Some suggestions for future topics for the Retro Computing Roundtable (http://rcrpodcast.com) podcast.


Hardware Emulators

• Amiga - hardware emulations for IBM and Macintosh
• Atari - hardware emulations for Macintosh
• Sun - hardware emulations for IBM 

Specialized Hardware - Copy Protection Breakage 

•  IBM - Central Point PC Backup II Option Card
• Amiga - Synchro Express
• Atari 400/800 Drive Happy card

Specialized Hardware - Transputer Cards

• Microway Quadputer
• Transputer Education Kit (TEK)

How to Store Hardware Cards

• What is the best way to store lots of hardware cards (i.e. packing)
• What is the best way to store CPUs and memory
• What do you do with cards that have no labels/markings - so you don't know what they are (especially ones with no connections)

Local Stores that Sold Computers

• Photo collection of these stores (outside and inside)
• Did you hang out at these stores
• Famous ones - the Byte Shop (Apple I)

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD), is a class of parallel computers in Flynn's taxonomy. It describes computers with multiple processing elements that perform the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously. Thus, such machines exploit data level parallelism, but not concurrency: there are simultaneous (parallel) computations, but only a single process (instruction) at a given moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD

Loop unrolling, also known as loop unwinding, is a loop transformation technique that attempts to optimize a program's execution speed at the expense of its binary size, which is an approach known as the space-time tradeoff. The transformation can be undertaken manually by the programmer or by an optimizing compiler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_unrolling

In computer science, an Anytime Algorithm is an algorithm that can return a valid solution to a problem even if it is interrupted before it ends. The algorithm is expected to find better and better solutions the more time it keeps running.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime_algorithm

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