Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2024

[@chumbawumba1959]

Seeing the older lady sitting in chair was super cool ... unique in that she is older than any piece of tech in that exhibit hall and prolly the **ONLY ONE WHO CAN CLAIM TO BE**

[@Couchflyer-NY]

Enjoyed the tour. That’s bigger than I imagined. It’s encouraging to see that much interest.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

[@AlanPope]

What a wonderful collection of devices! Thanks for sharing. Would love to get out there one day!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

You're welcome!

[@ForgottenMachines]

1:48 my Forgotten Machines thank you!

[@KeritechElectronics]

Hey, thanks for the tour! Must have been a stellar event, so much fun stuff, and lots of nerds. I wish I could go there. 0:37 five real deal Altairs in one place, not too shabby! And a KENBAK-1... Beauty. 1:00 DMC-12 not included, haha. 1:12 www.youtube.com/@THEtechknight and his WeatherStar setup, very impressive 1:48 Mera Elwro 7951OM terminal back there 1:50 AJ from Forgotten Machines is there - nice! I wouldn't learn about him if not for Usagi Electric. 3:18 I love the old electromechanical exchanges (something for Usagi, too!) 4:30 does that mean that someone has an electric chair too? 5:39 yay, SAGE stuff... totally tubular! 12:30 emulation IMSAI 17:19 "one more turn... one more turn..." 18:00 now that's interesting and seems pretty rare compared to regular PETs and 8000 series 18:17 blue sticker PET? pretty rare too 21:34 Stranger Things pinball? now I'm curious! No electromechanical logic or panaplex displays in that one though... 23:33 Adrian Black, The 8-Bit Guy, Taylor & Amy, VeronicaExplains, The Macintosh Librarian - all in one place... very nice!

[@1BitFeverDreams]

13:30 Foenix computers date back to.....2023 (F256K) and 2022 (F256Jr), they're really recent and retroimagined 6502, 65816 and 6809 machines (you can swap between these 3 cpus). That's why you didn't hear about them :)

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

[@winstonsmith478]

Thanks for the tour. That one you'd never heard of, that Foenix system, is understandable since it's one of the "neo-retro" systems we're seeing that serve a purpose similar to the Commander X16, powerful, modern but still 65XX CPU based hardware with a relatively simple architecture like we would have loved to have back in the old days. They're about to release the Foenix F256K2 model. At 16:02, that's an Atari Falcon030 system, a very considerably enhanced ST using a 68030 CPU, the final computer from Atari.

[@toddjbradshaw]

This is wonderful to see! Thanks for making this video. I still have my Commodore 64s and I still use them after all these years. I am very proud to display them in my house and to this day they are quite the conversation piece.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

You're welcome!

[@ForgottenMachines]

15:58, ah and vendor Liam walked some of these items over to my table to personally make a sale...and I bought them! I love full-service Vendors like this!

[@douro20]

At 0:46 that is a TeleVideo 990 terminal. It has a standard PS/2 keyboard interface which was one of its major selling points. Not sure what make/model keyboard is plugged into it. Some were used with barcode and OCR scanners.

[@superstar64]

I spent most of my time at that area in 15:06. Me and Sage have been friends for a long time and he was luckily placed next to the Computer Clan booth, who I've been watching for longer than you could imagine. As for my own haul, I got a Macintosh Performa 575 for free (no logic board), an iMac G3 Rev. B for free, a Mac Pro 1,1 for $50, and a Macintosh SE for $110. Hopefully next year I'll be able to set up my Macintosh Centris 660av.

[@SteveMaves]

Thanks for the video. I was there too, but we stayed at our table most of the time so it's really good to see what else was happening.

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Thanks for this great share!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

You're welcome!

[@heergenealogy]

Saw myself in your video, at 18:35 and 18:38, we were at N14 on the map. RobJenCollections

[@chaicharin]

Bro this was right next to me. I would have loved to have gone and checked it out being in Elk Grove Village myself. Too cool.

