#vcfsw2025

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Portable Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

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Commodore Computers at VCFSW 2025

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Usagi Electric, Forgotten Machines, & Nevets at VCF Southwest 2025

[Usagi Electric], [Forgotten Machines], and [Nevets01] collaborated on a massive exhibit of unique old hardware.

[Usagi Electric] had an interactive exhibit with his recently rebuilt PDP 11/73 running examples of spectroscopy analysis using a Bomem vector processor. [Usagi] also demonstrated a Data General Nova 1210 running BASIC.

[Forgotten Machines] had a variety of old terminals, computers, and peripherals on display. He was on-hand throughout the show to help anyone image and preserve their old magnetic media.

[Nevets] had an interactive exhibit with a Data General Nova 1200 running BASIC alongside a (sadly non-functional) Digital Computer Controls D-116, a clone of the Nova 1200.

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8-Bit Home Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

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Homebrew Computing at VCF Southwest 2025

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Workstations at VCF Southwest 2025

For anyone needing to do more than basic computing, there was an assortment of high-power workstations on display this year, such as these AT&T and HP Unix machines. There was even an entire room dedicated to Unix workstations, including this row of NeXT computers and some Sun UltraSPARC machines.

[Wave Design] uses vintage tools, such as these SGI workstations, to create new artwork. [Wave Design] was a VCFSW 2025 Silver Sponsor.

One of the oldest high-power workstations on display this year was the Tektronix 4054A vector graphics computer [Monty McGraw] demonstrated. [Monty] used a workstation similar to this one in his first job with the USAF in the late 1970s.

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Eastern Bloc Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

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Apple Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

Apple computers from the earliest Apple ][ through late PowerMac G5 towers were well represented throughout the show floor.

There were however a few exhibits featuring Apple computers that were particularly notable.

First we have a massive collection of Apple Lisa and Mac computers from [Alex] & [William] who also gave a presentation this year on their work building the Lisa OS from source.

[Stephen] and [Kevin] demonstrated their recreation of the Tic-Tac-Dough game show display board which used nine Apple II computers to drive nine monitors. Local photographer [Paul] shared an interview and live demonstration of the exhibit on YouTube.

[Petar] showed off a collection of late Apple II era computers & peripherals with original packaging and in-store signage.

And finally [Murdock] showed off a Radius 81/110 workstation, an PowerPC 601 Mac Clone he used for music production in the 90s.