Monthly Archives: December 2010

Preliminary Rules and Regulations about Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0

Posted on December 30, 2010 by admin

I just received some preliminary information about VCF East for people who want to exhibit at the show. Please note that this is PRELIMINARY and some things may change. Please check the following webpages for updates. www.vintage.org www.midatlanticretro.org I will … Continue reading →

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Vintage Computer Festival East 7 Coming soon

Posted on December 30, 2010 by admin

So East Coast Version of the Vintage Computer Festival is coming. The even will be held May 14 & 15 2001, so please mark you calendars. The event is brought to you by: Sellam Ismail from www.vintage.org And the members of MARCH. … Continue reading →

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One man’s amusing look at the Commodore 64X

Posted on December 28, 2010 by admin

I was supposed to write about the Commodore 64x but with the holidays I really haven’t had a chance to. In a nutshell they good a modern PC motherboard and stuck it in a C64 case. Now you can go … Continue reading →

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Bob Bishop, Apple R&D co-founder, Keynote at KansasFest

Posted on December 24, 2010 by admin

Kansas Fest is the only convention that is dedicated to the Apple II series of computers and the Apple II Community. They have been doing this since…………1989 This convention is a lot more than just a bunch of guys hanging … Continue reading →

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Apple Lisa 1 sold for $15,000.00

Posted on December 23, 2010 by admin

What a great looking Apple Lisa 1 The man who sold this took a lot of great pictures. Check out some of them here: There are many more images on the ebay page. Too bad I didn’t catch this before … Continue reading →

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Computer Photo Gallery, Maybe.

Posted on December 23, 2010 by admin

Some of you that know me know that I am not only into computers, but into photography and that I like to take pictures of vintage computers. The photo for the website was taken by me back at a VCF … Continue reading →

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The wooden Atari 800

Posted on December 22, 2010 by admin

Sooooooooo…….. Someone took an Atari 800 and made a wooden enclosure. It’s interesting There has to be a story behind this, problem is no one knows the story. I would say a person who really collects Ataris will be into … Continue reading →

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Kim-1 On Ebay

Posted on December 21, 2010 by admin

Another Commodore KIM-1..  . Right now the bid is at $151.00.. I expect the $250 to $300 range.. These are very collectible. http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Commodore-MOS-Technology-6502-KIM-1-SBC-Computer-/390272618026 The KIM-1 was developed by Chuck Peddle. His engineering team designed the 6502 CPU, and Chuck designed the KIM-1 to get engineers … Continue reading →

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A Retro-computing Xmas Tree

Posted on December 21, 2010 by admin

I thought this was kinda cute…. I just had to post this. A Retro-computing Xmas Tree

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Vintage Computer & Console Christmas Commercials

Posted on December 16, 2010 by admin

Atari 2600 ET Commercial 1982 Atari 2600/5200 Christmas Commercial Radio Shack Color Computer II Commercial 1985 Tandy 1000 computer Christmas commercial Radio Shack Color Computer 3 Christmas Commercial This is an Apple Macintosh Commercial showing how hard it is to … Continue reading →

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