And this is why I don't even try to make these wrap up videos. What a great one Clint! And yeah, I always feel like I look like a dufus flailing about in the background! LOL!
We, the viewers are very happy that this hobby is both world wide and small enough that content creators can meet each other in these events, so that we see some familiar faces popping up.
Even if the phones needed the retrobright, they don't have the budget for it. Hotels tend to cut costs these days, and this is coming from someone who works as a housekeeper.
Day 2 at about 36:13 that was me in the MST3K shirt with my bald head. I saw you there but did not want to interrupt your morning coffee and vlogging! I'm glad you got to experience Whataburger and Canes deliciousness. I loved talking to the Tandy guys in that room. So. Much. Neat. Stuff!
lol, I'm a UTD alum, live nearby, and had no idea this was a thing. maybe I should pull my head out of the sand from time to time. glad you had a great time in our neck of the woods, Clint!
33:33 and 49:19 it can definitely be said that VCF Southwest is considered the “Home Show” for both Usagi Electric and the 8-Bit Guy since they both live in Texas!
Clint it was a great pleasure to meet you! I never dreamed that my MiniDisc collection would end up in one of your videos on one of your channels.😊 I should've shown you that VU meter MD car Deck in action when I bumped into you(again) going down the stairs at the car park since were literally feet away from it. I didn't want to intrude further, so I didn't but it was nice talking to you on the way into the building & taking a photo with the MD car deck you did show on the video. Thank you!😊 I also had no idea you also went to the video game museum too. I must of barely missed you because I left around the time you showed up. I did notice you did meet Asivery (the developer for WebMD) at the video game museum when discussing the Apple II's. He's a young bright mind and being into retro tech and coding for it at such a young age is commendable. 😊 I'm also happy to see Blerbs back! I did want to ask you if you would mind doing a video on a Japanese dictionary/organizer set of Machines I've gotten. They would make for an interesting video. I did have them in the room when you came in but weren't out on display unfortunately. 😢
Portable electronic dictionaries started becoming big *after* I came home from Japan as an exchange student in the mid 90s. I was too poor to afford one.
I'm happy you were able to enjoy yourself and take the convention in relatively stress-free. I'm the guy with the patch vest holding the Dos 5 book @ 35:51. I grabbed that to go along with the copy of Dos 5 I found at Computer Reset - also thanks to your videos! Thoroughly suggest the show to anybody thinking about attending.
Haha! Glad you remembered everything this time -- I certainly didn't! I was short a ton of cables to make my displays work. Thank goodness for the Microcenter nearby! XD
Hey, Clint! It was SOOOOO great to hang out with you at VCFSW...what great coverage of the whole event in a neat nutshell... and thanks for the Forgotten Machines table showing (and Pertec Key-To-Tape exploration!) at 27:26 and 27:57.... you rock!
Dinner time for me in an hour here in the UK. The perfect thing to watch while munching on a cheeseburger or whatever I decide to have. Being totally housebound and even knowing I can never be there Clint's videos are perfect enough for me to imagine I can be there.
I had one of those Acer Aspire models back in the day. Never knew it would be a collectible! Tried to install Red Hat 3.0 Linux on it once, lot's of things wouldn't work because it had a proprietary sound AND modem hardware, all in one board (made by IBM). Guess what? No drivers for Linux - was a very common issue at the time.
I thought seeing the Techmoan intro was exciting but knowing that Adrian could get a break from that Plexus long enough to hang out with LGR was truly awesome! Just when I was wondering where the 8 Bit Guy was LGR found him!
The 'MC Mechanic' that Andrew handed you @31:00 is a microchannel POST code reader; Although the cheap parallel port POST code readers work on all PS/2s, Eric (TubeTimeUS) designed the MC Mechanic. You can almost read the credits on the reverse side (I've done a video on it to see it fully populated), including for my limited input for his project. I don't know if it could make your relationship with microchannel systems any easier...
From the UK; I love this style of documentary/vlog. Great to see the American way of doing things, being more easily watchable by your laid back style. Please keep 'em coming when you can.
