About this episode
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: 1970
In 1970, (Unix) time and Life began. Also, Pascal was “published,” Forth was first used by other programmers, Shakey the robot shook, DRAM appeared.
Topic/Feedback links:
Recollections about the development of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)
The evolution of Forth (forth.com)
Shakey the Robot (YouTube)
75 years of innovation: Shakey the Robot (SRI)
conways game of life (Google search)
Martin Gardner’s Scientific American article (Scientific American, Oct 1970)
DRAM (Wikipedia)
Aquarius+ (GitHub)
Aquarius+ (AtariAge)
The current state of the Aquarius computer (YouTube, VCF West 2023)
Retro Computing News:
UTM
Adrian Black becomes a full-time retro content creator
WiFi Retromodem V3
ThinkPad 701C
Restoring the 701C butterfly laptop (YouTube)
IBM ThinkPad 701C “butterfly” keyboard (YouTube)
Tezza Stewart is back! (YouTube)
Vintage Computer(-related) commercials:
US Robotics (1997)
US Robotics X2 (with Woz)
Hayes: Say Yes to the Future
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
EOR #$FF (David Youd)
EOR #$FF on archive.org
