Tag Archives: Old Fart Geeks

Old Fart Geeks – Episode 014

Posted by on July 24, 2016 No comments

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!

Old Fart Geeks – Episode 011

Posted by on July 25, 2015 No comments

In this episode:

  • Astraware TrackerFM
  • Commodore Amiga 500
  • Atari 520ST
  • Apple Macintosh
  • Apple IIGS
  • IBM PCjr
  • Creative Music System
  • Sound Blaster
  • Roland MT32
  • Gravis Ultrasound
  • Adlib
  • Amstrad

    Old Fart Geeks is a retro technology podcast by Jason Oakley and William Tomkinson.

Old Fart Geeks – Episode 010

Posted by on June 26, 2015 No comments

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!

Old Fart Geeks – Episode 009

Posted by on May 27, 2015 No comments

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

Old Fart Geeks – Episode 008

Posted by on April 8, 2015 No comments

  • 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