Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast

Hello, welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig and this a special interview show to help get the word out about an upcoming event: Vintage Computer Festival Midwest.  This will be the tenth iteration of this event and I talk with Jason Timmons, one of the main organizers of the event.  He tells us all about the event, including guest speakers that will be there, exhibits, vend...

The TRS-80 Model III and 4   On the personal computer timeline, we’re currently in the 1979 to 1980 time frame.  I do apologize that this month’s topic, the TRS-80 Model III and 4, is being presented slightly out of order in that there were a couple of machines introduced a little prior to this that I plan to cover.  However, as I already had this one recorded I decided to present it now rather th...

Jason Scott Presentation at VCF Southeast 3.0 in Roswell, GA, May 2, 2015.   This is the Floppy Days Podcast on vintage computing and my name is Randy Kindig.  This is a special episode featuring Jason Scott of archive.org fame.  Many of you will be familiar with Jason Scott and the work he does in helping to preserve media and content, including content associated with our beloved vintage compute...

Welcome to part 3 of the now 3 part episode covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers.  This episode will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, and much more.  I’m very happy to have pretty much the entire Atari 8-bit podcasting group as special guest hosts helping me cover these topics.  This includes Wade from Inverse Atascii ( http://invers...

In this special joint podcast, live from VCF Southeast 3.0, we discuss our favorite parts of the show, play a game of “Never Have I Ever”, and more!   Podcast Title: “Inverse Antic Personal Computing Floppy Maccast”   Hosts: Antic - Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz, Brad Arnold Floppy Days - Randy Kindig Inverse Atascii - Wade Ripkowski History of Personal Computing - David Greelish RetroMacCast - James...

Hi Everyone, and welcome to this special edition of The History of Floppy Days … uh, I mean, One o’clock, Two o’clock, Three o’clock Personal Computing ! No, that’s not right… No… wait, it’s the combo podcast of Floppy Days AND The History of Personal Computing podcast! We’re live, here at the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast and I’m your host, David Greelish! Please join me in welcoming my co-...

Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig and I’m your host.  This is an interview-only episode of Floppy Days.  I was recently at Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 3.0 in Roswell, GA, and I had a chance to sit down with John Linville.  John is a legend in the Tandy Color Computer circles and has produced a cartridge for the CoCo containing a fun game called Fahrfall.  This is...

Welcome to part 2 of the now 3 part episode covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers.  This episode will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, magazines, tech specs, and much more.  I’m very happy to have pretty much the entire Atari 8-bit podcasting group as special guest hosts helping me cover these topics.  This includes Wade from Inverse Atascii, Rob of Player/Missile, Jack of RCR, Kevin...

Hello, welcome to the Floppy Days Podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig and this a special interview show to help get the word out about an upcoming event: Vintage Computer Festival Southeast.  This will be the third iteration of this event and I talk with Earl Baugh, of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society.  He tells us all about the event, including special guest speakers that will be there, exh...

Hello, welcome to Floppy Days Episode #34.  This is a special bonus episode and the topic of this show is the upcoming (as of this podcast) 2015 24th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest on April 25 & 26 at the Heron Point Convention Center in Lombard, IL.  I interview Bob Swoger, secretary of the Glenside Computer Club, which sponsors the show.  He talks all about the show and he gives the scoop about...

I’m particularly excited to be bringing you this 2-part episode because I will be covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers.  This first episode will cover the history of these machines and next month I will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, magazines, tech specs, and much more.  Even more exciting, for both episodes I have several special guest hosts helping me cover these topics.  I thin...

Evan Koblentz comes on and talks all about the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0.   Special co-hosts Earl Evans (Retrobits & RCR) and Michael Mulhern (RCR).   Links and stuff: VCF East at vintage.org - vintage.org/2015/east/ VCF East Facebook - facebook.com/vcfeast VCF East Twitter - twitter.com/vcfeast   Evan’s book project:   the campaign - https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/3wNcc Faceboo...

