VCF Southwest was AWESOME!

Thanks PCBWay.com - I had such a wonderful time at ‪@VCFSW‬, sharing a table with the incomparable ‪@MacintoshLibrarian‬. Let's look at some of my favorite parts of the trip and show, and definitely not get cursed by Teddy Ruxpin.
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#Shenanigans #VCF #Macintosh

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Thank you sooOOOooo much for letting us use your extra table!!! It was a blast meeting everyone and hanging out with you. I will be posting a video soon on my channel!

[@UsagiElectric]

Had a blast hanging out man! Can't wait until the next VCF to see what kind of totally normal computers you show up with!

[@ActionRetro]

Likewise!!

[@fractalMD]

Awesome show was awesome. Thanks for the shout out. Death to Teddy Ruxpin!

[@davidbowne122]

I recall as a kid putting a Bruce Springsteen cassette in a Teddy Ruxpin, and being quite amused with the result.

[@arbayer2]

oh god /no/

[@5roundsrapid263]

My cousin had one. We put an Ozzy tape in it! 😂

[@AlexElectronics]

Hey, that's me at 7:27 in the red shirt working on one of my Lisas! VCF was an absolute blast! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to meet you this year, but there's always next year!

[@LegoWormNoah101]

I was there! I bought a Teddy Ruxpin, checked out the 8 Bit-Guy and Macintosh Librarian. Missed you though, but not too disappointed about that. It was a fun time there and I look forward to the next VCF!

[@nazgulsenpai]

This channel is such a joy to watch. Your enthusiasm for what you do really shines through your content and I've binged watched every video. Keep it up!

[@kpetree10]

Thank you so much for coming to and supporting the show! It was great to meet you in person!

[@SVPunk619]

A friend and I always wanted to set up a Teddy Ruxpin with way to talk through it then put it at a public place and just start talking to people to see their reactions, but we never were able to get our hands on one at the time.

[@kbhasi]

Wow. I'm assuming you were referring to one of the Compact Cassette based models like what was shown in the video.

[@SVPunk619]

@@kbhasi Yeah, that was the nightmare fuel from our childhood. So we thought it would have been hilarious. This was early 2000s though so you couldn't buy EVERYTHING quite yet on the internet, and we didn't have time to scour thrift stores or swap meets, etc... to find one

[@kbhasi]

@@SVPunk619 Yep! Even though I never grew up having one, I do somewhat remember an Adam Ellis webcomic that referenced that. Also, from what I can tell (edit: from YT videos I had previously watched), a lot of people would've lost the picture book accompaniments over time, those would've provided illustrations and text.

[@SVPunk619]

@@kbhasi I didn't care about the cartoon so I didn't want one at that time. Later I knew someone with one and putting rap and rock tapes in it (which of course we recorded off the radio) was funny for a few hours. That was the only time I saw one in person. They had the original tape but I don't remember seeing the book.

[@kbhasi]

@@SVPunk619 I remember hearing in a video that one of the audio channels was used for control signals (right channel IIRC) while the other was used for the story audio, so I can only imagine how that would've played out if the tapes were recorded in stereo.

[@adeptusmechanicus7572]

You, and so many others, keep the spirit old school computing alive. I love it

[@pseydtonne]

I scored a 1985 Teddy Ruxpin last year. I'm still working on turning it into a sing-along Bluetooth device. You are very lucky that that servos still work and the tape deck merely needs a head cleaning!

[@awsomedude0698]

Was super cool getting to hang out with you! Hope to see you again next year!

[@ILostMyOreos]

This absolutely rocks, happy this kind of thing happens even though I don't know much but thing retro computers are fascinating

[@d3adman404]

8:43 this is OUR COMPUTER!

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Thanks for sharing Sean VCF south west Yes I think Teddy Ruxpin has a dark secret to share

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

"Maccy did not hold me captive..." Yes he did!

[@AlexTaradov]

Vilnius BASIC was developed by Vilnius University in Lithuania, not Romania. BK-0010 was the first computer I ever programmed.

[@djkraze5018]

Normally, I say Hack the planet, but this time I say Hack The Bear!

[@Muldrf]

I have Teddy and Grubby around here. They won't hurt you. My kids have never seen them on, it may be for the best. Still back in the day I loved him.