My hotel check is the "shrimp check" I was in a hotel or motel once that had some old smelly shrimp in the fridge. So I ask my wife or she will ask me any time we're at a hotel to do the "shrimp check"
Even the part before the festival was genuinely interesting to see. Thank you so much for making these vlog videos that allow us to experience the events too
Heck yeah, I love this forested area. I don't understand some of the nearby neighbors who chopped down all their trees to put in a manicured yard... so much maintenance. Gimme all the trees and bushes and moss!
Hey, just got to jump in and comment not six minutes into the video - we had those exact phones when I worked at the Elbow Beach Hotel, back in 2002, so they must have been in use since the 90s at least. So you got your fist taste of vintage tech at the hotel before you even arrived at the venue lol.
One does assume, looking at your impressive backlog of vids, you could well build a suitcase full of interesting gadgets and oddware for, a smaller presence in a convention. If full megalamunimnium PC setups weren't an option.
What a great show! That was me with the Lisas running LOS, Mac OS, and GEM. It was great meeting you and getting to talk tech for a couple minutes, especially about the Lisa XLerator!
My second pc was a petroleum green Acer Aspire. I LOVED it!!! Very upgradable with a unique design. It was only when wanted to go SCSI that I got rid of it.
I had that exact computer and monitor as a hand me down for a while... It ran older games reasonably well for a while but the motherboard crapped out on me after a few months
Ahh, i miss working at the Asheville airport. Used to work those two gates when they had jetbridges and had Continental and Northwest. Do not miss the summer camp traffic.
Very fun show. My old man & I ran the NeXT Computer table (sadly not featured in the vlog) and it was cool of you to stop by! We got Doom and the id Software editing tools running later in the show, plus a bunch of donations, so next year will have more going on.
Clint you have no idea how much these vlogs relax me, exquisitely interesting & chilled. P.S unfortunately there's a downside for people who require complete silence & darkness to sleep, you're really at the mercy of a lot of variables especially when travelling. As a single guy, I've slept every night with my tv on sound n all for ever, therefore i can sleep through most anything, except for one thing.......HEAT & HUMIDITY.
Fun fact, with the amount of views on this video, if everyone watched the entire video we collectively watched 15 years of clint over the past few weeks at the time of this comment. I love these videos Clint. This seemed like a nice change of pace for you with visiting these shows as a guest instead of an exhibitor. It's like you've been saying when you did have tables and booths to run at these events: it was nice to finally get from behind the table and actually experience the event without worrying about rushing back to the table.
9:47 - @LGRBlerbs PLEASE tell me you picked that ACER up? I'd love to see a video about it from you. I had a black and purple one of these ACERs growing up, I wish I still had it. Even made a video going over the ACE Desktop app it came with over on my channel.
This is why I love the internet. I'm an old school computer connoisseur too but didn't know of this, wouldn't had the time off for this, or had the money at this time. Clint you're giving me the full experience when I got a chance to watch on my day off. It really made my day. Last time this sort of thing happened was with Band of Friends like about 10 years ago when a full tribute Rory Gallagher band played somewhere in Europe and the same thing happened. Keep doing what you're doing man
You know you're old when stuff you grew up with is now museum fodder, so much familiar stuff, all behind glass and being shown off as relics of the past, I know I turn 40 next year, but, jeez, do the museums have to rub it in our faces?? :P
Good to see you able to just enjoy yourself Clint, I cannot say for sure but I have sometimes got the impression from your previous VCF videos that you'd rather just enjoy the show... of course. Work is work and fame comes with its downsides :) Looks like a great exhibition
@@LGRBlerbs Thank you very much for replying. I'm after one now. It looked super cool to mess around with. I always enjoy your videos, thank you very much for the hard work.
The hell is Condom Sense. Also neat to see more Japanese and Soviet computers. Looks like waaaaaayyyyy too many Tandies though. Not my thing but neat I guess for people who like them. Some neat retro Apple stuff. Love the colorful iMacs and the weird like tiedye or whatever ones.
