RCR Episode 272: int age=0;

Retro Computing Roundtable

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

Topic: 1972

1972 brought us C (good enough for us), Pong, Magnavox Odyssey, and more.

Topic/Feedback links:

• Dennis Ritchie on the development of C (ACM SIGPLAN Notices, March 1993)
• Pong released (Wikipedia)
• Atari founded (Wikipeda)
• A history of Syzygy/Atari (Michael Current)
• Magnavox Odyssey (Wikipedia)

Retro Computing News:

• Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89 (Developer Tech)
• Thinking Back on Turbo Pascal as it Turns 40 (Bytecellar)
• Dave Dunfield source code (including ImageDisk) (Classiccmp announcement)
• Dave Dunfield source code (including ImageDisk)
• Replacement Injection Molded Inner Bezel for Apple iMac G3 (MacEffects Kickstarter)

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• Super Pong
• Magnavox Odyssey promo video

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Squarepainter painted pixel art

Auction Picks:

• Blake
  • IBM 5561-P Model 40 (auction long gone)
    • See also: IBM JX (Wikipedia)
  • Amiga A1060 sidecar for the Amiga 1000 (different auction)
    • See also: Amiga Sidecar (Wikipedia)
• Carrington:
  • RAMWorks III + VGA extender (different auction)
• Paul:
  • Archives I stickers
    • Archives II stickers (auction long gone)
    • Archives III stickers
    • Definite stickers
    • See also: Archives Inc (Wikipedia)
    • See also: Archives Business Computer, Archives Inc., Davenport, Iowa 1979-1983 (YouTube documentary)
    • See also: Mention in On Computing 1980
  • Apple III in box (auction long gone)
  • Atari PC3 (different auction)
  • Duo 2300c (different auction)
    • DuoDock
  • Apple floppy box
    • See also: Apple gift catalog
  • A+Disk-Disk=A

A2Stream file:

• a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr272.a2stream

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X
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