[@zoopercoolguy]

I had one of those "TARDIS" bags. I, too, was able to fit a surprising amount of gear in it for travel.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

Dang, five laptops in one bag. That’s got me beat. Last time I went to Black Hat/DEFCON, I had four laptops in my laptop bag. But none were Libretto or even MacBook Air small. This year I’m going to have five, though. Three of them OLPC XO-1is for mesh networking.

[@achaney]

8:00 yeah you beat me in that bidding war, but to be honest, I couldn't have lost to a better guy. Enjoy the computer and can't wait to see you and everyone else next yer. Definitely one of the best events period.

[@TurboCharged_RubberDuck]

I always had the feeling that all this cursed stuff would come back and bite him... 😰

[@SynthoidSounds]

Wow . . . I had a large closet, filled floor to ceiling, with exactly this type of stuff (including two Amiga 2000s), at my old house in N. Berkeley. Lots of memory cards (a 2Mb board was a big deal then), seriously huge 100Mb drives, big CRT (EGA & VGA) monitors, all sorts of other 80s era comp tech . . . left it all behind, had no idea anyone would actually want any of this. I still have a few late 80s / early 90s PCs, no idea what to do with them, but it is cool that some people are truly into this ancient computer tech archeology.

[@nticompass]

It was fun to see you again, man! It was great to see everyone's tables, too! I got tons of stuff, a lot of it free. I actually had to mail myself some stuff that didn't fit in my bag!

[@zonderafspraak]

You're such a swell guy to share your space with Macintosh Librarian. And thanks for introducing me to her channel.

[@ran2wild370]

There were ЭЛЕКТРОНИКА monitors as well connected by a TV coaxial to the БК.

[@ActionRetro]

oh neat!

[@ran2wild370]

@@ActionRetro need some research, as it might have been 50.0 Ohm :-)

[@R2AUK]

Interestingly there are TWO video-outputs on BK-0010(-01). The first one is composite black-and-white video. This is a low-frequency analog signal and it can be connected to an RCA input of a monitor. The second one is a digital RGB. It can be converted to SCART quite easily. Yes, there were different Электроника TV-s and monitors compatible with this computers out of the box. Hacking a non-compatible TV was not uncommon too.

[@geekwithsocialskills]

Hey other Sean! You sure packed a lot into your Tardis laptop bag! How long did TSA hold you up?

[@harryeddy]

VCF was so fun! It was great to meet you!

[@senilyDeluxe]

The Polybius machine displaying a DOS fatal read error message seems kinda appropriate :-D

[@dannkettle4106]

"It traveled back home with me, bear-ied in my luggage"

[@robsquared2]

This is a tantalum recap because it's good quality.

[@DevilsHandyman]

It was awesome to meet you at VCF. It was a great weekend to spend (mostly indoors) looking at so many great old and rare computers.

[@RetroTechChris]

Great coverage of the event!! See you at the next one!

[@sn1000k]

Thanks dude love ya!

[@BollingHolt]

I've GOT to go to one of these. I live in Alabama, and I THINK they have a Southeast meeting in Atlanta.

[@dennisud]

A great video and I hope you can go to VCF South East! Oh, and I can anticipate more Halloween themed Teddy videos in the future! 😉

[@thedungeondelver]

Gotta tell you a story you might get a kick out of. Back in '07 I was at LGGC (Lake Geneva Gaming Convention), hanging out with Gary Gygax, playing games...well, at the time I was a columnist for InfoWeek, and my editor was also a D&D player. He'd wanted to gift me his collection of surplus laptops - all Pentium 4 machines. One was a mini Sony Vaio, another was a massive, full sized one with a gorgeous screen, and two were Toshibas - one was a fairly middlin' work style laptop but the other was an S75. Full desktop Pentium 4, 2gb RAM, widescreen display...just a really massive desktop replacement. Oh it had an onboard Radeon 9600 card (before I sold it I played Halo on it with no problem). Anyway, so my editor shows up to the convention with a massive backpack full of these laptops and says "Here you go. You never set up shipping, so take 'em home with you!" Meanwhile, my wife had brought *her* gaming replacement laptop, an HP DV9207 (one of those with the "dead in six months" Geforce 7600 discrete GPUs, but that's another story)...now here's the kicker: all of these laptops had some flavor of linux installed on them. I had ZERO login passwords. We get to the airport in Milwaukee, and I gotta pull every one of the laptops out and put them in separate trays. TSA doesn't *blink* at me. My wife, who was 4 months pregnant at that time, has a gallon ziploc bag with our toiletries in them, and they yank HER aside and start shaking HER down, giving her the 3rd degree. About the shampoo, soap, etc. we had with us. Here I am, watching my wife get interrogated and I'm trying to pack up this electronics yard sale...it was nuts.

