leininger, who, along with Don French while at Radio Shack designed the TRS-80 Model I, among other things. A few years back, I had the opportunity to participate in an interview with Steve for the Trash Talk Podcast, when I was co-hosting that show, but an ill-timed trip to the hospital for my son meant that I was not able to participate. While my son's health is of paramount importance, of course, I always wanted to get another chance to talk with Steve. Not only was Steve the designer of one of my favorite home computers of all time, but he also was a fellow Purdue University Boilermaker, who graduated just a year before I started there. The thought that I could have met Steve on campus if I'd been there just a year earlier was very intriguing to me, and fueled my desire to talk with Steve even more. In the last episode (#141 with Paul Terrell) I talked about VCF Southeast in Atlanta in July of 2024. After I had made plans to attend that show, I was flabbergasted to find out that Earl Baugh, one of the show organizers, had somehow managed to contact Steve and get him to come to the show! I have to thank Earl for the work he did to make that happen. Here was my opportunity to certainly meet Steve, and perhaps even talk with him! I prepped some questions, just in case I was able to get an interview. While at the show, I met Steve and asked him if he would be willing to do a short interview for Floppy Days while at the show. Amazingly, he was very kind and agreed to do that. We found a quiet room and I was able to talk with Steve for almost an hour. This show contains that interview. Another note on this: as you'll hear in the interview, the connection to Steve is even stronger than I realized! He not only went to my alma mater, but also grew up in some of the same towns that myself and my wife did. We personally peripherally know some of his relatives. Things like this really do make you think the world is small! One other, final, note: This interview even ties into the recent and continuing interviews I've been publishing with Paul Terrell. As you'll hear in upcoming episodes with Paul, and in this interview with Steve, Steve actually worked at the Byte Shop before getting the first job with Tandy, and in fact his work at the Byte Shop directly led to him getting hired by Tandy to design the Model I. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I enjoyed getting it. I am overjoyed I finally got the chance to talk to one of my vintage computer heroes, Steve Leininger! New Acquisitions C64 Sketch and Design by Tony Lavioe - sponsored link https://amzn.to/4dZGtt2 Compute's Mapping the IBM PC and PC Junior by Russ Davies - sponsored link https://amzn.to/3yQmrlP The Best of SoftSide - Atari Edition - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-best-of-softside-atari-edition ZX81+38 - https://github.com/mahjongg2/ZX81plus38 magnifying glasses - sponsored link https://amzn.to/4cBQYla Japanese power adapter - sponsored link https://amzn.to/3XjeUW5 Upcoming Shows VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ World of Retrocomputing 2024 Expo - September 14-15 - Kitchener, ON, Canada - https://www.facebook.com/events/s/world-of-retro-computing-2024-/1493036588265072/ Teletext 50 - Sep 21-22 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - https://www.teletext50.com/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ AmiWest - October 25-27 - Sacramento, CA - https://amiwest.net/ Chicago TI International World Faire - October 26 - Evanston Public Library (Falcon Room, 303), Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we Schedule Published on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub Interview Steve's Workbench at radioshack.com (archived) - https://web.archive.org/web/19980528232503/http://www.radioshack.com/sw/swb/ Transcript of Interview-Only Randy Kindig: All right. I really appreciate your time today, Steve. Steve Leininger: Thank you for having me, Randy. Randy Kindig: So let's start out maybe just by talking about where You live today, and what you do? Steve Leininger: I live in Woodland Park, Colorado, which is 8, 500 feet, right out in front of we got Pike's Peak out our front window. Randy Kindig: Oh. Oh, that's nice. Steve Leininger: Yeah we get snow up through about June, and then it starts again about September. But it's not as much snow as you would imagine. Randy Kindig: I've got property in Montana, and I lived out there for a couple of years, Steve Leininger: so there you go. Randy Kindig: We probably got more snow up there. Steve Leininger: Hey, you asked what I did. I'm involved with Boy Scouts, a maker space with a church based ministry firewood ministry, actually. Some people call it a fire bank. So we provide firewood to people who can't afford that. Randy Kindig: Oh. Steve Leininger: So it's like a food bank, but with fire, firewood. Randy Kindig: I've never heard of that. Steve Leininger: We source the firewood. We cut it down and we split it. Lots of volunteers involved; pretty big project. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Okay, cool. I also wanted to mention, I'm a fellow Boilermaker. Steve Leininger: There you go. Randy Kindig: I know you went to Purdue, right? Steve Leininger: I did go to Purdue. Randy Kindig: Did you ever get back there? Steve Leininger: Yeah, and in fact they've got a couple learning spaces named after us. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. Steve Leininger: We've been donating to our respective alma maters. My wife went to IU. Randy Kindig: Oh, is that right? Oh my. Steve Leininger: Yeah, oh my and me. Yeah, the fact that the family who's all IU, their family tolerated me was, quite a remarkable thing. Randy Kindig: Okay. I find it interesting because I think you graduated in 76, is that right? Steve Leininger: 74. Randy Kindig: Oh, 74. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Yeah. I was there from … Randy Kindig: Oh yeah, you actually were gone before I started. Steve Leininger: Yeah. So I was there from 70 to 73. 70 to 70 four. When I graduated in four years, I got both my bachelor's and master's degree by going through the summer. I managed to pass out of the first year classes because of some of the high school stuff yeah. Randy Kindig: Okay. I started in 75, so I guess we just missed each other. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Yeah. You're the new kids coming in. Randy Kindig: Yeah. . So I, I found that interesting and I wanted to say that. Do you keep up with their sports program or anything like that? Steve Leininger: Yeah, they play a pretty good game of basketball in fact, I ribbed my wife about it because she was from the earlier days, the Bobby Knight days at IU that were phenomenal. Randy Kindig: Yeah, exactly. For those of you listening, I'm talking with Steve Leininger, who was the primary developer, if not the developer, of the TRS 80 Model I.. Steve Leininger: I did all the hardware and software for it. I'll give Don French credit for sticking to it and getting a project started. And for refining, refining our product definition a little bit to where it was better than it would have been if I would have stopped early. Randy Kindig: Okay. And I have talked with Don before. I've interviewed him on the podcast, and I met him at Tandy Assembly. But I'm just curious, when you were hired into Tandy and you were told what you were going to do; exactly what were you told? Steve Leininger: They had a 16 bit microprocessor board that another consultant had developed. And they were trying to make a personal computer out of this. It was the Pace microprocessor, which was not a spectacular success for National, but it was one of the first 16 bit processors. But they had basically an initial prototype, might have been even the second level of the thing. No real documentation, no software, ran on three different voltages and didn't have input or output. Other than that, it was fine. I was brought in because I was one of the product one of the engineers for the development boards, the development board series for the SCAMP, the S C M P, the National Semiconductor had a very low cost microprocessor that at one point in time, I benchmarked against the 8080 with positive benchmarks and ours was faster on the benchmarks I put together, but as I was later told there's lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. But so they said take a look at using that, their low cost microprocessor that you were working with. And it really wasn't the right answer for the job. Let's see, the Altair was already out. Okay. That was the first real personal computer. The Apple, the Apple 1 was out. Okay. But it was not a consumer computer. Okay. They, it was just, it was like a cookie sheet of parts, which was very similar to what was used in the Atari games at the commercial games. Okay. pong and that kind of stuff at that time. And I had been working, after Purdue, I went to National Semiconductor. There's a long story behind all that. But in the process, some of us engineers would go up to the Homebrew Computer Club that met monthly up at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. We're talking Wilbur and Orville Wright kinds of things going on. Yeah. Everyone who was in the pioneering version of computing had at one time been to that meeting. Randy Kindig: It's very famous. Yeah. Steve Leininger: Yeah. And Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were basically a couple guys working out of their garage at the time. I was still working at National Semiconductor, but I also had a Moonlight job at Byte Shop number 2. The second computer store in all of California. Randy Kindig: And So you worked with Paul Terrell. Steve Leininger: I actually worked with one of, yeah, Paul, I actually worked for Paul's I don't know if it was a partner, Todd, I don't even remember the guy's name. But I just, it was. Randy Kindig: I was curious because I'm talking to Paul right now and getting interviews. Steve Leininger: Yeah. I, I'm sure we met, but it wasn't anything horribly formal. Since it was the number two shop, it still wasn't the number one shop, which Paul worked out of. And so we had an Apple 1 there. I actually got the job because I when I When I went in there, they were trying to troubleshoot something with what looked like an oscilloscope that they pulled out of a tank, and so it had, audio level kind of bandwidth, but could not do a digital circuit. And I said what you really need is a, I told him, a good tectonic scope or something like that. He said do you want a job here? I ended up moonlighting there, which was, as fortune would have it, was a good deal when the folks from Radio Shack came down to visit. Because when they came down to visit the sales guy wasn't there. We'll let the engineer talk to them, they almost never let the engineers talk to them. Randy Kindig: So you had to talk with them. Steve Leininger: Yeah. It was John Roach, Don French, and it was probably Jack Sellers, okay and Don was probably the; he was the most on top of stuff electronically because he was a hobbyist of sorts. The other two guys: Mr. Sellers ran the engineering group. John Roach was the VP of manufacturing. And they were basically on a parts visit. They do it once a year, once, twice a year. And they also did it with Motorola and a couple other places. But I told him about this microprocessor and that I was writing a tiny BASIC for it. Okay. Tiny BASIC was a interpreted basic that a guy named Li-Chen Wang actually had the first thing in Dr. Dobbs, Dr. Dobbs magazine. We're talking about, we're talking about things that you don't realize are the shoulders of giants that turned out to be the shoulders of giants. And in fact, we reached out to Mr. Wang as we were working on it. We thought we had the software already taken care of because I'm jumping ahead in the story, but we were going to have Bob Uterich, and you'd have to chase that back. We had him signed up to write a BASIC interpreter for us, but because he'd already done one for the 6800, and it was included in Interface Age magazine. on a plastic record. You remember the old plastic records you could put in a magazine? Randy Kindig: Yeah, I did see that. Steve Leininger: Yeah, so this was called a floppy ROM when they did it. Yeah. So if you had the right software and everything you could download the software off of the floppy ROM and run it on 6800. I think he used the Southwest Technical Products thing. And so we'd signed him up to do the BASIC. This was independent of the hardware design I was doing. And he went into radio silence on us; couldn't find him. And so we get to, in parallel, I was using the Li-Chen Wang plan to do at least a demo version of BASIC that would run on the original computer. And when the demo went successfully on Groundhog Day in 1977. This is the time frame we're talking about. I I started work on July 5th, the year before it. With Tandy? Yeah. Okay. We rolled into town on the 3rd, and of course they're closed for the 4th. And on the 5th I started, and there was the wandering around in the desert at the beginning of that, and Don's probably talked about how I was moved from there to their audio factory and then to the old saddle factory. Tandy used to be primarily a leather company before they bought Radio Shack in 1966 or something like that. And anyway, when the software didn't come out, I ended up writing the software, too. So I designed all the hardware and all the software. I didn't do the power supply. Chris Klein did the power supply. And, a little bit of the analog video circuitry, but it was very little part of that. Because we were just making a video signal. I did all the digital stuff on that. Yeah. Randy Kindig: So the software ended up being what was the level one ROM, right? Steve Leininger: Yeah, the level one ROM started out as the Li-Chen Wang BASIC. But he had no I. O. in his software, so I was doing the keyboard scanning. I had to do the cassette record and playback. Had to implement data read and data write Peek and poke, which is pretty simple. Put in the graphic statements. Yeah, oh, and floating point. Now, floating point, luckily, Zilog had a library for that, but I had to basically, this was before APIs were a big deal, so I basically had to use their interface, To what I had written and had to allocate storage, correct? We're talking about 4K bytes of ROM. I know, yeah. Very tiny, and to put all the I. O. in there, and to make it so that you could be updating the screen, when you're doing the cassette I put two asterisks up there and blinked the second one on and off, you remember that? Randy Kindig: Oh yeah. Steve Leininger: Sort of as a level set. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Steve Leininger: And someone said, oh, you should have patented that thing. And actually I have seven or eight patents, U. S. patents, on different parts of the computer architecture. Randy Kindig: Oh, do you? Steve Leininger: But not the blinking asterisk, which is probably a patentable feature. Randy Kindig: Yeah, I wish I'd had that on other machines, that I ended up having. So that would have been nice, yeah. I liken what you've done with what Steve Wozniak did, for the Apple II. You're somebody I've always wanted to talk to because I felt like you were one of the important pioneers in their early years. What do you have to say about that? Do you feel like what you did was ... Steve Leininger: in retrospect, yes. And I have a greater appreciation for people like the Wright Brothers. If you think about the Wright Brothers they took all their stuff from their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop down to Kill Devil Hills. We now know it as Kitty Hawk. But they would take the stuff down there by train, and then they would have to put it in horse driven wagons. Think about that. And people would ask them, what are you going to use the airplane for? It's what are you going to use a home computer for? Yeah, to maintain recipes and to play games. Randy Kindig: Do your checkbook. Steve Leininger: Do your check, home security. There's a whole lot of stuff that we talked about. And other giants entered the field: Multiplan, which became Lotus 1 2 3, which became Excel. Not the same company, but the idea, could you live without a spreadsheet today? Very difficult for some things, right? Randy Kindig: Yeah. Yeah, it's ubiquitous. People use it for everything. Yeah. Yeah. So you've been, I talked with David and Teresa Walsh. Or Welsh, I'm sorry, Welsh. Where they did the book Priming the Pump. Steve Leininger: That's very that's pretty close to the real thing. Randy Kindig: Is it? Okay. They named their book after what you did and said; that you primed the pump for home computers. Can you expand on that and tell us exactly what you meant by that? Steve Leininger: It again goes back to that shoulders of giants thing, and I forget who said that; it's actually a very old quote, I can see further because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. And I think the thing that we brought to the table and Independently, Commodore and Apple did the same thing in 1977. There were three computers that came out inexpensive enough that you could use them in the home. They all came with ROM loaded BASIC. You didn't have to load anything else in. They all came with a video output. Some had displays. Some Commodore's was built in. One of ours was a Clip on and you had to go find one for the apple. For the Apple, yeah. Apple had a superior case. Apple and Radio Shack both had great keyboards. Randy Kindig: apple was expandable, with its... Steve Leininger: yeah, Apple Apple was internally expandable, yeah. And, but it cost $1,000. Without the cassette. Without the monitor. It wasn't the same type of device. Randy Kindig: I was a college student. And, I looked at all three options. It was like the TRS-80; there are Radio Shacks everywhere. You could go in and play with one; which was nice. And they were inexpensive enough that I could actually afford one. Steve Leininger: And, Radio Shack can't duck the, if you did something wrong, you had to fix it. Randy Kindig: That's right. Let's see here. So initially the idea was to have a kit computer by Tandy? Steve Leininger: Yeah. I'm not sure whose idea that was. It made some kind of sense. Because that's the way the Altair was, and Radio Shack did sell a number of kits, but in the process of still kicking that around, saying it could be a possibility. I was one of the ones that said it could be a possibility. Within the same group that I did the design work from, they also would take kits in that people had built and troubleshoot the things if they didn't work. We had a couple engineers that would see if you connected something wrong or something. If you didn't, sometimes it was a matter that the instructions weren't clear. If you tell someone to put an LED in, yeah. You specifically have to tell them which way to put it in. And might be an opportunity to tweak your timing. Yeah. Anyway, we get this clock in, and it was a digital clock. Seven segment LEDs probably cost 50 bucks or more. Which is crazy. But It says, put all the components in the board, turn the board over, and solder everything to the board. And, pretty simple instructions. This had a sheet of solder over the entire bottom of the board. Someone figured out how to put two pounds of solder on the back of this thing. And, as we all got a great chuckle out of that, You realize, oh, you don't want to have to deal with a computer like this. You really don't. And Lou Kornfeld, who was the president at the time, didn't really want the computer. But he said, it's not going to be a kit. All right. That, that, that took care of that. great idea. Great idea. Randy Kindig: Were there any other times when you thought the computer might, or were there any times, when you thought the computer might not come to fruition? Any snags that you had that made you think that maybe this isn't going to work? Steve Leininger: Not really. I was young and pretty well undaunted. Randy Kindig: Pretty sure you could, Steve Leininger: yeah I, it wasn't any, it wasn't any different than building one at home. I'd been building kits since, night kits, heath kits, that kind of stuff, since I was a kid. And home brewed a couple things, including a hot dog cooker made from two nails and a couple wires that plugged into the wall. Don't try that at home. Randy Kindig: No kidding. Steve Leininger: But, it's funny if you If you look it up on, if you look that kind of project up on the internet, you can still find a project like that. It's like what's it called? Anvil tossing, where you put gunpowder under an anvil, shoot it up in the air. What could possibly go wrong? Don't, Randy Kindig: It's very well documented in books like Priming the Pump, Stan Veit's book, which I assume you're familiar with, and Fire in the Valley, what your involvement was with the Model 1. But there was some mention of your involvement with the Expansion Interface and other TRS 80 projects. What else did you work on while you were there? Steve Leininger: The Color Computer, the Expansion Interface. The model three to a little. Randy Kindig: Okay. Steve Leininger: Little bit. The model two was the big one. And point I just got tired of the management there. Randy Kindig: Did you? Okay. Steve Leininger: Yeah. I my mind was going faster than theirs, and they made the conscious decision to do whatever IBM has done, but do it cheaper. That, to me, that's not a. Didn't say less expensively either, so the whole thing just troubled me that, we're not going to be able to do anything new unless IBM has done it. And at about the same time the Macintosh came out and a superb piece of work. Yeah. Randy Kindig: Okay. So what education training and previous work experience did you have at the time you got hired by Tandy that made you uniquely qualified for that project that they were looking for? Steve Leininger: I'd been playing around with electronics since I was in the third grade. Actually, electricity. Randy Kindig: The third grade, wow. Steve Leininger: Yeah. My, my mom got me a kit that had light bulbs and bells and buzzers and wire from, I think it might have been the Metropolitan Museum. They had a kit. They, they've got a, they still today have an online presence. It, of course the materials have changed, but the kit had all these parts and it had no instructions. And I don't know if that was by design or it didn't have instructions, so I had to learn how to hook up wires and light bulbs and bells and switches to make it do things. And, in the process, I found out that if you put a wire right across the battery terminals, it gets hot. And, interesting stuff to know. Pretty soon, I was taking this stuff in to show and tell in the third grade. Look, and I was very early in electronics. It's electricity. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then my mom would take me to the library. She was quite a voracious reader, and I'd go to the library. technical section specifically the Dewey Decimal 621, which was electronics and things like that. Randy Kindig: you still remember that. Steve Leininger: Yeah. And in the 590 series, there's some good stuff too. And I would usually take out a stack of books, even though I was a horrible reader because I'm dyslexic and ADD. So I have an attention span and reading problem. But the technical stuff I was reading about pipeline architecture processors while I was still in junior high. And not that was important to where I ended up, but it was important because I understood the words and data flow, and stuff like that. And between that and building the kits and things like that, I When we moved to Indianapolis, my dad moved jobs down to Indianapolis. Randy Kindig: Oh, you lived in Indianapolis? Steve Leininger: Yeah. So I moved from South Bend down to Indianapolis. So I probably passed your house as . Actually we came down through Kokomo, but but yeah. Randy Kindig: I actually grew up in that part of the state. Just south of South Bend. Steve Leininger: Okay. So yeah La Paz, Plymouth, Randy Kindig: yeah, Warsaw, Rochester. Steve Leininger: Yeah, I was born in Rochester. