Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Chicago Classic Computing puts on a convention in Elmhurst, IL. where hobbyists can buy and sell vintage computers and watch presentations featuring The 8-Bit Guy, LGR, Computer Clan, Adrian's Digital Basement, Ben Heck Hacks and 8-Bit Show and Tell.
So that’s where all the cool kids went this weekend.
And cool adults!
I gotta say your explanation of what was at VCF was one of the most easy, simple and straight to the point descriptions so far on TH-cam.
Thanks for the great content.
I enjoyed my time at VCFMW18. We had a few tables in the hall, & a display table in the 2nd big room. Sold a few items, made a few friends, & saw a huge turn-out of retro tech fans.
I'm already getting ready for next year's show. I need a bigger vehicle, more table space, & a few extra hands to help.
I wonder what to bring? Older laptops & accessories, retro tech art, telephony items, electronic components & tools? So many things to consider. And it's just 10-months away!
8bit guy’s posture always makes me sit/stand up straight.
Like I am back to typing class! Mrs. Ellen Farquar, the former Monson Jr.-Sr. High School in MA 1978-82
YOU got A LOT of great ST items, fellow ST brother! But we Love all of the retro computers too. They all are AMAZING. What a great festival.
It was soooo busy this year, barely had room to walk around!
I bet stuff from Digi Barn and Computer Reset made it to the Show , Was great to see some of this VCF , Thank you for the footage , Liked and Shared :) QC
Thanks!
Thanks for the simple walkthrough and chat... felt like I was there. 👍
Sure thing!
As Clint from LGR would say "Retro goodness!" Thank you both for your videos!
It was an amazing time as always, but one of my favorite personal moments at the show was when I saw the Combat setup with that huge Atari cabinet and played against my friend I was with, and I realized since he and I had been friends in Kindergarten and played Combat and then drifted apart for like 15 years afterwards that it was the first time we had played Combat together since the 1980s, which was adorable, haha.
Awesome!
Enjoyed your video of VCF Midwest, my first year going. I picked up four CoCo's I was talking to the guy about the gray CoCo when you were film it I was the guy in the Pink Floyd shirt. and I got it for decent price.
I was checking to see if I showed up in any videos taken during the event, and yes.. the corner of my large head and Dr. Pepper when you were showing the Sun and SGI computers for sale. That was a table I was sharing with a couple other people. Had a great time and sold almost every single thing I came with and didn't buy much (with one exception, picked up a maxed out RS6000 workstation since I love Unix devices). Looking forward to next year for sure
Thanks for posting the vid.. Nice job. I found myself at 16:46.
Sure thing!
I learned BASIC on a DEC PDP-8 in 1974 (compiler! 8-inch floppies!) so recognized every farking machine.
The wide beige box you couldn't ID was prolly DEC Ultrix (RISC Alpha CPU).
Thanks for the memories.
Thanks!
Used many of the old computer systems, but mainly have nostalgia for the Commmodore 64 and 128
If I was in the US, I would love to go to this. Such a chill vibe the place seems to have.
Just found this channel. Great footage! Brought me back to when I was a kid. Keep up the good work!
Thanks buddy!
Every year I go, I find exactly what I'm looking to buy for stupid low prices. This year was the best yet, so many vendors. Also getting to meet the makers who are helping the hobby thrive is brilliant.
I totally agree. I got great deals on everything I bought today.
Is there any VCF in Virginia?
❤Great memories. Growing up in Downey we had NASA Rockwell which local library had chip books. I made my first clone IBM in 1989, remember looking for software. lotius 123, WordPerfect , dbase . Old dial up days all monchriome green or orange. I think “COMPUTER GAMES” movie came out. I remember Micro Center in Orange County was only place to get electronics. Micro Center is still standing and found one in Dallas Texas. Today, I surf more, but stilll living in Downey. Weekends, find so much old legacy stuff, that I throw it away. I just can’t find who would like it.. Well, surfing today. Chicano Mexicano Beverly hills Downey California. I speak Spanglish with family and friends, but work and business, English only. 😢
Around 11:00 the computer is a msx2 and the game is space manbow, if my memory serves me well.
