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Welcome to Show #122!  This episode's topic: A Brief History Of Programming!

The Carte Blanche expansion card for the Apple II uses an FPGA chip and can have many personalities!
For a brief history of Fortran, have a look at this document on the ibiblio.org site...

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- Earl

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Welcome to Show #121!  This episode's topic: The Forth Programming Language, Part II!

Check out www.zophar.net, an interesting emulator resource!
Don't miss out on the Commodore Vegas Expo (CommVEX) 5.0, happening July 25-26 2009 at the Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, NV...
Looking for Atari retro resources and discussions?  Then hop on over to AtariAge!
The book "Starting Forth" by Leo Brodie is a Forth language classic, and Thinking Forth is the excellent sequel!
An account of the history of Forth can be found on the Forth, Inc. site - "The Evolution Of Forth"!
Modern day Forth systems include Win32Forth and GForth...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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No computers were harmed in the making of this podcast.

Welcome to Show #120!  This episode's topic: The Forth Programming Language, Part I!

Check out the excellent Commodore 64 laptop project by Ben Heck!
To the moon Alice!  Here's an emulator for the Apollo AGC system, the computer for the Apollo spacecraft...
Computers are in movies all over the place, including many of our retro computer favorites.  For full coverage, check out the "Starring the Computer" site!
The Breakpoint 2009 demo party is over, but videos, photo collections, and reports are there for those of us who couldn't attend...
The book "Starting Forth" by Leo Brodie is a Forth language classic, and one of the best programming introductions for any language...
An account of the history of Forth can be found on the Forth, Inc. site - "The Evolution Of Forth"!

Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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This podcast produced with WYHIWYG (what you hear is what you get).

Welcome to Show #119!  This episode's topic: Retro Roundup!

The 8-bit TV Computer - 6502 based, Famicom/NES compatible, programmable, on the Maker Shed site...
Playpower is promoting the use of the 8-bit TV Computer as an educational game development system!  After having a look at their site, check out this Wired article on what Playpower is up to...
Have a look at the Rare and Old Computers blog, where you can see information on production numbers and current sales of rare and old computers!
Ancient UNIX?  You bet...how about...First Edition?  Download it at the unix-jun72 Google Code project site, then run it on the awesome SIMH simulation system...
If you're a Commodore fan, check out Commodore Free - the freely downloadable magazine!
The Woz can help jump-start the computing industry, but...can he dance?  Find out at his website page covering the "Dancing With The Stars" event, and at Woz TV on YouTube!

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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Two announcements:

 First, a new Retrobits episode will be online tomorrow.

Second, The Retrobits Podcast is re-launching on a regular schedule, every two weeks.  A weekly podcast is not working out at the moment, and the schedule is all over the place.  I'm switching to bi-weekly to get back on track.

Thanks for listening and for your patience, and chat with you soon!

- Earl

(A)bort, (R)etry, (S)mash with large hammer? _

Welcome to Show #118!  This week's topic: The Commodore PET 2001!

Check out the Wiki page for the N8VEM single board computer, an exciting new CP/M system with lots of activity going on!
The VICE Emulator supports the Commodore PET series very well.  Give it a try...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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"TI's new Compact Computer. It takes over your work, not your desk."
(an ad from 1983)

Welcome to Show #117!  This week's topic: The Texas Instruments Compact Computer 40!

Radio Shack catalogs of the past!  Too cool!
The Ultimate Commodore 64 presentation - video and notes...
Tex*In Treasures - a great place to find your TI 99/4A and TI CC-40 gear!
Here is some general info on the CC-40 from 99er.net...and from Wikipedia...
...and more detailed technical info at this FTP site!

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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The Apple IIGS - a computer with appeal.

Welcome to Show #116!  This week's topic: The Apple II, Part 3 (the Apple IIGS)!

A Commodore 65 prototype recently sold for over $9,000 on eBay!  Read about the elusive C65 at the Secret Weapons Of Commodore site...
Club100 is a long-time resource for owners of Tandy Model 100, 102 and 200 computers - while you're there, check out the NADSBox, the New Age Digital Storage system for the Model "T" computers!
Apple II Adventures is a fun new blog with info and links for the Apple II series of computers...
Retro robotics?  You bet!  Have a look at The Robot Gallery!
Just out - the documentary "Welcome To Macintosh" - available now...
Be sure to visit the RetroMacCast for your share of Mac retrocomputing fun!
A2Central is your total source for Apple II computing...
Relive the Apple IIGS with the Sweet16, KEGS, or Virtual Apple (web-based!) emulators...
...and check out the "What is the Apple IIGS" site for more info and resources on IIGS emulation!
More info on the IIGS is available at Wikipedia, and the Apple II History site...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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Sorry for the delay!  All work and no play makes my podcast late...

I'm caught in a work transition, and have been working a ton of hours.  The timing is a bit unfortunate, as I just got myself back in the driver's seat for my weekly schedule again.  However, this is only going to last for two more weeks!!!

Thanks for listening, and I will chat with you all soon!  Hopefully I'll be able to put together an episode during this crunch time, but if not, at the latest in a couple of weeks when I'm out of the woods...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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"What kind of man owns his own computer?"
(Apple II ad, 1980)

Welcome to Show #115!  This week's topic: The Retro Spirit - Part II!

Check out the Pandora project - a handheld computing/gaming unit designed by the community!
The One Laptop Per Child "XO" is an example of modern day innovation in personal computing...here is the Wikipedia page...
Rob Barnaby, developer of WordStar, visits the Digibarn!

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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