Vintage Computer Festival East X (10)

[giZmo350]

I was looking at that exhibitor lineup last week.  234 miles from me.  Tempting...  of course I'll wait until the last minute to decide but might make the drive up for Saturday.  

 Hey Mike, if you decide to go, could you swing by Michigan and pick me up?

[giZmo350]

Got into town late because of work (surprise, surprise). Checked about 15 of the seedy little rat-infested looking motels around here. Every single one was either "no vacancy" or the lobby was closed. Got pulled over by the cops in the process, I guess a guy pulling into every motel in town looks suspicious, or something.  Anybody going to this look for me in the morning. I'll be the a*hole sucking down coffee and looking like he just slept in his truck. FML.  I hate New Jersey. :-/

Yo Mike.... get sleep, coffee & pics! Not necessarily in that order...  :roflmao:

[giZmo350]

Thanks for the pics Mike! Very nice! Looks like a nice time. I can see that there is a lot of interest in the older computer equipment - that's great! I'll tell ya, sometimes I think I should just get rid of all the old computer [strike]junk,[/strike] err stuff, that I have collected. But I can see that it would be better donated someday. I gotta quit tossing stuff into the dumpster - I threw alot of IBM (real) XT/AT computers and boards away last summer simply due to space problems. I see there's some real nice Toaster setups too! I gotta get back to my A2000 project. Anyways, thanks again...

[giZmo350]

The Toaster setups were excellent!  The poor guy in one room kept having heat problems and the circuit breaker blew while I was there, but the guy in the other room had some really awesome remote control cameras, including one that could be wired to follow a person around while they were doing a presentation.  Funny that both of the Toaster guys had Derringer boards in them...  normally an A500 accelerator, you know?  I had to tell him about @Metalguy66's 128MB Derringer mod posted here on the forums a couple months ago.  One of these days I need to get that for my A500!  VXL*30 is great, but a bit starved for RAM.  

That Derringer mod was AWESOME! I'll bet that guy was geeked about that!
If you get around to the mod, I'll bet you'll enjoy doing it! I love hardware the mods the most and the smell of burnt flux in the morning!

had a fun time playing games on the PC Jr. setup, also.  Guy had that thing maxed out, he also loaded up Windows version 1.01a on there, how's that for a classic?  :lol:

Seriously, I still have my Win 1.01 disk(s) somewhere!!! :lol:

you know, if you ever feel like getting rid of that '060 card, *cough cough* *nudge nudge*.  :laughing:

You'll be the first to know! That is if I don't deliver it in person whilst I'm interviewing for a job in DC - 'cause there's no jobs in W. MI. and I'm starting to worry! :hammer:

BTW, can I PM you later this week? I have a crap load of Q's on this 3.9 install....  It's running but....  :angry:

[giZmo350]

Man! I hated those things! :hammer:

[giZmo350]

Zing! Battery Gone! :roflmao:

I had a color Palm with WiFi... real nice unit.... I gave it to a co-worker for free after using it for 3 days...  REALLY! :rofl: I just didn't get the point...  Now here is some irony for you... my favorite Amiga program is.... wait for it....  ORGANIZER!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :crazy:

[giZmo350]

This is me, on the right.  Playing Lemmings, of course!  :lol:



(from their Google+ page)

And that's me on the left! Mike, your shirt was awesome reminded me of the days of World of Commodore and Ami Expo in Manhattan.

It's nice to be able to put the backs of peoples' heads to names! :laughing: