Sep 10, 2023
IBM Thinkpad 701CS - the one with the famous butterfly keyboard - VCF Southwest 2023
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IBM Thinkpad 701CS - the one with the famous butterfly keyboard - VCF Southwest 2023
Homemade vector driver circuitry for a cathode ray tube.
I want you to read that again.
Homemade vector driver circuitry for a CRT.
Jarrett made this himself from scratch, and controlled it from a raspberry pi attached to the serial terminal below it that he found in a ditch! The pi was watching live aircraft data from ADSB, so we could see real air traffic in the radar mode. He also had some interesting lissajous patterns, and a rendering of a witch.
It was one of my favorite exhibits from VCF Southwest 2023
Maccy, from the Macintosh Librarian's table - VCF Southwest 2023
Two examples of the Commodore 900, also known as the C900, Z8000, or Z-Machine. Intended to run a Convergent UNIX, these machines never made it into production. What remain are a few engineering prototypes distributed for software development, so seeing not just one, but TWO is a real treat! - VCF Southwest 2023
Apple IIe, Tandy CoCo, Tandy 1000, and Tandy MC-10 - VCF Southwest 2023
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/05 - VCF Southwest 2023
Kaypro II, Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P, Compaq portable - VCF Southwest 2023
VICs that are not 20
My exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2023 went well. It was a major lift to drive it all out to Texas in summer, but the results were worth it. I got to meet a whole different group of the vintage computer community, and share my esoteric VICs with them. Seems like alot of people enjoyed talking with me, trying out the games, and even programming in BASIC. My exhibit even won the award for Best Microcomputer.
Items on display included:
Rainbow label VIC-20
Early American VIC-20
Japanese VIC-1001
Prototype VIC-20 aka the "Brown Board"
Prototype 16K VIC-20 plus a variety of expansions, peripherals, and software. I filled my trunk to the brim with items for my exhibit.
Special thanks go out to @ms-dos5 for helping with setup and breakdown of my exhibit, as well as demonstrating many of my exhibit machines by playing some of the supplied video games. I was glad to finally meet @techav who had the table next to mine, keeping extra sets of eyes on each others tables throughout the weekend.