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The Retrobits Podcast

Mar 26, 2007


"Where a calculator on the Eniac is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and
perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons" - Popular Mechanics, March, 1949

Welcome to Show 080!  This week's Topic: The UNIVAC I!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

What are...


Mar 19, 2007

A chocolate VIC-20?  Yum!

Welcome to Show 079!  This week's Topic: The Commodore 16!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Commodore Gaming plans to release a new line of super-powered gaming systems - check it out at their web site...
Retro Roundup - a one-stop site for retro computing and gaming news!
Atari...


Mar 12, 2007

There's no key like Home.  There's no key like Home.

Welcome to Show 078!  This week's Topic: A Book Review - 10 Starter Programs From Family Computer!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Check out Evan Koblentz's new blog on ComputerWorld!
And new episodes of the Boring Beige Box Podcast!

Be sure to send any...


Mar 5, 2007

$110 per megabyte.  That's when we walked to school uphill.  10 miles.  In the snow.

Welcome to Show 077!  This week's Topic: Retro Roundup!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Aprigliano's blog entries on his father and the (formerly) mysterious CDC machine can be found here, and the Commodore 129 remix of...