Floppy Days-Randy Kindig

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The official Mastodon account of the Floppy Days Podcast (floppydays.com): a vintage computer podcast that covers home computers of the late 70's through the 80's. Also contains numerous interviews with significant players in the development and growth of home computers from the same time period.

Passed the 11th anniversary of the podcast!

Randy Kindig: host

thanks to Simon McCullough, Floppy Days has a new retrocomputer in its collection: The VTech IQ Unlimited. Topic for a future episode (VTech computers):
New interview episode (#435) of ANTIC just published, with Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman! TOPIC: Logo for the Atari 8-bit. Included in this post, I also have some sound bites from the interview! https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-435-cynthia-solomon-and-brian-silverman-logo
ok, here's a more period-correct setup, with the 800. Yeah, I know I should connect the Commodore 1702 monitor, but I didn't want to pull it out. AND, I was afraid the table would collapse! 😀​
Now this is playing with power; Atari 8-bit style!
Atari estate pickup today! Note the ultra-rare Amdek Amdisk III made for the Atari 8-bit which used 3-inch (NOT 3.5-inch) disks!
Vintage pickup from the estate of my recently deceased friend James Shackel. Thanks James; I’ll find good homes for all these items and I’m honored you wanted me to have them. Miss you sir.
She arrived unexpectedly today! She’s a beauty… all the way from Germany
Ready for the vintage computer show season!
Ready to put the repaired motherboard back into one of the Amiga 1000's from the barn find! Thanks again to David Dunklee of Parceiro fame for fixing the board!
Got my repaired Commodore SX-64 back from my friend Lige who hosts the Commodore Room video channel on YouTube See his amazing work at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flsn_FD2zpA
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ok, here's a more period-correct setup, with the 800. Yeah, I know I should connect the Commodore 1702 monitor, but I didn't want to pull it out. AND, I was afraid the table would collapse! 😀​
@floppydays how can you read that tiny screen?!? I couldn’t. My eyes won’t allow it.