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. So that's where I grew up in that area. Steve Leininger: Okay, there you go. My dad's from Akron. Randy Kindig: Are you serious? Steve Leininger: I am serious. Randy Kindig: Akron's where my wife grew up. And I was just 10 miles from there. Steve Leininger: The general store there, Dan Leininger and Sons, that's my great grandfather. Randy Kindig: Really? Steve Leininger: Yeah. Randy Kindig: I'll be darned. Okay. Okay. Steve Leininger: So now it all makes sense. Randy Kindig: That's amazing. Steve Leininger: Anyway, we started a garage band. This is before Apple's garage band. And I made my own amplifier. It basically had the sun sun amplifiers back end on the thing and a Fender Showman front end on it. Completely home brewed really loud amplifier. And I had a friend who had a guitar amplifier that was broken, and he had taken it down to the music store there. And after six weeks of not getting it back, they said we've had trouble with our technician and all that. I asked if I could go down and look at it, and in 15 minutes I had his amplifier fixed. And they said, do you want tom so you want a job? All right. Yeah, because I'd been doing, I'd had a paper route before and I don't think I was doing anything since we'd moved and ao I started working in a music store and they ended up with two music stores and then an organ store next door and I started repairing that kind of stuff. And this was the end of my first year in college. Went to the extension in Indianapolis. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. And Was that I U P U I? Steve Leininger: IUPUI, yeah. Yeah. I, yeah, I U P U I. Randy Kindig: Huh. I went there as well. Steve Leininger: Yeah and learned Fortran there, got all my first year classes out, and then moved on up to the campus. And because we'd always go to the library, and because my mom would often take me to the library, the newsstand not too far from the library, and she'd get a couple magazines, but she let me get an electronic magazine. And, I didn't understand these things, pretty soon you start understanding the pic, you start understanding it. This is a resistor, I built a little shocker box based on a design in probably elementary electronics. And It's like a handheld electric fence. Randy Kindig: Oh, wow. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Think hot dog cooker. Anyway, so I learned some electronics that way. A lot of that was self taught. I learned quite a bit more by working in the music store, again, this was before I was taught any formal electronics. And actually when I moved up to campus on Purdue, I thought I was going to be a world class guitar amplifier designer. That's where I thought. And it turns out my analog gut feelings aren't, weren't as good as other people's. Paul Schreiber does a much better job with electronics, with analog electronics than I do. But digital electronics, I understood this stuff. I would hang out in the library and I'd read the trade magazines. So I was up to date on, I was way more up to date than a typical professor would be on current electronics. And in 1973, which was the end of my junior year, Electronics Magazine had an article on the Intel 8008. And I said, Oh, I understand this. See, I'd already been taking assembly language. Now they didn't teach assembly language programming in the electronics school. They had Fortran, but there was no way to get from Fortran to ..they weren't teaching programming languages. I had to go to the business school where I learned assembly language on the school's CDC 6600 mainframe. Randy Kindig: Really? Steve Leininger: Yeah. Randy Kindig: Through the business school? Steve Leininger: Yeah. And for those of you who have never tried assembly language programming, it looks like a foreign language until you just internalize it in your brain: there's ADD, A D and A D C for ADD with carry, and there's a whole bunch of different things. There's different ways to move data around, but you're only doing a few really basic things, and if you do it fast enough, it looks like it's instantaneous. That's the way even your phone works today. It's because you're doing it fast enough. It fools you. Randy Kindig: Yep. Wow. Do you ever look back at these days, at those days, with amazement? As far as how far the industry has come? Steve Leininger: Oh yeah. And, it's funny because you wouldn't, you couldn't probably, but you wouldn't start over again. I had to learn, I had to learn digital video. Actually the giant that I, whose shoulders I stood on there was the late Don Lancaster. He had a book called TV Typewriter Cookbook. And actually that came out a little bit later, but he had a TV typewriter series in Radio Electronics Magazine. And basically alphanumeric display. If you think about it, just the glass teletype, the keyboard display and a serial interface at the time that the RadioShack computer came out was selling for 999. Another 400 on top of what we were selling the whole computer for. Because we had a microprocessor in there. We didn't have a whole lot of options. We didn't have a whole lot of fluff. In fact Motorola said, send this to your schematics and your parts list and let's see if we can minimize your circuit. And after two weeks they sent it back. He said, you did a pretty good job here. . . Randy Kindig: Okay. Huh. You still stay in touch with people at Tandy? Steve Leininger: A few of them. It's actually been more lately. Because it's almost more interesting now. It's like the, I don't know whatever happened to Atwater and Kent, of the Atwater Kent radio. But, that's an old school radio that now you've got people that rebuild them and got them all polished up and all this kind of stuff. But for a while they ended up in the dump. I'm sure, there are some trash 80s that ended up in the trash. Randy Kindig: I'm sure. Steve Leininger: Yeah but I've gotten rid of lots of PCs that don't meet my needs anymore, right? Randy Kindig: Sure. Yeah, we all have, somewhere along the way. It seemed like you were really quiet there for a long time and that you were difficult to get in contact with. Steve Leininger: I wasn't really that difficult. I didn't maintain a social media presence on the thing, but things that I had my own consulting company for quite a while. I actually came back to Radio Shack two more times after I left. One was to come back as a technologist there. The politics still didn't work out well. Then I came back as a contractor to help them with some of their online things. I actually had a website called Steve's Workbench. Steve Leininger: And you can find it on the Internet Archive. The Wayback Machine. And it had some basic stamp projects. And we were going to do all sorts of other things. But I managed to upset the people at RadioShack. com. They didn't have a big sense of humor about someone being critical about the products that they'd selected. And I, I did a... I was going to start doing product reviews on the kits, how easy it was to solder, whether it was a good value for the money and all that kind of stuff. And I gave a pretty honest review on it. And Radio Shack didn't appreciate the power of an honest review. It's what makes Amazon what it is, right? You go in there and if there's something that's got just two stars on the reviews, Yeah, you really got to know what you're doing if you're going to buy the thing, right? And if you see something that's got a bunch of one star and a bunch of five star reviews Yeah, someone's probably aalting the reference at the top end. And so I mean they had such a fit that when they changed platforms For RadioShack. com, they didn't take Steve's Workbench with it And I basically lost that position. Radio Shack should own the makerspace business right now. They at one time, one time I suggested, you ought to take a look at buying Digikey or maybe Mouser. Mouser was right down the street from us. They already had their hands into Allied, but these other two were doing stuff, more consumer oriented, but they didn't. They were making, they were flush with money from selling cell phone contracts. And they thought that was the way of the future until the cell phone companies started reeling that back in. At a certain point, you don't want to be paying your 5 percent or 10 percent royalty to Radio Shack for just signing someone up. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Okay. I didn't realize you had ever gone back and worked for them again. Steve Leininger: Yeah, twice, Randy Kindig: and so I'm curious, did you meet any other famous figures in the microcomputer revolution while you were working at Tandy? Steve Leininger: At Tandy, let's see. Randy Kindig: I'm just curious. Steve Leininger: Yeah, Bill Gates, of course. I went out when we were working on level two BASIC. And Bill Gates I think was probably a hundred- thousand- aire at that time. And, working in a, thhey had a floor in a bank building in Seattle. He took me to the basement of his dad's law firm, and we had drinks there, and I went out to his house on the lake. This was not the big house. I've never been there. It was a big house on the lake, but it wasn't the one That he built later on. So I knew him early on run across Forest Mims a couple times. And of course, he's the shoulders upon which a lot of electronic talent was built and some of the stuff is lost. Jameco is actually bringing him back as a… Jameco is a kinda like a Radio Shack store online. It's yeah it is, it's not as robust as DigiKey or Bower, but they've held their roots. Someone I've not met Lady Ada from Adafruit would be fun. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Would, yeah. Steve Leininger: I, that, that's another thing that, if we had something along those lines, that would have been cool, but the buyers weren't up, up to the task and they when you don't want criticism at a certain point you've got to quit doing things if you don't want to be criticized. Randy Kindig: Sure. When you finally got the Model 1 rolled out and you saw the tremendous interest, were you surprised in the interest that it garnered? Steve Leininger: I wasn't. I wasn't. In fact, there's a quote of me. Me and John Roach had a discussion on how many of these do you think we could sell? And, this is actually quoted in his obituary on the, in the Wall Street Journal. I, Mr. Tandy said you could build 3, 500 of these because we've got 3, 500 stores and we can use them in the inventory. And to take inventory. And John Roach thought maybe we could sell, up to 5, 000 of these things in the first year. And I said, oh no, I think we could sell 50, 000. To which he said, horseshit. Just like that. And that, now I quoted that to the Wall Street Journal, and they put that in his obituary. Yeah I don't know how many times that word shows up in the Wall Street Journal, but if you search their files you'll find that it was me quoting John Roach. So … Randy Kindig: I'll have to, I'll have to look for that, yeah, that's funny. So you were not surprised by the interest, Steve Leininger: no, it, part of it was I knew the leverage of the stores I'd been working, when we introduced the thing I'd been working for the company for just over a year. Think about that. And it wasn't until just before probably, it was probably September or October when Don and I agreed on the specs. I'd keep writing it up, and he'd look at it. Don actually suggested that, demanded, he doesn't, in a, but in a good natured way, he made a good case for it, that I have, in addition to the cassette interface on there, that I have a way to read and write data. Because if you're going to do an accounting program, you got to be able to read and write data. I actually figured out a way to do that. There were a couple other things. John Roach really wanted blinking lights on the thing. And my mechanical, the mechanical designer, there said that's going to cost more money to put the LEDs in there. What are you going to do with them? And, Mr. Roach was, you know, familiar with the IBM probably the 360 by then? Anyway. The mainframes. Yeah, mainframes always had blinking lights on them. Randy Kindig: Exactly. Steve Leininger: And since it's a computer, it should have blinking lights. And Larry said, Larry the mechanical guy said what are you going to do with them? I said, I can't, I said I could put stuff up there, It's… Randy Kindig: What are they going to indicate? Steve Leininger: Yeah. And then, he said, I'll tell you what, I'm going to make the case without holes for the lights and just don't worry about it. That was the end of the discussion. Mr. Roach was probably a little disappointed, but yeah, no one else had them, Randy Kindig: it's funny to think that you'd have blinking lights on a microcomputer like that. Yeah. Yeah. Is there any aspect of the Model one development you would do differently if you were doing it today? Steve Leininger: Yeah, I would, I would've put the eighth memory chip in with the, with the video display so you get upper and lower case. Randy Kindig: Yeah, there you go. Okay. Steve Leininger: Might've put buffers to the outside world. We had the, the microprocessor was buffered, but it was, it was very short distance off the connector there. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot I would have changed. Software could have been written a little better, but when one person's writing all the software the development system that I had was a Zilog development system. And 30 character percent a second. Decorator, line printer. The fact that I got it done is actually miracle stuff. Randy Kindig: Yeah, and you got it done in a year, right? Steve Leininger: And it was all written in assembly language. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got it all done in a year. Randy Kindig: That's a good year's work. Steve Leininger: It is. Randy Kindig: Building a computer from scratch, basically, and then getting it... Steve Leininger: and back then we had to program EEPROMs. We didn't have flash memory. Okay. Didn't hardly have operating systems back then. Not that I was using one. There was something in the Zilog thing, but yeah we were so far ahead of things, we were developing a product rather than a computer. And maybe that's the whole difference is that we had a product that you pull it up, plug it in, and it says these are TRS 80 and it wasn't the Model 1 until the Model 2 came out. Randy Kindig: Yeah, exactly. It was just the TRS 80. Yeah. So I have to know, do you have any of the old hardware? Steve Leininger: I've got a Model 1. I don't use it except for demonstrations now. I actually have two. I've got one that works and one that's probably got a broken keyboard connector from taking it out of the case and holding it up too many times. Randy Kindig: Were these prototypes or anything? Steve Leininger: They are non serial production units. I've got the, I've got a prototype ROM board that's got the original integer basic that I wrote. I don't have the video boards and all that kind of stuff that went with it when we did the original demonstration. Let's see we had four wire wrapped, completely wire wrapped industrial wire wrapped versions that we used for prototyping the software. One went to David Lein, who wrote the book that came with the thing, the basic book. One I had at my desk and there were two others. Yeah. And they got rid of all of those. So a cautionary tale is if you do something in the future where you've got that prototype that was put together in Tupperware containers or held together with duct tape, you need to at least take pictures of it. And you might want to keep one aside. If it turns out to be something like the Apple III, you can probably get rid of all that stuff. If it turns out to be something like the Apple II, The RadioShack computer, the Commodore PET, you really ought to, enshrine that. The original iPhone. Apple did stuff that was, what was it, can't remember what it was. They had a they had a thing not unlike the... 3Com ended up getting them. Anyway the hand of the PDAs, no one knows what a Personal Oh, digital assistant. Yeah. Yeah. We call that a, we call that a phone ... Randy Kindig: Palm Pilot. Yeah. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Palm Pilot. That's the one. Yeah. I've got a couple of those. I've got three model 100's. I've got one of the early… Randy Kindig: Did you work on the 100s? Steve Leininger: I used it, but I didn't work on it. The design. No. Okay. That was an NEC product with Radio Shack skins on it. Randy Kindig: Oh, that's right. That's right. Steve Leininger: Kay Nishi was the big mover on that. Yeah. Let's see I've got an Altair and an ASR 33 Teletype. Yeah, we're talking about maybe the computer's grandfather, right? I've had a whole bunch of other stuff. I've probably had 40 other computers that I don't have anymore. I am gravitating towards mechanical music devices, big music boxes, that kind of stuff. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. Cool. Interesting. Steve, that's all the questions I had prepared. Steve Leininger: Okay. Randy Kindig: Is there anything I should have asked about that? Steve Leininger: Oh my, Randy Kindig: anything you'd want to say? Steve Leininger: Yeah, I, I've given talks before on how do you innovate? How do you become, this is pioneering kinds of stuff. So you really have to have that vision, man. The vision, I can't exactly say where the vision comes from, but being dyslexic for me has been a gift. Okay and this is something I tell grade school and middle school students that, some people are out there saying I, I can't do that because, it's just too much stuff or my brain is cluttered. Cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what's an empty desk the sign of? Embrace the clutter. Learn a lot of different things. Do what you're passionate about. Be willing to. support your arguments, don't just get angry if someone doesn't think the way you do, explain why you're doing it that way. And sometimes it's a matter of they just don't like it or they don't have the vision. The ones that don't have the vision, they never, they may never have the vision. I've quit companies because of people like that. But When you've got the vision and can take it off in your direction, it could just end up as being art. And I shouldn't say just art, art can be an amazing thing. And that behind these walls here, we've got a pinball machine and gaming conference going on. And it is nutcase. But is there stuff out there you look at and say, Oh, wow. Yeah. And I do too. Keep it a while going. Randy Kindig: Very cool. All right. That's a great stopping point, I think. All right. I really appreciate it, Steve taking the time to talk with us today. Steve Leininger: Thanks, Randy.
The Grundy NewBrain History with John Grant Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper Hello, and welcome to episode 131 of the Floppy Days Podcast; where old computers get a new lease on life and have a purpose once again! I'm Randy Kindig, your host on this journey to the late 70's through the 80's. We are currently covering computers that were released in the year 1982; a banner year for personal computers. Next up is a computer that few in the United States know much about. It was released in the UK and even there didn't get much traction. It was a unique beast, with its own personality and quirks; before it went quietly into the annals of history. The machine I'm talking about is the Grundy NewBrain. Certainly a bold and pretentious name for a computer, but memorable nonetheless. As it was so relatively unknown, I'm going to be spending a lot of air time talking about its history. Here's how I'm planning to cover this unique machine: in this episode I'll be summarizing its history, including a short interview with John Grant of Nine Tiles, whose company did some work on the machine a later episode will have an interview with Steve O'Hara Smith, who was involved with development of the machine yet another episode will have an interview with Gerald McMullon, also having done some work on the early NewBrain, as well as support after its release Finally, there will be 1 or more episodes to cover the usual topics of tech specs, Web sites, emulators, etc. I will have a special guest co-host for that. So, as you can see, there's a ton of upcoming information about the NewBrain. Please join me in learning more about this unusual machine. Before we get into the history of the machine, I'll let you know what I've been up to and have been able to acquire lately, computer and modern upgrade-wise. New Acquisitions the Commodore Room - https://www.youtube.com/@thecommodoreroom4554 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com PiKey-10 upgrade - http://www.pikey.tech/ NewSoft - (https://jaynewirth.wixsite.com/newsoft CoCo3 512K RAM upgrade - http://www.cloud9tech.com CoCo Multi-pak PAL upgrade - http://www.cloud9tech.com ChromaTRS - https://www.ebay.com/str/trs80universe Vintage computer printed items - https://techdungeon.xyz/ 48KRAM (Josh Malone) Twitch channel - https://twitch.tv/48kRAM Vintage Computer Shows Atari Party 2023! - Saturday, December 2, 2023, 1pm to 4pm - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - https://quakertowntrainstation.org - organized by Peter Fletcher World of Commodore - Dec. 2-3, 2023 - Admiral Inn Mississauga, Mississauga, ON - http://www.worldofcommodore.ca/ Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 17-18, 2024 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ VCF East - April 5-7, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org Indy Classic Computer & Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Indianapolis, IN - http://www.indyclassic.org The 32nd Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST! - May 4-5, 2024 - Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago-Carol Stream (Wheaton), Carol Stream, Illinois - https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/ http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html Facebook show schedule - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ References history article by Gerald McMullen - https://newbrainemu.eu/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,96/Itemid,52/ Grundy NewBrain history at Centre for Computing History - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5291/Grundy-NewBrain-AD/ Grundy articles at Centre for Computing History - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/8265/Grundy-Business-Systems/ Grundy NewBrain at old-computers.com - https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=176 Grundy NewBrain at Binary Dinosaurs - https://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Grundy/index.php 2012 Article on the Grundy NewBrain at The Register - https://www.theregister.com/2012/07/02/newbury_labs_grundy_business_systems_newbrain_is_30_years_old/ NewBrain at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundy_NewBrain
This week we visit Tandy Assembly, get technical, and El Curtis has the news. ----more---- The CoCo Nation Show (TCN) - a weekly live and interactive discussion about the Color Computers, Dragons, MC-10, clones, and cousins! Website: https://thecoconation.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@The_CoCo_Nation Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thecoconationshow FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theco... Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCoCoNation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecoconati... PodBean: https://thecoconation.podbean.com/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... iHeart Radio: https://iheart.com/podcast/105011302/ MeWe: https://mewe.com/join/thecoconation Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qx9Nx7... TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_coco_nation Email: mailto:show@TheCoCoNation.com Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=83010467 If you would like to chat on a live show of TCN using FaceBook, please follow this link and you will be good to go. The link is featured on TCN's group. https://tinyurl.com/FB-Chat Need even more chat? Join hundreds of other “CoConuts” (or is that CoConauts?) on the Color Computer Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4J5nHXm CoCo Nation logo by Ron Delvaux and Paul Shoemaker CoCo Nation theme music (c) 2022 D. Bruce Moore The CoCo Nation is a registered trademark of The CoCo Nation, LLC. All rights reserved.
