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Welcome to show #007!\\xa0 Today\'s podcast focuses on making the connection \\nbetween retro computers and modern-day PCs.

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

E-mails came in from Alan, Ryan and Dave with Libsyn - thanks!\\xa0 Always \\ngreat to get e-mails regarding the show.

The C64 Take Away Podcast is, \\nin their words, "Your regular fix of Commodore 64 tunes, remixes, news and \\nwhatever takes our fancy. Produced and presented by Jan Lund Thomsen of\\nRemix.Kwed.Org fame".\\xa0 Also check out \\nthe parent site, Slay Radio, for \\nstreaming retro remixes at various bandwidths.
\\nJuiced.GS is a quarterly Apple II publication.
\\nThe X1541 series of cables connect \\nCommodore computers and disk drives to the parallel port of a standard PC.
\\nThe Apple Disk \\nTransfer program lets you take Apple disk images, and using a serial cable \\nand real Apple II, turn those images into real disks!
\\nGood old RS232 serial ports have been around forever, and can hook up the old \\nand new with relative ease.\\xa0\\nHere\'s a site with \\nlots of technical goodness on RS232.
\\nThe 64HDD software package, both free and \\nprofessional versions, allow you to turn a DOS-based PC into a floppy and hard \\ndrive emulator for Commodore computers.
\\nThe Star Commander is a DOS shell \\nprogram that can handle C64 disk formats, and permits copying of files and disk \\nimages to a Commodore drive connected with one of the X cables.
\\nThe SIO2PC cable \\nconnects Atari computers to a PC.\\xa0 The PC can emulate storage, printers, \\nand more.
\\nThe Catweasel series of disk controllers are used in modern PCs, and can make \\nyour 3.5 and 5.25 drives capable of reading and writing foreign disk formats for \\nretro computer systems.\\xa0 Information on various Catweasel models\\nis available at the Individual Computers \\nsite.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan

Thanks for listening!

- Earl

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