This year featured a "Tandy Assembly Meetup" at VCF Southwest, so we had an entire building dedicated to featuring Tandy equipment. It was a special event meant to showcase Tandy after Tandy had very little representation at VCFSW 2023.
I did a road trip out to VCFSW last year, and it was a blast. Glad to see you made it out there, wish I could have returned this year. I go to as many VCFs a year as I can fit into my work schedule, and they do not disappoint. Sad we missed you at East, hope to see you there some time in the future. Going back to West this year.
When I saw LGR talking with Kevin Williams (Texelec) in the audience I was like "Huh? I guess he's not participating?" I've known Kevin for a number of years before Texelec. He was our Microsoft TAM at the company I was working for. Sort of like a permanently staffed Microsoft rep we could go to with any issues. Then a few years after we both had moved on to other things I ran into him at a BigLots store.
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And this is why I don't even try to make these wrap up videos. What a great one Clint!
And yeah, I always feel like I look like a dufus flailing about in the background! LOL!
And we love you for it, Adrian 😄
Finding you when you're needed is never difficult.
@@LGRBlerbs LOLOL!
You don't look like a dufus. You look like a decent, helpful and generous human being.
We, the viewers are very happy that this hobby is both world wide and small enough that content creators can meet each other in these events, so that we see some familiar faces popping up.
We’re vintage computer enthusiasts, we are all dufuses (in the best possible way). 😂
I'm not sure if the hotel phone needs retrobright, or if it is supposed to be that color.
I expect a “Retrobrighting the Doubletree’s phones” video any day now.
It's that 'vintage smoke stain' look. Straight out the box.
Even if the phones needed the retrobright, they don't have the budget for it. Hotels tend to cut costs these days, and this is coming from someone who works as a housekeeper.
Beige :)
over here in McKinney area, the abusive Tx sun is good for retro Retrobrighting anything!
Nothing like visiting the backrooms of an event space :D
If a door is open/unlocked then it must be explored.
noclipping through reality
@@asystole_ Yep. It ain't like Amazing Digital Circus where that could happen.
Love seeing Andrew Hulshult, Adrian, Action Retro and LGR in the same video.
It feels like a great celebration of old retro PCs.
There were cameos of Usagi Electric in there too. like when leaving the museum. :)
Don't forget the TechMoan cameo!
Day 2 at about 36:13 that was me in the MST3K shirt with my bald head. I saw you there but did not want to interrupt your morning coffee and vlogging! I'm glad you got to experience Whataburger and Canes deliciousness. I loved talking to the Tandy guys in that room. So. Much. Neat. Stuff!
Did he try to kill you with a forklift?
@@WinnerWinnerEmmaDinner Hey, we don’t joke about forklift safety. 😀
@@Brianybug 🤣🤣
Even in a crowd, You can tell Adrian Black is easily the most enthusiastic one of the bunch. It's so easy to pick out his voice lol.
Yes it is most definitely a thing 😅
@@adriansdigitalbasement Hey :D. Glad to see you here. You're definitely one of a kind.
I met him at this show, and he's just as enthusiastic in person!
@@stevenjlovelace I can definitely tell just from this video alone. I've always liked him.
I met Adrian at this event (and first met Clint in Dallas years ago, when he visited Computer Reset) - He is very personable!
lol, I'm a UTD alum, live nearby, and had no idea this was a thing. maybe I should pull my head out of the sand from time to time.
glad you had a great time in our neck of the woods, Clint!
😂😂😂
Did I understand that right? That was andrew hulshult picking you up at the airport? 😱
Lol yeah
He did the theme for lgr back in the day as well!
@@themigraine I forgot about that!
That Mini-disc area looks like the sort of place Techmoan would feel right at home...
THANK YOU for filming with your phone/camera the _proper_ way !
He's LGR...He always does it right!
That's me at 11:48 with my Tektronix 4054A vintage vector graphics microcomputer from 1979! Great video!