Floppy Days 123 - Amiga 1000, Parceiro and Podcast Tenth Anniversary! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper Welcome to episode 123 of Floppy Days for February, 2023, where classic computers are all the rage and we lovingly take you back to the days when computers were simpler and we were younger. This is a special show for me, because this month (Feb. 17 was the publish date) marks the 10th anniversary of publishing this podcast! Man, oh, man, where has the time gone?! This podcast itself has become vintage, depending on your definition of vintage. My original intent was to continue the coverage of the ZX Spectrum this month, but my special co-host for that show was unable to record this month. I decided this was the perfect opportunity to have a special show to in some way commemorate the 10-year anniversary. My co-host and I have scheduled the recording for the Spectrum show for early March, so I'll publish that as early in March as I can. In the meantime, for this show I wanted to talk about how the show has changed and grown over the years and what my plans are for the future. I apologize for not having one of my two typical formats (machine coverage or interview) for this show. Not to worry though, I've got what I think is an interesting story around my recent work to test and set up some Amiga 1000s that have come my way; including some information about a great upgrade for the A1000 called Parceiro II. I do also want to mention that I now have some show sponsors for Floppy Days. https://www.8bitclassics.com, run by my friend Corey Koltz, is a great place to get vintage computer items. This includes video cables, power supplies, PC boards, cartridges, upgrades and more for a wide variety of vintage computer platforms. In the New Acquisitions section I cover each month on this show, often one of the items I talk about has been ordered from 8-Bit Classics. Corey has been a friend of the show for some time and I really appreciate his support of the podcast. Check out the site… he has some great stuff. https://www.arcadeshopper.com, run by my friend Greg McGill, is another terrific site to get vintage computer items. Greg has a wide variety of hard-to-find items for a large number of platforms. This is another site that I do and have done a lot of shopping at and have mentioned numerous times on Floppy Days. If anything shows out of stock, just ping Greg through the contact form and he can check whether he has or can get more of the item for you. I also wanted to mention those listeners who appreciate the show enough to donate through patreon.com. This includes Chris Petzel, Tony Cappellini, laurens, Richard Goulstone, Josh Malone, Andy Collins, Simon McCullough, Jason Moore, Quentin Barnes. I really appreciate you guys and it helps offset the cost of running the podcast. On a sad note, one other thing I wanted to talk about was the passing of a good friend in the community, James Shackel (aka Airshack). James passed from this earth in January of this year due to illness, and it was a shock to me to realize I would no longer have James to talk to. James came from the TI community, but was interested in a lot of the vintage machines. Over the years, I traded a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A to him for a TIPI network card for the TI99 and James sent me things numerous times, such as books or software. Most recently, just 3 months ago, I traded a Commodore 128 to him for an Atari 1200XL he had. He also had been a patreon donator for Floppy Days for some time. He pinged me all the time to discuss ANTIC or Floppy Days or just to let me know about some new vintage computer thing he came across. I saw James at Tandy Assembly in October last year, just the second time I had ever seen him in person, but he never told me he was ill. James had a singular sense of humor and I will miss it, and him, very much. It reminds me that we need to appreciate the people around us while we can, as we don't know how long they will be around. James, I will truly miss you. Ok, let's get on with the show. I hope you find something interesting out of this episode. Here's to 10 more years of Floppy Days! Intro James Shackel passed away - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348 New Acquisitions computer trading cards - https://www.8bitkick.cc/home-computers.html Yamaha MSX AX-150 Computer - https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sakhr_AX-150 memory mapper + SD card interface - Arcade Shopper Amiga 1000 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000 Parceiro II by David Dunklee: https://bytecellar.com/2021/12/13/parceiro-an-extraordinary-upgrade-for-amiga-1000-users/ amiga.parceiro@outlook.com to order one Upcoming Shows Midwest Gaming Classic - March 31-April 2 - The Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ The Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - April 15-16, 2023 - Burbank VFW Hall, Burbank, CA - https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:start 31st Annual “Last” CocoFest - April 22-23, 2023 - Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago, Carol Stream, IL - https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ Pacific Commodore Expo NW v4 - June 24-25 - “Interim” Computer Museum, Seattle, WA - https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pacommex:start KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18-23, 2023 - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri - https://www.kansasfest.org/ Southern Fried Gaming Expo - July 28-30 2023 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html 10th Anniversary Special Content OldComputers.net timeline - http://oldcomputers.net
In this episode the Trash Talkers discuss what they want for Christmas this year. Then, we review the wildly successful Tandy Assembly 2022 event. We then review the book "Teach Your TRS-80 to Program Itself." Finally, we do in an depth review of the first ever issue of 80 Micro magazine from January 1980. Join us on yet another trip through Tandy Radio Shack computing history!
Another #SepTandy has come and gone, L. Curtis Boyle will give us the latest from this year this episode. We'll also see a little live coverage from Tandy Assembly thanks to Sloopy Malibu. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live
In this episode, as usual, we update you with the latest news and current events in the world of the TRS-80. George tells us how trs80gp now emulates the MC-10. We have a preview of the exhibits appearing at the upcoming 2022 Tandy Assembly. We then cover a bunch of interesting recent TRS-80 related acquisitions, including items from the collection of Mike Yetsko. Finally, in our main segment, we introduce the Floppy-80, a new floppy emulation product. We talk to its main promoter Patrick Bureau and its creator Michael McCarrick to get all the details of this exciting new product.
Episode 77 Show Notes -- http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-77.html
Interview with Albert Cory, author of “Inventing the Future” about the Xerox Star Welcome to Floppy Days episode 108 for October, 2021. I am Randy Kindig, your host. This month is a special episode based on an interview I was able to get with Albert Cory, author of the recently published book, “Inventing the Future”. This book is a semi-fictional account of what it was like to work at Xerox in the late 70's and early 80's, while the company was working on the concept of the “Office of the Future” and the amazing computer known as the Xerox Star. For me, this interview and book finally pushed me into researching this incredible part of computer history; of which I had a cursory knowledge, but had never gone into any detailed research. The Xerox Star was ahead of its time and the technology that went into this computer set the stage for our modern computers in many ways. While Xerox didn't truly take advantage of all this amazing technology, as the Star was considered a commercial failure, many other companies took the mantle from Xerox and successfully utilized much of its technology. Albert sits down with me and talks about what it was like to work at Xerox in those days, what prompted him to write the book, and many other topics. I think you'll find it interesting. I know I did! Before getting into the interview, I do want to talk about some vintage computer shows I was recently able to attend and, of course, some vintage hardware or modern upgrades I was able to acquire. Finally, while I usually eschew talking about monetary support for this podcast, I do want to mention that I have a way for you to help if you have the inclination. I have a page set up at https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays where you can donate. Any funds will be used to defray the cost of managing the podcast as well as acquiring new hardware to talk about. Thank you so much everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute! Links: New Acquisitions VCF Midwest - http://www.vcfmw.org ZX80/81/TS1000 ZXpand Super Serial + wireless module - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/zxpand%2B-super-serial-card-40640 ZX80/81/TS1000 ZX-Key: The ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard and Interface Card (Gateron Black Switches) - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/45028 ZX80/81/TS1000 ZX-Key main Web site - ZX81 Keyboard Adventure Apple IIGS RGB-to-SCART cable - Cocoman - https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/Apple_IIgs_SCART_Cable/p7004829_21371801.aspx Microsoft BASIC I for Atari - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Microsoft%20Basic%20I Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com MCX32SD for Tandy MC-10 - https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ REX# for M100/T102 - Steve Adolph - https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ordering_Information Backpack Drive for M100/T102 - Jeffrey Birt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3es0NLJmd2c Upcoming Shows CocoFest November 6-7 Elk Grove Village, IL https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS) November 6-7, Burbank, CA, http://www.portcommodore.com/class VCF East April 22-24, 2022: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall NJ VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Interview Links Albert Web site - https://www.albertcory.io/ Bitsavers documents - http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/sdd/ “Inventing the Future” by Albert Cory - https://amzn.to/3EtBOO1 “Dealers of Lightning” by Michael Hiltzik - https://amzn.to/3w7xVM0 Read the reviews from the participants - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57138737-inventing-the-future
In this episode we explain where we've been for the last 10 months since the last episode. We then go ahead and discuss the usual news and current events in the world of the TRS-80. We review Tandy Assembly 2021 and welcome George Phillips as a full-time Trash Talker. Then, we discuss a bunch of recent acquisitions. We also review the book ''TRS-80 Color Computer Interfacing'' and present some new calls for projects.
CoCoTALK! Episode 233 - Special Guest Ciaran Anscomb++ Today's special guest is Ciaran Anscomb, aka Sixxie, author of the Xroar emulator, and so much more. We'll hear about his games, his emulator, and speak with his co-interviewers Steve "Bosco" Bamford and Stewart Orchard, all from the Dragon community. 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show! 00:03:25 -Panel Introductions 00:08:00 -Special Guest, Ciaran Anscomb, aka Sixxie, aka XRoar developer! 01:06:30 -Additinal Special Guest, Stew Orchard 01:54:35 -Commercial break 01:57:50 -Who is new on Discord! 02:00:18 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:02:20 -Game On! discussion 02:21:31 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:23:55 -Game On! Challenge LIVE! With Sloopy 02:26:44 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:27:02 -Game On! News} vghchannel/YT- Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? on CoCo3 review 02:29:02 -Game On! News} This Week in Retro/YT- updated CoCo info 02:30:25 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:30:45 -Commercial break 02:34:02 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:34:24 -CoCoTalk show give-away 02:41:38 -CoCo News} Sheldon Hildebrand- updates to his 3D engine 02:43:43 -CoCo News} Alfredo Santos- images of his heavily customized Coco 3 03:01:58 -CoCo News} Kenneth Udut- Short video on the Orchestra-90 03:02:55 -CoCo News} Timothy Halloran- Images of his display table from Tandy Assembly 03:06:38 -CoCo News} Allen Leno- Images of a modern AMD based machine put into a Coco 3 case 03:08:10 -CoCo News} Tandy Assembly/John Linville- Posted images from Tandy Assembly 2021! 03:10:22 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- A BMP reader program for RGB displays 03:11:04 -NickM- Original RCA TV, Tandy used modified OEM for the Model 1 03:14:30 -CoCo News} The RetroChannel/YT- CoCo2 repair and upgrade video 03:16:10 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- Videos on on various topics 03:18:28 -CoCo News} KOJRO Retro Innovations/YT- video comparing the Dragon 32 to the Coco 1 03:34:04 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- video on the inner workings of ECB 03:35:53 -CoCo News} "Me"/YT- animated Dali clock on CoCo3 03:37:27 -CoCo News} RetroComputo/YT- Showing off their new CoCo3 03:40:40 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena/YT- demo of his Pepper board (SALT Replacement) 03:43:47 -CoCo News} Arctic Retro/YT- Mail Call episode, includes a Dragon 32 **MC-10 News** 03:45:58 -MC-10 News} Simon Jonassen- multi-voice music player 03:49:00 -MC-10 News} lowlevel- Blog post on swapping the SHIFT/CONTROL keys 03:51:08 -MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie- Video of Nyan Cat, with music **Dragon News** 03:53:30 -Dragon News} Dan Doore- Image of Megadrive controller with a custom Dragon Logo 03:57:47 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:59:15 -Project Updates and Acquisitions 03:59:25 -PUA} R. Allen Murphy 04:04:55 -PUA} Ron Delvaux 04:09:30 -PUA} Rick Uland 04:10:30 -Upcoming Guests and show details 04:14:30 -The Outtro... 04:16:50 -John Laury, Model 1 Montior 04:22:15 -Panel discussion on various topics 04:28:55 -Good Bye Everybody! We'll also have the results of the winner of the Drive Wirelessly raffle and so much more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
CoCoTALK! Episode 233 - Special Guest Ciaran Anscomb++ Today's special guest is Ciaran Anscomb, aka Sixxie, author of the Xroar emulator, and so much more. We'll hear about his games, his emulator, and speak with his co-interviewers Steve "Bosco" Bamford and Stewart Orchard, all from the Dragon community. 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show! 00:03:25 -Panel Introductions 00:08:00 -Special Guest, Ciaran Anscomb, aka Sixxie, aka XRoar developer! 01:06:30 -Additional Special Guest, Stew Orchard 01:54:35 -Commercial break 01:57:50 -Who is new on Discord! 02:00:18 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:02:20 -Game On! discussion 02:21:31 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:23:55 -Game On! Challenge LIVE! With Sloopy 02:26:44 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:27:02 -Game On! News} vghchannel/YT- Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? on CoCo3 review 02:29:02 -Game On! News} This Week in Retro/YT- updated CoCo info 02:30:25 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:30:45 -Commercial break 02:34:02 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:34:24 -CoCoTalk show give-away 02:41:38 -CoCo News} Sheldon Hildebrand- updates to his 3D engine 02:43:43 -CoCo News} Alfredo Santos- images of his heavily customized Coco 3 03:01:58 -CoCo News} Kenneth Udut- Short video on the Orchestra-90 03:02:55 -CoCo News} Timothy Halloran- Images of his display table from Tandy Assembly 03:06:38 -CoCo News} Allen Leno- Images of a modern AMD based machine put into a Coco 3 case 03:08:10 -CoCo News} Tandy Assembly/John Linville- Posted images from Tandy Assembly 2021! 03:10:22 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- A BMP reader program for RGB displays 03:11:04 -NickM- Original RCA TV, Tandy used modified OEM for the Model 1 03:14:30 -CoCo News} The RetroChannel/YT- CoCo2 repair and upgrade video 03:16:10 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- Videos on on various topics 03:18:28 -CoCo News} KOJRO Retro Innovations/YT- video comparing the Dragon 32 to the Coco 1 03:34:04 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- video on the inner workings of ECB 03:35:53 -CoCo News} "Me"/YT- animated Dali clock on CoCo3 03:37:27 -CoCo News} RetroComputo/YT- Showing off their new CoCo3 03:40:40 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena/YT- demo of his Pepper board (SALT Replacement) 03:43:47 -CoCo News} Arctic Retro/YT- Mail Call episode, includes a Dragon 32 **MC-10 News** 03:45:58 -MC-10 News} Simon Jonassen- multi-voice music player 03:49:00 -MC-10 News} lowlevel- Blog post on swapping the SHIFT/CONTROL keys 03:51:08 -MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie- Video of Nyan Cat, with music **Dragon News** 03:53:30 -Dragon News} Dan Doore- Image of Megadrive controller with a custom Dragon Logo 03:57:47 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:59:15 -Project Updates and Acquisitions 03:59:25 -PUA} R. Allen Murphy 04:04:55 -PUA} Ron Delvaux 04:09:30 -PUA} Rick Uland 04:10:30 -Upcoming Guests and show details 04:14:30 -The Outtro... 04:16:50 -John Laury, Model 1 Montior 04:22:15 -Panel discussion on various topics 04:28:55 -Good Bye Everybody! We'll also have the results of the winner of the Drive Wirelessly raffle and so much more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Ed Smith, developer of the Imagination Machine Ed Smith is an African American was born in 1954 in Brownsville Brooklyn, NY. Ed studied electrical engineering at Westinghouse High School, then computer science and marketing at Pace University. Ed is one of only two African Americans to develop a video game system in the 1970s and the first African American to work in the design of a personal computer – The Imagination Machine. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Floppy Days that covered the MP1000 and IM-1 back in 2014 (episode 22) - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-22-the-apf-imagination-machine New Acquisitions/What I’ve Been Up To book - Commodore the Final Years by Brian Bagnall - https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Final-Years-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0994031033/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=flodaypod-20&linkId=2145a99d3cb6c0a9d26dc08ee0b9394f&language=en_US MagPi Magazine - https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ Pi4 8GB - https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ Fusion Magazine - Amiga special - https://fusiongamemag.com/collections/magazine/products/fusion-amiga Current Notes magazines - collection at Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/@allan52 Next Without For Podcast - http://www.nextwithoutfor.org/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20Next%20Without%20For&text=Next%20Without%20For%20is%20a,or%20(b)... Upcoming Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20 to register August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ - going virtual Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/ - No word on the Website yet Interview Ed’s Website - https://www.imaginethat2.com/ article on Ed Smith, Black Enterprise, Dec. 1982 - http://books.google.com/books?id=N6pacvfrf0wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.fastcompany.com/3063298/ed-smith-and-the-imagination-machine-the-untold-story-of-a-black-vid by Benj Edwards, Fast Company, 9/2/16 “Imagine That!” by Ed Smith and Benj Edwards - https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-That-Americans-personal-computers-ebook/dp/B0846535TR
The BBC Micro - Interview with Hermann Hauser Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 99 for May 2020 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where we look at home computers of the 70’s and 80’s across the globe, not just the U.S. This episode is one in a series of episodes on one of the iconic British machines that was so important to the home computer revolution: The BBC Micro. In episode 97, I had an interview with one of the key members of the BBC Micro team: Mr. Steve Furber. In this episode, with Steve’s help, I was able to get an interview with another key member of that team: Mr. Hermann Hauser. Last episode (#98) I summarized the history of the BBC Micro and I don’t want to repeat that here, but I want to give you just a bit of information about Hermann to help set the stage for the interview to follow: Chris Curry and Mr. Hauser set up a company called Acorn Computer Ltd. and in January 1979 they launched their first product: a microcomputer kit named Acorn System 75. The name Acorn was chosen because the microcomputer system was to be expandable and growth-oriented and appeared before "Apple Computer" in a telephone directory. Their follow-up product was a microcomputer called the Atom. After it had been released into the market, Acorn (due to an idea proposed by Hermann) decided to build an improved 6502-based machine with far greater expansion capabilities: the Proton. Hauser quickly pulled in Steve Furber (who had been working for Acorn on a voluntary basis) and Sophie Wilson to help complete a revised version of the Proton which met the specifications that the British Broadcasting Corporation was shopping around to find a partner for their planned literacy program. BBC visited Acorn and were given a demonstration of the Proton. Shortly afterwards, the literacy program computer contract was awarded to Acorn, and the Proton was launched in December 1981 as the BBC Micro. Hermann Hauser believes that if he had had just a little more foresight all those years ago, the world would now talk about Acorn compatible rather than IBM compatible computers. Wouldn’t that be interesting? Anyway, I’m very excited and proud to have gotten an interview with Hermann and I enjoyed talking with him very much. I hope you enjoy it as well. I’m still planning, in upcoming episodes, to cover all of the usual topics on the Beeb, such as its history in depth, tech specs, modern upgrades, Web sites and a ton of other information about this machine. Before we jump into the interview, I’ll spend just a moment to let you know about any new acquisitions I’ve managed to get for the hobby and any hobby-related things I’ve been working on. Please enjoy! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Heathkit ET-3400 Microprocessor Trainer - https://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml ET-3400 Microprocessors Book 1 - https://archive.org/details/6800-Microprocessors-Book-1and-2-Heathkit-1985 Oh! Pascal by Michael Clancy - https://www.amazon.com/Oh-PASCAL-Doug-Cooper/dp/0393954455 Software Tools in Pascal - Brian Kernighan - https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Pascal-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0201103427/ Personal Pascal for the Atari ST https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Pascal-Atari-1040-Version/dp/B000Q9VAOU https://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n1/pascalandmodula2.html Upcoming Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20 to register August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ - going virtual Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/