[@ActionRetro]

Oh geez!

[@fhunter1test]

Ohh, BK-0010... soviets actually had even programmable calculators based on PDP-11 architecture (low power chips) - see Electronika MK-85 and Electronika MK-90 PS. Lots of those machines were killed due to platinum and palladium content in the capacitors used in them 😞

[@Dreams_Of_Lavender]

I don't think nerds could convince each other NOT to buy literally anything, Sean xD I'm struggling not to pick up a fifth oldish Apple laptop right now myself.

[@10MARC]

Looks like a great time! I may have to get to that next year - maybe even bring some Amiga's!

[@EasyMac308]

Ugh, I wish I'd known about this in time to head down. Looks like a lot of fun.

[@DickDawsonTheShills]

Love the Mac Librarian. Nice.

[@retropuffer2986]

Wow! Look at all those beautiful pieces of computing history! 🤤

[@MrREDSTAR20]

Aw man id love to see tsa faces when you went through with all the electronics n your tardis lol i love doctor who

[@eugenekiselev]

Thanks a lot for this video! Especially that BK part :) When I was a kid I had a bit better model BK-0011M but I donated it more than 10 years ago and now it's almost impossible to find those anymore. However, I got a working BK-0010-01SH from Slovakia last year, although a bit cheaper than yours (VCF published a video with that epic battle over BK-0010-01 :)) it is in a worse cosmetic condition and without that NGMD controller of yours. When I got it and powered up its PSU (via 220v -> 110v step down transformer) several caps just blew up. I got PSU fixed but then a bit later bought a 110v psu for BK just to avoid any unnecessary risk. Just in case you decide to get PSU for it I used this one: MEAN WELL RS-15-5

[@WRL64]

It was great seeing and meeting you! You're welcome back to Texas anytime, especially here in Austin. Woody's Retro Loft has awesome A/C. Just installed it last year.

[@ActionRetro]

Same! Will do!

[@WRL64]

@@ActionRetro what's your drink of choice? And you need some good Texas BBQ too

[@ActionRetro]

@@WRL64 Hah, well I'm a sucker for a good stout!

[@WRL64]

@@ActionRetro good man!

[@mcd3379]

Can never say no to a Thinkpad with the classic keyboard.....

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

That is nuts!

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

My guess is a ColecoVision!

[@Francois_L_7933]

That looks like it was a lot of fun 😊

[@thackerybrown2860]

looks like a blast!

[@terranceclark3479]

VCFSW was awesome. I will definitely be going back next year.

[@joelewing4216]

It was great meeting you!

[@ericbauer4559]

I had one of those teddy ruxbins as a kid. oh the 80s.

[@tommythorn]

Oh please do show us more of the elektronica!

[@annieworroll4373]

I have to get to one of these events.

[@carltonleboss]

Five Nights at Teddy's

[@scottharvey-davies1607]

My friend.. thanks so much for the videos. I wish you well and next time, take a bigger bag with you ;)

[@stephanemignot100]

8PrickGuy

[@diabloii72]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come down again! I wasn't able to make it this year, it was announced after I had already committed to going to a convention in Houston that same weekend.

[@andresbravo2003]

That teddy bear is cursed.

[@renisnyanbinary]

It's criminal that your channel isn't 10x bigger, your videos are amazing and the production quality is awesome!

[@DE-GEN-ART]

I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS

[@TheHatMan69]

OMG THAT IS MY SCHOOL

[@jeromethiel4323]

And now you know my pain. I travel with a minimum two laptops, assorted power adapters, interface devices and cables. I think my bag weighs at least as much as yours, if not more.

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

that is a proper computer bag, no way you can loose that one

[@jdancause]

LOL one of your best intro

[@JVHShack]

I wonder if that Chembook would run a 1GHz Coppermine Pentium III CPU. It was fun seeing you again, Sean!

