#RetroFair2020
RetroFair - 21, 22 March 2020
The Vintage Computer Festival events may have been postponed or cancelled this year, but that's no reason we can't share our love for retrocomputing and retrogaming with a Virtual Fair!
Browse through these videos, meet the enthusiasts and listen to their stories. Want to make your own video? Great! Keep it to 5 minutes or less and publish it to YouTube with the hashtag #RetroFair or #RetroFair2020.
You can find videos below and on this YouTube playlist. Enjoy!
If you have a VR headset such as an Oculus Quest or Go, copy this location and view it with the photo app's external source option and you can virtually visit the Living Computer Museum!
Greetings!
A message from Michael Brutman from the VCF!
History
My History of Computers - Part 1
Terminal Movie
Playing dumb?
Updating older Apples
Apple //e and //c with modern peripherals
Teensy Altair
Teensy port of Altair 8800 Arduino Project for the Arduino platform..
Trash Eighty
The TRS-80 Model 4
Overclocking The First PC
A DIY Open Source Hardware Solution From 1985!
A (small) enigma..
Make your own 3D printed mini Enigma machine
Acorn BBC Micro 32k Model B
One of the best British 8bit microcomputers of the 80s
Supercomputer
Build a 3D printed mini Cray Y-MP Raspberry Pi Zero case
Kill the Bit
Updating the classic Altair 8800 game.
DIY Altair 8800
The Momebrew Altair clone: Recreating the classic computer.
TRS-80 Color Computer 2 Demo
Quick demo of my TRS-80 Color Computer 2 for #RetroFair2020.
IBM PCjr
Vintage Computer 1984 IBM PCjr Brief Overview and Tour for RetroFair.
Soldering On
Retro Modern
EGA Graphics On A CGA Monitor?
Back in the 1980s an EGA monitor was a rare and expensive beast.
ZX Spectrum
This short film details my Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Commodore 64
A brief memoir of my days using a Commodore 64.
BBS!
Virtual VCFPNW - Visit a mid '90's era BBS and play some games!
Tandy 102
Tandy 102 laptop with REX flash module.
New (old) Altair 8080
An Altair clone mixing new and old parts.
Vectrex!
The amazing vector-based games console.
Amstrad PC 1640 DD
My Amstrad PC 1640 DD from 1987 running GEM.
Amstrad CPC6128
A quick presentation about my personal reasons for why the Amstrad CPC 6128 is my favorite retro computer.
Sharp x68000 + Lagoon
A bit about the Sharp x68000 with video of it running a couple games.
Adventure!
Talking about Scriptable Machine for adventureE Games (SMEG) for the ZX Spectrum.
Russian Micros
Modern remakes of Radio-86RK, MSX2, and ZX Spectrum from the 1980's we were planning to show at VCF PNW 2020.
Altair-duino
Chris Davis and the Altair-duino from Adwater & Stir
OpenAC1
Here's an overview of the OpenAC1 Apple 1 clone for #RetroFair2020.
UNIX BBS
Connecting to an old UNIX BBS running on an AT&T 3B2/500.
The IMSAI8080esp
Here's a video showing the IMSAI8080esp, a 1:1 or full scale replica of the IMSAI 8080 CP-A front panel.
Signetics Instructor 50
The Signetics Instructor 50 was a 'trainer' for the Signetics 2650 microprocessor.
SIMH+PDP8
Creating and Running BASIC Programs on a PDP-8 using SIMH.
Evie's Revue (Quarantine Edition)
Live from VCF Pacific Northwest 2020 (Quarantine Edition).
PDP-12: ASR-33
This short video shows the ASR-33 teletype's carriage return action in slow motion.
What's my favourite?
How do you pick your favourite retro system?
Big80 - FPGA TRS80 Model 1
This is my Retrofair 2020 exhibit showing off a TRS-80 Model 1 implemented on a cheap FPGA development board.
IBM PS/2 Model 25
A quick look at the IBM PS/2 Model 25, a strange PC compatible that stands out among a family of strange PC compatibles.
Akai EWI 3020
Barely vintage and barely computing, but dammit I want to participate in the VCFPNW..
S-132 add-on for the #IMSAI8080 esp
Prototype of a VT100 terminal, VIO and Cromemeco Dazzler display in one add-on card.
Jupiter Ace
Building a Jupiter Ace clone - a FORTH based micro from the 1980s.
Harlequin
Assembling a ZX Spectrum 128K 'Harlequin' Clone, and one of my current retro-development projects
VCFPNW
Cancellation of the PNW VCF.
PDP-7 Graphics
Some graphics generated on a DEC PDP-7 set to bad music.
PDP-8 Demo
A look at the museum's PDP-8 'Straight 8' minicomputer.
Game of Life
The famous Game Of Life by John Conway on a PDP-7.
TSS BASIC
Running BASIC on a PDP-8 under TSS/8, an innovative multiuser OS.
CDC 6500
Restoring a CDC 6500 with Bruce Sherry. So many wires!