The BBC Micro: History Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 98 of the Floppy Days Podcast for April, 2020! I hope everyone is staying safe in these days of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. One day we’ll look back at this as a strange time in all our lives. Again, for the podcast, we are finishing up the tail-end of the year 1981 in the personal computer timeline and the primary topic of this and the next couple of podcasts will be the BBC Micro. I talked with Steve Furber, one of the primary developers of the Beeb, in the last episode concerning his part in and thoughts about those heady times. In this episode I’m going to cover a more general history of the BBC Micro to give everyone a view of why the machine was developed and its huge impact on personal and educational computer history, especially in the UK. For the UK listeners, you’ll likely be very familiar with the Beeb’s history. For the US listeners, and listeners in other parts of the world, you may be less familiar with the story. I know that until I dove into the research for this episode, I only had a cursory familiarity with this machine and had no inkling of its true place in computer history. For future episodes, software, emulators, books, Web sites, modern upgrades, etc. will be explored. I hope you enjoy this short excursion into the history of a machine that I’ve come to love and respect. Links Mentioned in the Show: Thoughts and Memories - Richard Broadhurst Richard’s Games on the Complete BBC Micro Games Archive - http://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?rt_R=&rt_B=&rt_M=&rt_P=&rt_U=&rt_W=&rt_L=&search=broadhurst&on_T=on&on_Y=on&on_P=on&on_A=on&on_G=on&on_S=on&on_Z=on&on_C=on&sort=b Richard’s Games Videos on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1eiw5ttGL3ZagVI0c_vSe19KNALTwuXX New Acquisitions/What I’ve Been Up To Fusion magazines - https://fusionretrobooks.com/ Erebus - Oric Atmos SD Interface - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Erebus-Oric-Atmos-sd-card-flash-cart-Oric1-/174120579582 Home Computer Course and Home Computer Advanced Course magazines https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Course https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_01/ Spectrum DIV/MMC Future - https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/sinclair/divmmcfuture.html HP85Disk project - https://www.tindie.com/products/hp85disk/hp85disk-disk-emulator-for-hp85-series-computers/ BBC Micro formatted CF card and ROM - http://www.retroclinic.com/ Upcoming Shows After VCF PNW 2020 was cancelled in March, an individual allowed exhibitors to post their own videos to this website - http://www.retrofair2020.com/ CoCoTALK! hosted a live, virtual CoCoFEST! Saturday April 18th. You can view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4qkRI1JyqU&feature=youtu.be July 10 - 12, VCF Southeast, in conjunction with Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20, expect to open registration on April 30th August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Portland OR - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ CANCELLED Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/ References There is a docudrama "Micro Men" about the early 80s and winning the joint government/BBC contract to produce a computer that would be the focus of the initiative. 78 page PDF by Tilly Blyth of the Science Museum: "The legacy of the BBC Micro - effecting change in the UK's cultures of computing" “Now the Chips are Down: The BBC Micro (Platform Studies)” by Alison Gazzard - https://amzn.to/2yLnYdf
The BBC Micro - Interview with Steve Furber Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 97 for February 2020 of the Floppy Days Podcast. This episode kicks off a series of episodes on one of the iconic British machines that was so important to the home computer revolution: The BBC Micro. This machine has an amazing history and continues to have a very large following among vintage computer enthusiasts. What better way to start off this series than by beginning with an interview with someone who was right on the front lines in the development of the machine. Those of you who aren’t familiar with Steve Furber will be much more familiar after listening to the interview that I was able to get with him for this show. Steve worked at Acorn Computers in the decade of the 1980’s where he was the principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM microprocessor. I’m very honored to have been able to talk with Steve for about 50 minutes and am elated that I’m able to bring this interview to you this month. Next month, we’ll kick off some episodes to cover all of the usual topics on the Beeb (as it’s affectionately called), such as its history in depth, tech specs, modern upgrades, Web sites and a ton of other information about this machine. Before we jump into the interview, I’m a bit behind in letting you know about any new acquisitions I’ve managed to get for the hobby and any hobby-related things I’ve been working on, so I’ll try to do some catch-up there. Please enjoy the show and let me know what you thought of it. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Juiced.GS - https://juiced.gs/ SDrive MAX 810 case, Gavin at Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max The SDrive MAX daughterboard and basic case idea are thanks to the great work of Steve Boswell - atari8bit.net TRS-80 PC3 LCD - Robert Baruch - https://www.tindie.com/products/halfbakedmaker/lcd-replacement-for-trs-80-pc-3-sharp-pc-125x/ Incognito for Atari 800 - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 BBC Micro CF formatted card and ROM - http://www.retroclinic.com/ BBC Micro single joystick adapter - https://www.ebay.com/itm/283745815116?ViewItem=&item=283745815116 Astra 1620 dual disk drive for Atari 8-bit - http://gury.atari8.info/hardware/162.php “Adventures with the Atari” by Jack B. Hardy - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-adventures-with-the-atari “Atari Pilot for Beginners” by Jim Conlan and Tracy Deliman - https://archive.org/details/Atari_Pilot_For_Beginners/mode/2up C64 Maxi - https://retrogames.biz/thec64 Upcoming Shows March 21-22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computer:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest March 21, Indy Vintage Computer Club Expo, Camby, IN - https://www.facebook.com/events/188334755647918/ April 18-19, 2020, CoCoFest, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east July 21 - July 26, 202, KansasFest, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Portland OR - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ Feedback “Micro Men” (movie) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459467/ The Home Computer Course (magazine) - https://archive.org/details/TheHomeComputerCourse
Interview with Norbert Kehrer, Flashx20 Hello, and happy 2020 to all the listeners out there. As the final episode of 2019 I’m bringing to you a bonus show on the Epson HX-20. I was able to get an interview with a gentleman who has developed a terrific piece of software that qualifies as a modern upgrade for the HX-20, called flashx20. That gentleman is Mr. Norbert Kehrer and he was kind enough to talk with me about his software and how it’s used. I think you’ll find it interesting, especially if you have a machine and can give his software a whirl. Next month I will begin a series of episodes on one of the groundbreaking machines in the UK, the BBC Micro. I haven’t decided yet how many episodes there will be, but I was able to get an interview with an early computer pioneer involved with the development of the BBC Micro, so I intend to be as thorough as possible in the coverage of the machine. Stay tuned for more on that. For this episode, I will talk a bit about my new vintage computer acquisitions and what I’ve been up to, as well as the usual news about upcoming vintage computer shows and a bit of feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Atari: A Visual History by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/ MagPi magazine issue #88 - Retro Computing with Raspberry PI 4 - https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ BBC Micro Joystick Adapter - https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Acorn-BBC-Micro-Dual-Double-Atari-Amiga-Joystick-Adapter-715/124010566212 Compact Flash Adapter for the BBC Micro - http://www.retroclinic.com/ Upcoming Shows March 21-22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest April 18-19, 2020, CoCoFest, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ Interview with Norbert Kehrer Norbert’s Emulators - http://members.aon.at/nkehrer/flashx20.html
The Epson HX-20, Part 2, With Earl Evans Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 95 of the Floppy Days Podcast for November, 2019, where once again this month (in Part 2) we will continue talking about one of the world’s first portable computers: The Epson HX-20. I’m extremely happy to again have my good friend, and vintage computer podcast legend, Mr. Earl Evans, as my co-host for this episode. It turned out we had so much material to cover that I ended up breaking this topic into 2 parts. Last month was part 1, where Earl and I covered HX-20 history, tech specs, and peripherals. This month will be part 2, in which Earl and I will continue coverage by discussing how to use the machine, emulators, software, ads and appearances, modern upgrades, Web sites and more. In addition, I will include an interview with a gentleman who has done recent work around the HX-20 in the area of emulation, Mr. Pontus Rodling. First, however, I will spend a few minutes talking about my recent acquisitions in the vintage computing space and what I’ve been up to, then I’ll cover upcoming shows. Links Mentioned in the Show: Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnX7d0Ty9A4 New Acquisitions book "The BBC Micro an expert guide" by Mike James - https://www.amazon.com/B-C-Micro-Expert-Guide/dp/0003831175 SDrive Max from Vintage Computer Center (810) for Atari 8-bit - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max Incognito for Atari 800 - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 CPC 464 RGB-to-SCART cable - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amstrad-CPC-464-6128-High-Quality-POWERED-RGB-Scart-Cable-TV-Video-Lead/261898189777 - Retro Computer Shack CPC M4 upgrade - http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/M4_Board Upcoming Shows Dec 7, 2019, World of Commodore 2019, hosted by the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) at the Admiral Inn Mississauga - https://www.tpug.ca/…/09/announcement-world-of-commodore-2…/ March 21-22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/…/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-north…/ April 18-19, 2020, CoCoFest, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/…/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com Ads and Appearances http://starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=171 Epson announced the HX-20 to the world in this famous double page ad spread from 1982. Its compact size is obviously the big selling point here - http://www.ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/epson-hx20/creativecomp0183-2a.jpg another four page ad from Epson UK. Epson apparently wanted to make it clear that only they had the foresight to devise such a compact computing platform. As depicted in the ad, the HX-20 is equally at home in the office, on the plane, in a power station and at home. - http://www.ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/epson-hx20/practicalcomputing128202a.jpg Modern Upgrades MH-20 by Martin Hepperle - https://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/hx-20/MH-20-Display-Controller.zip Flashx20 by Norbert Kehrer - http://members.aon.at/nkehrer/flashx20.html Emulators "eHC-20"-EPSON HC-20 / HX-20 emulator for Win32 (Toshiya Takeda) - http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/ M.A.M.E. - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator / MAME 0.184 ROMs - https://edgeemu.net/details-25542.htm HXEmu by Pontus Rodling - https://frigolit.net/projects/hxemu/ Community Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/405903130000150/ Forums AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/search/?q=epson%20hx-20 https://stardot.org.uk/forums/index.php Web Sites An HX-20 Enthusiast Site - Julian Ward - https://web.archive.org/web/20161023223930/http://classway.com/hx20/index.html - contains FAQ, memory map, description of utilities (on WayBackMachine) Epson HX-20 Programs - Courtney McFarren - http://www.geocities.ws/abcmcfarren/hx20/hx20.htm - software downloads (BASIC listings), memory map, memory dump, information on interfacing with the HX-20 Review in Byte Magazine Volume 8, Number 9 - https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-09/1983_09_BYTE_08-09_Portable_Computers_in_Depth#page/n201/mode/2up - compares HX-20 and TI CC-40 GanjaTron’s site - http://www.ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/epson-hx20/index.html - nice description of the HX-20 Epson HX-20 Review in Creative Computing by David Ahl - https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n3/101_Epson_HX20_computer.php Epson HX-20 Tips and Tricks by Martin Hepperle - https://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/hx-20/Epson%20HX-20%20-%20Tips-Tricks.pdf TV ad for the HX-20 (1982) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnX7d0Ty9A4 Wickensonline - information from sites now only on the Wayback Machine (archive.org) - https://web.archive.org/web/20160323052226/http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/hx-20/index.html Epson HX-20 Operations Manual (from the Epson support site) - https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/hx20__/hx20__u1.pdf HX-20 page at Epson - https://global.epson.com/company/corporate_history/milestone_products/13_hx20.html PDF documentation for the Epson HX-20 (Tech Ref, BASIC Ref, etc.) - http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/hx20/doc/index.html HXTAPE software at SourceForge - http://hxtape.sourceforge.net/ - HXTape is a suite of small programs designed to read and write Epson HX-20 tapes using a sound card under Linux. Additionally, it can be used as a simple means of direct data transfer between a PC and an HX-20, by connecting the two using an ordinary audio cable. The Epson HX-20: As seen in Tezza's classic computer collection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Esopw_KK8&app=desktop The World's First Laptop - Epson HX-20 / HC-20 by RetroManCave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-F_hL1bZsw “Japanese portable has real staying power” From: PRACTICAL COMPUTING October 1982 page 40 - http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/hx20/pc198210.html Yet another computer museum - The Epson HX-20 - http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/hx20/ References Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20
In this episode we review Tandy Assembly 2019. There were lots of additions to the show this year including the new Tech Track. What worked well and what worked not so well? There's the usual segments on new projects, new acquisitions, listener feedback and the book review. We talk about JetSet which is a flight simulator for the TRS-80 Model II! There's some discussion about ARCNET, CP/M Plus and floppy disk baking. Then, in our main segment, we talk to TRS-80 Model 100 enthusiast Josh Malone. Josh gives us a great overview and then a detailed rundown of this most famous portable computer.
A lot of revelations on this week's show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around. Visit http://cocoman.biz to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3 Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3! Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10 https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y 2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/ 3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/ 4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/ 5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg 6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18 7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0 8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY 9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w 10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/ 11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/ 12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/ 13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/ VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games. https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8 To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Lots revealed on this weeks show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around. Visit http://cocoman.biz to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3 Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3! Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10 https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y 2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/ 3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/ 4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/ 5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg 6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18 7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0 8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY 9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w 10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/ 11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/ 12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/ 13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/ VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games. https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8 To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
The Epson HX-20 Part 1 Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 94 of the Floppy Days Podcast for October, 2019, where this month we will be talking about one of the world’s first portable computers: The Epson HX-20. Thank you, Terry Stewart, for your thoughts about the HX-20 to lead off the show. For those that want more information from Terry, check out his Website and Youtube channel where he has a terrific video on the HX-20, as well as lots of information on other vintage computers. I’m extremely happy to announce that my good friend, and one of the godfathers of vintage computer podcast, Mr. Earl Evans, will be my co-host for this topic. It’s always a thrill to have Earl join me on this podcast as he and his Retrobits podcast were the inspiration for Floppy Days. It turned out that Earl not only knows the gentleman I interviewed last month, Chris Rutkowski, but he also used to work for Epson and supported the HX-20 and its successor the PX-8. He also owns a couple of machines. As a result, Earl is able to provide great insights into the HX-20 and is a perfect color commentator for this topic. I know you’ll enjoy Earl’s contributions to this show. It turned out we have so much material to cover that I’m breaking this topic into 2 parts. This month will be part 1, and Earl and I will cover HX-20 history, tech specs, and peripherals. Next month will be part 2, in which Earl and I will continue coverage by discussing how to use the machine, emulators, software, ads and appearances, modern upgrades, Web sites and more. In addition, I was able to get interviews with a couple of gentlemen who have done recent work around the HX-20 in the areas of emulation and modern upgrades. So, we have a lot to cover and a short time to get there! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions and What I’ve Been Up To Atari 8-bit modern power supplies and video cables from Corey Koltz - https://www.8bitclassics.com/ Nu-Brick power supplies (Kevin Ottum) - Facebook Tandy PC-1 LCDs by Robert Baruch - https://www.tindie.com/products/halfbakedmaker/lcd-replacement-for-trs-80-pc-1-sharp-pc-1211/ Commodore The Amiga Years by Brian Bagnall - https://amzn.to/2WocDrz Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Dreams-Britain-Learned-Computer/dp/1472918339 101 Programming Tips for the TI99 by Len Turner - https://amzn.to/2q1ylpe TI’s Compute Collection Vol. I by Compute - https://amzn.to/31WpG4F Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more by Gary Plowman - https://amzn.to/2NnerNl Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-moore/atari-projects/paperback/product-24223087.html SDrive Max cases (1050 and 810) from Steve Boswell - https://atari8bit.net/sdrive-max-cases/ Upcoming Shows (https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows) Nov 2, 2019, Chicago TI International World’s Faire, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ Dec 7, 2019, World of Commodore 2019, hosted by the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) at the Admiral Inn Mississauga - https://www.tpug.ca/2019/09/announcement-world-of-commodore-2019 March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com
