Tag Archives: Old Fart Geeks
This week we discuss:
- Pi-Kea arcade tablet
- Leisure Suit Larry
- Game and Watch: Octopus
- Donkey Kong
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
- Hyper-Sentinel and more!
In this episode:
- Commodore Amiga
- Commodore 64
- Commodore VIC 20
- BBC Micro
- Tandy TRS80
- Acorn / ARM
- Dick Smith / Video Technology VZ 200 & VZ300
- Amstrad CPC464
- Atari
- Doom, Quake, Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit, Uridium, Descent, Rise of the Triad, Ghosts N Goblins
- id Software
- Apogee Software
- Hewson Consultants
- Ausretrogamer
- And MORE!
This week we discuss:
- The Metric System
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures
- Kinetoscope
- The Antikythera mechanism
- John Bardeen
- Dvorak keyboard
- IBM Model 701
- Velcro
- Bob Metcalfe’s Ethernet
- Breakout
- Skylab
- West Coast Computer Faire – Apple II
- Puck-Man – Pacman
- Visicalc
- Geocaching
- Escom AG buy Commodore
- Halley’s Comet
- Ts’ai Lun
- John Frederic Daniell
- Puffing Devil steam engine
- Art of Transmitting Intelligence
- IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
- Sydney Harbour Bridge
- William Gibson
- Dean Kamen
- Black Box
- Voskhod 2
- Luna 10
- Micro-soft
- Apple Computer
- Linux kernel release 1.0
- Tamagotchi