Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR 170 - Vintage Computer Festivals

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Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Evan Koblentz, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Vintage Computer Festivals

Vintage Computer Festivals and the Vintage Computer Federation. See things, talk to people, escape into the past.

Topic and feedback notes:

  • Vintage Computer Federation
    • VCF forum
    • VCF Southeast 6.0 (Apr 21-22, 2018)
    • VCF Italia (Apr 28-29, 2018)
    • VCF East XIII (May 18-20, 2018)
    • VCF West XIII (August 4-5, 2018)
    • Don Eyles walks through the LEM source code

      • Retro Computing News:

      • IRATA.ONLINE, a PLATO service for retro computing
      • The Friendly Orange Glow book (about PLATO)
      • Computer Chronicles (Education, 1986) (PLATO starts around 15:50)
      • C64 Mini begins shipping.
        • thec64.com
        • 8-Bit Guy unboxing and review
        • YouTube search for c64 mini
        • The Making of Dark Castle
        • ViperCard
        • SuperCard
        • Livecode
        • ANTIC special: Bits & Bytes (1983 musical)
        • NeXTstation Turbo Color (Part 1) (RetroManCave YouTube)
        • RISCy Business - The Acorn RiscPC (RetroManCave YouTube)
        • KansasFest (July 17-22, 2018)
        • Tandy Assembly (October 13-14, 2018)

          • Vintage Computer Commercial

          • Canadian Tire Commodore Christmas 1985

            • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

            • Retro Floppy disk cookie cutter

              • Auction Picks:

              • Carrington: Trivia Fever Apple II computer board game (sealed!)
                • See also: Contents of Trivia Fever box
                • Earl: TOSHIBA HX-10D 64KB MSX Z80
                  • See also: MSX.org
                  • See also: Setting up an MSX emulator on Raspberry Pi
                  • Paul: Tax Avoiders for Atari 2600
                    • Monorail PC
                    • See also: Video of Monorail PC number 16
                    • Commodore 65 in Germany
                    • Canadian Tire VIC-20 games
                    • Canadian Tire VIC-20 cassette in a C2N 1530
                    • See also: Photos of cassette insert at Denial forum
                    • See also: Canadian Coin News report on Canadian Tire money.
                    • PC demo disks

                      • Closing notes:

                      • Atari VCS not quite displayed at GDC
                      • Rob Beckett’s Playing for Time
                      • Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit

                        • Feedback/Discussion:

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                        • Vintage Computer Forum
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                        • Throwback Network
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                            • Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link

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