Live coverage from Tandy Assembly along with our usual CoCoTALKing, news, commentary and more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.liveVisit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Live coverage from Tandy Assembly along with our usual CoCoTALKing, news, commentary and more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.liveVisit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Vintage Computer Upgrades What upgrades have you have done to vintage computers, then or recently? Topic and feedback notes: ITAPPMONROBOT Atari Projects book Atari Projects Epic Apple II versus Commodore 64 Chess Match Colossus 4 Chess Tournament results (Dec. 2000) Retro Computing News: Back To Borregas Ave: Finding Atari's Lost World Headquarters Paged-out, new online magazine Clear Apple II plus Kickstarter Wombat ADB-to-USB adapter Cases for the Atari SDrive-Max Hidden messages in Amiga games 33-year-old easter egg in Gumball Darklord (Apple II) developer messages Upcoming Shows/Gatherings: Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019 Tandy Assembly 2019. Springfield, OH. Sept 27-29, 2019 Retrogathering. Västerås, Sweden. Sept 28, 2019 Vintage Computer-related Commercials: TRS-80 Computer 1978 ZX Spectrum +2 James Bond edition Retro Computing Gift Idea: Atari joystick controller pendant Auction Picks: Carrington: Hot Wheels Apple VW Bus Radio Shack Introduces the World of Computing Radio Shack Executive Decision Maker 1977 Radio Shack Managers’ Catalog Radio Shack Electronic TV Scoreboard Game Paul: Commodore calculator SOL-10? See also: SOL-20 on oldcomputers.net Osborne 1 with external screen Net board Spectrum emulator for TS 2068 ZX Spectrum James Bond action pack Closing comments: Computer Stupidities Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
We’re doing our wrap-up show discussing all the fun we had last weekend at VCFMW, hear from those that were there, and rejoice in the awesomeness of the event. We'll also have live coverage from the Glenside Color Computer Club's (hosts of the Chicago CoCoFEST!) Pick Nick, so more Chicago area retro goodness! Join us live today, if you were at the event, we'd love to have you join us on the panel to share your experiences. Special Guest Matt from Drakware https://drakware.com/ News links: 1) Jim Gerrie shows off Alpha Force, a Targ like game for the MC-10: https://youtu.be/pKOue-KEbOE https://youtu.be/yzLS60J4SHY https://youtu.be/KOaYwn3TSkA 2) Retro Core did a Thexder port comparison https://youtu.be/H3V2VFze0Vs 3) John Day (ShareSquid on YouTube) is doing high score challenge videos of Coco games: https://youtu.be/ogROu5zUkhY https://youtu.be/OH6KL7Vzc9M 4) FitFo on YouTube is doing a "Sleeper build" based on a Coco 1 case https://youtu.be/vzpffYGSu_s 5) Amigo Aaron on YouTube does a play through of Kron on the Coco: https://youtu.be/NVhQdVl7LBc 6) Simonwgb does a 2 hour play of Jet Set Willy on a Dragon emulator (not sure which one). https://youtu.be/QM0yybcIb2A 7) Todd Wallace aka LordDragon demo's the current version of his OS9/RSDOS disk utility program https://youtu.be/xC4_xg7RcGU 8) For those going to Tandy Assembly, this is a slight change of venue for the show itself https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/301742781704175616/624707134159847424/Screenshot_20190920-163834_Facebook.jpg 9) Nick Marentes has chapter 21 of his Gunstar blog up - which includes some screenshots from levels 3 and 4 from his upcoming game. http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/21.html 10) Some nice pictures of the Coco related displays from the Living Computer Museum in Seattle https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495570507641/ 11) Sheldon MacDonald received a Mini MPI this past week, and has it set up to use his SDC and GMC cartridges. He has some photos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495318582641/ He also has 2 videos on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qrygOXxGF9g https://youtu.be/eSnCI5OlDk8 12) Mike Hawkey purchases a Coco 3 awhile ago, and upon opening it up recently, found some hardware mods directly connected to one of the PIA's: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157486584317641/ 13) D. Bruce Moore has submitted a possible graphic design for the upcoming CocoFest 2020, which is the 40th anniversary of the Coco 1 being released in 1980: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157492904112641/ 14) Erik Gavriluk has apparently tackled speeding up the 3D wireframe displaying program from Hot Coco https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490650532641/ 15) Sheldon MacDonald has also been making custom game pad joysticks for his Coco as well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157487841352641/ 16) Diego Barizo has an update on his "Docked Master" game that we previewed on one of our programming live streams, including new bonus screens: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490627892641/ Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
We’re doing our wrap-up show discussing all the fun we had last weekend at VCFMW, hear from those that were there, and rejoice in the awesomeness of the event. We'll also have live coverage from the Glenside Color Computer Club's (hosts of the Chicago CoCoFEST!) Pick Nick, so more Chicago area retro goodness! Join us live today, if you were at the event, we'd love to have you join us on the panel to share your experiences. Special Guest Matt from Drakware https://drakware.com/ News links: 1) Jim Gerrie shows off Alpha Force, a Targ like game for the MC-10: https://youtu.be/pKOue-KEbOE https://youtu.be/yzLS60J4SHY https://youtu.be/KOaYwn3TSkA 2) Retro Core did a Thexder port comparison https://youtu.be/H3V2VFze0Vs 3) John Day (ShareSquid on YouTube) is doing high score challenge videos of Coco games: https://youtu.be/ogROu5zUkhY https://youtu.be/OH6KL7Vzc9M 4) FitFo on YouTube is doing a "Sleeper build" based on a Coco 1 case https://youtu.be/vzpffYGSu_s 5) Amigo Aaron on YouTube does a play through of Kron on the Coco: https://youtu.be/NVhQdVl7LBc 6) Simonwgb does a 2 hour play of Jet Set Willy on a Dragon emulator (not sure which one). https://youtu.be/QM0yybcIb2A 7) Todd Wallace aka LordDragon demo's the current version of his OS9/RSDOS disk utility program https://youtu.be/xC4_xg7RcGU 8) For those going to Tandy Assembly, this is a slight change of venue for the show itself https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/301742781704175616/624707134159847424/Screenshot_20190920-163834_Facebook.jpg 9) Nick Marentes has chapter 21 of his Gunstar blog up - which includes some screenshots from levels 3 and 4 from his upcoming game. http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/21.html 10) Some nice pictures of the Coco related displays from the Living Computer Museum in Seattle https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495570507641/ 11) Sheldon MacDonald received a Mini MPI this past week, and has it set up to use his SDC and GMC cartridges. He has some photos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495318582641/ He also has 2 videos on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qrygOXxGF9g https://youtu.be/eSnCI5OlDk8 12) Mike Hawkey purchases a Coco 3 awhile ago, and upon opening it up recently, found some hardware mods directly connected to one of the PIA's: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157486584317641/ 13) D. Bruce Moore has submitted a possible graphic design for the upcoming CocoFest 2020, which is the 40th anniversary of the Coco 1 being released in 1980: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157492904112641/ 14) Erik Gavriluk has apparently tackled speeding up the 3D wireframe displaying program from Hot Coco https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490650532641/ 15) Sheldon MacDonald has also been making custom game pad joysticks for his Coco as well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157487841352641/ 16) Diego Barizo has an update on his "Docked Master" game that we previewed on one of our programming live streams, including new bonus screens: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490627892641/ Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline:Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00CoCo News: 02:22:00John Strong: 03:15:45Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.liveVisit us on the web at http://cocotalk.liveJoin us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXmTo find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Older but better? What obsolete technology or device do you wish was actually still in use today? Topic and feedback notes: IBM 5150 Papercraft design The Amen Break Retro Computing News: A Conversation with my 35-year-old Chatbot RetroManCave - Exploring the MiSTer & DE-10 Nano FPGA MOnSter 6502 Writing a Lunar Lander Game For An Actual Lunar Lander Atari Computer Camp documentary Atari Computer Camp documentary (trailer) Easter Egg found in 1977 Channel F game An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs Upcoming Shows/Gatherings: Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019 Tandy Assembly 2019. Springfield, OH. Sept 27-29, 2019 Retrogathering. Västerås, Sweden. Sept 28, 2019 Vintage Computer-adjacent Commercials: Tunnel Runner Atari camp on Today show, July 1982 Retro Computing Gift Idea: Karateka Enamel Pins Auction Picks: Carrington: dBASE WristWatch Macintosh Performa LC476 “Radio Shack Turns Me Off” boycott button See also: Radio Shack 1979 female-lead strike in Barrie, Ontario Earl: Motorola Micro Systems CDM 1000 Exorset 100 Paul: Equitrac AlphaCopy See also: Ad for Equitrac AlphaCopy Kevin’s BeBox Crystal Quest had a box NEC PC-8300. Maybe I won’t buy this one Closing comments: History of Computing Timeline GopherCon wasn’t about Gopher Phlogs are a thing Gopher Proxy Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
Interview with Chris Rutkowski, Epson QX10 & ValDocs Hello and welcome to episode 93 of the Floppy Days Podcast. We’re still in the year 1981 for computer introductions and next up on the docket is the venerable Epson HX-20, oft-considered the very first laptop computer. It spawned an entire series of laptop computers from Epson, such as the PX-8 and QX-10. In this episode, I have an interview with Mr. Chris Rutkowski. Chris worked for or at Epson during the days of the HX-20 and the other machines. Although Chris didn’t work directly on the HX-20, as he was more focused on the QX-10 and software for it (such as ValDocs), Chris has a great perspective on what it was like to work at Epson at that time. In the next episode I will then talk in detail about the HX-20, including the usual topics of history, specs, software, magazines, ads, Web sites, emulators and more. After talking with Chris, I was very impressed with the work that he did and impact that he made on the fledgling microcomputer industry. Not only did he work on the design of the QX-10, Chris came up with the idea for the VALDOCS software for the QX-10 that included the HASCI keyboard (Human Application Standard Computer Interface) while at Rising Star Industries. I hope you enjoy this interview! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions AVG cart for Atari 8-bit - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/278212-avgcart/ Faster Than Light: Atari ST - https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Light-16-Bit-Revolution/dp/1732355215 by Jamie Lendino Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language (book) by Mark Jones Lorenzo - https://www.amazon.com/Endless-Loop-Programming-All-purpose-Instruction/dp/1974277070 ZX Spectrum +2 RGB to SCART cable - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260949446667 Run/Stop-Restore (book) by Leonard Roach - https://www.amazon.com/Run-Stop-Restore-Anniversary-Lenard-Roach/dp/1456719246 Upcoming Shows Sep 7-8, Retro Computer Festival 2019, The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/53612/Retro-Computer-Festival-2019-7th-8th-September/ Sep 14, Atari Party East, basement of Bill Lange in Somerset, NJ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/281252672436874/ Sep 14-15, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Sep 21-22, Acorn World Exhibition 2019, The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54006/Acorn-World-Exhibition-2019-21st-22nd-September-2019/ Sep 27-29, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com Oct 18-20, Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com Nov 2, Chicago TI International World’s Faire, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/ Interview with Chris Rutkowski VCF Pacific Northwest 2019 - Chris Rutkowski, “The birth of the Business PC – how volatile markets evolve” - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/archives-show-summaries/vcf-pnw-archives/vcf-pnw-2019/ October ‘82 Byte - p.291 An introduction to the Human Applications Standard Computer Interface, Part 1: Theory and Principles by Chris Rutkowski - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-10/page/n289 November ‘82 Byte - p.379 An Introduction to the Human Applications Standard Computer Interface, Part 2: Implementing the HASCI Concept by Chris Rutkowski - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n403 "A Gathering of Magicians," from the CBC Television series "Man Alive" (1984) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRhyUp7dTE
In this episode we start by previewing the upcoming Tandy Assembly 2019. We have a lot of big news to relate regarding the 3rd annual gathering of Tandy Radio Shack computing enthusiasts in Springfield, Ohio. We also discuss a new document archiving project of original Radio Shack Customer Service Bulletins. There's the usual segments on new projects, new acquisitions, listener feedback and the book review. We then try to decide what do you do with a wall of Model I Video Displays. Finally, in our interview segment, Pete talks to Tandy Radio Shack marketing executive Buzz Murphy. Buzz relates his experience at the company while riding the incredible wave that was created by the original TRS-80 microcomputer release in 1977.
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Ancient languages and modern usage What "old" programming language will you still be using this year? Topic and feedback notes: What "old" programming language will you still be using this year? Retro Computing News: ][-Vision: streaming video and audio for the Apple II NetDisk and the Archive.org Disk Browser Total Replay The The C64 site THEC64 — Coming December 2019 (video promo) Turing on the new 50 GBP note The underappreciated power of the Apollo Guidance Computer Upcoming Shows/Gatherings: VCF West. Mountain View, CA. Aug 3-4, 2019 Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019 Tandy Assembly 2019. Springfield, OH. Sept 27-29, 2019 Retrogathering. Västerås, Sweden. Sept 28, 2019 Vintage Computer-adjacent Commercial: Sony Audio Tapes Retro Computing Gift Idea: Sony Boombox Auction Picks: Carrington: Digital VK-100 GIGI Graphics Terminal Apple IIe in Clear Case Apple Data Language 8.5" Reel Earl: Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler MS DOS Version 3.20 programming software Closing comments: Why rappers love Grey Poupon Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Desert island computer If you had to use a single retro computer exclusively for a full year as your only computer at home, what would you choose? Topic and feedback notes: IBM Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Stardot forum for Acorn and BBC Micros Graphically Speaking (enhanced edition) Procedural planetary exploration across the decades ZX-HD Retro Computing News: Restored Apollo Mission Control Center reopens for public viewing Restoring the Apollo Mission Control Center (Houston We Have a Podcast, episode 96) 50 Years on the Moon: The Evolution of Lunar Lander Games Project Egress Video about Project Egress, with Adam Savage MIT Museum "Moon Shots". Copy protection in the 80s, showcased by classic game Dungeon Master Video describing copy protection in Dungeon Master (Modern Vintage Gamer) 10 (or more???) Apple 1s to be at VCF West 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans A Photo History of Frog Design Frog Design virtual gallery Keep it Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple (Hartmut Esslinger, 2014) Upcoming Shows/Gatherings: KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019 VCF West. Mountain View, CA. Aug 3-4, 2019 Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019 Tandy Assembly 2019. Springfield, OH. Sept 27-29, 2019 Vintage Computer Commercial: IBM SAGE Retro Computing Gift Idea: Bletchley Park prints Auction Picks: Carrington: Apple Modem 1200 CH Products Mach IV+ Mac joystick Apple IIGS for the Servicing Technician Apple IIe and IIc+ for the Servicing Technician SAGE II computer Apple February 1983 logo print on vellum Michael: 1982 Dungeons of Daggorath Amiga 500/2000 VXL30 Accelerator 68030 Paul: Vintage computer dont no if works PET 2001 TRS-80 Model 4P NEC PC-8300 that I might have already bought Visual Almanac Apple II accessories box VT100 manual Closing comments: Darkstar Unhinged by Snacking On Software is available for pre-order Darkstar Unhinged gameplay video Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Challenges of the more recently obsolete. A bunch of older computers can almost interact with the modern environments, but not quite. For example eMates, old iMacs, etc. have wireless capabilities but require network protocols that are increasingly unsupported. What kinds of things have you tried to work with these more recently obsolete computers, what has worked, what hasn't? Topic and feedback notes: WiFi connection for Newton 2x00 and eMate 300 Writing with the Alphasmart Dana Netatalk A2server Memofest Recaps Exapunks Computing Britain podcast series vintagecomputer.ca Retro Computing News: This TRS-80 CP/Mish, an open-source reimplementation/clone of CP/M 2.2 Cool demo of coding on a late-model Z80 laptop New Hampshire has now installed the BASIC historical marker The origin of the blink tag Video stream of the 8-bit symphony Main site for the 8-bit symphony Upcoming Shows/Gatherings: KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019 VCF West. Mountain View, CA. Aug 3-4, 2019 Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019 Tandy Assembly 2019. Springfield, OH. Sept 27-29, 2019 Vintage Computer Commercial: Atari Space Invaders 1980 TV commercial Retro Computing Gift Idea: Vintage Tech Stickers Auction Picks: Carrington: Franklin Ace 500 SD DuoDisk Floppy Disk Drive Emulator Earl: Vintage Intel C8702A (1702) EPROM Gold Ceramic Case Paul: Most recent Apple Workstation card sold on eBay that I could find, none currently listed Alphasmart Dana Wireless Very nice PX-8 set with a lot of stuff including the disk drive PX-8 software set 3D printed PX-8/PX-4 ROM cradles Rockwell AIM-65 in an EMP-proof case Closing comments: Mechanical Binary Counter The Base.cs Podcast TinyFPGA Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Uncollecting If you have to cut down (for whatever reason), how would you do it? Where would you start? Narrow focus on brands, models? Give away, sell? Topic and feedback notes: The Mysterious and Strange Origin of the Floppy Disk The countdown clock on the WOPR was run by an Apple II Retro Computing News: HelloEdit Checkpoint: An unreleased game from Infocom Checkpoint source SDrive-Max for Atari 8bits. SDrive-Max project page SDrive-Max project page on GitHub A place to buy a built SDrive-Max SDrive-Max video demo Wear gloves when repairing old synthesizers Hackaday link about the synthesizer repair Apple IIslice keyboard by John Leake Unijoysticle II - Adapter to use Bluetooth controls / joystick in Commodore, Amiga and Atari See also: video demo of the Unijoystickle II See also: AP40 Bluetooth controller Upcoming Shows/Gatherings: KansasFest, Kansas City, MO, Jul 15-21, 2019 VCF West. Mountain View, CA. Aug 3-4, 2019 Fujiama 2019, Lengenfeld, Germany, Aug 26-Sep 4, 2019 Tandy Assembly 2019. Springfield, OH. Sept 27-29, 2019 Vintage Computer Commercial: Color Computer 3 Apple PowerBook Duo Retro Computing Gift Idea: Retro Computer Comforter Auction Picks: Carrington: 25 ZX Spectrum game cassettes New Old Computer 2008 MacBook Air Earl: Vintage Working IBM Model M 1393464 Clicky Mechanical Keyboard 1989 Made in USA Paul: Mountain of Thunder Mountains. One title. MasterType’s Figures + Formulas (Apple II) These aren’t old enough to be interesting yet are they? Clamshell iBook SE IBM multiple-card layout form pad CDC mini computer Ethernet microdock Large Sord lot (SORD M223 Mark II) for pick up only near KCMO See also: SORD An Amdek Color-II looking out of place atop an IBM 5150 Novation 300 coupler Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:
In this episode we discuss the latest Tandy Assembly 2019 updates, the 40th Anniversary of the TRS-80 Model II, archiving of rare Radio Shack Dealer Franchise documentation, the third Connecticut Vintage Computer Auction and a lot of acquisitions. Then, in the latter segment, Pete interviews Tandy Radio Shack Engineer Valerie See.
