Hooray, it's Tax Day... (for U.S. listeners...)

Welcome to Show #140! This episode's topic: The Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0!

In this episode, I'm joined by Evan Koblentz of the Mid Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists, who talks about the upcoming VCF East 7.0.

You can find information about the VCF East 7.0 here, and also on Facebook! Also, you can contact Evan Koblentz at evan@snarc.net.
MARCH has recently acquired an IBM 1130 mainframe - check out more info on the IBM 1130 at ibm1130.org...

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

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

Thanks for listening!

- Earl

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Direct download: RBP-2011-04-18-140.mp3
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Wed, 19 January 2011

Show 139: My SFD-1001 Drive Adventure

Happy New Year!

Welcome to Show #139! This episode's topic: My SFD-1001 drive adventure!

In this episode, I discuss the Commodore SFD-1001 disk drive, IEEE-488 interface technology, and my related Retrochallenge 2011 Winter Warmup entry!

Find information on the rebuilding of EDSAC (CNET link) at the U.K. National Museum of Computing site...
See a video tour from Robert Scoble of the new Revolution exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California!
Visual 6502 - a transistor level simulator (and a LOT of info) for the 6502 microprocessor!

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