Retrocomputing Roundtable #287 will be recorded here at 4pm eastern North American time. Likqt7uoWyYIcQrom this posting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt7uoWyYIcQ — 1987!

Retrocomputing Roundtable #286 will be recorded here at 4pm eastern North American time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utxtb-gC8XY — join us as we try to think of something momentous that happened in 1986.

RCR episode #285: You'll Have Mail. In 1985, the Amiga arrived, NeXT was founded, Quantum Computer Services began its journey to becoming AOL. We also talk INIT HELLO and System Source, ZX-Spectrum clones, MIDI, and more! https://rcrpodcast.com/2025/06/04/rcr-episode-285-youll-have-mail/

Hmm. Bandwidth on lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com spiked in April and it's not relenting. (Over 1TB a month now, was under the 100GB free threshold before April). Must be some rogue auto-downloader, but these bandwidth costs are unsustainable. Will need to turn off lofi/a2stream downloads and assess options.

RCR episode #284: Hammer time. In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh and the Apple //c, IBM introduced the PCjr, HP introduced the LaserJet, FidoNet began distributing mail. 🌮 https://rcrpodcast.com/2025/05/26/rcr-episode-284-hammer-time/

RCR episode #283: A STRANGE GAME. In 1983, the era of it being always DNS began. From Atari, the XL; from Apple, the Lisa, ImageWriter, and //e; from Radio Shack, the Model 100; from Lotus, 1-2-3; from David Lightman, wardialing. https://rcrpodcast.com/2025/05/23/rcr-episode-283-a-strange-game/

This week's interview! Mary Eisenhart was editor of MicroTimes, a free, advertising-supported magazine in California. The first issue was May 1984, and Mary remained at the magazine until 1998, producing more than 180 issues. They're available on Internet Archive now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysXRGhQf0s

When Mary left MicroTimes, she took with her a copy or two of every issue, which years later were scanned by Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/microtimes?sort=date

You should donate to Internet Archive https://archive.org/donate/ or at least support my Patreon for creating these interviews :) https://www.patreon.com/savetz

RCR episode #282: End of Line. Kick back and relaaax with us as we toast the highlights of 1982, including Tron, WarGames, C64, Vectrex, Choplifter, Pitfall!, The Computer Programme. https://rcrpodcast.com/2025/05/23/rcr-episode-282-end-of-line/

Episode 285 will be recorded here in a little over an hour, 4pm eastern NA time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWrjexRxlA — Amiga, NeXT, Windows 1.0, Brazil. Join us, (still) preoccupied with 1985.

We'll be recording episode 284 here in about 20 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUrwbyG0dx0

RCR Episode #281: The IBM PC and its sticks of ennui. In 1981, we got the BBC Micro, ABC 800, ZX-81. And IBM PC, but not for games! We communicated with Kermit and AT commands. Also, Atari ST Notebook, a woven Pentium, and SF's Muni ditches floppies. https://rcrpodcast.com/2025/01/26/rcr-episode-281-the-ibm-pc-and-its-sticks-of-ennui/

…and a lot of space? Didn’t see a ton of stuff in here that’s of much personal interest but maybe for someone out there. https://oldbytes.space/@Option8/113748302881455910

RCR Episode #280: Cheap home computers. In 1980, Commodore introduced the VIC-20, Sinclair introduced the ZX80, Tandy introduced the Color Computer, and HP tried to breed a computer out of calculators. Also other things happened. Which we discuss! https://rcrpodcast.com/2024/12/30/rcr-episode-280-cheap-home-computers/

RCR Episode #279: A spree de Calc. In 1979, VisiCalc’s rampage began, and models 400, 800 (Atari), II (TRS-80), and 4 (TI 99) arrived. Also, Unicode news, more found lost Warhol art, Model 100 games, and the loneliness of Intellivision. https://rcrpodcast.com/2024/12/27/rcr-episode-279-a-spree-de-calc/

As our game of "what were the retrocomputing events/objects from the year 1700+${epnum}?" continues, we have reached 1983. But there are just so many things in the retrocomputing space originating in 1983 that to address them all seems kind of hopeless. One might be tempted to conclude that the only winning move is not to play.

Recording today at 4pm eastern NA time, (1734901200 unix time) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZGNeQkGAoI

This is great. A Stereogram 3D rendering in Apple II RPG fashion done by Lee Fastenau, that I spotted on Fb.

As he says, "only the truly enlightened will see the image..."

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162885793855799

#AppleII #Stereogram #Ultima #RPG #image #tileset #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #clever #3D

Retrocomputing Roundtable episode 282 will be recorded today, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSAHiU_gbM — at whatever local time corresponds to 4pm eastern North American time. We shall discuss some of the highlights of 1982, among other things. Join us!

The Retrocomputing Roundtable now has a Bluesky account too. Likely mostly redundant with this account here (any kind of announcements will go both places). But, hey, we're all about the shiny newfangled technology trends. https://bsky.app/profile/rcrpodcast.com

@cavaughan I guess that was left fairly vague, but the idea is that, as a gift for a friend, you buy a full set of something like the issues from 1983 of Creative Computing, and then mail them to your friend one per month as if they had a subscription. So, it is a gift idea. I’m not aware of anyone doing this commercially for you, but maybe someone could start such a thing. Not sure if there is demand or likelihood of profit.

RCR Episode #278: Words and Lasers. In 1978, we got WordStar and the LaserDisc, and VisiCalc was only a year away. We discuss LCM+Labs-Everything, “unboxing" an Apple-1, key repeaters, dancing babies, Model 100s, and more! — https://rcrpodcast.com/2024/11/18/rcr-episode-278-words-and-lasers/