The Apple III - Part 3 with David Fradin Welcome to episode 89 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where we love our computers and programmable calculators of the 70’s and 80’s (and even into the 90’s). As mentioned on the last episode, we’ve moved in to the year 1981 for computer introductions and have been discussing the much maligned but misunderstood Apple III for the past couple of shows. This episode will be the last in the series about that machine. This episode we focus on an interview with someone who was responsible for the Apple III line at Apple in his tenure there, Mr. David Fradin. David was product manager for that line and has some insights into the challenges of managing and marketing it. Before we get to the interview, I will briefly talk about what I’ve been up to and about some new-to-me vintage computer acquisitions. I’ll also run through the upcoming vintage computer show schedule for 2019, which is pretty full, and I have a bit of feedback to share. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions/What I’ve Been Up To Lotharek store - http://lotharek.pl Juiced GS - https://juiced.gs/ News George Keremedjiev obituary - https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bozemandailychronicle/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=190783242 Barbara Keremedjiev museum plans - https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/widow-vows-to-keep-and-strengthen-bozeman-s-american-computer/article_7ce68773-e575-5b9f-9f5e-1df61bfdf61c.html Floppy Days Episode 5 with George Keremedjiev Interview - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-episode-5-the-american-computer-museum BASIC 10-Liners Contest - http://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/kopie-von-games-list-2019-1 Upcoming Shows VCF Pacific Northwest 2019, March 23-24, 2019 at Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington - http://www.vcfed.org/vcf-pnw Midwest Gaming Classic, Milwaukee, WI, April 12-14, 2019 - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS), April 27-28, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the Toolbox LA (https://toolbox.la) Chatsworth, California - CLASS website http://www.portcommodore.com/class , discussion of CLASS is in the shared forum area with CommVEx at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 VCFSE 7.0, not yet scheduled, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ VCF East, May 3-5, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Pacific Commodore Expo NW (PaCommEx), June 8-9, The Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex, discussion is on the forum at https://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=14 KansasFest, July 15-21, 2019, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ VCF West, Aug 3-4, Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fujiama 2019 - August 26, 2019 to Sep. 1, 2019, Schützenhaus, Lengenfeld, Germany. Visit atarixle's Fujiama page, Krupkaj's parties photos or mathy meetings page VCF Midwest, Elk Grove Village, IL, Sep. 14-15, 2019 - http://vcfmw.org/ Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH, Sep. 28-29, 2019 - http://www.tandyassembly.com Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Oct 18-20 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com TI International World’s Faire - late Oct/Nov New event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Feedback https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/HT%E2%80%931080Z Interview “Building Insanely Great Products: Some Products Fail, Many Succeed… This is their Story: Lessons from 47 years of experience including Hewlett-Packard, Apple, 75 products, and 11 startups later” by David Fradin - https://www.amazon.com/Building-Insanely-Great-Products-Hewlett-Packard-ebook/dp/B01N7AKWWS David on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfradin/ “The Mistakes Apple Made With the Apple III” - https://spicecatalyst.com/the-mistakes-apple-made-with-the-apple/ “Why I Failed with the Apple III and Steve Jobs Succeeded With the Macintosh” - https://blog.aha.io/why-i-failed-with-the-apple-iii-and-steve-jobs-succeeded-with-the-macintosh/ by David Fradin
It's finally here, Tandy Assembly 2018, hopefully we'll hear from some of the attendees during the show, and get a ground floor view of the event. In addition to that, we'll talk about CoCo, Retro and other stuff! News Links:Ron Delvaux Chrio Freeze:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156727214042641/ Brian Weisler Car Ride:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156728854412641/ Carl Daugherty Flash Air:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156722658322641/ Todd Wallace RS-DOS-to-OS9 disk toolhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156721116862641/ David OConnor ancient manuscripts:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156726816962641/ Luciano Scharf Brazilian CoCos:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156704358462641/ Chad Edward Tany Speaker Docks:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156724291067641/ John Laury Space Invaders using GET/PUThttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156718431512641/ Hugo Dufort new game animation:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156724928347641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156724567337641/ Davy Mitchell Llama raching MC-10https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156722498392641/ Kevin Orbaker 30 day programming challengehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156717910047641/ Paul Thayer Download II screen shots/mock upshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156722809412641/ Neil Blanchard blow out on CoCo Cartridgeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156717008687641/?sale_post_id=10156717008687641&rt=11 Paul Shoemaker Wizardy Clone Sorceryhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156716016187641/ Chet Simpson 6309 Super Game:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156714763607641/ Chet Simpson Digger level editorhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156711088742641/ Jason Downs connect your CoCo to a modern TV (without a switch-a-roo)https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156708754562641/ Jason Reighard - Stuart Chifiet YouTube linkhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156731719172641/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iE9oUjWl0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0L4ZXHEGv-vrhfjQBHSghof5E41FBSCjPkqK8DWPNIFt28mShCC-8Qr64 CoCo Man with Stuart Chefiethttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156731702297641/ Chad Edward Mark Data games, walkthroughs, PC ports:http://sites.mpc.com.br/ric/cp400/ecocmain.htm?fbclid=IwAR1Ozj4GlyKZHYRMLAeaqzzmMxWmXEpDbBnH9sGIgPQgqMJbpQBpIONj1Vo Long Branch Never Tandy Assembly morning booth tour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitJ16b0JJA CoCoTALK!Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Twice the Tandy Assembly live coverage of any other live CoCo media! It's finally here, Tandy Assembly 2018, hopefully we'll hear from some of the attendees during the show, and get a ground floor view of the event. In addition to that, we'll talk about CoCo, Retro and other stuff! CoCoTALK!Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Regular segments:Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review:We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews:Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week:Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK!L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage!Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that?We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
It's finally here, Tandy Assembly 2018, hopefully we'll hear from some of the attendees during the show, and get a ground floor view of the event. In addition to that, we'll talk about CoCo, Retro and other stuff! News Links:Ron Delvaux Chrio Freeze:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156727214042641/ Brian Weisler Car Ride:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156728854412641/ Carl Daugherty Flash Air:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156722658322641/ Todd Wallace RS-DOS-to-OS9 disk toolhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156721116862641/ David OConnor ancient manuscripts:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156726816962641/ Luciano Scharf Brazilian CoCos:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156704358462641/ Chad Edward Tany Speaker Docks:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156724291067641/ John Laury Space Invaders using GET/PUThttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156718431512641/ Hugo Dufort new game animation:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156724928347641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156724567337641/ Davy Mitchell Llama raching MC-10https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156722498392641/ Kevin Orbaker 30 day programming challengehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156717910047641/ Paul Thayer Download II screen shots/mock upshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156722809412641/ Neil Blanchard blow out on CoCo Cartridgeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156717008687641/?sale_post_id=10156717008687641&rt=11 Paul Shoemaker Wizardy Clone Sorceryhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156716016187641/ Chet Simpson 6309 Super Game:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156714763607641/ Chet Simpson Digger level editorhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156711088742641/ Jason Downs connect your CoCo to a modern TV (without a switch-a-roo)https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156708754562641/ Jason Reighard - Stuart Chifiet YouTube linkhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156731719172641/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iE9oUjWl0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0L4ZXHEGv-vrhfjQBHSghof5E41FBSCjPkqK8DWPNIFt28mShCC-8Qr64 CoCo Man with Stuart Chefiethttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156731702297641/ Chad Edward Mark Data games, walkthroughs, PC ports:http://sites.mpc.com.br/ric/cp400/ecocmain.htm?fbclid=IwAR1Ozj4GlyKZHYRMLAeaqzzmMxWmXEpDbBnH9sGIgPQgqMJbpQBpIONj1Vo Long Branch Never Tandy Assembly morning booth tour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitJ16b0JJA CoCoTALK!Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Twice the Tandy Assembly live coverage of any other live CoCo media! It's finally here, Tandy Assembly 2018, hopefully we'll hear from some of the attendees during the show, and get a ground floor view of the event. In addition to that, we'll talk about CoCo, Retro and other stuff! CoCoTALK!Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Regular segments:Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review:We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews:Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week:Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK!L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage!Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that?We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: What we’ve been up to in the past month PLUS all the Atari 8-bit news we could find... READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com ANTIC Interview Index - here What We’ve Been Up To SDrive Max: Atariwiki - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SDrive-MAX Step-by-Step (German) - http://www.abbuc.de/~atarixle/readthread.php?f=15&t=9451&start=0 1 half SIO cable - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=128 case - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2718842 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com Living Computer Museum - https://livingcomputers.org Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com http://www.Textfiles.com Recent Interviews http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-367-george-morrison-alpha-systems-atari-software-protection-techniques-books Atari News FastBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/ Rare Amdek Amdisk III 3" Disk Drive for Atari Computers on eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Amdek-Amdisk-III-3-Disk-Drive-for-Atari-Computers-working-/292781901516 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-AMDEK-AMDISK-III-3-INCH-DISK-DRIVE-/323275722802 Michael Sternberg created an amazing Atari disk data visualizer: An example disk: https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1054045176165855234 Visualizer code on github: https://github.com/michaelsternberg/atrviz Michael Sternberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/16kRAM Discussion on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/284718-atari-disk-data-visualizer/ PLATOTerm Release page - https://github.com/tschak909/platoterm64/releases/tag/PLATOTerm-1.0 Irata.online Community For Retro-Computing Enthusiasts - https://www.irata.online Sails of Doom, new multijoy game - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283993-sails-of-doom-new-multijoy-game/?fbclid=IwAR3cq09TVQro6cgXbLR7aDDhz6GIBy5eFDMKfo3U9HGmhpRA6BC7E0e2KAY , Game available at http://a8.fandal.cz Space Harrier - https://atariteca.blogspot.com/2018/10/actualizacion-de-space-harrier-para.html#more Total Eclipse 3d Adventure - https://atariteca.blogspot.com/2018/11/total-eclipse-juego-de-aventuras-3d.html FLOP 62 - New Issue of the Floppy Disk Magazine - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283991-flop-62-new-issue-of-the-floppy-disk-magazine ABBUC Software Contest winners announced - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-software/softwarewettbewerbe/1836-software-wettbewerb-2018 There is also a Millionaire Custom Game Builder available ABBUC games available at http://a8.fandal.cz The wait is over! XFORMER 10 is here! - http://www.emulators.com/?fbclid=IwAR1Xb2qnlijwYed0Z_gYIRM3NurayXPAYVP4vemL2qw10qd0Egmsu7A5_4g and http://www.emulators.com/xformer.htm Atari Projects web site: http://atariprojects.org by Jason Moore Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): http://wp.freeplayflorida.com/ Nov 9-11 orlando http://www.tandyassembly.com November 10th & 11th 2018 Springfield, OH YouTube videos since last show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4RB0-UNMc&fbclid=IwAR2QQRNk7LrekhnkcaQTRBgrro7KGaza2Pzm6_1UG-VJ3ym-rHFQBFgUGAM - Sio2sd for ATARI XE/XL/400/800 with 16 GB SD CARD with DEMOS/FREE SOFTWARE UNBOXING and Review - Robbie Strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwLbpr6yLo&fbclid=IwAR29Q1SO2xyHhY1EeZHtl2irMGjv1uoWkx9-hVUshFrpcMUdaKCucdHVlzM&app=desktop - Atari 1027 Printer. Printing Gettysburg Address - by clubvanderbilt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jML6x8yKU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2GcHpYtT8BIx7VUWhhTzJnACBO2wIUIekQXE66xFCiJmQiOrlQJy7HXXw - IRATA.ONLINE: Getting Started with PLATOTerm for Atari 8-bit systems. - Thomas Cherryhomes (tschak909) Commercial Bits and Bytes Episode 2: Ready-Made Programs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3jbNCCjok Mini-interviews Example of CURSIVE output: https://archive.org/details/IO_Connector_1986-12 Syn software at: https://www.atariarchives.org/swlibrary/#syn New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/AutomatedLibraryII Allan (and edufun manuals) - https://archive.org/details/EdufunCatalog Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
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In this episode, regular Trash Talkers Peter Cetinski and Ian Mavric welcome Aaron Brockbank and Eric Dittman to the show. First, we run through the schedule for the upcoming Tandy Assembly 2018. Then, we spend some time discussing one of the more popular TRS-80 newsletters from the period, 80 US Journal, which is 40 years old this month. Finally, in our main segment, we talk in-depth about TRS-80 collecting.
In this episode, Trash Talkers Peter Cetinski and Ian Mavric welcome guest host Aaron Brockbank as he joins us to discuss the latest news and current events in the world of the TRS-80. Then, we talk with some of the management team from Tandy Assembly to discuss the preparations for the big event in November. Finally, we interview Arno Puder and Sascha Haeberling who have developed a TRS-80 App Store including the hardware needed to access it from your TRS-80 via the Internet.
The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast with myself, Randy Kindig, and a whole host of vintage computers surrounding me, each one wanting their time in the limelight. This will be part 2 of the 2-part series on the Sinclair ZX80 & 81 computer line. Once again, I will have one of the grand-daddy’s of vintage computer podcasting, Earl Evans, co-hosting with me as we complete the journey through one of the historically significant computers from across the pond. We will be covering the normal topics from where we left off the last show, so we’ll be talking about peripherals, software, books & magazines, ads, emulators, Web sites and whatever else comes to mind. Before we do that, though, I do want to talk a bit about my new acquisitions and projects, let you know about upcoming shows so you can make your plans, and I might even have a little feedback. I want to thank Ian Bucknell for providing his thoughts and memories of the ZX81. Links Mentioned in the Show: Memories Ian Bucknell’s Frankensteined ZX81 and other retro-computers - https://imgur.com/a/dD4xq New Acquisitions/Projects REX for Tandy Model 100/102 - http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REX Atari ST RGB to SCART cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-ST-High-Quality-RGB-Scart-Lead-Video-Cable-TV-AV-Lead-2mtr/250978089310 High Resolution VGA Cable for Atari ST - https://www.ebay.com/itm/142767407804 Sofia Atari 8-bit video board - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/274004-sophia-revc-dvi-board/ Upcoming Shows VCF West - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ , August 4-5, 2018 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Commodore Vegas Expo v14 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12676 , Aug. 11-12, 2018, Las Vegas, NV VCF Midwest - http://www.vcfmw.org/ - September 15-16, 2018, Elk Grove Village, IL Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ - Oregon Convention Center on October 19-21, 2018 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Nov. 10-11, Springfield, OH TI International World’s Faire - http://ctiug.sdf.org/ - Nov. 10, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - https://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ - December, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Peripherals and Expansion list of ZX81 Peripherals in the Centre for Computing History collection - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi/archive.pl?type=Peripherals&platform=ZX81 Early Sinclair ZX81 peripheral adverts - http://www.retrogamescollector.com/early-sinclair-zx81-peripheral-adverts/ Cheetah 32K RAM Expansion Memopak 16K Memopak 64K Memotech 48k Ram Expansion ZX Panda 16K Expandable RAM for ZX81 Fuller FD System for ZX80/81 Mapsoft Keyboard for ZX81 Memotech ZX81 Keyboard and Buffer ZX81 Keyboard Upgrade ZX81 Push-Button Keyboard ZX81 I/O Board Sinclair ZX81 QS-Sound ZX81 QS-Mother Board ZON X-81 BASICARE Micro Systems Magazines and Newsletters Syntax ZX80 - https://archive.org/details/syntaxvol1no2 ZX Computing - http://magazinesfromthepast.wikia.com/wiki/ZX_Computing Sync - Jan/Feb ‘81 - https://archive.org/details/syncmagazine Sinclair Programs Sinclair User - http://magazinesfromthepast.wikia.com/wiki/Sinclair_User Timex/Sinclair User - https://archive.org/details/TimexSinclairUser ZX91 Newsletter - http://zx81.de/andre/zx91/_frame_e.htm Books Mastering machine code on your ZX81 Paperback – 1982 by Toni Baker - https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-machine-code-your-ZX81/dp/0835942619/ The ZX-81 Pocket Book by Trevor Toms - https://www.amazon.com/ZX81-pocket-book-Trevor-Toms/dp/0835995259/ 49 Explosive Games for the ZX-81 by Tim Hartnell - https://www.amazon.com/explosive-games-ZX-81-Reward-book/dp/0835920860/ Making the Most of Your ZX-81 by Tim Hartnell - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Most-Your-Zx-81-Hartnell/dp/0835941884/ Timex Ts1000 Computer/Sinclair Zx-81 Computer (Sams Computerfacts) Paperback – November, 1986 - https://www.amazon.com/Timex-Ts1000-Computer-Sinclair-Computerfacts/dp/0672089696/ Ins and Outs of the Timex T.S.1000/Z. X. 81 Paperback – April, 1983 by Don Thomasson (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Ins-Outs-Timex-T-S-1000-Z/dp/0861611187/ Fifty 1K/2K Games for the Zx 81 and Timex Sinclair 1000 by Alastair; Walsh, James and Holmes, Paul Gourlay (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Games-Timex-Sinclair-1000/dp/0835919781/ Understanding Your Z. X. 81 ROM Paperback – December, 1981 by Ian Logan - https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Your-Z-X-ROM/dp/0861611039/ Aerospace and Communication Satellite Applications of the Z. X. 81/Spectrum Computers: Programs for Cruise Missile Trajectory Simulation and Communication Satellites Orbital Position, with GraphicsPaperback – Import, November 1, 1983 by H.S. Bluston (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Aerospace-Communication-Satellite-Applications-Computers/dp/0907350089/ Turing Criterion: Machine Intelligent Programs for the 16K Z. X. 81 Paperback – November, 1982 by Dilwyn Jones (Author), etc. (Author) - https://www.amazon.com/Turing-Criterion-Machine-Intelligent-Programs/dp/0907563201/ Software 3D Monster Maze ZX81 Software Catalogs - http://www.retrogamescollector.com/sinclair-zx81-software-catalogues/ 1K ZX Chess - http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/1KZXChess Revival Studios (modern games) - http://www.revival-studios.com/sinclair.php ZX-80 Programs site - http://zx80programs.yolasite.com/ TOSEC at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_ZX81_TOSEC_2012_04_23 This webiste has a very good start on creating a definitive list of ZX81 software - http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/ ZX81 Download Page - http://www.zx81.nl/dload/ User Groups and Shows ZX-TEAM: THE active user group for the legendary Sinclair ZX81- http://www.zx81.de/zxcms/ , next international meeting March 29-31, 2019 Modern Upgrades The Tynemouth Software Minstrel ZX80 clone - https://www.tindie.com/products/tynemouthsw/minstrel-zx80-clone/ Andy Rea’s ULA Replacement - https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2928 ZX-TEAM mod for 16 or 32K on the ZX81 motherboard - http://www.zx81.de/english/_frame_e.htm ZXMore Complete Z80 System - https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=1696 ZXBlast - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/zxblast-512k-(ready-to-use)--_-ram-pack-and-usb-flash-drive-support-22781 ZX8-CCB for new and modern TVs like Plasma and LCD. - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/zx8-_ccb--_-video-output-for-zx81-3712 Chroma81 Adds Color to ZX81 - http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ZX81/Chroma/ChromaInterface.htm ZXpand, a combined SD card interface, 32K configurable memory expansion, and optional joystick port and AY sound interface Emulation XTender - https://web.archive.org/web/20141207130136/http://www.delhez.demon.nl/ EightyOne Current - https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/ Original - https://web.archive.org/web/20180320020429/http://www.chuntey.com ZEsarUX - https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases NO$Z81 - http://problemkaputt.de/zx.htm SZ81 Main site: http://sz81.sourceforge.net macOS - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnV5G0TZFZRTlJbzdWemtkRm8/view Spud81 - https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AM71r6k8oPHndJs&cid=4A4ECC65657FDA53&id=4A4ECC65657FDA53%21357&parId=root&action=locate Clock Signal - https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases JTYone - http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html jszeddy - http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/jszeddy/jszeddy.html iOS ZX81 - https://zx81-ios.weebly.com Other links mentioned by Kevin: http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ZX81/Chroma/ChromaInterface_Software_ZXFileConverter.htm http://problemkaputt.de/zxdocs.txt Community Facebook Keeping the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 Alive - https://www.facebook.com/groups/133345396703664/ Forums https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/index.php http://forum.tlienhard.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=2 (German) User Groups Timex Sinclair North American User Group - http://ncmedals.com/tsnug/index.html Current Web Sites Article in Kilobaud Microcomputing, Dec. 1980 - https://archive.org/stream/kilobaudmagazine-1980-12/Kilobaud_Microcomputing_1980_December#page/n169/mode/1up ZX-80 at Planet Sinclair - http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/zx80/zx80.htm ZX-80 at OldComputers.net - http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html Paul Farrow’s ZX-80 Software - http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ZX80/ ZX-80 at old-computers.com - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=262 Sinclair ZX81 FAQ - https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/8bits/zx81faq.html http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/index.html The Sinclair ZX81: As seen in Tezza's classic computer collection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KsuTg1qHIE Sell My Retro - https://www.sellmyretro.com/category/retro-computers/sinclair/sinclair-zx81 - has many ZX80/81 upgrades/replacement parts ZX81 Forever - http://zx81.de/andre/ ZX81 The Archive - http://www.imarshall.karoo.net/zx81/ References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
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In this episode, Trash Talkers Peter Cetinski and Ian Mavric welcome the Summer of 2018 (at least in the North) with a bunch of TRS-80 news and current events updates. We discuss the upcoming Tandy Assembly 2018, a new TRS-80 Model I diagnostics cartridge and do some eBay shopping. Then, we interview former Tandy Radio Shack employee Ken Brookner. Ken served in many roles at Tandy Radio Shack in Fort Worth, as he climbed the ladder in technical support, starting as a phone rep and ending up as director of the department.
