• Vintage Computer Festival West - Aug. 6-7, 2022

    From Robert Bernardo@rbernardo@iglou.com to comp.sys.amiga.misc on Mon Aug 1 02:58:49 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.amiga.misc

    The Vintage Computer Festival West is almost here! VCF West will be Aug. 6-7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. See
    https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/
    Here is a list of the presentations. Note the Commodore presentations!
    1. Ben Zotto rCo Sphere 1: The First Modern Microcomputer
    2. Bobby Livingston/Corey Cohen rCo Vintage Technology: Search, Identify, Authenticate
    3. Berger Becky rCo DOOM 3DO: Or how I survived hell
    4. Johan Grip rCo 128Neo
    5. Byron Stout rCo Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE.
    6. Bruno Marchon rCo Iconography of Early Apple Logos
    7. Mike McGann rCo Adventures in Emulation (Commodore)
    8. Leonard Tramiel rCo In Search Of rCa the original Wooden PET
    9. Logan Greer rCo My Journey in Electronics
    10. Lee Felsenstein rCo The Pennywhistle
    11. John Floren rCo Reproduction Depraz mouse
    Below is the description of the C= presentations:
    Saturday
    1:00 pm rCo Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE rCo Byron Stout
    While you can still program directly on the original hardware, it sure is nice to have the conveniences of a software development environment running on a modern PC. LetrCOs use CBM PRG Studio to write BASIC and ML programs for our favorite 8-bit Commodore machines.
    5:00 pm rCo In Search Of rCa The original wooden PET rCo Leonard Tramiel
    The twisted story of the long and, ultimately, fruitful search for the original Wooden Pet.
    Sunday
    2:00 pm 128Neo (Virtual rCo live) rCo Johan Grip
    Johan Grip will talk about the Commodore 128 and the story of how repairing the first computer he owned went a bit astray. Topics covered by the talk includes PCB reverse engineering, silicon reverse engineering, tools and techniques and other things learned during the process.
    3:30 pm rCo Adventures in Emulation rCo Mike McGann
    Do you enjoy using emulators to tinker around with computers of the past? Have you ever wondered what it would take to develop an emulator yourself? In this talk, Mike McGann will detail his adventures taken, from start to finish, in building a rudimentary Commodore 64 (6502) and Pac-Man (Z80) emulator. Topics will include memory layout, CPU instructions, text-based graphics, basic sound, and plenty of implementation bloopers. A demonstration and Q&A session will follow the talk. No quarters required.
    Here is a list of the record number of exhibits. Note the C=/Amiga exhibits! Exhibit ID
    Exhibit title
    Name (first/last)
    1
    Acorn Computers and Teletext
    David Glover-Aoki
    2
    Video-Sprite with TMS9918A card for Apple II & TM990/189 University Board Jerome Calvo
    3
    2000s Apple computer
    Jordan Q Hayes
    4
    The Compact Macintosh Garden
    Steve Brunwasser
    5
    Acorn Econet
    Steve Crozier
    6
    Silicon Graphics Presenter Presentation
    Nicholas Bustamante
    7
    ReA4091 - Back to the SCSI
    Stefan Reinauer
    8
    s100 bus and ieee 696 computers
    Jay Cotton
    9
    Core Memory Interactive Core64
    Andy Geppert
    10
    Early Apple Computer Iconography
    Bruno Marchon
    11
    Vintage Circuit Board Recapping & Repair
    Arion Paylo
    12
    VME Unix Systems
    Rico Pajarola
    13
    Sun Diskless Workstations
    Zachary Hardesty
    14
    From Kodak to Steve: The Journey of Digital Photography and Macintosh Clones of the 90s
    Chris Satterfield
    15
    Prodigy Reloaded
    Phillip Heller
    16
    BackBit simplifies retro computing!
    Evie Salomon
    17
    Just A Collection Of Computers
    adrian chadd
    18
    The Motorola 6809 MIcroprocessor: Let's TACOBOTt It
    Steve Toner
    19
    Motorola 6800 Exorciser Development kits
    Stanley Ruppert
    20
    British 1978 - 8080 Triton Home Computer Project rebuild : Original & Recreation
    Ian Lockhart
    21
    CoCoVGA - Adapting 68xx Systems to VGA Displays
    Brendan Donahe
    22
    Commodore PET progression 1977-1986
    Charles Hutchins
    23
    Commodore 8-bit/Amiga computer exhibit
    Robert Bernardo
    24
    Commodore 64 - 40 Years anniversary of the greatest home computer ever made Joeri van Haren
    25
    Relay based Computers, the Sound of Computation
    Francis Bauer
    26
    C64i - Commodore 64 improved
    Francis Bernier
    27
    60 Years of DEC Linc
    Ryan Schiff
    28
    Tele-Typin' Zone
    Dustin Williams
    29
    "THAT" - THE ANALOG THING
    Lyle Bickley
    30
    Heathkit H8/H9 Estate Sale Find and Resurrection
    Cole Erskine
    31
    Tektronix 4054A Graphics Computer
    Monty McGraw
    32
    Apple ll Rev. 7 & Apple-1 Replica
    Logan Greer
    33
    Sun2, Sun3, 10BASE5 and 10BASE2 hardware
    Robert Harker
    34
    IBM or Apple--Why Not Both?
    Eric Schlaepfer
    35
    Apple & Early Computing
    Jon Siefken
    36
    ROMulator and PETpix - new gadgets for old computers
    Michael Hill
    37
    Radio Shack Micros and Cousins
    David Henderson
    38
    Rare Computers From Japan
    Duncan Mac Dougall
    39
    A Depraz Mouse Reproduction
    John Floren
    40
    Multiprocessor Workstations From The 1980s
    Steve Jones
    41
    The First Apple 1
    Liza Loop
    42
    Overkil Classic Macs!
    Ryan Gehret
    43
    Pen Based Computing
    Tom Conrad
    44
    QWERTZ: German Computing
    Erik Johnson
    45
    CA80 the first Polish trainer computer kit of the 80s
    Kris Sekula
    FOPAL
    Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL)
    David Cortesi
    See you at VCF West!
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group rCo http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network rCo http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
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