I wanted to bring to you this month a special interview-only episode which is a bit different.  My guest on this show is Mr. Eric Enge, who was an executive at Phoenix Technologies, most well-known as the company that clean-roomed an IBM PC compatible ROM BIOS and helped spark an era of IBM PC clones.  This is a piece of computer history that may not be particularly well-known, but was an importan...

Hi, everyone and welcome to a special interview-only episode of Floppy Days.  My name is Randy Kindig and I’m the host of this podcast.  This interview is with Paul Ceruzzi, curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C and author of several computer history books.  Those books include “A History of Modern Computing”, “Computin...

Hello and welcome to episode 29 of Floppy Days.  My name is Randy Kindig and I’m the host of this podcast.  This is a special interview-only episode of Floppy Days.  I’m very excited to have with me today the authors of the various editions of the computer history book entitled “Fire in the Valley”; that being Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.  I think a majority of the listeners will be familia...

Main Topic: The TRS-80 Model II   At this point in the podcast run, we are still in the late 1970’s time frame, and the TRS-80 Model II falls into that time frame for its release.  As usual, we’ll cover the history, technical specs, peripherals, Web sites, books, emulation and much, much more.  I am joined by special guest host Myles Wakeham who will help me cover this machine.  But first, I’ll co...

Main Topic: The OSI Challenger series of computers   At this point in the podcast run, we are still in the late 1970's time frame, and the OSI machines fall into that time frame for their release.  No vintage computer historical journey would be complete without including these very important machines.  As usual, we'll cover the history, technical specs, peripherals, Web sites, books, emulation an...

This is a special interview-only show with none other than Terry Stewart, aka Tezza, of the classic-computers.org.nz Web site.  Terry is long-time member of the vintage computing community and has done the community a great service by producing excellent videos about each member of his extensive vintage computer collection.  If you haven’t had a chance to see any of Terry’s videos, you definitely...

Special interview-only episode with Pepe Tozzo, author of Retro-Electro: Collecting Technology from Atari to Walkman. Book "Retro-Electro: Collecting Technology from Atari to Walkman" at Amazon -  http://www.amazon.com/dp/0789313022/?tag=flodaypod-20

News, upcoming vintage computer shows, feedback.  Special co-host Jim Battle of compucolor.org and audio clips from Graham and Garry Epps!   Main topic: The CompuColor II   Links Mentioned in the Show:   What I’ve Been Up To/New Acquisitions VCF Midwest -   http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/ TI CC-40 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instrument...

KansasFest 2014 through the eyes of a first-timer!

News, upcoming vintage computer shows, feedback.   Main topic: The APF Imagination Machine   Links Mentioned in the Show:   News KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org Book “Apple Files” by David Miller - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0835901912/?tag=flodaypod-20 Book “Apple II the DOS Manual Disk Operating System” by Apple Computer - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QTD2SA/?tag=flodaypod-20 CFFA3000 - htt...

In this special joint podcast, live from KansasFest 2014, we discuss our favorite parts of KFest, play a game of 2 Truths and 1 Lie, and more!   Podcast Title: “Retro Open ANTICHertz Mac Quarter Poly Floppy Drop”   Hosts: Antic - Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz Drop III Inches - Mike Maginnis, Paul Hagstrom Floppy Days - Randy Kindig IndieSider - Ken Gagne No Quarter - Carrington Vanston, Mike Maginnis...

Bonus episode. Interview with Peter Bartlett, TRS-80 Model I enthusiast and creator of the Model I System Expander (MISE).   MISE is a fantastic device that gives the TRS-80 hi-res graphics, VGA, compact flash storage, joystick port, networking and more.   Links mentioned in the episode: The MISE Project - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/ Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - http://trs-8...

Bonus episode this month. Interview with Apple II Enthusiast Ken Gagne about KFest, Open Apple Podcast, Juiced. GS and more.   Open Apple Podcast - http://www.open-apple.net/ KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/ Juiced. GS - https://juiced.gs/