LGR has perfectly captured the experience of being at an airport, possibly by filming at an airport
33:33 and 49:19 it can definitely be said that VCF Southwest is considered the “Home Show” for both Usagi Electric and the 8-Bit Guy since they both live in Texas!
Wish you Godspeed on the hunt for that DataDesk keyboard! Glad you liked my table and it was great meeting you!
Thanks, it was nice chatting with you!
So much awesomeness, gotta make the pilgrimage one of these years. Thanks for letting us browse these far away festivals vicariously through you! 👍
"Doesn't smell like farts"....thats a very important part of traveling
You wouldn’t believe where inconsiderate people will stash a dirty diaper
some of the background convos are as interesting as what clint is recording
Love the techmoan reference :)
Where was it?
Edit: Sorry just found it now 😂
Me too!
Darn. Now I have to watch it again to see the reference...😂
Techmoan vids are perfect to chill out to.
I don't remember if I caught the Techmoan one (watched this in bits and pieces) but I caught the RMC one at the museum.
I didn't know MiniDiscs was still popular. I have a portable player/recorder, and didn't know it was a thing til someone gave it to me.
It's certainly seen a healthy resurgence!
They're becoming more popular by the year.
Popular worldwide, or popular in Britain?
MiniDiscs always had more of a presence in Britain during their hey day.
@@rommix0 Even popular in Belgium and other places in Europe with a club culture. Us DJ's used them all the time to record our stuff.
Clint it was a great pleasure to meet you! I never dreamed that my MiniDisc collection would end up in one of your videos on one of your channels.😊
I should've shown you that VU meter MD car Deck in action when I bumped into you(again) going down the stairs at the car park since were literally feet away from it.
I didn't want to intrude further, so I didn't but it was nice talking to you on the way into the building & taking a photo with the MD car deck you did show on the video. Thank you!😊
I also had no idea you also went to the video game museum too. I must of barely missed you because I left around the time you showed up. I did notice you did meet Asivery (the developer for WebMD) at the video game museum when discussing the Apple II's. He's a young bright mind and being into retro tech and coding for it at such a young age is commendable. 😊
I'm also happy to see Blerbs back!
I did want to ask you if you would mind doing a video on a Japanese dictionary/organizer set of Machines I've gotten. They would make for an interesting video. I did have them in the room when you came in but weren't out on display unfortunately. 😢
Portable electronic dictionaries started becoming big *after* I came home from Japan as an exchange student in the mid 90s. I was too poor to afford one.
I'm happy you were able to enjoy yourself and take the convention in relatively stress-free. I'm the guy with the patch vest holding the Dos 5 book @ 35:51. I grabbed that to go along with the copy of Dos 5 I found at Computer Reset - also thanks to your videos! Thoroughly suggest the show to anybody thinking about attending.
Aw I miss the berbs. Nice blerb man.
I hear he’s coming out with a third channel called the sub-blerbs.😂
Haha! Glad you remembered everything this time -- I certainly didn't! I was short a ton of cables to make my displays work. Thank goodness for the Microcenter nearby! XD
Glad it all worked out, your display of goodies was great! Thanks again for the game :)
Quite fitting you got binary number room 1010!
Decimal 10
Hey, Clint! It was SOOOOO great to hang out with you at VCFSW...what great coverage of the whole event in a neat nutshell... and thanks for the Forgotten Machines table showing (and Pertec Key-To-Tape exploration!) at 27:26 and 27:57.... you rock!
Dinner time for me in an hour here in the UK. The perfect thing to watch while munching on a cheeseburger or whatever I decide to have. Being totally housebound and even knowing I can never be there Clint's videos are perfect enough for me to imagine I can be there.
Housebound because of health issues?
@@rikomagicmk3842 Yes. Is that an unusual concept for you?
I had one of those Acer Aspire models back in the day. Never knew it would be a collectible! Tried to install Red Hat 3.0 Linux on it once, lot's of things wouldn't work because it had a proprietary sound AND modem hardware, all in one board (made by IBM). Guess what? No drivers for Linux - was a very common issue at the time.
