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Vintage Computing Festival: PNW is About to Kick-Off!

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 10 2018, @10:33AM   
from the 640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.

mechanicjay writes:

The Vintage Computing Federation (VCF) is holding its first Pacific Northwest Show this weekend. VCF is a non-profit which promotes the preservation of and education about our collective computing history. The event is being held at The Living Computer Museum in Seattle Washington Feb 10 & 11, 10:00 to 5:00.

If you're in the area stop by and see SN's own mechanicjay exhibiting an Alpha Syntauri Sythensizer!

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• Also check out (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:15PM

  by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:15PM (#636029) Homepage Journal

  the Museum of Communications [museumofcommunications.org] too. They look pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikoF6KZjm0 [youtube.com]

• hey (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday February 10 2018, @06:35PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday February 10 2018, @06:35PM (#636090) Journal

  That's pretty good.

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• My 6809 lives on in virtual My 6809 lives on in virtual (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday February 10 2018, @09:04PM (3 children)

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday February 10 2018, @09:04PM (#636127) Journal

  I decided that all my 6809 data and software wasn't going to go away on me.

  So I wrote this. [datapipe-blackbeltsystems.com]

  I still have working hardware, too, but... at this point in time, the emulation is considerably faster. :)

  • Re:My 6809 lives on in virtual Re:My 6809 lives on in virtual (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @10:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @10:55PM (#636152)

    Awesome! I always liked the 6809. So elegant, so easy.

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    • Re:My 6809 lives on in virtual (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday February 10 2018, @11:35PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Saturday February 10 2018, @11:35PM (#636168) Journal

      The JK 700 series industrial lasers we run at work are ran by as single 6809.

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  • The Very Fastest Apple II... (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:54AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:54AM (#636233) Homepage Journal

    ... was a Power Mac 9500. Some of my coworkers at Apple were working on it.

    I don't think they ever released the emulator.

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• I'm going to donate my mom's word processor (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:53AM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:53AM (#636231) Homepage Journal

  She absolutely loved that thing but it has gotten hard to find ink ribbons for it.

  It's a dedicated word processor but far simpler than most because it only prints fixed-width type.

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