A Trip down Nostalgia Lane!
10:46 Sharp X68000 - MC68000 computer with arcade quality graphics - the "Japanese Amiga"
10:58 Exidy Sorcerer - Z80 computer by an arcade machine manufacturer - wanted one badly at the time it came out, but it was too expensive
11:05 Sony HB-F1XV MSX computer - the cool looking computer & game
I need to register to get my passport. There's so many good retro-computer festivals in the states!
Nice walkthrough, thanks. Always good to see an audience for retro computing.
Thanks!
Wowww never been a place like that, ohhhh. Just love to visit a place like that, to see all great computers and consoles!
14:41 Orange's UNIX PC sighting with expansion module....nice!!!
Them were UK Sinclair Spectrums and not the Timex, 128K with the grill, 48K and the original rubber key version... ZX81 in the back there!! 😊
8:00 - "S-stay away from me... T-talk to her". His body language says it all.
Oh wow! that was amazing. Loved the OS/2 stuff. I still love that old OS. I have it running as a virtual machine.
No mention of Ben Heck!? He was seen after the 8-bit guy….
My bad. I forgot to mention him.
The 8 bit guy is all about making the money.
Oh man! Thanks for the video. I want to go to the next one in the Midwest (as I am from Omaha).
You're welcome!
I am from omaha too would love to go next year
Really enjoyed this, so much nostalgia in one room!
Thanks!
11:03 That computer that you said you didn't knew, but rhe game is cool... It's a MSX 2+, built and sold by Sony in Japan. It's a HB-F1XV, one of the most beautiful computers I have ever seen. And I have some MSXs... BTW, the game is Space Manbow, from Konami, 1989. One of my favourite shmups, made exclusively for MSX 2.
10:46 There is a Sharp X68000 (maybe the most beautiful mid tower computer of all world) with Roland MA-10 boxes, and a Pioneer PV-60, which is a MSX 1. All of them are Japanese computers.
In particular, the MSX standard is known by their fans as the "most magical computer of all kind". And I can't question this remark, MSX is my passion, I have more than thirty of them!
Great video! Hope I can go to a VCF in the future. Cheers from Retrópolis, the City of the Classics, in Brazil!
I'm not really a computer guy but I legit want to buy an old classic computer just cause they're cool!
the spectrums do look pretty slick against all of that beige LOL
I really appreciate this. This was amazing footage. You have great knowledge of history too. I grew up with a coco and c64 and treasured those years. THANKS AGAIN! :)
I had a CoCo and C64 when I was growing up also.
16:01 Man, that guy must really love VIC-20's
Saw what looked like a Ohio Scientific for a couple frames around time index 1:18. Own on in late 70's. Very rare and forgotten machine.
I got a TI 99 4A for Christmas in 1983, it sold, at the time: $50.00. Great color 16K, system, BASIC, cartridges, great way to start computing!
They were sold for $50.00 when they exited the market, too!
I want to buy one, but I have a newer HDMI tv. What cable do I need to get the system to work with the tv? Data, please. Thanks.
I was the Amiga of Rochester table. We were doing live repair work. We were repairing a sound card when you had come by.
Thanks for sharing this!
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing this. I have been wanting to go to the Midwest for a few years. I need to make it next year.
Sure thing!
This was an amazing show! So excited for next year's!
Agreed!
What an amazing video...and thanks for capturing my table at 5:12 !!
8:00 8-Bit Guy and Mrs Murray!
Yes, indeed. I bought a Commander X16 shirt from them.
perfect
Wow I love how the event badges are inspired by the Rush 2112 album cover art.
They sold t-shirts with the same artwork also.
