Just found the forum after discovering an interest in vintage computers. Long retired software guy who moved there from a decade or so of hardware development. After retirement it was 10+years before I wrote a line of code or touched a piece of test equipment. Then I discovered the world of Arduino's and their like and it's been a steady stream of HW/SW projects ever since. Recently I pulled a Sinclair ZX80 out of a dusty box to see if the 16K of DRAM I made & added to it in, I think, the early 80's still worked. It did so there have been a couple of related projects for that. Found a couple of really excellent sites dealing with that platform. Collecting dust in my basement is a TRS-80 model 1 that I expanded beyond recognition with components of my own and commercial. Wondering if I should resurrect all that. Still get exited when I see the likes of some old Heathkit stuff and old computers from the early 8 bit days. Should be plenty here to keep my attention. Hopefully I'll be able to add some too.
- VCF South West - June 14 - 16, Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas
- VCF West - Aug 2 - 3, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
- VCF Midwest - Sept 7 - 8 2024, Schaumburg, IL
- VCF SoCal - Mid February 2025, Location TBD, Southern CA
- VCF East - April 2025, Infoage Museum, Wall NJ
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Caluser2000
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Welcome and have fun...
VERAULT
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Welcome!
seaken
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Welcome to the forum. I love reading all the posts about old 8-bit stuff. I was intrigued when I was young with those machines but never got to use them in person until after I was married. And by then they were "old computers". I've been playing with old computers since, but mostly 16 and 32 bit PC stuff.
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