The list of people who contributed stories to the podcast include:<\/p>\n
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- Adam Rosen<\/strong> – from the Vintage Mac Museum<\/a> tells us about when he received a Commodore VIC-20.<\/li>\n
- Bill Loguidice<\/strong> – an author of numerous books, like Vintage Games<\/i><\/a> and Vintage Game Consoles<\/i><\/a> and proprietor of Armchair Arcade<\/a> tells us about when he received his first printer.<\/li>\n
- Greg Polander<\/strong> – known as SoulBlazer online at the AtariAge forums<\/a> is a listener and friend of the show, and a new podcaster with The SNES Podcast,<\/i><\/a> tells us about the time he received a Commodore 128D.<\/li>\n
- Kevin Savitz<\/strong> – author of Terrible Nerd<\/i><\/a> and proprietor of numerous sites, including Classic Computer Magazine Archive<\/i><\/a>. He is also a co-host of the ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast<\/i><\/a>. Even though he\u2019s a big Atari fanatic, he tells us about receiving his first computer . . . an Apple II!\n
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<\/a>Kevin Savitz with his NEW Apple II computer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n - Mark Greentree<\/strong> and Kevin Allder<\/strong> – from the Geekiest Show Ever<\/i><\/a> podcast tell us about their holiday computer gifts. Mark got a Mac LC 575 and Kevin received an Atari 2600 game console.<\/li>\n
- Mike Whalen<\/strong> – another listener and friend of the show, you can also hear him along with Jeff on a Vintage Volts<\/i><\/a> episode. He received GEOS for the Commodore 64 one year.<\/li>\n
- Paul Hagstrom<\/strong> – one of the cohosts of the Retro Computing Roundtable<\/i><\/a> tells us about his family receiving an Apple II+ during the holiday season.<\/li>\n
- Paul Nurminen<\/strong> – Known online as Nurmix\u2026 is the creator and one-third of the host collective responsible for bringing you The Intellivisionaries Podcast<\/i><\/a>. Paul talks about vicariously enjoying an Atari 400 computer that his neighbor friend received for Christmas 1982.<\/li>\n
- The Retroist<\/strong> – Super thanks to him as the inspiration for this special. His Halloween specials were the inspiration for this Christmas \/ Holiday special. Please enjoy his own contribution here, as he talks about receiving a Commodore VIC-20. You should also check out his blog and podcast at retroist.com<\/a><\/li>\n
- Rob O’Hara<\/strong> – a.k.a. \u201cFlack\u201d of the You Don\u2019t Know Flack<\/i><\/a> podcast, adds the TRS-80 to the list of Christmas memories. Rob is also a founder of the \u201cThrowback Network\u201d of retro themed podcasts.<\/li>\n
- John Leake<\/strong> – cohost of the long-running RetroMacCast<\/i><\/a> podcast tells us about the Christmas of 1983 when he received a very special gift, a Vectrex video game system, just for him!<\/li>\n
- Syd Bolton<\/strong> – Syd is someone who had a rather unique privilege of working in a computer store at age 16 in 1987. He could probably recreate in detail a full replica of that computer store with the collection of computers he has at the Personal Computer Museum<\/a> in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. For this show special, he talks about the some of the thoughts a mid 1980\u2019s computer salesman might have had, considering the distinctiveness of personal computers back in the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Bill Loguidice<\/strong> – an author of numerous books, like Vintage Games<\/i><\/a> and Vintage Game Consoles<\/i><\/a> and proprietor of Armchair Arcade<\/a> tells us about when he received his first printer.<\/li>\n