Vintage Computer Festival South West!

Vintage Computer Festival South West 2024
Join Maccy and Kate Fox as they visit VCF South West!
We see tons of retro Macs, PCs, IBMs, Tandys, and quirky and fun computers that you probably haven;t seen before!
VCF is the place to be if you are interested in retro computers!
I had a great time while I was there and I was on the Streamers Panel!
Shout out to The VintNerd for hosting! It was great seeing him again and he was a fun host.
Join us as we give you a walk through computers from the 60s 70s 80s 90s and 00s at the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center in Richardson Texas at UT Dallas!
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Links to People in the video!
@1:28 - iMac’s by x.com/kylepetree
@1:24 - Phones! By SneakyNet sneaky.nonrout...
@2:00 - Apple IIGS Setup! - / @petarsplace
@3:40 - Usagi Electric - / @usagielectric
@7:45 - FujiNet - fujinet.online
@8:00 - ArcadeComponents - ArcadeComponen...
@11:00 - Tandy Showcase - TandyShowcase.com
@11:50 - TechAV’s Minimal 6502 - techav.net/
@12:32 - National Video game Museum - nvmusa.org/
We took home some amazing things! Like the radius Pivot from Texas Nerd House and a few upgrades. Be sure to subscribe to my Patreon to see the behind the scenes videos for fans!
Check me out on the KZbin panel with ‪@LGR‬ ‪@UsagiElectric‬ ‪@The8BitGuy‬ ‪@NybblesandBytes‬ and more! • KZbinrs Panel 2024

[@LGR]

Great overview of a great show! So packed with goodness that I see lots of things I missed here, despite spending two days looking over everything. It was fun meeting and hanging out with y’all a bit as well!

[@UsagiElectric]

Excellent coverage of the event! It was a ton of fun hanging out Kate, Mrs. Usagi loves the little floppy disk earrings!

[@OverlordJake]

I admire the commitment to the bit, carrying Maccy around the venue. You always bring quality and work ethic to these vids.

[@robbiewabisabi]

It’s not a bit! Maccy was super energized and very chatty at the booth. Super excited to get a selfie with him and ms. Fox!

[@JayJay-88]

Yay, happy to see you and Maccy again! 🥰

[@kingedwin]

I'm less surprised that Maccy is real, and way more surprised that he's portable.

[@emmabentley7945]

I love Maccy he's awesome ❤❤

[@richardbrobeck2384]

It was great too see everyone !

[@Dorelaxen]

Met you there and subscribed as soon as I got home. Love your content!

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Welcome aboard!

[@CaptainDarren82]

Super underrated channel, and loved the experience! Really underrated channel.

[@nelljrbr]

I loved it ! 🖤

[@joysticksnjukeboxes]

This is really great coverage of the event, and entertaining too. Thank you so much!

[@momi3644]

really cool video! Actually caught myself in the background a few times haha

[@3rdPersonProductions]

Shenanigans! Love it!

[@Shaggy0f138]

Thanks Maccy and Ms. Fox! That was great fun.

[@ApoplecticDialectics]

This channel is so fun.

[@sandrodellisanti1139]

Ciao and thank you for your very nice Video, which i like to share at Telegram and at Tribel, personally i've started in 1986 with an Commodore VC20, and in late 1989 with my Amiga 500, i did my first steps into creating Desktop Wallpaper and Tracker Music.. later BeOS and Debian Linux in the later 1990's, and then used Powermacs with OS X, so right now i'm 55 and using Debian Testing, great times.. many greetings from brunswick in germany and please stay safe 🙃

[@ChampionOfSkyrim]

I gotta go to that museum. I love a good Sega display!

[@mueford]

I LOVE MACCY !!!

[@Moosemanity]

I'm a PC guy, but I love this channel 🥰

[@MicrobyteAlan]

Fun show, I'm watching on my MacBook, I noticed a vintage VT 100 (I'm a Deccie) lots nice machines. Thx

[@dmora2309]

👍super cool show

[@Antony-w3l]

I have only just come across your cahannel and it's great... Keep up the great work... :-)...

[@tylerlloydboone]

Let’s gooooooooo. Maccy brought tha funnies ❤

[@Bassotronics]

This video is so awesome. :)

[@rlima81]

Awesome video! I'll go to one of those conventions one day

[@CityXen]

Cool! We might head there next year

[@bigd5090]

I love the MiniDisc display! I still use mine and imported my wife's community radio show last night as a WAV over USB2 via OSX Snow Leopard emulated under Fusion! It's still useful though I wish I knew someone who repaired them!

[@JamiesHackShack]

Great one! Thanks for sharing with us.

[@maxxcan]

I have seen a lot of videos of you, and only now I can to see that you put the voice of Maccy. That is awesome!!!! 💖💖💖

[@Mac84]

Awesome, it looks like it was a great show! Hopefully I can make it out there one of these days. Thanks for the tour!

[@tracyleewilliamson4727]

COOL N AWESOME !!!!

