Floppy Days Episode 18 - The VideoBrain Family Computer

Jun 18, 2014

Main topic: The VideoBrain Family Computer.  Special guest host Jeff Salzman (Vintage Volts)!

 

Links Mentioned in the Show:

 

News

• EasyFlash 3 - http://skoe.de/easyflash, http://go4retro.com/products/easyflash

• TRS-80 MISE - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/

• Kfest - http://www.kansasfest.org/

• VCF Midwest - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/, https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/

• A2CLOUD - http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/

• A2SERVER - http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/

• ProTERM is now officially free - http://lostclassics.apple2.info/announcements/19/proterm-a2/

• ADTPro - http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/

• Raspple II - http://appleii.ivanx.com/rasppleii/

• Apple II Pi - http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/wordpress/

 

Intro Jeff Salzman

• RetroChallenge 2014 Summer Challenge - http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-2012sc/

 

Bumper

• Clip of VideoBrain from Today Show in 1978 with Jane Pauley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmxrtUuZa-4

 

Tech Specs

• Fairchild F8 Microprocessor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_F8

• Fairchild Semiconductor Website - http://www.fairchildsemi.com/

• Fairchild Semiconductor on WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor

• Fairchild Channel F System - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

• APL Programming Language on WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

• “A Programming Language” Book on Amazon by Kenneth Iverson - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471430145/?tag=flodaypod-20

   

Emulation

• Multi-Emulator Super System (MESS) - http://www.mess.org/

• FPGA Implementation of the VideoBrain - kevtris on YouTube -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac49BKNNlCo

 

Current Web Sites

• Bill Loguidice, Armchair Arcade - http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/taxonomy/term/1135

• AtariProtos.com - http://www.atariprotos.com/othersystems/videobrain/videobrain.htm

• Article from Interface Age - http://bit.ly/1rBJMvi

• November 1978 Popular Science ad for the VideoBrain - http://bit.ly/1nzsTMU

• VideoBrain video on YouTube (Glankonian) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GgAMdWN4Q

• The Old Computer Museum - http://oldcomputermuseum.com/videobrain.html

• Yahoo group - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/channel_f_and_videobrain/info

• VideoBrain info at orphanedgames.com - http://www.orphanedgames.com/videobrain/

• The Old Computer.com ROM’s - http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=VideoBrain/Family-Computer-101

• VideoBrain Unwrapped by Kevin Horton -  http://blog.kevtris.org/blogfiles/videobrain/videobrain_unwrapped.txt

• Sean Riddle’s VideoBrain Info - http://www.seanriddle.com/videobrain.html

 

References

• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videobrain

• “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer” by Stan Veit on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1566640237/?tag=flodaypod-20

 

Closing

• Throwback Network - http://www.throwbacknetwork.net

• Vintage Volts Website (Jeff Salzman) - http://vintagevolts.com/