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Vintage Computer Festival Shows Off Ancient PCs

Posted by Hemos on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

Markgor writes "Just finished looking through some pictures from the recent Vintage Computer Festival in Marlboro, Massachussetts, the first time that it's been held on the East coast. The best pic has to be the one of the Sol-20. Here in Ottawa, we have a bunch of vintage computers sitting in one of our museums, including an Altair, but I haven't seen an intact Sol-20 in a long long time"

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  1. Re:Classic Mac's make great clocks by tb3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aww, that's no fun. Make it into a fish tank instead.

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  2. Real Computers... by stox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    have a Teletype ASR-33 console and magnetic core memory. We may laugh now, but in their time, many of the old machines were wonders of engineering and technology. Older teletypes actually encoded and decoded ASCII mechanically. UNIX actually ran on machines with 128KB of RAM. A 5MB removable platter hard drive was HUGE! If only our software matured as fast as the hardware.

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  3. Value of computers by Laser+Lou · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This goes to show the value of computing technology, no matter what era the computer was made in. I believe that computing hardware will, over time, be seen to be as important an invention as the pen. Those of you who joke about vintage hardware should stop and think about when you were first exposed to computers. Don't you have fond memories of that? Well others do too, and now, they know that the power lies not so much in megahertz and megabytes, but in pressing a button and watching something good happen.

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