VCFMW 2021

Vintage Computer Festival MidWest 16 was once again held at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, IL, and once again the show was a big success.

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And so it begins...

My table, showing a rewrite of geoGopher with a new GEOS network driver for the 1541 Ultimate II+/Ultimate 64.

Core memory for 8-bit machines. I don't know what I'd do with it, but it's cool as hell.

Jim Brain discusses progress on his Commodore 64 projects, including the reverse-engineered TurboMaster accelerator (in blue case).

The biggest draw of the show for me was Hellion's Tempest cabinet, Here he is working on it...

...and here it is after I played for a while (CEN). My scores aren't what they were back when I played regularly, but I enjoyed myself immensely.

An AIM-65 6502-based machine, successor to the KIM trainer.

I never did quite figure out what this beastie was.

Our old friend the Apple I comes to visit again. Ever seen one in the flesh?

Another well-known Apple machine. Marry me, Lisa!

Gavin's PDP-11/23, running Unix V6. The machine ran entirely on floppy drives, which produced a seductive clicking sound that drew people to the exhibit like insects to a flame.

One of Oscar Vermeulen's PDP-11 replicas.

A Sun SPARCstation.

I guess Sun has seen better days.

Some tasty SGI machines.

An IBM System/34.

Hooloovoo says "See you next time!" Eat your heart out, rms!