Retro Computing Roundtable / RCR Episode 270: Time Zero

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: 1970 In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared. Topic/Feedback links: Retro Computing News: Vintage Computer(-related) commercials: Retro Computing Gift Idea: Auction Picks: A2Stream file: Feedback/Discussion: Intro … Continue reading RCR Episode 270: Time Zero →

Summary

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: 1970 In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared. Topic/Feedback links: Retro Computing News: Vintage Computer(-related) commercials: Retro Computing Gift Idea: Auction Picks: A2Stream file: Feedback/Discussion: Intro … Continue reading RCR Episode 270: Time Zero →

Subtitle: Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: 1970 In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared.
Duration: 2:01:56
Publishing date: 2024-04-07 15:56
Link: https://rcrpodcast.com/2024/04/07/rcr-episode-270-time-zero/
Contributors: Retro Computing Roundtable; author
Enclosures: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/eb149a7a-044d-4f7f-b989-286a0b7cd29b/rcr270.mp3; audio/mpeg

Shownotes

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

Topic: 1970

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

Topic/Feedback links:

Recollections about the development of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)
The evolution of Forth (forth.com)
Shakey the Robot (YouTube)
75 years of innovation: Shakey the Robot (SRI)
conways game of life (Google search)
Martin Gardner’s Scientific American article (Scientific American, Oct 1970)
DRAM (Wikipedia)
Aquarius+ (GitHub)
Aquarius+ (AtariAge)
The current state of the Aquarius computer (YouTube, VCF West 2023)

Retro Computing News:

UTM
Adrian Black becomes a full-time retro content creator
WiFi Retromodem V3
ThinkPad 701C
Restoring the 701C butterfly laptop (YouTube)
IBM ThinkPad 701C “butterfly” keyboard (YouTube)
Tezza Stewart is back! (YouTube)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

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

Auction Picks:

Carrington:
Earl:
- C64/V20 keyboard cover
Paul:
- Tandy 200 with a black screen
- Apple Interactive Television Box (original auction gone now, different one)
- iMac VGA-revealing cover
  - See also: iMac G3 description (mac27.net)
- Computer Napoleonics (SSI)
  - See also: Computer Napoleonics (Paul’s, on archive.org)
- BBC Micro, US version, sort of
  - See also: BBC Micro B US (Chris’ Acorns, Computing History)
- AC-3 in its box (Radio Shack acoustic coupler)
- The Controller in its box

A2Stream file:

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

Feedback/Discussion:

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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