{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Show 138: The PDP-8 Minicomputer","description":"Happy Holidays!\nWelcome to Show #138! &amp;nbsp;This episode's topic: The PDP-8 Minicomputer!\nIn this episode, I provide an introduction to the PDP-8 Minicomputer, released by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965. &amp;nbsp;The PDP-8 was the first commercially-produced and widely available minicomputer, and launched a new era in computing.The new generation of Commodore? &amp;nbsp;Check out the new Commodore 64 - a modern PC in a C64 replica case...The Diamond operating system - the Atari 8-bit GUI OS!The Retro Computing Roundtable (RCR) is a new podcast hosted by David Greelish, now on episode #4! &amp;nbsp;Find out more at the Classic Computing blog...It's time for this year's Retrochallenge Winter Warmup! &amp;nbsp;Get your retro game face on!The Cult Of Mac website covers the Vintage Apple news for 2010...The IEEE Computer Society launches a new feature - Computing Then!Keynote speaker announced for this year's KansasFest...more info at their site...Check out the PDP-8 FAQs at faqs.org, and also the Doug Jones PDP-8 resource site!Cool PDP-8 video on YouTube (video will begin playing immediately) from TNMOC, and also the PDP-8 playing music!Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to earl@retrobits.com.\nThe Retrobits Podcast blog can be found at www.retrobits.com. &amp;nbsp;You can follow the podcast on Twitter @RetroEarl.\nFor online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits  Podcast forum on the PETSCII  Forums page!\nOur Theme Song is &quot;Sweet&quot; from the &quot;Re-Think&quot; album by Galigan.\nThanks for listening!\n- Earl \n\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5  License.\n\n&amp;nbsp;","author_name":"The Retrobits Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/retrobits.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/1439898\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/2928966"}