The cohesive design of all the components, and, oooh that color have caused a small cult following.
Clint: Wow! That went incredibly quick! Only took 30 minutes.
Airport: Oh, my sweet summer child...
44:25 - Man, my dad's office had these plotters and I loved using the little pens to draw
Great seeing you, Clint! Hope to see you at next years show.
Right back at you, Rob! Certainly wanna return to this one.
holy crap you're still around! nice seeing you here even if you dont make videos anymore.
I really want an Film Camera Festival like this. Just seems like an awesome time nerding out with other people interested in the same stuff.
Broken hotel room and broken plane(s). Quite the luck!
Things were simply going too well up to that point, right?
I thought seeing the Techmoan intro was exciting but knowing that Adrian could get a break from that Plexus long enough to hang out with LGR was truly awesome! Just when I was wondering where the 8 Bit Guy was LGR found him!
The 'MC Mechanic' that Andrew handed you @31:00 is a microchannel POST code reader; Although the cheap parallel port POST code readers work on all PS/2s, Eric (TubeTimeUS) designed the MC Mechanic. You can almost read the credits on the reverse side (I've done a video on it to see it fully populated), including for my limited input for his project.
I don't know if it could make your relationship with microchannel systems any easier...
"Why am I outside? It's so stupid hot." Welcome to Texas. Lol
Seriously! I had the thought that all of the out-of-towners got "lucky", as it was only in the low 90s.
@stevenjlovelace Definitely got lucky, but I'm sure it probably felt like 100. Lol
Don't come to AZ in this time of year we got a dry 120F on average. Hard to do concerts at this point as the heat can damage band equipment.
@giselletorres4156 What makes Texas bad is the humidity. It can be 105, but the humidity makes it feel 115. Last year was bad.
Im glad you caught what that Farmers weather thing was in the COCO box. Ive been wondering what that was since I saw pics from the show.
OMG, that last bit. So sorry Clint! Such a great show to have all that happen.
From the UK; I love this style of documentary/vlog. Great to see the American way of doing things, being more easily watchable by your laid back style. Please keep 'em coming when you can.
Hallo. Is there something like this in UK?
The Doubletree in Dallas was a little strange - We were on the "1st Floor" - which still required use of the elevator!
58:12 Your Bugs Bunny reference is not wasted on me. 😊
My hotel check is the "shrimp check" I was in a hotel or motel once that had some old smelly shrimp in the fridge. So I ask my wife or she will ask me any time we're at a hotel to do the "shrimp check"
Woohoo!! Just watched the previous edition and 10 mins ago it’s the 2024 vid uploaded!! My day just got better
Hahah -- that BeBox! It was the first one I ever saw at a VCF, and I nabbed it straight away. XD
Glad it went to a good home. Enjoy!
Even the part before the festival was genuinely interesting to see.
Thank you so much for making these vlog videos that allow us to experience the events too
23:28 my 3 favorite macs all in a row! Macintosh TV, Artemis Powermac, and Color Classic! ❤
11:39 - A Microbee! That's a LONG way from home. It's an Australian educational computer that I'm very fond of.
22:02 noice!
12:43 My first console - Micro Genius/Dendy Junior, probably most successful Famiclone.
Wow... power problems in Texas... Who could have seen that coming?!
You DO live in really beautiful spot, Clint. Open the curtains and get greeted by lovely trees filtering the morning sunshine.
Heck yeah, I love this forested area. I don't understand some of the nearby neighbors who chopped down all their trees to put in a manicured yard... so much maintenance. Gimme all the trees and bushes and moss!
Plus the non native plants and grass are bad for the wildlife.
40:02 that vintage very rare hard to find red bull can that's not already crunched and thrown on the ground is a great find. 😅
Ok, that did NOT feel like an hour and sixteen minutes. Such a lot crammed in; great video. :)
Thanks for taking us along, it all looked amazing and exhausting.
44:30 - Kids these days: “So it’s like a 3D printer… but flat?”