[@vanhetgoor]

You could al least say "hello" to Adrian Black, all year long hidden in his basement, far away from the sunlight and far away from all the people who dislike those whom are living in a basement, sleeping in a coffin and only coming to live at night. One day of the year Adrian leaves his digital basement, and then you don't greet him.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

LOL

[@antinatalope]

I'm getting a warm and fuzzy feeling just watching this. Oh, for the good days of computing.

[@ForgottenMachines]

18:17 That is a beautiful Chicklet Blue PET 2001!

[@firsteerr]

i go round schools in the UK with some vintage mostly British computers to show kids there are a few things that amazes then 1 - the tiny amount of ram 49k for a spectrum 2 - the number of units sold = the spectrum is something like six million world wide 3 - that you load tapes or floppies 4 -how much the British computing community (Sinclair acorn enterprise dragon etc ) contributed to why we are so addicted to them 5- how much fun you can have with 48k and 8 bits i show them a Sinclair QL with tis Microdrive and show the the Archimedes with its risc OS which was head of its time and still in use today

[@StarlancerAstro]

Went today, had a great time and picked up some stuff, lots to see!

[@souta95]

It's on my bucket list to go to this...

[@neilcherry6452]

Boy the folks from Illinois are gonna give you hell about the pronunciation of Schaumburg ;-) Nice to see all the different machines! That was more varied than I expected (didn't attend).

[@MacinMindSoftware]

Yep, rhyme it with Guam next time. I'll try to be there next year.

[@heergenealogy]

Your probably right.

[@Kkidzz]

..and to think I was across town at KNOBCON getting my SYNTH ON!!

[@retrotv1tech]

It was a great show for sure! Glad you had a great time as well!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

[@peterhickman386]

How dare you not linger on that amazing Comx-35 at 2:00 Ah my youth 🥳

[@ForgottenMachines]

9:30 Ah, the OTHER Heathkit H-89 that people were telling me about, I bought 2 of these (branded Zenith and some proprietary label) both with original 5.25" floppy drives still installed, but people were asking if I bought the one with the Gotek...I hadn't, but finally, now I can see it...AND it's lofty $349 price tag! I didn't pay anywhere near that for the two that I bough...together. Deals abound! Oh, and 2 more I see here at 9:37

[@JeffTiberend]

I would have never fathomed how big vintage computers would be back in the 90's when I had alot of computer "junk".

[@tarajoe07]

I'm going next year. Can't wait

[@Victor-vu1ug]

This is So Cool!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

[@vcv6560]

Looks great, plan to make it some year.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

[@Phathom0]

Ugh. I missed it again!

[@davidgekler]

I sold IMSAI 8080's In 77-78,company call Ultra Byte. Loved those paddle switches!

[@PC4USE1]

Takes me back to the old computer shows at The College of DuPage, The DuPage County Fairgrounds,Orland Park, and the one that was in Rosemont. Used to have a mix of old and new computers,bought several MB/CPU combos back in the day from those. I have owned or seen so many of the vintage pcs in my life,used to scour the thrift stores and bought up a lot,either for resale,donation or just the pleasure of rejuvenation.Too old now to do all the scouring and the sources have dried up anyway.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

I had no idea COD used to have a computer show.

[@Nathan_Jay]

Man I got into this about a week late, barely missed this.

[@herbrjohnson]

Enjoyed your video. I saw one of my buddies at his booth at 1:57 into the video. Mind if I use a snapshot of it, refer to your video also? - regards

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Yes, you can take a snapshot of it. Please refer to my video also. Thanks!

[@winstonsmith478]

I'd REALLY be interested in seeing that presentation by the guy providing tips about how to get vintage computers from recyclers if anyone has it to post here.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

VCFMW videotaped all the presentations and they should be up on KZbin some time in the future.

[@superstar64]

​@@computerhobbyists3070 Last year it took them about two weeks to get all of them up, so expect them before the end of the month.

[@robbylock1741]

Dang this makes me feel old!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

LOL

[@GetFitEatRight]

Also the mac is running Marathon I belive.

[@VelidBiH]

How I did not know about this?! :(

[@cylurian]

When will there be a west version? This is so cool!

[@michaels3835]

There is one in Palo Alto. There used to be one in Seattle but it may have died along with Paul Allen.

[@douro20]

I guess they couldn't find a banner with the old ANSYS logo? BTW ANSYS was recently acquired by Cadence for $30B.

