Feb 13, 2006
Welcome to Show 031! This week's Topic: A book review - Fire In The Valley, The Collector's Edition
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
8 bit parallel processing? Leave it to the Apple II
enthusiasts! Have a look at the
AppleCrate!
Yes, you can build your own computer. And I mean from
scratch. Check out the Magic-1 Homebrew CPU, and be sure
to look at the "my other projects" page as well.
It's
The Woz! In person, on video, at an event hosted by the
Computer History Museum. (When you click on the link, the
video will start streaming right away.)
Atari is apparently not doing so well financially, according
to this article. It's kind of sad to see it in dire
straits yet again.
Ralph Baer, developer of Pong and Simon, will
be honored at a White House ceremony this month.
The Computer
Museums and Retrocomputing Culture webring has some links that
I will have to take a look at!
Official Website for Fire
In The Valley...
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Thanks for listening!
- Earl