46 minutes in there's a midi version of a certain song Don Henley would flag for copyright 😅
Hey, just got to jump in and comment not six minutes into the video - we had those exact phones when I worked at the Elbow Beach Hotel, back in 2002, so they must have been in use since the 90s at least. So you got your fist taste of vintage tech at the hotel before you even arrived at the venue lol.
That phone is SO out of place, It's almost like the hotel people knew who was coming....
22:05 Maaaate. You know we don’t ALL talk like that right? 😂
Aussies represent.
Had to check your channel and saw that you've put out a community update. Great to see you doing retro stuff again!
Clint doesn't ride in first class?
*looks at ublock origin plugin*
Oh...sorry, Clint....
One does assume, looking at your impressive backlog of vids, you could well build a suitcase full of interesting gadgets and oddware for, a smaller presence in a convention. If full megalamunimnium PC setups weren't an option.
oh man, Ashville Airport. Do they have more than 2 jetways now? I haven't been there since March 2002.
man i just went there not long ago for a metal show
What a great show! That was me with the Lisas running LOS, Mac OS, and GEM. It was great meeting you and getting to talk tech for a couple minutes, especially about the Lisa XLerator!
Thanks for making these videos, very relaxing to watch just like going to a convention with a friend!
Ah american airlines, cant get through one trip without them borking something lol
I lucked out as my travel on AA for this show was exactly on time and uneventful. (Going and coming home)
Very cool to see y'all at David's
There was an entire MD room? Amazing!
It really was. The guy in the wide brimmed hat had an absolutely incredible collection.
15:56 One of the better choices to showcase any Amiga! Classic Bitmap Brothers.
32:15 Journey to Silius!
What a fun chill video to just have on in the background. Love it
My second pc was a petroleum green Acer Aspire. I LOVED it!!! Very upgradable with a unique design.
It was only when wanted to go SCSI that I got rid of it.
I had that exact computer and monitor as a hand me down for a while... It ran older games reasonably well for a while but the motherboard crapped out on me after a few months
Excellent video blog on VCFSW Glad you had a wonderful time! Also thank you for including some of my display items! Keep up the great content!
I agree, watching techmoan at the end of the day is relaxing!
Ahh, i miss working at the Asheville airport. Used to work those two gates when they had jetbridges and had Continental and Northwest. Do not miss the summer camp traffic.
Man, you broke a whole hotel and two planes?! Rough end to the trip. I hope that isn't your main takeaway from VCFSW though!
RAISING CANES ENJOYER LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO
Canes is legit!! Up in MN the lines tend to go out the parkin lot
Great Vlog! And well, if I ever find myself at once of these I will have to remember to bring an extra suitcase so I can dive into that free pile!
Why is there nothing like this in the Netherlands? Would love to visit this!
Well, organize one.
I heard that there will be a VCF Europe coming up.
Very fun show. My old man & I ran the NeXT Computer table (sadly not featured in the vlog) and it was cool of you to stop by! We got Doom and the id Software editing tools running later in the show, plus a bunch of donations, so next year will have more going on.
Yeah that's one I missed recording somehow! It was great seeing DoomEd running on there. I'll have to make sure and get footage next year :)
1:08 ooooo clint without his glasses
I really want to see the Tektronix in person someday, hopefully one would be at the Midwest show. 11:49
Clint you have no idea how much these vlogs relax me, exquisitely interesting & chilled.
P.S unfortunately there's a downside for people who require complete silence & darkness to sleep, you're really at the mercy of a lot of variables especially when travelling. As a single guy, I've slept every night with my tv on sound n all for ever, therefore i can sleep through most anything, except for one thing.......HEAT & HUMIDITY.
Fun fact, with the amount of views on this video, if everyone watched the entire video we collectively watched 15 years of clint over the past few weeks at the time of this comment.
I love these videos Clint. This seemed like a nice change of pace for you with visiting these shows as a guest instead of an exhibitor. It's like you've been saying when you did have tables and booths to run at these events: it was nice to finally get from behind the table and actually experience the event without worrying about rushing back to the table.
