RSS Feeds

Sat Jun 22 01:09:50 CDT 2019

Hello Kevin,

On 21/06/2019 05:34, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote:
> I'm looking for some reliable RSS feeds (I appreciate they seem to be coming
> rare these days) to do with classic computers, preferably with a TRS-80
> flavour but I'm not going to be precious about it.
>
> If anyone can point me any where I'd be most grateful.

I've been thinking some more after seeing Jim's post.  If you can import 
.opml files then here's mine for vintage computer feeds, if not they are 
easy to extract:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<opml version="1.0">
     <head>
         <title>Lawrence's subscriptions in feedly Cloud</title>
     </head>
     <body>
         <outline text="Retro computers" title="Retro computers">
             <outline type="rss" text="Jupiter Ace Alert (Google)" 
title="Jupiter Ace Alert (Google)" 
xmlUrl="http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/14541702872815628609/2860805875811005895"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="vintage computer collecting" 
title="vintage computer collecting" 
xmlUrl="http://www.reddit.com/r/computercollecting/.rss" 
htmlUrl="http://www.reddit.com/r/computercollecting/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="PDP-8 Challenge" title="PDP-8 
Challenge" xmlUrl="http://pdpchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" 
htmlUrl="http://pdpchallenge.blogspot.com/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Retro Kit News" title="Retro Kit 
News" 
xmlUrl="http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/feed.cfm/feedtype/news/feedname/newsRSS/feed/latest/RSSFormat/atom1/" 
htmlUrl="http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Chicken Lips Radio" 
title="Chicken Lips Radio" 
xmlUrl="http://www.chickenlipsradio.org/feeds/posts/default" 
htmlUrl="http://www.chickenlipsradio.org/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="The Vintage Computer Forums - 
Blogs" title="The Vintage Computer Forums - Blogs" 
xmlUrl="http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/blog_external.php?type=RSS2" 
htmlUrl="http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/blog.php"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Retro Computing News" 
title="Retro Computing News" 
xmlUrl="http://retrocomputingnews.com/feed/" 
htmlUrl="https://retrocomputingnews.com"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Byte Cellar" title="Byte Cellar" 
xmlUrl="http://www.bytecellar.com/index.rdf" 
htmlUrl="https://bytecellar.com"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Peter's z80.eu site blog" 
title="Peter's z80.eu site blog" xmlUrl="http://www.z80.eu/blog/rss.php" 
htmlUrl="http://www.z80.eu/blog/index.php"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="(title unknown)" title="(title 
unknown)" xmlUrl="http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/feed.xml" 
htmlUrl="http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2012-12-16-fixing-an-epson-QX-10.htm"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="ZX81 Computer – Reid's For Fun" 
title="ZX81 Computer – Reid's For Fun" 
xmlUrl="http://feeds.reids4fun.com/StevensZx81Computer" 
htmlUrl="https://www.reids4fun.com/topic/zx81/feed"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Commodore News and Info Page" 
title="Commodore News and Info Page" 
xmlUrl="http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/rss/rss-en.xml" 
htmlUrl="http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cnp/home/index/1/en"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="RCR Podcast Blog" title="RCR 
Podcast Blog" xmlUrl="http://rcrpodcast.com/blog/rss.xml" 
htmlUrl="http://rcrpodcast.com/blog/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Retro Computers" title="Retro 
Computers" xmlUrl="http://www.retrocomputers.eu/?feed=rss2" 
htmlUrl="https://www.retrocomputers.online"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Retro Programming" title="Retro 
Programming" xmlUrl="http://retrocode.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" 
htmlUrl="http://www.retroprogramming.com/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="CP/M CONNECTIONS" title="CP/M 
CONNECTIONS" 
xmlUrl="http://cpm-connections.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" 
htmlUrl="http://cpm-connections.blogspot.com/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="Commodore Is Awesome" 
title="Commodore Is Awesome" 
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/amiga/eSQy" 
htmlUrl="http://awesome.commodore.me"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="ASCII by Jason Scott" 
title="ASCII by Jason Scott" xmlUrl="http://ascii.textfiles.com/feed" 
htmlUrl="http://ascii.textfiles.com"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="SourceForge.net: SF.net Project 
News: The FreeDOS Project" title="SourceForge.net: SF.net Project News: 
The FreeDOS Project" 
xmlUrl="http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=5109" 
htmlUrl="https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="TechTinkering - Retro Computers, 
Programming, General Technical Tinkering" title="TechTinkering - Retro 
Computers, Programming, General Technical Tinkering" 
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechTinkering" 
htmlUrl="http://techtinkering.com"/>
             <outline type="rss" text="The FreeDOS Project blog" 
title="The FreeDOS Project blog" 
xmlUrl="http://freedos-project.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" 
htmlUrl="http://freedos-project.blogspot.com/"/>
         </outline>
     </body>
</opml>

It's a shame so many people have abandoned RSS feeds considering how 
easy they are to create and how much easier they make it to follow what 
someone is doing.  I keep coming across interesting vintage computer 
related blogs but then lose track of them again because they don't have 
an RSS feed and its too much of a hassle to keep going around each site 
to see if there is anything interesting.

It's particularly surprising with vintage computer blogs because we 
should in theory be relatively tech savvy and in theory RSS must be 
about 20 years old now so it is by some theories vintage as well.

Hopefully your post will act as a reminder to those who aren't 
publishing RSS feeds that it may be worth implementing them.

Best wishes

Lorry

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