What do you do when a lot of people ask you for the history of a project? You give them one! But what happens when that project is changing rapidly? You give them a history…. and then something of a revised one later. Either way, you try! Here’

Memories of Radio Part 2

Jan 18th, 2020 14m 24s

Last time, we heard stories of radio pre-1930. Let’s continue the journey. It’s the final part of Memories of Radio. https://archive.org/details/Radio_Fun_Issue_30_Jan_1994/page/n3

Memories of Radio Part 1

Jan 4th, 2020 16m 25s

An early radio engineer’s stories from radio’s days gone-by https://archive.org/details/Radio_Fun_Issue_29_Dec_1993/page/n3

The Book of Nolan

Dec 21st, 2019 50m 12s

After Nolan Bushnell left Atari, he went for one wild ride. This is that story. https://www.inc.com/magazine/19841001/136.html

PlanBe(OS) (republish)

Nov 20th, 2019 25m 38s

[NOTE: I became alerted to the possiblity that this episode did not show up in all podcast feeds and I think I know why. To resolve that possibility, I decided to republish. This is not a new episode. Sorry for the inconvenience.] — If you’re a

MOS Technology — It’s over!

Nov 16th, 2019 5m 44s

The legal tangle between Motorola and MOS is over, so says this newsletter opening. Off the product lists? The 6501. But the 6502? Ah, that stays and, what’s more, practically fueled the entire microcomputer revolution!

Plan Be

Nov 2nd, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/plan-be.mp3If you’re a long-time Apple user, you certainly remember MacOS (not macOS). By the 90s, Apple admitted that the OS was getting a bit stale and started making plans to upgrade to some

Kaypro 16 Review

Oct 19th, 2019 9m 46s

I come across fascinating things to read all the time. For instance, I spied this article whilst looking at an old ad for a single board computer in Carrollton, Texas. This article is a review of the Kaypro 16, one of the most significant syste

Faster Than Light — The Atari ST Book

Aug 31st, 2019 12m 17s

Jamie Lendino graciously allowed me to read some from his recent book, Faster Than Light — The Atari ST and The 16-bit Revolution. It’s an amazing book. (I just finished it this week.) If you’ve any interest in platform, I’m hopeful the excerpt

cDc Excerpt

Aug 3rd, 2019 25m

I’m excited to bring you an excerpt from Cult of The Dead Cow: How The Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save The World. This book, by Joseph Menn, is a must if you are at all interested in tech culture. The sprawling book takes you throug

STate of the ST

Jul 6th, 2019 17m 37s

A couple of episodes ago, we took a trip to those heady days when the Amiga could do no wrong. Now we take a similar trip, this time to the heady days of the Atari ST.

The Rise and Fall of Osborne

Jun 22nd, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/osborne-1.mp3I imagine anyone interested in retrocomputing knows about the Osborne-1 and the so-called Osborne Effect. Is it true? I don’t know. Maybe? Sure? Why not.But I find the story behin

Welcome to Amiga (Amiga 1000 Intro)

Jun 8th, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/amiga1000.mp3It’s easy to remember Commodore for what happened to it. But there were a lot of years of fun and excitement before that bitter end.From the first issue of Amiga World magazine co

HP, Woz, and The MicroComputer Revolution

May 25th, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/woz-hp.mp3The basic story is this: Woz offers the very beginning of the microcomputer revolution to HP in the Apple 1. HP declines. Woz leaves with Steve Jobs to found Apple. Apple is a titan.

An aside: Apple II Composition

May 18th, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/tous-les-saintes-ii.mp3If you follow my Twitter account (@retroreadspod), then you may have seen a tweet in which I mentioned that I recently hired a narration and voiceover coach.While meetin

Tedium – Joysticks and Benj Edwards

May 11th, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/tediumjoysticks.mp3Tedium piece about joysticks including Benj Edwards small business creating insanely great ones!https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/

PT Boat – DAK Winter 1988

May 11th, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/5-dak.mp3Today’s is an item from the DAK Winter 1988 catalog about a small laptop. It’s retro-ish.There are a few DAK items up on the Internet archive!https://archive.org/details/1988-Winter-

Tedium – Joysticks – Benj Edwards

Apr 26th, 2019

Tedium piece about joysticks including Benj Edwards small business creating insanely great ones!https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/tediumjoysticks.mp3

Xerox Star Emulator

Apr 13th, 2019

https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/ep3-xeroxstar.mp3This episode details the Xerox Star Emulator the Living Computer Museum and Labs announced in January. The below link contains a _lot_ of images and links so review it!Introdu

Timesharing History – Kevin Savetz

Mar 30th, 2019

Kevin Savetz recently* wrote a Twitter thread about Timesharing History that he uploaded to the Internet Archive. Here’s that thread.https://retroreadspod.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/rr-ep2.mp3Show Note:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/107