Floppy Days 137 - Post-VCF SoCal 2024 with Paul Nurminen
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast
Release Date: 03/11/2024
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast
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1 min 13 sec Vintage Computer Ads
1 min 43 sec Intro
2 min 53 sec bumper - Paul Nurminen
3 min 00 sec Discussion with Paul Nurminen
1 hr 20 min 00 sec Closing
Hello, and welcome to episode 137 of the Floppy Days Podcast. I’m Randy Kindig, the host of this show. This episode is an adjunct to and follow up to the last episode (#136) of Floppy Days. In that episode, which covered the Grundy New Brain, I alluded to the fact that in the “What I’ve Been Up To” section of the podcast, I was going to publish a separate episode just for that. I did that because I don’t like to have episodes over about 90 minutes, and having this segment in that show would have pushed it well beyond that.
So, for this episode I enlisted the aid of Paul Nurminen (aka Nurmix), who was also an attendee and exhibitor/vendor at the recent Vintage Computer Festival Southern California, to help me do a follow up discussion of that show. We discuss our exhibits, other exhibits of note, our general thoughts about the show, and a whole lot more.
I hope you enjoy this.
Links
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VCF SoCal - https://www.vcfsocal.com/
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Intellivisionaries Podcast - http://intellivisionaries.com/
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White Flag Computing - https://www.whiteflagcomputing.com
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Episode 83 of Floppy Days about the Intellivision Keyboard Component with Paul Nurminen - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-83-the-intellivision-keyboard-component
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1090XL expansion unit and 320K RAM board - reifsnyderb
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Discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/333084-swutils-simcheck-simtest-osdump/
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Purchase - https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/1090xl-modernized-reproduction-main-board/
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The VintNerd - https://thevintnerd.com/index.html
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Mega65 - https://mega65.org/
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10-Minute Amiga Retro Cast - https://www.youtube.com/c/10MinuteAmigaRetroCast
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Aquarius+ computer - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352635-introducing-the-aquarius/