Author: Michael Mulhern

Greetings everybody! The RetroChallenge is now calling for entries in the RC2019/10 competition (1st-31st October, 2019). Time to get you thinking caps on and come up with a retro inspired project and join in the fun with other contestants blogging, tweeting, and generally having fun. If you haven’t joined in before, pop on over to http://www.retrochallenge.org/ and look at previous entries to get an idea of the wide scope of possibilities, and remember, you – yes you, set your own…

Hi everybody! . . . . and it’s time for RCR #108 where Paul, Ken, and Jack talk about funding Funding retrocomputing projects When you get a new idea for something related to retrocomputing (new electronics, new cases, coffee table books)—and it’s a great idea—but you can’t fund it all yourself, what are the options? Thinking back on such projects, what seems to you like it’s been most successful? What would you try (or never try again)? Also from the…

In RCR Episode 107, Paul Hagstrom and Earl Evans discuss the Host Topic: The End Of Retrocomputing We here on the speaking end of these microphones have a pretty similar timelines with computers, having been young and eager when computers were just entering the “personal” era. No doubt a part of the current interest in re-exploring that time is nostalgia. Will people who were 10 in 2003 (Bart Simpson aside) play around with old Dell Windows boxes when the mid…

On Episode 106 of the RCR Podcast, Earl, Carrington, Paul and Ken discuss the Host’s Topic: “Second Chances:” If we had a time machine – What do you wish you’d done “back in the day” in the computing world, and is there a chance you can catch up and do it now in the retrocomputing hobby? Also on the show the team discusses Kfest, the bounty of IIgs related news that has recently been announced, more Kfest, some Retro Challenge results, some more…