The Sinclair ZX-80 Hello and welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast for May, 2018, where we remind everyone of the days when everyone knew how to program a computer, not just use it for social media. My name is Randy Kindig and I host this podcast. We are coming near the end of the computers to be covered on this podcast that were introduced at the beginning of the 8-bit era, when things really started to take off, that being the year 1980. This month, we will be talking about a limited, inexpensive, but definitely historically significant line of computers known as the Sinclair Z80, ZX81, and Timex Sinclair 1000 and 1500. I was very happy to get an old friend, and vintage computer podcasting legend, Earl Evans to help me host this episode. Earl does a great job of researching and discussing vintage computers and his help was great. In addition, I was able to get some members of the Sinclair ZX80/81 community to provide memories and to help provide information, as well as assisting with going through the topic of emulation. As a result, there turned out to be so much information to present that it turned into 2 episodes. So, this month we will cover the history of the ZX80 computer line and tech specs and next month we will cover the remaining topics such as peripherals, software, emulation, magazine & newsletters, Web sites and more. I’m also working on a special interview with someone key to the development of the ZX80 that I’m hoping will come to fruition. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions and What I’ve Been Up To VCF Southeast 6 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ Streaming video and audio on an Atari 8-bit (from Nir Dary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9RllBv1pg Michael Tomczyk interview on Floppy Days - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-70-michael-tomczyk-vic-20 Sofia RGB board for Atari 8-bit - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/258702-new-development-gtia-in-cpld/page-1 F18A (TI-99) - http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-8-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0 Upcoming Shows Pacific Commodore Expo NW - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex - June 9-10, Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ , July 17-22, 2018, Kansas City, Missouri VCF West - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ , August 4-5, 2018 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Commodore Vegas Expo v14 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12676 , Aug. 11-12, 2018, Las Vegas, NV VCF Midwest - http://www.vcfmw.org/ - September 15-16, 2018, Elk Grove Village, IL Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ - Oregon Convention Center on October 19-21, 2018 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com , Nov. 10-11, Springfield, OH TI International World’s Faire - http://ctiug.sdf.org/ - Nov. 10, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - https://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ - December, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Feedback Memotech MTX sites from Claus Baekkel www.mtxworld.dk http://www.nyangau.org/memotech/memotech.htm http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/mtx/mtx512.htm http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/cpm/cpm.htm Interview with Earl Evans Pi1541 - https://cbm-pi1541.firebaseapp.com/ History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: The artificial intelligence that acts as the hosts of the show laments the lack of Atari goodness this month. Nir Dary avails us of his world travels, this time to the ABBUC meeting. Plus all the Atari news we could find. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue What we’ve been up to Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://retrogamingexpo.com/ Ted Nelson Junk Mail project https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz Interview Discussion Stewart Cheifet interview with Atari content on Floppy Days Podcast - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-78-interview-with-stewart-chefeit-computer-chronicles News Atari 800xl clear case - https://www.facebook.com/groups/181644898539691/permalink/1480954711942030/ Retro-Housing on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Retro-Geh%C3%A4use-by-Plexilaserde-493569180811023 The Atari 800Xl Housing can be ordered here - http://www.plexilaser.de/shop/Acrylgehaeuse-fuer-ATARI-800XL-Teilesatz Revive 1027 - Roller Rubber Replacement for ATARI®1027 Printers - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/271589-revive1027-order-thread/ 1088XEL boards - http://AtariBits.Weebly.com/1088XEL.html ABBUC Hardware Contest 2017 - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/hardware-ressort/80-hardware/hardwarewettbewerbe/1835-hardwarewettbewerb-2017 Issue #4 of Eight Bit magazine highlights our favorite 8-bit home computer - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8bitmagazine/eight-bit-magazine-4-amstrad-atari-commodore-spect Eight Bit Magazine Website - http://www.eightbitmagazine.com/ Telnet65: Remote telnet connection for Atari computers - http://www.vintageisthenewold.com/telnet65-remote-telnet-connection-for-atari-computers/ 2018 Calendar with Atari 8-bit Theme - http://www.vintageisthenewold.com/2018-calendar-brought-you-by-atari-800xl/ Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): SillyVenture 2017, Fri, December 8, 5am – Sun, December 10, 1pm, Gdansk, Poland - http://sillyventure.eu/ Welcome to the official website "Silly Venture 2k17"! One of the biggest international events devoted to the platforms of our favorite brand - Atari - returns. Vintage computer fest Seattle Feb 10-11 2018, Living Computers: Museum + Labs - http://vcfed.org/wp/2017/07/07/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest/ International Atari Shows (Nir Dary) - https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=io8bv441r87ffratdj1ir2lggs@group.calendar.google.com&pli=1 YouTube videos this month Demonstration of the SYSCHEK V2.2 Hardware - Nir Dary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hht2tUoBSfc ATARI 800 XL XE Classic Edition Games from Poland - Nir Dary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pdnjZzIU4M Atari 800XL Numen Demo - Nir Dary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WcfLQX5xnc Hebrew ATARI XL Computer - Nir Dary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYnU0KEFsk Demo of MIDI player prototype for the Atari 8-bit - Nir Dary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8IV_fsTP5Y Also, see thread on AtariAge at http://atariage.com/forums/topic/269207-midi-interface/ ABBUC Atari Club Annual Meeting 2017 - Nir Dary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuVjysr5cgs RETRO=RICKY ATARI 130XE COMPILATION HALLOWEEN GAMES PART II 100617 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKkBlZ5-Bqw Atari 1088XEL Mini-ITX motherboard unboxing - Jonathan Halliday (FlashJazzCat) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hiXMQfsWY New at Archive.org Atari PILOT Eliza 2 Atari Cambridge Research Language Design meeting agenda LNBUG 2 Manual LNBUG 6.0 Manual Nir’s Segment - ABBUC 2017 Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuVjysr5cgs&t=52s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8IV_fsTP5Y Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
Episode 29 Show Notes -- http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-29.html
Episode 29 Show Notes -- http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-29.html
In this episode the Trash Talkers discuss what happened at the inaugural Tandy Assembly event on October 7th and 8th 2017. After that we do a little eBay shopping. Then, Peter Cetinski interviews Tandy engineer Mike Yetsko. Mike has quite a few interesting stories to tell about his time working at Tandy Radio Shack back in the day.
Episode 29 - The Tandy Assembly Post Show! We'll talk about everything that was happening this past weekend! On the show:Brendan Donahe, Brett Gordon, Ciaran Anscomb, David Ladd, George Philips, Grant Leighty, Jay Searle, John Linville, John Strong, John T. Robbs, L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Mike Rowen, Neil Blanchard, Nick Marentes, Paul Thayer, Retro Innovations (Jim Brain), Richard Lorbieski, Simon Jonassen, Steve Batson, Wallace Ron Delvaux (21 people, wow!) CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Regular segments:Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review:We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews:Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. NewbieTALK!Each week Grant Leighty will have the newbie question of the week about something to do with your color computer or emulator. TechTALK!L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions Ron's Garage!Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Original live stream video from YouTube: https://youtu.be/X3O-tiFh5Es
Tandy Talk! Tandy Assembly Podcasters Roundtable - October 7th, 2017 On the panel: Steve Strowbridge - host of CoCoTALK! Peter Bartlett - TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast Ian Mavrick - TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast Peter Cetinski - TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast Neil Blanchard - CoCo Crew Podcast John W. Linville - CoCo Crew Podcast Mike “MiRo” Rowen - CoCo Crew Podcast Segments: Introductions: Who we are, what show we’re on, and how/why we got started with TRS-80 and Tandy Computers Speaking with the attendees, what got you into TRS-80 and Tandy Computers, what got you to attend Tandy Assembly. Lots of great discussions about our favorite vintage computers. Links to the panel and podcasts: Ian Mavrick - The Right Stuff: http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/ Peter Bartlett - Bartlett Labs: http://bartlettlabs.com/ The Floppy Days Podcast: http://floppydays.libsyn.com/ The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://www.cococrew.org/ TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast: http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/ CoCoTALK! Podcast: http://cocotalk.live
Episode 28 is the Tandy Assembly Pre-Game show, this is the last live show before we're at Tandy Assembly next weekend, so we'll go over everything there is to discuss, play plenty of promo clips, and with some luck, be visited by some of the founders of the event. Tandy Assembly will be live streamed, and a special live edition of CoCoTALK! called TandyTALK! will take place Saturday evening, make sure you subscribe to the Tandy Assembly YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPyGtUzQU0Vf7CiSiJLySUg Tandy Assembly live stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzStXVBO9tU&feature=youtu.be On the show: Barry Nelson, Bill Nobel, Ciaran Anscomb, David Ladd, John Linville, John Strong, Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Nicholas Marentes, Retro Innovations (Jim Brain), Richard Lorbieski, Rick Adams, Ron Delvaux, Simon Jonassen, Steve Bjork, Grant Leighty Regular segments:Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review:We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews:Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. NewbieTALK!Each week Grant Leighty will have the newbie question of the week about something to do with your color computer or emulator. TechTALK!L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions Ron's Garage!Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Original Live Stream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/02BX5tURnIs
CoCoTALK! Episode 27 - the Ease of Use Episode! Original air date - 09-23-2017 On the show: John Strong, Richard Lorbieski, Barry Nelson, Bill Nobel, Curtis Boyle, David Ladd, Simon Jonassen, Rick Adams, Nicholas Marentes, Jim Brain from Retro Innovations, and D. Bruce More. John Strong filled us in on the status of his projects "Dr. CoCo" a Dr. Mario clone which will feature the Game Master Cartridge sound chip, as will "Handy Andy" a Wreck-It Ralph/Fix-It Felix Clone, along with some news of VCF Midwest. Barry Nelson brought us up to speed on Jim Brain's 2MB RAM upgrade which will go in-line with the CoCo GIME chip. Simon Jonassen has some killer demos with animation and music for the upcoming Tandy Assembly. Richard Lorbieski had a question about using the CoCoSDC with DriveWire and OS-9 which was our main TechTALK! and we were reminded of just how much "Ease of Use" OS-9 offers :) Jim Brain showed us a hardware project he tweaked based on David Ladd's design of a circuit board that allows you to use a PS/2 mouse on a CoCo. All this and more :) Regular segments: Introduce the panel of the week, go around the room, see what everyone's been up to. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. NewbieTALK! Each week Grant Leighty will have the newbie question of the week about something to do with your color computer or emulator. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm... Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Original live stream: https://youtu.be/rnvWVGpflRs
In this episode the Trash Talkers are joined by fellow podcasters from the Coco Crew Podcast, John Linville and Neil Blanchard. We present an in-depth preview of the inaugural Tandy Assembly event which is taking place on October 7 and 8. We also review the VCFMW 12 which took place in early September.
CoCoTALK #26 09-16-2017 Episode 26 - New CoCo games, assembly optimization, Simon's latest demo and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. For video and audio replays, visit http://imacoconut.com On the show: Ciaran Anscomb, D. Bruce Moore, Jacob Moore, David Ladd, Glen Hewlett, Grant Leighty, Jay Searle Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Paul Thayer, Richard Lorbieski, Ron Delvaux, Simon Jonassen, Wayne Campbell Ciaran Anscomb shared a cool CoCo/Dragon project with us, the Mooh memory and MPI board: http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5629 Paul Thayer shows us a sneak peek at a CoCo 3 game in development, Timberman, and talks about how Simon Jonassen helped him learn how to optimize assembly code. Glen Hewlett reminds us of his current blog posts about optimizing assembly programming. https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/optimizing-6809-assembly-code-part-1-quick-and-easy-changes-to-speedup-your-code/ Grant Leighty had the Newbie question of the week; which method of purchasing real CoCo hardware to each of us prefer? Richard Lorbieski talked about about the risks of purchasing TRS-80 "model X" machines via mail, and some services he'll offer at Tandy Assembly. Ron Delvaux treated us to an extended version of Ron's Garage including a Tandy Hard Drive controller, and lots of cool magazines and manuals. Simon Jonassen showed us his latest demo with 2-voice music, and plasma animation. Wayne Campbell gave us a peek at how to use BASIC09 to use different routines, loops, goSUBS and goTOs, which was pretty cool. All this and more! Original live stream: https://youtu.be/ZFb2-iRcw5I For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live For all things CoCo, visit http://imacoconut.com For RetroSWAG! visit http://8bit256.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
CoCoTALK! #25 09-09-2017 CoCoTALK! Episode #25 - The Hurricane Irma edition! People on the show and items discussed: John W. Linville - Host of the CoCoCREW! POD Cast. Glen Hewlett interview on CoCoCREW!, Hack-A-Day project mention Bill Nobel: Full Source Code for the Ribbs BBS for OS9, v2.03. The "original" Three Musketeers of NitrOS9, Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel & Wes Gail. John W. Linville: Another Mashup of The CoCoCrew! and Trash Talk.. Pending Interview with Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel & Wes Gail. Rick Adams' Bomb Threat cartridges for Tandy Assemble, 24 Units. ohn W. Linville: Facebook post with Bomb Threat cartridge, art by Joel Adams. John W. Linville: Retrochallenge 2017/10, http://www.retrochallenge.org Bruce Moore: Found an Easter Egg in OS9.. William Schaub: Wanting to start learning 6809 Assembly Language. Ron Delvaux's OS9 Group: Remembering OS9 on the CoCo. OS9 Easter Eggs. CoCo 3 Easter Egg. CoCopedia: Allen Huffman's http://www.cocopedia.com OS9 History by Bill Peirce. OS9 Resources ( Manuals ) on the OS9 Group. Different versions of the Color BASIC Manuals. Ron Delvaux's Garage: Four Videos of CoCos and CoCoSDC with a "real" Floppy. CoCo Mail List: https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco William Schaub: Background with the CoCo. William Schaub: First Assembly Language program. Grant Leighty's Newbie Talk: CoCo Pi, What is It, and How does it Work? Curtis Boyle and David Ladd with Tech Talk: Barry Nelson, Cave Walker for OS9 on NitrOS9 L2. Tandy Assembly check in: http://www.tandyassembly.com/. BREAKING NEWS: CoCo List, Toolshed v2.2 just released, HDB-DOS v1.5 just released. CoCo Mailing List: Overview of contents CoCo Sources of Information: Facebook, CoCo List, IRC, CoCoTALK! on Skype and Discord, Yahoo Group, and Fido-Net. CoCo Retro Pi: Dual DriveWire Servers with One shared Image to Exchange Files. CoCo to Drivewire cable. Two different Cable Designs... Which one is Correct?? Mark D. Overholser: Drivewire cable design, http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_DriveWire#The_DriveWire_Cable William Schaub: Windows File Sharing or WinSCP for Disk Sharing. Links: Original livestream: https://youtu.be/-2gv7Unfkr4 CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #24 09-02-2017 Episode 24 - Oz K-Fest - Forrest of Doom trailer 2 - new OS-9 commercial and more! 09-02-2017 Episode 24 treated us to a peek down under to an Apple II event in Australia called Oz K-Fest which was a weekend event dedicated to the early Apple line of computers. Our foreign correspondent Nick Marentes gave us an inside view of what the Australian Apple community are up to these days, and the projects are impressive! We also got to see the world premier of the Forest of Doom trailer 2, and a brand new commercial for OS-9! This along with some regular segments like Ron’s Garage, TechTALK! And NewbieTALK! And the latest look at what’s scheduled for Tandy Assembly. I think we covered a lot of CoCo this week :) On the show: Mark Overholser Bill Nobel Bruce and Jacob Moore David Ladd Grant Leighty Curtis Boyle Ciaran Anscomb Ron Delvaux Mike Rowen aka MiRo Boisey Pietre Nick Marentes Hugo Duffort Richard Lorbieski Barry Nelson Richard Chrislip Links: Original livestream: https://youtu.be/ntWHjMfzRuc CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #23 08-26-2017 Episode 23 - Floppy TALK! and other hardware goodies with a few special guests! Episode 23 features all kind of hardware discussions, too many to list, you'll just have to watch and listen. The show: Special guest Host, of the Retro VGM Revival Hour Podcast, Edgar Valasco. https://www.youtube.com/c/NostalgiaRoadTripChannel Ron's Garage : The Printer Video and POD Cast Statistics Ron's Garage : CoCo 1. Simon Jonassen - Vector Graphics Bruce Moore - Pheonix IDE by Roger Taylor OS-9 Bashing Grant's Newbie Talk: Joy Sticks David's Tech Talk aka FloppTALK! John Turner Jr's Hardware "dump" Tandy Assembly Web Site check in Ciaran's Xroar Cassette Woes MAME Fixes and DreamHost DDOS Outage Nick Marentes Check In: Prep for Apple ][ Oz Fest.. Richard's Boot Disk Hints CoCoTALK! Team Accolades Simon Jonassen Vector Demo Jim Brain's tour of John Turner Jr's Hardware "dump" John Turner Jr's Hardware "dump": More to Come!!!! Steve Bjork Plug http://haunthackers.com/ http://www.nutsvolts.com/ Ron's Garage now has a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/487282281640389/ Jim Brain from Retro Innovations was here to help us interpret some of the circuit board designs that were released to the public today and announced in a CoCo mailing list post: https://pairlist5.pair.net/pipermail/coco/2017-August/162607.html Links: Original livestream: https://youtu.be/Ni9HNcLc7kI CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