Strange ... this popped up on my YT feed. I was there Saturday. Show was huge, overwhelming. More than I was expecting. Whole place was packed and roads jammed with cars.
The attendance looked great this year. Seems like it gets better every year.
Ha! I made the video! I was in line for a shirt.
Aww dang you missed our weatherstar exhibit. The youtubers were fun to hang around.
No disrespect to Mid-Atlantic VCF, but the Midwest has 100 times the vendors and deals! I wish I lived closer!
Did I just see a stack of XFX graphics cards. Lucky
I wish I could have went and bought a Atari 8 bit computer or a apple 2 computer.
0:26 that's my bike!
15:34 Correction - that's actually a VIC-20! ❤❤❤
13:10 "Not sure what that is..." That's a TRS-80 Model 1 with MIRE and MISE expansions from Bartlett Labs, likely his table.
10:48 - A Sharp X68k, proof that the Japanese have always been one or two steps ahead in technology.
Thank you, so much for sharing this is an excellent video. In the 1980's, I donated to Goodwill a perfectly good running Atari 800 computer, why? Because, I thought that was what you were suppose to do when, you were no longer using an electronic device. Now, I know better and if it still works ... I never toss it out. Currently, in my Apple desktop computer collection are the following: All-in-One 5500 with Apple's internal Video Card system and Apple's internal TV/FM Radio Card system with its matching black remote control; white 20-inch G4 iMac, glossy white 20-inch G5 iMac, glossy white 24-inch Intel iMac; 2010 "mac mini" (the last model with a built-in DVD super-drive); and a space gray "trash can" Mac Pro 8-core/D-700/64GB/1TB SSD model (smile...smile).
You're welcome! Sounds like you have a nice collection.
The ones that say Singer may be controllers for sewing machines or some kind of textile manufacturing. I'm just guessing, because of Singer sewing machines.
There was a sewing machine that was controlled by a Game Boy Color which had 10% of the electronic sewing machine market in Japan. It was licensed internationally by Singer.
Chiptunes NIN "Pretty Eight Machine" awesome 😀
Blazed right by a Macintosh Portable on the old ibm stuff table
My first PC was a Tandy 486(sx or dx.. I don't remember), 25MHZ with a 100 MB hdd. Had a 1x CD-ROM.
Nice!
Prices were great. You showed the Atari XEGS I bought. Got to take a pic with Adrian Black and talk to him for a couple of minutes. Such a nice guy.
Very nice. Cool video about this cool meeting of vintage hardware and vintage hardware fans :)... As a C64/128 fan since about 1985 I always love to see how an active community has been built in the last years, with people like 8bitguy and others really finding lots of other fans and making great interesting content about this computer history.
I must however be the only person who never thought Doom looked good, not even in the 90s ;)... Maybe its because I first got to see Descent which came about a year later, already with 3D enemies and real 3D environment rotating in all directions, and only got to see Doom later and always hated how bad it looks in comparison with its strange sprites and environment :-D I guess you have to had seen Doom first to admire it.
The E.T. Atari game is collectible now basically because of how Atari treated it, the whole “bury the remains in embarrassment” treatment and subsequent excavation of the buried cartridges sealed the deal
10:45 No mention of the mighty Sharp X68000. I had a chance to get a complete system about 10 years ago that was here in the US and I've been regretting missing out on it ever since. For all I know that could be the one right there.
10:57 These are two rarely seen systems, the Exidy Sorcerer on the left and the Umtech VideoBrain on the right.
There sure was a lot of cool stuff to see there.
ET game . Not because they are good, but because they are rare ! Lots of them ended up in landfill after game got discarted by producers
The computer at 11:03 is a Sony Hit-Bit F1XV MSX2+.
I think that's a Macintosh II being shown running screwed down to a piece of wood at 13:15.
Thanks!
This is awesome. eMachines: Never Obsolete
Thanks!
I legit have an old emachines monitor, I don't know if it works cause it hasn't been used in years but idk it might lol.
