RCR Episode 245: End of line

Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Michael Mulhern, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: End of line

To the extent that you have physical objects, intellectual properties, accounts that host archives, what kind of plans do you have for when you are (possibly unexpectedly) no longer around? Or, what kind of plans do you plan to have? What kind of considerations are there? Does anyone but you in your local real-life circle know what the stuff is, who to talk to, how to access things?

Topic/Feedback links:

• Open Apple #81: Remembering Tony Diaz
• Atari 8-bit port of Prince of Persia
• Prince of Persia Source Code: Saved (Tony Diaz, KansasFest 2012)

Retro Computing News:

• Call For Yellowstone Beta Testers
• Apple VideoPad 2 prototype sells at auction
• TNMOC, 40th anniversary of the BBC Micro. Nov 30
• 217: THE VERTICAL PLANE PART 1 (Astonishing Legends podcast)
• The 100MHz 6502
• MCLFast : Apple II as a shield
• ’80s software was expensive

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• Polaroid Swinger (1965)
• Sinclair calculators at DG Leisure Centre

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppy Disk costume

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • Dynex Exerciser DE-5020
  • See also: Dynex series 600 disk drive manual
  • CSC Hard Drive Bible 7th edition
  • See also: Hard Drive Bible 8th edition on archive.org
• Carrington:
  • Commodore 64 on MaxSold
  • Big Swinger camera
• Michael:
  • NatGeo on CD
• Paul:
  • Multicolored C64 keyboard
  • See also: Darth Skalmar’s Retro Garage
  • Apple II series WillMaker
  • Sinclair Cambridge calculator kit

Feedback/Discussion:

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

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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