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The 10th Vintage Computer Festival took place this past weekend at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, featuring, among other things, "the largest collection of Radio Shack Pocket Computers I've ever seen," says CNet's Peter Glaskowsky. Highlights in the gallery above include the 1-bit flat-panel Apple IIc—one of just 10,000 ever made—Mac-maker Jef Raskin's Canon Cat, the ConBrio 200R synthesizer built by Cal Tech students in 1980 and a sh'load of Atari PCs. Hungry for more? Check out CNet's nerdishly in-depth coverage. [CNet Speeds and Feeds; CNet's photo gallery]
Vintage Computer Festival 10.0 Features Old Computers, Older Nerds
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10:40 AM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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I'm a fan of nostalgia as everyone else, but vintage computers can go to hell.
This brings back memories.
"call -3111" recall hires video memory.
Spending 3 hours storing programs on cassettes, using acoustic coupler MODEMS. 40 Mb hard drives. 512k floppies. Green CRTs. Token-ring networks. BBSs.
Ok, I'm over it.
No wonder a lot of old people are crossing over to Togo's from that place! (jaywalking...)
MMMMM- Such sweet memories of endless hours of the game Oregon Trail, and making my turtle move around the screen.
Hmmm, I've still got my TRS-80 Model 100 in the closet. With built-in 300 baud modem!
And yes, I did use it to dial-up systems. VAX/VMS on a 300 baud modem was... painful. But when 2400 baud was pretty much the only other option, it wasn't so bad.
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