RCR Episode 285: You’ll Have Mail

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

Topic: 1985

The year of the Amiga arrives, NeXT is founded, the first .com site appears, Quantum Computer Services begins its journey toward becoming AOL.

Topic/Feedback links:

• Commodore Amiga 
• Installing FS-UAE on Mac 
• Amiga Forever
• Ample
• NeXT 
• symbolics.com
• symbolics.com museum
• Symbolics
• Aldus PageMaker
• Apple LaserWriter 
• Enterprise
• Super Mario Bros
• Microsoft Windows 1.0
• Quantum Computer Services founded, which became AOL 
• GameLine
• GameLine (eBay)
• Atari Compendium: Longevity (mentions Supercharger)
• Arcadia/Starpath Supercharger (eBay)
• A modern news story on AOL

Retro Computing News:

• The First Perfect Computer (upgrading an Amiga 1000)
• INIT HELLO
• Computer Museum at System Source
• National Electronics Museum
• Bloop Museum
• CuriousMarc visits System Source
• Usagi Electric visits System Source
• Usagi Electric gets a Bendix G15 to run the first half of a test program
• DigiBarn
• The SuperFo Harlequin 128
• The Leningrad-1
• Original Soviet key cap kit

Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:

• America Online
• Enterprise 128
• Super Mario 2

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Commodore4ever VertiPort

Auction Picks:

• Blake:
  • Vintage Olympia EX 100 Typewriter Extension CP/M Computer Word Processor Systel
• Paul:
  • The PC-8001 They Didn’t Want You To See. Picture number 6 will shock you.
  • Mario Bros 2 ripped burned floppy disk
    • The 202 Alliance
    • Mario Bros (202) on Internet Archive, hit Esc while “202 Alliance” is being painted
    • Real pirates buy Apple Cats
    • The Curse
  • Apple catalogs (including last one with Apple //e)

Closing notes:

• Rasberry Pi MIDI hat
• Stronghold

Other ways to experience this episode:

• a2stream file for this episode: http://lo-fi.rcrpodcast.com/rcr285.a2stream
• YouTube episode 285

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Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X

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