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CoCoTALK #20 08-05-2017 Episode 20 - Community Chat - Ron's Garage - Forest of Doom teaser CoCoTALK turns 20 episodes old today and we're celebrating! The topic is CoCo Community Chat, and all members of the CoCo Community are encouraged and invited to join us in the Skype call and become part of the discussion, to do so, you need to add ogStevieStrow as a Skype contact, and then call him directly. A new segment has been created, Ron's Garage, where Ron Delvaux shows us some of his amazing retro computer collection, this will be a recurring feature. We were also treated to the world premier of the teaser clip for Forest of Doom by Bruce More! Check out the blog at http://coco.gracenote.ca/ We also got to see and hear a sneak peek at the new 4-channel music and sound generator that Nick Marentes is developing to put into his new CoCo 3 game Gun Star! On the Show Mark Overholser David Ladd Ron Delvaux Richard Lorbieski Simon Jonassen Richard Cavell Wayne Campbell Curtis Boyle Nick Marentes Ciaran Anscomb Bruce Moore Grant Leighty Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/aZ8bYHjYyDY CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #19 07-29-2017 Episode 19 - CoCo Hardware! Retro Innovations and CoCo on a Chip! CoCo TALK is the nation's leading live talk show about the Tandy Color Computer, never mind that it's the only one. In Episode 19 we'll dive into CoCo Hardware. We'll hear and see from Jim Brain from Retro Innovations on what it takes to develop and produce hardware projects for the Color Computer, and we'll discuss "hardware emulation" platforms such as the CoCo FPGA and Roger Taylor's "CoCo on a Chip" and see a live demonstration on what these new CoCo hardware platforms look like, with a presentation by Bill Nobel. Jim Brain's Retro Innovations: http://go4retro.com CoCo on a Chip Nano links: https://www.youtube.com/user/cocotower/featured http://www.cococommunity.net/coco-downloads/ http://www.cococommunity.net/cyclone-coco-registers/ http://www.cococommunity.net/how-to-build-your-own-coco-4/ http://subethasoftware.com/2017/03/19/getting-started-with-roger-taylors-coco-on-a-chip-fpga-coco-3/ https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/ceSc9Iyt On the Call: Jim Brain Bill Nobel Mark Overholser David Ladd Nick Marentes Richard Lorbieski John Mark Mobley Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/FLd6BgoUdGg CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #21 08-12-2017 Episode 21 - Podcast announcement, Ron's retro video, Grant's newbie questions, David's tech corner, and more! This week we announce that previous episodes of CoCoTALK! can now also be listened to as an audio podcast! Visit http://cocotalk.live for all things CoCoTALK! We hear from the real Neil Brookins, who is not an imposter! Rons Garage: A look at the amazing retro computer collection from Ron Delvaux Newbie question of the week from Grant Leighty Tech discussions with David Ladd, Curtis Boyle and others Tandy Assembly, and more! On the call: Curtis Boyle Richard Cavell Ciaran Anscomb Nick Marentes John Strong Mark Overholser Grant Leighty David Ladd Ron Delvaux Simon Jonassen John Strong Neil Brookins Barry Nelson Richard Lorbieski Bill Nobel Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/FnzaO8xAeZM CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #22 08-19-2017 Episode 22 - Nick Marentes Pac-Man 1.1 - Basic09 and more! Nick Marentes Pac-Man update 1.1 http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/ProjectArchive/pacman.html Bruce Moore will show as a peek at BASIC09 Rons Garage: A look at the amazing retro computer collection from Ron Delvaux Newbie question of the week from Grant Leighty Tech discussions with David Ladd, Curtis Boyle and others Tandy Assembly, and more! On the show: Nick Marentes Bruce Moore David Ladd Mark Overholser Ron Delvaux Curtis Boyle Richard Lorbieski Rick Adams Links: Original livestream part 1: https://youtu.be/1rzSq0lGQ3o Original livestream part 2: https://youtu.be/_cN2uZjgQ5w CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #18 07-22-2017 Episode 18 - An introduction to OS-9 and NitrOS-9 We are about to make history, as the first official presentation of OS-9 will happen today on CoCo TALK #18. We'll talk a look at Microware's OS-9 Level I and II and then jump into the current version known as Nitro OS-9 or just NitrOS-9 for short. Download OS-9 Level 1 v2.01: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Operating%20Systems/OS-9%20Level%201%20v2.01%20(Tandy).zip Download OS-9 Level 2 v2.00: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Operating%20Systems/OS-9%20Level%202%20v2.00%20(Tandy).zip NitrOS-9 homepage: http://www.nitros9.org/battle.html On the Call: Mark Overholser Curtis Boyle David Ladd Richard Lorbieski Richard Cavell Simon Jonassen Grant Leighty Barry Nelson Nick Marentes Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/XP0iDTS0GTg CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #17 July 15, 2017 Episode 17 - The World Premiere of Rick Adams' Bomb Threat! The game that almost wasn't now is, and Rick Adams will talk about the history of this game, and how it's finally seeing the light of day! Behold, for the first time ever, Bomb Threat for the Tandy Color Computer, originally created in 1984, lost in the sands of time, and faithfully recreated by Rick Himself using the assistance of modern technology. Check out more of Rick Adams at http://rickadams.org On the show: Rick Adams Mark Overholser Richard Cavell Bill Nobel Curtis Boyle Jay Searle Richard Lorbieski Ciaran Anscomb Nick Marentes Grant Leighty Links: Dyno Sprite: https://github.com/richard42/dynosprite Original live stream: https://youtu.be/HjiGd86zxNQ CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #12 06-11-217 Episode 12 - Setting up MAME to be a CoCo - Hotel Elevator Man, project updates, random talk, and more! We are back for CoCo TALK #12 the nation's leading (and only) live weekly talk show about the Tandy Color Computer! We'll talk about and demonstrate how to configure MAME to run as a Color Computer Emulator http://mamedev.org/release.html Which will require ROMS from the Color Computer Archive: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/ROMs/MESS/ We'll talk about Nick Marentes' latest blog post for his game in development Gun Star http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/Gunstar/03.html Take a look at Glen Hewlett's latest YouTube video showing his Pac-Man port to the coco compared to the real game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjF21Vou4M&feature=youtu.be Perhaps discuss our "favorite" or the "best" and "worst" CoCo emulators (all subject to individual opinion), and whatever else comes up! On the Show: Barry Nelson Richard Cavell Bill Nobel Curtis Boyle John Strong David Ladd Richard Lorbieski Paul Thayer John T. Robbs Rick Adams Nick Marentes Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/x15fcSBAn5o CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #13 06-17-2016 Episode 13 - Jim Gerrie Goodies - Surprise guests Steve Bjork and Neil Brookings! This week on CoCo TALK let's talk about: Jim Gerrie's Goodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBnbsv3fA8&list=UUUtXDjPX3EbKaByo5MeFlYg Jim Gerrie makes tons of games for the MC-10 and for the CoCo, let's look at some of the latest ones. We had an unexpected visit from Steve Bjork, and heard some great stories and insight into a ton of things, too many to mention, you'll just have to listen. Neil Brookings, aka Neil Blanchard from the CoCo Crew Podcast stopped by, too, and we talked about Tandy Assembly updates, and more! On the show: Mark Overholser Nick Marentes David Ladd Curtis Boyle John Strong Glen Hewlett Bill Nobel Steve Bjork Barry Nelson Neil Blanchard Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/dBGA_0scmjk CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #14 06-24-2017 Episode 14 - Media Players - Dunjunz - Xroar and more! This week we'll talk about Ed Snider's Media Player for the CoCo. We'll also talk with Ciaran Anscomb, the author of Xroar, a fine CoCo and Dragon emulator, and look at his current project, a port of DunJunz! Check out the Dunjunz blog here: http://www.6809.org.uk/dev/dunjunz/ Check out Xroar here: http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ Check out Ed Snider's Zipster Zone: https://sites.google.com/site/thezippsterzone/home On the call: Fedor Steeman Richard Cavell Bill Nobel Mark Overholser David Ladd Curtis Boyle Nick Marentes Bruce Moore Ed Snider Simon Jonassen Wayne Campbell Ciaran Anscomb Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/oqLx8LoFEOs CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #15 07-01-2017 Episode 15 - Pac-Man Transcoded to the CoCo 3 - CoCo Crew Podcast and more! This week's CoCo TALK will include the world premiere of Glen Hewlett's adaptation of the original Pac-Man arcade system to the Tandy Color Computer 3. We'll get the first look at the completed game in action, the user manual, and the links to download the game. We'll also listen to the latest episode of the CoCo Crew Podcast, and who knows what else! Glen Hewlett's Blog: https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/zilog-z80-to-motorola-6809-transcode-part-001/ Download Pac-Man: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=76795763136641545801 Listen to the CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org On the call: Glen Hewlett Curtis Boyle Fedor Steeman Bruce More Nick Marentes Ciaran Anscomb Mark Overholser Steve Bamford Simon Jonassen Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/fwYwI94PQuo CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
CoCoTALK #16 07-08-2017 Episode 16 - MESSUI tweaks for CoCo emulation, MAME and MESS debugging tutorial We are on week 16 of CoCo TALK, and this week, we have a new speaker to join us, Jay Searle will show us some cool tips, tricks and tweaks on using the MESSUI for CoCo specific emulation. He'll also show us how to use the MAME and MESS debugger to aid in software development via emulators. This, and a whole lot of other CoCo TALK from our panel and viewers. MAME download: http://www.mamedev.org/release.html MESS UI download: http://messui.1emulation.com/ On the show: Jay Searle Curtis Boyle Richard Cavell Mark Overholser David Ladd Bill Nobel Simon Jonassen Rick Adams Grant Leighty Nick Marentes Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/B4KU8PJuTog CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
Live interview with Tim Lindner on the emulation of the Tandy Speech Sound Cartridge in MAME Original air date: June 4th 2017 Link to livestream replay: https://youtu.be/X1CMs1tqyhg Today we will talk with Tim Lindner about his announcement this week on the Tandy Speech and Sound Cartridge being emulated in the latest release of MAME 0.187. We will see and hear first hand this amazing accomplishment, and hear first hand, from Tim Q&A about the speech pak and it's emulation Compiling MAME important commands using the debugger. Please join us to celebrate a crowning achievement in CoCo History! Check out Tim's Blog: http://tlindner.macmess.org/ On the show: Tim Linder Ron Klein Bill Nobel Richard Lorbieski Nick Marentes Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/Of_t4IGHRMk CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 11: 06-03-2017 CoCoTALK #11 - Speech/Sound pack emulation, Creating CoCo Cartridges, Podcast Review, Assembly vs. Machine Code and more! We are back for CoCo Talk #11 the nation's leading live talk show about the Tandy Color Computer! This week's hot topics? - How about the Speech and Sound Pack being emulated to MAME! - To cart or not to cart, the pros and cons of putting a CoCo game on a cartridge, and the market for it - CoCo Crew Podcast #24 review discussion - Latest line up for Tandy Assembly - Machine code vs Assembly And, whatever else our panel and viewers wish to discuss. On the show: Nick Marentes David Ladd John Strong Bruce Moore Richard Lorbieski Curtis Boyle Bill Nobel Barry Nelson Richard Cavell Fedor Steeman Ron Klein Richard Crislip Rick Adams Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/Of_t4IGHRMk CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 10: 05-27-2017 CoCoTALK #10 - What is your favorite CoCo game? - Hardware discussions, and more! We are back for CoCo TALK #10 and this week, the primary topic is What is your favorite Color Computer Game? We'll talk CoCo games, what's our favorite, what we liked about that game, tips/tricks, etc. We may even play a few games live, on-demand. We will also talk about CoCo hardware, CoCo motherboard versions, serial numbers, you name it! On the show: Nick Marentes Curtis Boyle Barry Nelson Bruce More Richard Lorbieski Mark Overholser David Ladd Grant Leighty Richard Cavell Fedor Steeman John Linville John Strong Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/oaw191h0Vtk CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 09: 05-20-2017 DriveWire on VCC, project updates, Pac-Man port video and more! This week on CoCo TALK we have a nice array of topics to discuss and demonstrate, along with whatever else the panel and viewers wish to discuss. On the agenda: Setting up DriveWire to work with VCC: https://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/?source=typ_redirect Review the latest blog entry from Nick Marentes' Gun Star game in development: http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/Gunstar/index.html Review Hugo Dufort’s blog with sample videos of his current platform game in development: https://coco3game.wordpress.com/ Check out the latest progress with a YouTube video clip of Glen Hewlett's Pac-Man port: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmk08UkA3E&feature=youtu.be Review topics and comments from the CoCo Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/ On the show: Nick Marentes Rick Adams Bill Nobel Barry Nelson Steve Noskowitz Richard Lorbieski Curtis Boyle David Ladd John Strong Neil Blanchard Richard Cavell Glen Hewlett Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/u8PAR1ggLew CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 08: 05-13-2017 CoCo Sprites, Embarrassing moments, has hardware gone too far? We are back for the 8th CoCo TALK featuring a bunch of old guys talking about an old computer, what's more exciting than that? This week we'll talk about some topics that have been around the web, between the CoCo mailing list and the CoCo Facebook group, there's never a shortage of discussions to weigh in on. Compiled sprites, what's your most embarrassing moment? Have we gone "too far" with hardware upgrades? All these topics and more! On the show: Nick Marentes Rick Adams Bill Nobel Grant Leighty Richard Cavell Mark Overholser David Ladd John Strong Bruce More Richard Lorbieski Barry Nelson Simon Jonassen Hugo Dufort Glen Hewlett Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/sHXdXDsf3a8 CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! website http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com Glen Hewlett’s blog: https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/zilog-z80-to-motorola-6809-transcode-part-001/
Episode 06: 04-30-2017 CoCoFEST! Wrap-up show We are back for episode 6 of CoCo TALK! The weekly live talk show about the Tandy Color Computer. This week we are going to talk about The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST! Which took place last weekend in Lombard, IL. We'll speak with some of the people who were there, some who watched it live, and some who couldn't make it. We'll also talk about the next geek outing, Tandy Assembly, which takes place in October, in Ohio, and it's about all Tandy based computers. On the show: Nick Marentes Curtis Boyle David Ladd Neil Blancard Bruce More Mark Overholser Rick Adams Brett Gordon Steve Noskowitz John Linville Simon Jonassen John Strong Grant Leighty Links: Original live stream: https://youtu.be/RaIxLmUfutI You can visit CoCoTALK! on the web http://cocotalk.live/ Check out the CoCo Crew Podcast http://cococrew.org/ Check out Sub-Etha software http://subethasoftware.com/ Check out Curtis Boyle's CoCo Games List website http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html Check out the Color Computer Links page for all things CoCo http://imacoconut.com/ Official CoCoTALK! merchandise and retro swag http://8bit256.com/ Glenside Color Computer Club host of CoCoFEST! http://www.glensideccc.com/ Nick Marentes project blog site: http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/ProjectArchive/ Gun Star blog: http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/Gunstar/index.html Strongware web site: http://strongware.net/ Brett Gordon’s blog: https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ Bruce Moore’s blog: http://coco.gracenote.ca/
Originally aired 01-10-2016 on YouTube L. Curtis Boyle is the host of the Color Computer Games List website, a great resource btw, and one of the co-developers of the NitrOS9 operating system for the CoCo. Curtis and I met through comments he would leave on my YouTube CoCo gameplay videos, which led me to his web site, which led to this, my first interview with a member of the Color Computer community. Curtis has become an integral part of what I do on YouTube, and has assisted me with many game play videos, as well as help implement our now legendary lineup of interviews with Color Computer developers. The original interview that aired on YouTube was edited to remove almost 10 minutes of content, so here, as a CoCoTALK! Exclusive, you’ll hear the original un-edited interview, in it’s entirety. Links: The original live stream: https://youtu.be/qhaz1RPsJKk You can visit CoCoTALK! on the web http://cocotalk.live/ Check out the CoCo Crew Podcast http://cococrew.org/ Check out Curtis Boyle's CoCo Games List website http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html Color Computer Links page: http://imacoconut.com/ Official CoCoTALK! merchandise and retro swag http://8bit256.com/ Glenside Color Computer Club host of CoCoFEST! http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 03: 04-02-217 John Strong from Strongware shows off projects and development tools On the show: Mark Overholser John W. Linville John Strong David Ladd Kipp Coon Hugo Durort Curtis Boyle Rick Adams Jim Brain Barry Nelson We had a bunch of people on the show and we talked about a lot of things, but the highlight was having John Strong talk about his hardware and software projects as well as show off some of his game creation tools. To see what John was talking about watch the YouTube replay. Links: The original live stream: https://youtu.be/7zo7wIE4kZg You can visit CoCoTALK! on the web http://cocotalk.live/ Check out the CoCo Crew Podcast http://cococrew.org/ Check out Curtis Boyle's CoCo Games List website http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html Color Computer Links page: http://imacoconut.com/ Strongware web site: http://strongware.net/ Hugo’s project blog: https://coco3game.wordpress.com/ Jim Brain’s Retro Innovations: http://www.go4retro.com/ Official CoCoTALK! merchandise and retro swag http://8bit256.com/ Glenside Color Computer Club host of CoCoFEST! http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 04: 04-08-2017 CoCo Community Discussions On the show: Nick Marentes Bill Nobel John Strong Brett Gordon Sock Master John Kowalski Curtis Boyle John Linville Barry Nelson David Ladd Mike Rowen aka MiRo Simen Jonassen The topic was focussed on the Color Computer Community and what it’s like to be a member of it. Our community consists of people from every end of the technical spectrum, from the uber elite hardware and software engineers to the casual fans who just love the machine. Links: The original live stream: https://youtu.be/XMQfBiGSWSI You can visit CoCoTALK! on the web http://cocotalk.live/ Check out the CoCo Crew Podcast http://cococrew.org/ Sock Master’s project site: http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/ Brett Gordon’s blog: https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ Curtis Boyle's CoCo Games List website http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html Color Computer Links page: http://imacoconut.com/ Strongware web site: http://strongware.net/ Official CoCoTALK! merchandise and retro swag http://8bit256.com/ Glenside Color Computer Club host of CoCoFEST! http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly http://tandyassembly.com
Episode 05: 04-15-2017 Easter Edition - 1 week to CoCoFEST! - merch, emulators, games and more - 04-15-2017 On the show: Nick Marentes Curtis Boyle Bill Nobel Mark Overholser Rick Adams Richard E. Crislip John W. Linville Barry Nelson Links: Original Live stream: https://youtu.be/OT-BsMkwDyk You can visit CoCoTALK! on the web http://cocotalk.live/ Check out the CoCo Crew Podcast http://cococrew.org/ Curtis Boyle's CoCo Games List website http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html Color Computer Links page: http://imacoconut.com/ Strongware web site: http://strongware.net/ Official CoCoTALK! merchandise and retro swag http://8bit256.com/ Glenside Color Computer Club host of CoCoFEST! http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly http://tandyassembly.com This is the last live CoCo TALK before CoCoFEST! so YEA, we're excited! What do I think we're going to talk about? The VCC emulator discussions The "I've never played a CoCo game/What's your favorite CoCo game" discussion Reviewing the CoCoFEST exhibitor Floor Chart sent out by Tony Podraza Review the latest list of attendees, events and exhibitors from the Glenside CoCoFEST! page I will show off my new I'm A CoCO nut T-Shirt and coffee mugs that I'll also bring to show at CoCoFEST! And, whatever the people on the Skype call want to talk about, project updates, etc.
Welcome to CoCoTALK! The nation’s leading weekly talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer! CoCoTALK! Is a weekly live stream on YouTube and is a combination Skype call and live chat program, with a rotating cast of members of the Color Computer/Retro computing community. The show was inspired by the CoCo Crew Podcast, our love for the Color Computer, and our anticipation of the 27th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST! Which took place in April of 2017. The Show ran for 5 weeks leading up to CoCoFEST! CoCoFEST was also live streamed, and we had a wrap up show the week after. I didn’t think the show would keep the same momentum after CoCoFEST! But as I write this, we’ve been going 20 weeks strong, the shows get longer and better, and the viewership continues to grow. Hearing how good the CoCo Crew Podcast does in audio format with over 1,000 downloads each month, we’ve decided to convert previous episodes into podcasts to extend the program to a new audience of listeners, who we hope, will also become viewers, the charm and appeal of CoCoTALK! Is that it’s a live program that you can join via Skype or text chat. Look for audio replays of each episode here in podcast format, and long live the CoCo! Links of importance: CoCoTALK! On the web: http://cocotalk.live CoCoTALK! On YouTube: http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://cococrew.org CoCoFEST! On the web: http://www.glensideccc.com/ Tandy Assembly: http://tandyassembly.com Merchandise/Retro Swag: http://8bit256.com OG Stevie Strow’s site: http://ogsteviestrow.com
In this episode the Trash Talkers are back from summer vacation to wish the TRS-80 a happy 40th birthday. In the first segment, we talk about Tandy Assembly, VCFMW, TRS-XENIX, the Tandy 3, PC-1 and the Network 4. In the second segment, Randy Kindig interviews trs-80.com's Ira Goldklang.
We start this episode with the news and current event segment where we first discuss the Vintage Computer Festival East 2017 and the winning TRS-80 exhibit. We also talk about Tandy Assembly. Then, we talk about two new TRS-80 software projects that were recently released: TRSVID, a TRS-80 video player and Sharp-80, a new Model III emulator. Following that is an obituary for Bernie Appel, aka ''Mr. Radio Shack''. Then, we talk about the Line Printer I and the Quick Printer II printers a bit. The middle segment has some floor interviews from VCFE. The third and final segment is an interview with TRS-80 software developer George Phillips where we discuss how he developed TRSVID.
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