[@SegasonicfanDesigns]

lol the conversation with Maccy about buying a CRT nice Sega Saturn fanny pack ! (I have to notice anything Sega in the video, yknow) Great overview of the show - the highlight for me would have been those minidiscs! I used those all the time back in the day :D

[@MrKsoft]

Yay, you're finally coming to VCFMW! Looking forward to finally meeting Maccy!

[@FreihEitner]

It's always great to see Macintosh Librarian and Maccy! I learned something new here -- never knew that MiniDisc was used for data storage.

[@JHMBB2]

That old ram memory was insane, like how did anyone figure that out. Also loved the minidisc section!

[@rafaeljuarezgoo]

Nice reminiscing about the old tech 🙏🏽

[@UpLateGeek]

So many cool vintage machines! Looks like you and Maccy had a lot of fun! Also looks like you got your quota of arm exercise for quite some time carrying Maccy around.

[@dkhl02]

Hermosa 😍🌹🌹🌹

[@shawnerz98]

It was good to meet you at VCF Southwest. I have a couple of your cards. Seeing Usagi (Dave) and the Centurion was great too!

[@ftorresgamez]

At 8:49 min -- that's my family and I, bunching together seeing my lovely wife playing The Oregon Trail on one of the old iMacs. Fortunately, she didn't die of dysentery :-) We enjoyed our first VCF ever, loved the exhibits and loved saying "Hi!" to Macintosh Librarian and Macky. We hope we can see you next year!

[@draygosmith]

Looks like a lot of fun!

[@AtomicWoodDesigns]

It was fun meeting you.

[@Dr.Quarex]

Oh sweet, I will be at VCFMidwest and hope to get my picture taken with Maccy! Haha.

[@Codeaholic1]

Now I'm wondering how Maccy works.

[@BilisNegra]

Yeah, and what power solution it mounts to have been made portable!

[@mkeathley]

Look up the VCFSW KZbinrs Panel. Maccy was there and shut down. We got a little insight into how he might work. :-)

[@warrenio9179]

Maccy has a soul.

[@mattmyers9351]

Great video Mrs. Fox and Maccy!!

[@andycraig7734]

Is Maccy old enough to swear? 😜 You had me rolling with the comment on the Soviet computer.

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

hahah oops! Maccy didnt know what that meant!!

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

I have to say I've never seen a ventriloquist use a computer as a dummy before. Well a general purpose computer can indeed be a dummy terminal.

[@nahkanukke]

Thanks for the awesome video. I never had a mac as the prices was out of my range at that time. But drooled always when seeing and using one.

[@KayakTN]

I can't believe I completely missed the video game museum. Oh well, maybe next year.

[@JDW-]

Another great VCF overview video, Kate. I also watched the VCF Panel video where yourself and other KZbinrs were interviewed, and I heard you say you're a fellow EE. I had a feeling that was the case because you always seemed to be much more informed on technical matters than just your average vintage Mac enthusiast. I would love to see a video about what sparked your interest in electrical engineering. For me, it was my love of the Mac (and computers in general), combined with a very inspirational electronics class instructor in my senior year of high school, who was a retired EE. Funny too, because I wasn't that great in math. But that career choice was a good one. It opened the door for me to move to Japan.

[@djkraze5018]

Just a quick note; at about 12 minutes, a U-Matic Video Tape followed by the smaller form factor U-Matic tape was displayed in the video. It was called a "beta" tape (or Betamax). Beta is a much smaller format Helical Scan 1/2 inch tape that was marketed to the consumer market and lost the format wars to VHS and was introduced in 1975. U-Matic was the first cassette format video tape using a 3/4 inch wide Helical Scan format introduced in 1969 (both produced by SONY), and was mostly utilized in broadcasting (replacing the massive 2 inch quad VTR systems) and in schools (replacing the 1/2 inch black and white open reel decks). These tapes were easier to store than a 15 inch diameter 2 inch tape reel or 10 inch diameter (not sure of the reel size) 1 inch C-format reels of tape and were easier to mail (though there were smaller 5 & 7 inch plastic reels of 2 inch tape that were much lighter than the massive metal spools and were commonly mailed with commercials). Though Betamax did lose the consumer market, it saw success in the broadcasting market being utilized in portable video cameras (betacam) and in automation where many programs were dubbed from other formats (mostly 2 inch or film). for use in a play-out system. (did I say quick note? Sorry, I did it again)

[@bearzilla2462]

go out of your mom's basement once in a while and get some sun. all this stopped mattering a few decades ago.

[@irishhawk1]

I'm here for the minidisc stuff

[@Cryo_Gen]

new life goal: finish my z80 homebrew all in one and bring it here! soon as i saw you, Usagi, and 8 bit guy i knew this was a place i have to see!

[@JGreen-le8xx]

Ms. Fox ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@omgitsbees]

A tower of power! XD

[@ItsCrapContent]

Honestly that place is so cool i wish we had the same thing over here in the uk x

[@djtomoy]

Maccy!! You’re so cheeky when you’re in public 😮!

[@Nymunariya]

we need a VCF Europe ...

