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from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2017-08-07 09:02:10
subject: Vintage Computer Fair

I went to the Vintage Computer Fair this weekend, upstairs at the Computer
History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

They had a Xerox Alto, a Lisa with a huge Apple Profile (probably a 5 meg
drive), an operating Apple Network Server, a couple of powerbooks networked to
it via AppleTalk, tons of Amigas, Ataris and Apple IIs, a Lisa, someone who'd
built a 2 foot by 2 foot working 6502 processor using discrete components,
IMSAIs, a table full of Soviet home computers, a working AT&T 3B2 system
running an early rev of sdf.lonestar.org's software, and a couple of dozen
systems including some nice looking IBM 5150s and a Kaypro "Portable".

The systems were out and able to be played with for the most part. No one was
hovering over them like they were museum pieces.

It made for a nice afternoon, seeing some of the old systems running. Entering
a program in IBM Basic and playing Choplifter on the Apple II was fun, I wish
they had Star Raiders on the Atari 800, that was the first computer I played
with at the West Coast Computer Faire back in 1980 or so.
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