Vintage Computer Festival - Exhibition

VCF Midwest 1.0 - Exhibition

The Vintage Computer Festival wants you to display the pride of your collection at VCF Midwest 1.0. Every collector has a machine or two in their collection that is in exceptional condition, or is extremely rare, or has a good story behind it, etc. Or perhaps you're a programmer and have written a great simulator of some grand old machine. Or maybe you've built a wonderful re-creation of a significant machine of the past. Now's your chance to show it off to other hobbyists!

Not only is this your chance to show off the pride of your collection, but your exhibit could also win the coveted Best of Show award! First, Second and Third place prizes will be awarded with a ribbon based on the votes your exhibit garners from VCF attendees.

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Registered VCF Midwest 1.0 Exhibits

DEC Rainbow Running uIP (Microcomputer)
Jeff Armstrong (Westlake, OH, United States)

A DEC Rainbow 100, a dual processor 8088/Z80 system from the 1980s, will be exhibited running a selection of uIP applications through a SLIP connection with a modern machine.

Imlac PDS-1D (Mini, Multi-User, or Larger Computer)
Tom Uban (Valparaiso, IN, United States)

Dual processor vector graphics computer circa 1972.

Back to the Future (Microcomputer)
Auri Rahimzadeh (Indianapolis, IN, United States)

This exhibit will feature a host of classic 1980s 8-, 16- and 32-bit computers, including:

Apple IIe
Apple IIc+
Apple IIgs
Apple III+
Apple Lisa
Apple Macintosh 512K
Apple Macintosh SE/30
Apple 20th Anniversary Mac
Apple Profile Hard Drive
Atari 800XL
Nintendo Virtual Boy Game System
Tandy 3000 running Windows 1.0
Texas Instruments TI99/4A

Sun 3/180 (Mini, Multi-User, or Larger Computer)
Patrick Finnegan (West Lafayette, IN, United States)

Sun 3/180 system running NetBSD 2.0.

Indianapolis Amiga computer Club (Microcomputer)
Paul Holmgren (Indianapolis, IN, United States)

Indianapolis Amiga computer Club exhibit.

NeXTstations and More from Mike's Basement (Microcomputer)
Michael Lee (Schaumburg, IL, United States)

This exhibit will feature several networked NeXTstations running NeXTstep, as well as a an assortment of various computer artifacts.

BastelCard (Re-creation, Emulation, or Contemporary Enhancement)
Hans Franke (Munich, Bavaria, Germany)

This exhibit will demonstrate a brand new plug-in card for the Apple ][ line of computers. It includes features that will send you back into the days when hardware hacking was something more than adding blue LEDs to your PC case.

ARCUG Of Indianapolis (Microcomputer)
J R Wilson (Indianapolis, IN, United States)

ARCUG (Amiga Response Crew User Group) is a support group for Amiga users in Indianapolis. On display will be several classic Amiga systems, including an Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, Amiga 1200, and Amiga 4000 Video Toaster system.

PDP 11/23 PLUS (Mini, Multi-User, or Larger Computer)
Julian Wolfe (Gurnee, IL, United States)

The PDP 11/23 PLUS was introduced in November, 1981, and was the first LSI-11 series PDP-11 with 22-bit (rather than 18-bit) memory addressing, giving it the ability to address more than the base 56 kilowords of memory.

The system on display will be connected to an RL02 10 megabyte removable cartridge disk drive, and will be running RSTS/E version 9.2-10 (patched for Year 2000 compliance!)

Got Wood? (Open/Other)
Laurence Kelbley (Fostoria, OH, United States)

As was the case during the development of early radio, early microcomputer users made the best of the resources that were readily available. So for some, an enclosure or mounting surface made of wood was quite adequate. But even some early commercial products used wood.

This exhibit features a selection of early microcomputers and peripherals that incorporated wood in their enclosure:

RCA Cosmac VIP
Ohio Scientific CP4
Processor Technology Sol 20
North Star Horizon
Generic S-100 Bus Microcomputer ("Mystery Woodie")

Micro Kits (Home-brew, Kit, or Educational Computer)
Laurence Kelbley (Fostoria, OH, United States)

This exhibit features a small selection of microcomputer kits:

RCA Cosmac VIP (mounted in metal case / keyboard)
Heathkit Model ET-3400 with ETA-3400 memory I/O option
Apple II Clone Kit professionally built (Operational)

Both the RCA Cosmac VIP and Heathkit Model ET-3400 were user assembled, while the Apple II clone kit is somewhat unique in that it was pre-assembled at a computer retail store. It's mounted inside a commercially sold wood-sided enclosure with integrated keyboard which was available for custom microcomputer projects of the late 1970s era.

Atari 130XE portable (Re-creation, Emulation, or Contemporary Enhancement)
Rory McMahon (Elburn, IL, United States)

On display will be an Atari 130XE modified for portable use.

Atari Falcon in 4U rack (Re-creation, Emulation, or Contemporary Enhancement)
Rory McMahon (Elburn, IL, United States)

This exhibit features an Atari Falcon030 with a CT63 060 accelerator in a 4U backplane rack.

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