Techmoan is amazing, i am glad you follow that bloke!
They’ve done videos together
@@rhydiangalindo8939 Yes, but i am still' glad though!
13$ sandwich 😅
49:17 & 50:16 and GREAT coverage of the Usagi table - EDS PC and Centurion in action!
9:47 - @LGRBlerbs PLEASE tell me you picked that ACER up? I'd love to see a video about it from you.
I had a black and purple one of these ACERs growing up, I wish I still had it. Even made a video going over the ACE Desktop app it came with over on my channel.
Working on it! Couldn’t take it home on the plane of course but we’ll see what else can happen
@@LGRBlerbs Awesome, can't wait! 💜
This is why I love the internet. I'm an old school computer connoisseur too but didn't know of this, wouldn't had the time off for this, or had the money at this time. Clint you're giving me the full experience when I got a chance to watch on my day off. It really made my day. Last time this sort of thing happened was with Band of Friends like about 10 years ago when a full tribute Rory Gallagher band played somewhere in Europe and the same thing happened. Keep doing what you're doing man
I know very little about vintage computer history (more a home video history guy), but god I love these type of videos.
1:07:00 - That Texas power grid, eh!
So great to see another Road Trip video! Thank you!
You know you're old when stuff you grew up with is now museum fodder, so much familiar stuff, all behind glass and being shown off as relics of the past, I know I turn 40 next year, but, jeez, do the museums have to rub it in our faces?? :P
My first time to VCF and it was awesome! Definitely going next year too. I got to see Dan from Usagi Electric but missed you!
Good to see you able to just enjoy yourself Clint, I cannot say for sure but I have sometimes got the impression from your previous VCF videos that you'd rather just enjoy the show... of course. Work is work and fame comes with its downsides :)
Looks like a great exhibition
Does anyone know what the Vaio model is of the orange laptop that was shown several times?
Great video, LGR, thank you.
That’s one of Action Retro’s things: th-cam.com/video/qhL1s9kd1Fo/w-d-xo.html
@@LGRBlerbs Thank you very much for replying. I'm after one now. It looked super cool to mess around with.
I always enjoy your videos, thank you very much for the hard work.
Thanks for taking us on your trip!
Omg. That journey to get airborne following no sleep due to a hotel faking apart.
What a nightmare.
Looks like a really cool event! I've been to VCF Midwest once and see what you are saying about a different vibe.
The hell is Condom Sense.
Also neat to see more Japanese and Soviet computers. Looks like waaaaaayyyyy too many Tandies though. Not my thing but neat I guess for people who like them. Some neat retro Apple stuff. Love the colorful iMacs and the weird like tiedye or whatever ones.
This show is held in DFW, the home of Tandy/Radio Shack back in the day. If there’s any place on the planet to have a bunch of them it’s here ;)
This year featured a "Tandy Assembly Meetup" at VCF Southwest, so we had an entire building dedicated to featuring Tandy equipment. It was a special event meant to showcase Tandy after Tandy had very little representation at VCFSW 2023.
I did a road trip out to VCFSW last year, and it was a blast. Glad to see you made it out there, wish I could have returned this year.
I go to as many VCFs a year as I can fit into my work schedule, and they do not disappoint. Sad we missed you at East, hope to see you there some time in the future. Going back to West this year.
4:22 Orson Welles on the set of Citizen Kane, 1941, colorized.
also liminal space vibes honestly
Yeah that was a funny tidbit. "Rural Aurora" only the second largest city in Illinois after Chicago.
When I saw LGR talking with Kevin Williams (Texelec) in the audience I was like "Huh? I guess he's not participating?"
I've known Kevin for a number of years before Texelec. He was our Microsoft TAM at the company I was working for. Sort of like a permanently staffed Microsoft rep we could go to with any issues. Then a few years after we both had moved on to other things I ran into him at a BigLots store.
45:05 That’s really interesting having a printer that can use a pen
Plotters are awesome