#vcfexix

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Sometimes at VCF East you'll be hanging out with some former Commodore engineers after a talk, and Bil Herd will whip out some original internal schematics for the first concept of the Commodore 128, or Albert Charpentier will show off the framed die-shrink for making the MOS6567 Rev A VIC-II chip.

And it's just... a thing that happens. Because it's a Vintage Computer Festival.

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40 Years of Macintosh – Ryan Burke

Starting with the Lisa and Macintosh, this exhibit will have every Compact Mac, plus some unique oddities from Apple’s line. Launching in January of 1984, the Macintosh computer is now 40 years old! To celebrate, there will be one of each of the compact Macs, plus the Lisa 2, and some other unique and weird Macs from over the years.

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[commodorez]

IBM 1130 restored and operational!

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The guts of a mechanically controlled pinball table at Silverball Pinball and Arcade, Saturday night after VCF East XIX

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PDP-8 Computer Art – David Gesswein

And is that @regretsretrotech talking to David in one of those photos?

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Scenes from various vendor tables at VCF East XIX

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OS What-Ifs: Two 90s Operating Systems That Never Made It by @ms-dos5

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Clones of South America – @arjorge1987

In the 80s, both Brazil and Argentina had legislations that were focused on sponsoring the local technology industry. However instead of achieving the main goal, the scenario was open for clone manufacturing, giving birth to a whole industry of computer copies. The Drean Commodore, from Argentina, and the TK line, from Brazil, are a few examples we will bring to the expo.

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