[@MSmith-Photography]

I'm weird and I'm darn proud of it! 🤪🤣

[@aytviewer2421]

1984 is calling and says, "hold my beer" and then requests you to stuff a 23 lb Commodore SX-64 into that bag too.

[@stevef6392]

Sheesh, a bit of Skinamarink at the end there eh? :P

[@memriloc]

I know fuck all about computer history, a little about how they work and everything about how little I know. Not interested in one way about getting into it but love watching your vids as I do learn a lot of stuff I will probably never use, but I like it.

[@minty_Joe]

Hack the Ruxpin to say, "WTF are you starin' at?!?!?" and "Your soul is MINE!!! Mwhahaha!!!!" 🤣

[@airthrowDBT]

The memory board in the regular plastic bag, please get an EAD bag for it 😂

[@TheDanielHolt]

I can't wait for the unBEARable puns

[@akatsukilevi]

0:36 A whole ass iMac G3

[@annika6081]

Are there any VCF events in Southern California?

[@tspawn35]

LOL, I somehow ended up in one of the floor shots of the venue.

[@nysaea]

I wanna meet Maccy too!!! :o

[@rigues]

Wait, Maccy is a practical effect? I thought he was done in post!

[@garrykanter5773]

Worst. Post Credits Scene. Ever.

[@DanaDoesStuff]

I recently just “inherited“ a Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby. Now I’m really interested in this “hacking“ idea…

[@westtell4]

The history of personal computers in the soviet union is that something that made it to the VCF youtube channel ?

[@TurboCharged_RubberDuck]

On a sidenote... Which of the VCF's would be easiest to attend if I fly in from Sweden with maybe some Swedish computers for a display?

[@Toonrick12]

Probably West or Midwest.

[@panopolis8051]

VCF East is relatively close to some major international airports (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark)

[@bradnelson3595]

An armadillo.

[@ran2wild370]

OMG. БК again... that cost a fortune a cumulative annual salary for 120rubles/month.. so it wasn't affordable at all for ordinary people. Instead it was spread across schools in late 80-s and after 1991 I guess leftovers were pushed to schools as well.

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

6:44 Whoa! _Two_ Commodore 900 prototypes .... Most famous for having been discontinued in favour of the Amiga. The case design influenced the Amiga 2000 though.

[@bozimmerman]

Thanks for noticing! Including all the people who came to VCF-SW, you are now the only person to do so. BTW, our demo was the Model 2 running graphic demos while shelled into the Model 1.

[@bairfamilyfarm1336]

The thumbnail reminds me of job simulator

[@ryanzmuda3167]

Is there any event like this in northern va or dc.

[@steve_2024]

I would love to go to VCF but it’s quite a long drive.

[@JaredConnell]

I hope they have one closer to me in the future, sounds like so much fun!

[@charliesretrocomputing]

Same, I’m in MA so I can probably make it to the vcf in NJ

[@frnno967]

We have two major airports here in Dallas 😉

[@mhyzon1]

@@charliesretrocomputingI drove to vcf east from NC, you can drive down from MA. :)

[@charliesretrocomputing]

@@mhyzon1 I know :) I’m just always busy around that time

[@notvitalkanev]

1:27 Man that's 12.5 kilogrammes (for those who use international weight systems) Also nice nickname for a bag. Did you ever watch Doctor Who?

[@danfm1]

yoo the Soviet computers part is sick indeed, greetings from mother Russia

[@LeonTichy]

Damn, I could understand your Russian and I don’t even speak the languages. Good job! Greetings from the Czech Republic.

[@kbhasi]

(2:51) Looking at the label, I can tell that it was an early ASUS laptop from back when they used to produce white label laptops that other companies could brand with their own logos! (4:17) Aahh!! SHE WAS THERE!!!! (4:25) She actually let you hold her?!

[@protogenxl]

Were you channeling Neil Breen

[@ArlenMoulton2]

I don't suppose anyone knows what those monitors/screens were at 6:30 do they??

[@samuelbarringer715]

Does the bear like to eat Texas barbecue?

[@6502Assembler]

Anyone remember Sergei's last name? He was the HP plotter guy. I need to get in touch with him!

[@aytviewer2421]

Does anyone know of any similar shows that take place in Florida or a nearby state?

[@mhyzon1]

There is a VCF south usually in the Atlanta area. So it depends on what part of Florida, I guess.