Good grief, there's tonnes of great stuff here!! I don't think you'd ever see anything this good in the UK
Nabu's at 9:10 and 15:14!
That is nuts!
Coolest
What computer was that with the GFA Basic 3.0 stuff around it? GFA Basic was the best widely available basic version on the Atari ST anyway.
What about legacy unix systems? I would like to see one of those.
There were quite a few old Silicon Graphics and Sun machines there.
IBM 6400 Printer @1:27 :) OMG, we had one at work that replaced a 4248. Still needed a printer for carbon and carbonless multipart forms into 2010's :)
Was that an Atari TT or just a Mega STE on the right at 11:09? Nice, would have liked to have seen something running on that.
Looked like a TT to me
@@nickblack9891 Thought so. I had a Mega ST2 back in the day, loved it, but it wasn't a TT :)
The full size CBM-II must be a rare computer, didnt see them on the vid.
wow, this was awesome! over the years I got rid of all sorts of classics which were 'junk' at the time, this gives me some hope :D btw at 5:06 those are some HP 9000 workstations
For a while any working CRT TV that had audio and S-video input jacks were hot around here. The larger ones 24" and up weigh a ton.
I believe it.
03:06 - ET - the game is popular because of its history - not the quality of it ;) It stands for the crash of the console market in the 80's. Really nice video, great machines and stuff.
Kinda thought I saw an ESS switch
I need a vintage IBM monitor, anyone know when something like this may come to Colorado?
What was the oldest computer/ system you saw there?
Awesome man wish I was there. Soundsl
Like fun ...moterola RPM software on dos anyone ?
Thanks!
6:59 Are all 3 of them playing Quake on one SGI machine?
I'm the guy selling "music software" at 2:12 - it's actually not software, just music written on a bunch of vintage computers and game systems like the ones in your video.
❤
Those C128Ds are cool.
Amiga 500... can't see price tag...
I had ET for 2600 and I liked it. I was a kid... I don't know what people expect.
OK NOW WE'RE GETTING SERIOUS... I WANT EVERY ONE OF THOSE SUNS ULTRAS.
SGI OCTANE! Man.
So much UNIX and Amiga, man I would have loved to see that. Wish I was rich.
The computer was "streaming" video from an N64 behind/beside it, not playing it.
00:50 - widzę, że niektórym ludziom kowidek całkowicie mózgi pozjadał ;-)
I wish there was something like this in Australia (or Europe), but if there it's likely I'd probably be bankrupt :) I just can't pass up an old Apple ][ or TRS or Amiga.
Fantastic video quality, what did you use to shoot the video with?
Tiny correction, the vintage computer federation does not put on every show called "vintage computer festival"; this specific one was brought to you by Chicago Classic Computing. Glad you enjoyed the show.
Thanks for the info. I used an iPhone 14 in 4K mode to shoot the video.
@@computerhobbyists3070 We had technical difficulties recording video of the panel, and I noticed that you have panel footage at the end of this video. Is there any chance we could get access to all of your raw panel footage, with an appropriate credit of course?
Unfortunately, I only shot about 15 seconds of video from the panel. @@JimLeonard
@@computerhobbyists3070 no worries, can I use what is here with your permission and credit?
Go ahead and use the footage of the panel. @@JimLeonard
That was a TI-99/4A😆
HDVE A GOOD TIME!PC PARTY
11:03 => MSX Yamaha standard
What were they showing running OS-9 next to the Time Circuits display?
saw someone manipulating a joystick at 9:07 and was thinking - oooo, haven't seen that retro joystick! and they're operating their wheelchair....
What aspect ratio are you filming in, 2:1 anamorphic widescreen?
It's filmed in 4K on an iPhone 14.
@@computerhobbyists3070 Sweet! Much better quality than most TH-cam videos.
Thanks!@@customsongmaker
Shame there is little to no Acorns, they did sell them State side. So many masks, I'm pleased we shook those of 2y ago now