The Vintage Computer Festival 6.0 (per this thread) is fast approaching and I'd like to have a display again this year.
Unfortunately, fate has dealt me a bit of a blow and I will not be able to retrieve the bulk of my collection from storage before the event.
I am, therefore, forced to put together some sort of display that makes sense out of the collection I have in-house. Those machines are:
My default display would be the Altair running a few old games (Hunt the Wumpus type stuff) but I'd like to have at least two machines on display. I just can't think of a theme that joins any of them other then "computers from 1977 and before" or "Old Junk from my Closet."
I really wanted to do a "milestones" theme again with the Apple ][ running VisiCalc added to my display but that's not gonna happen.
Any ideas would be welcome!
Erik
Unfortunately, fate has dealt me a bit of a blow and I will not be able to retrieve the bulk of my collection from storage before the event.
I am, therefore, forced to put together some sort of display that makes sense out of the collection I have in-house. Those machines are:
- Altair 8800
Altair 8800BT
two disk drives for the Altairs plus software and documentation (some, anyway)
Altos ACS 8000-2 (CP/M w/some software)
Commodore Pet 2001-8 (chicklet keys) - working with software, etc.
TRS-80 Model I with 1 disk drive, some software
Telcon Zorba in like-new condition w/original software but nothing much else
Commodore Vic-20 with a little software
A small pile of S-100 systems with a variety of operating systems, none of which yet work (time isn't something I have a lot of! :D)
My default display would be the Altair running a few old games (Hunt the Wumpus type stuff) but I'd like to have at least two machines on display. I just can't think of a theme that joins any of them other then "computers from 1977 and before" or "Old Junk from my Closet."
I really wanted to do a "milestones" theme again with the Apple ][ running VisiCalc added to my display but that's not gonna happen.
Any ideas would be welcome!
Erik