When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.

Welcome to Show 093!  This week's topic: The IBM System/360!

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Check out what's happening at KansasFest, and all the other great stuff, at the A2Central.com portal!
A very interesting piece of history - an article describing the design motivations behind one of the most successful computer architectures ever - the System/360.  (PDF format...)
Want to convert from your old system to the System/360?  Of course you do!  And this IBM color flip book from the 1960s will show you how...link courtesy of the Computer History Museum (PDF format...)
Why did some mainframes use a 36-bit word length?  Wikipedia will tell you!
Want to emulate a mainframe on your PC?  No, I'm not kidding.  Have a look at Hercules...
If you want to be in the System/360 "in crowd", you're going to need a IBM System/360 reference card (a.k.a. the "green card")!
Want to just read about the IBM System/360?  Here's the Wikipedia page, and here's a history page with other info...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

Thanks for listening!

- Earl

Hi there...

The Retrobits Podcast is taking a break this week.  Be sure to tune in next week for more retrocomputing goodness!  And thanks for listening!

- Earl

The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.

Welcome to Show 092!  This week's topic: A Close Encounter - The CompuColor II!

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Gamasutra's History Of Zork can be found here...
And, an alternate history of Zork, written by Tim Anderson and Stu Galley, from The New Zork Times, 1985!
Jason Scott, creator of the BBS Documentary, is making a documentary, called "Get Lamp" on text-based interactive fiction games...
Here are links with information on the CompuColor II from Old-computers.com, Computer Closet, and a history of the family of companies related to the CompuColor!

Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com.

For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page!

Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

Thanks for listening!

- Earl

"...you might like to come to a gathering of people with likeminded interests.  Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever..." - excerpt from the original Homebrew Computer Club newsletter, March 15, 1975

Welcome to Show 091!  This week's topic: The Users Group!

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Here's info on the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 3.0, coming up July 14th and Sunday, July 15th!

Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com.

For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page!

Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

Thanks for listening!

- Earl