[@alivew]

Me too ;)

[@craftsman123456]

Looks like so much fun

[@EricGranata]

I really need to put this event on my calendar.

[@musicalneptunian]

First computer in a school lab in 1987 was the Apple 2 E with LOGO computer graphics language.. Wow at Aussie computer PC Z80! If you ever find a computer with the Zardax desktop software system, then that was used in Australian schools in the 80s; Zardax is now in an Australian computer museum. The word processing software was Multi-scribe. I have a long history with chess computers. My first chess computer was a peg pocket chess computer from Tandy. I also played chess against Boris, an even earlier 80s computer that talked and said "I've got you" or "you're in trouble now". I still have my notebook with a full game score of my first win against a chess computer in 1988.

[@JetScreamer_YT]

I am the Vax Cat!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

A whole rack of iMacs!

[@PE4Doers]

I am so heartbroken. Among other things about you, I loved that panel you took part in 😍

[@taggat]

Did you get to see any Apple Lisa's? And look out hot librarian at the 13:05 mark.

[@jonathantrombley4464]

10/10 outro music

[@retropuffer2986]

It's like an Apple Lisa army. 😲

[@GarthBeagle]

😂 7:10 Maccy seems less than thrilled to have even more CRTs kicking about the house

[@StandupTechnology]

I LOVE YOU KATE!!

[@buda3d2007]

11:07 have not seen that version of flight sim in operation for over 40 years!

[@mattrichardson4351]

Did you get to catch up with LGR ?

[@jacoblister]

Wow, I was there the whole 3 days, and there's still a bunch of stuff in the video I didn't get around to see

[@ilkeryoldas]

Will there be a longer video of all the stuff there?

[@SPSteve]

What, no Amiga's!?

[@oscarcharliezulu]

Yay microbee!

[@perrymattes4285]

Was there a mcm 70 there running APL?

[@johnnyquid-xj4kk]

All I want is a PB 180C.

[@stephenoliveau]

There can be only one! (Tower of Power) 😅

[@arianaponytail]

how heavy is Maccy? :)

[@JimAllen-Persona]

It’s nice to see this vintage stuff, but I’m really not into it. I’ve been in IT since ‘87 and I was hoping I’d have more interest in old Mac’s than the old PC’s that I used to be stuck working on that was “state of the art” but alas I don’t. Good presentation though, thank you.

[@craigcooper1967]

Correction - AUX on apple server... AIX is IBM's Unix...

[@paul_boddie]

It was AIX on PowerPC, which was, of course, the continuation of an architecture developed by IBM and used in IBM's own RS/6000 products. Adopting PowerPC opened the door to Apple potentially adopting operating systems from IBM and others, which they desperately needed to do, as well as sharing technology with IBM and others buying into the PowerPC roadmap. A/UX never made it beyond the Motorola 68000 family, and was only used by Apple in a server product in the form of the Apple Workgroup Server 95, which preceded the introduction of PowerPC into Apple's own products (apparently being discontinued in 1995, aptly enough).

[@jorgenthompquist226]

Can my poor brain be restored?

[@NathanChisholm041]

Wtf am I looking at? 😂

[@meh3247]

I only clicked on this because I wanted to know "South West of WHICH COUNTRY?". As soon as I heard the American accent I knew it was time for me to leave. Cheerio. I prefer my countries to be relatively sane.

[@DerekDavis213]

Kate is a very likable host, but was she even alive back in the days of Lisa and Apple //e? It seems like most vintage computer fans are aged 50+ .

[@brianpoi5117]

That maccy voice gets irritating fast.

[@kizziezizzler8080]

Sounds nice, too bad I don't feel safe in Texas as a trans person so I will likely never set foot in that state again in my life.

[@jalins6]

I'm dying!!! It smells like fireworks.

[@mafiacity9078]

Thank You. I Enjoyed The Video.

[@XodiumLabs]

Glad to see the "This is Tails." bit made it to the final. Dunno why but that had me chucking for a good second.

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Great Video thank’s for the tour Kate .Yes I will be at VCF M-W hope to see you there

[@remarkablehairdo3110]

I think this is the most adorable channell on KZbin

[@bigd5090]

No Commodore Amiga? A bit of an oversight IMHO!

[@tomwagner4516]

This channel always makes me happy. Thank you so much!!

[@joseph96345]

Good to see the Russians showing off their state of the art tech.

[@BollingHolt]

11:41 I wish my Model II looked like that when I turn it on LOL.

[@JuanPerez-cs1gx]

Alley cat!

[@KeritechElectronics]

Excellent report! Love to see you and Usagi, one of my favorite tech channels. I'm sure it was a total geekout! :)

[@RetroTechChris]

Great coverage of the show, Kate! Sorry to have missed it this year, maybe next year!

[@DevilsHandyman]

I talked your ears off a few times during VCF Southwest. It was great to meet you. I saw you there last year as well but I was more restrained!

[@lonergansrun]

Awesome to see all the old tech, thanks for going there and filming for us :)