[@jameysummers1577]

You guys are lucky. I wish I could go to this, but I am in Pittsburgh and I can't leave my tech business.

[@youtuuba]

jameysummers, well, this show was over when you wrote your comment, and also it was only on over the weekend, so maybe you can attend the next time by flying out and back on the weekend and managing to visit the show for one day at least. A LOT of people attending this show have 'day jobs' on week days and traveled past several states to attend, not all were from the Chicago area.

[@jameysummers1577]

@@youtuuba I would love to do that! You know...I have nobody to talk shop with. I am the only tech nerd around here, and it's hard sometimes. I live near a PC museum called "Large Scale Systems Museum". I may have to visit.

[@youtuuba]

@jameysummers1577 , LSSM in New Kensington is a great place for any computer nerd to visit. Plus, you can't be the only tech need around Pittsburgh....there are a lot of tech companies there.

[@inranglhood60]

What game is played on the atari 8bit at 20:46? It was a good show this year. I arrived around 8am and they ended up opening the doors early.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

I was wondering myself. Looks like a really cool vertical scroller.

[@retrobitstv]

I didn't see the exhibit but I think the game might be AtariBlast! which is 100% worth checking out!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

That’s a mint Quadra 700.

[@StephenFarrow-gx6qu]

I did not see one Macintosh IIfx, does nobody in the States collect them? I live in the UK and own a very special Macintosh IIfx, used once by a leading publisher/designer. I have a new old stock 80Mb hard drive, two super drives (floppy) and a full 128Mb RAM, thats 8x16Mb chips. 1990 price in the UK was £6,000 for the bare bones Mac. £485 for each 16MB RAM module and £400 for the 80MB hard drive. Total cost £10,280 in 1990. So I have a unique Mac in mint condition running OS7.5.5.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

There's people who collect them in the US. The other models of old Macs are usually easier to find though.

[@bmartin427]

I think Sonic on the C64 is real (unlike Doom), but it does depend on the REU RAM expansion.

[@VelidBiH]

That was not video through for sonic on C64. There is Sonic (master system version) release for C64,

[@wetdoormat]

oh hey, my crappy pikachu drawing ended up in your vid lol 16:29

[@wetdoormat]

I also love thst people added more to it. I didn't do the background or anything

[@danielv3228]

I think they are losing lots of protentional visitors with the timing of this. It is scheduled right at the start of k12 and college for many in the surrounding states. If your not within a afternoon drive, it makes it very difficult to attend. I went to my first show last year, took Friday off, drove 11 hours, went to show, then drove 11 hours back. Nearly impossible to get time off at beginning of school. Had a wonderful time, but couldnt swing it this time. Sad. Money to spend but couldnt get there. 2 weeks earlier or later and I would have a trailer full of stuff to unload.

[@SuperMoleRetro]

Why is this video the exact same as the one on Hans Campbell's channel with all the audio removed?

[@computerhobbyists3070]

I'm not sure what you mean. I looked at his channel and don't see a copy of this video. If there is, please let me know and I'll have KZbin take his video down.

[@SuperMoleRetro]

He deleted it.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

@@SuperMoleRetro Please let me know if he posts anything else he stole from me again.

[@HansCampbell]

@@computerhobbyists3070 I did NOT "steal" anything from you. I posted parts of your video on my channel, because, I thought it was good, and I wanted to promote your channel. I am sorry for doing that. It will not happen again. Also, KZbin does allow content creators to use parts of other content creators videos in their own creations. So, I did not think I was doing anything wrong. Well, I learned some valuable lessons, if I did not create it, do not use it. I also found out from an attorney that if a person creates a video in the United States, then renders it to digital format, that video is automatically copyrighted to its original creator, without going through the usual legal procedings. I did not know this, now I do. Anyway, keep up the great work. 😃

[@computerhobbyists3070]

@@HansCampbell Always get permission before using a clip. Some creators will give permission and some won't.

[@DARK__KING]

we couldn't watch the video because you cut clips every 3 seconds

[@FreddyLanzo-k6x]

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[@7_of_9]

Think pads or IBM aptiva

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

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