RCR Episode 270: Time Zero

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: US Robotics (1997) US Robotics X2 (with Woz) Hayes: Say Yes to the Future Retro Computing Gift Idea: EOR #$FF (David Youd) EOR #$FF on archive.org Auction Picks: Carrington: Toaster Mac cotton dust cover C64 canvas dust cover Embarrassed by your Amstrad? 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: [email protected] on Mastodon Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download: