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I’m totally pumped about this weekends’ Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 3.0 at Purdue University. It’s only $5 to get in and free for kids under 17. Some registered exhibits that sound cool include:

• Geek Museum Collection: “Sampling of the Geek Museum’s mobile collection focusing on a wide range of general consumer electronics computing history will be displayed with demos. Great for kids!”

• Commodore Plus/4: “The Commodore Plus/4 was a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984. Commodore billed the Plus/4 as the first home computer designed especially for productivity applications. The Plus/4 included a ROM based integrated software package containing word processing, spreadsheet, database, and graphing applications.”

I’m something of a collector of old hardware myself, especially game consoles and home computers. My current collections includes, off the top of my head:

• Magnavox Odyssey
• Commodore 64 + 1541 Floppy Drive
• Atari 7800
• NES x2
• Amiga 600
• SuperNES
• TurboGrafx-16
• Sega Genesis + 32X + Sega CD
• Atari Jaguar
• Sega Saturn
• Sony Playstation
• Gameboy Color
• Sega Dreamcast
• Sony Playstation 2
• Microsoft XBox
• Nintendo Wii

And I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff (I think I have a 128k Mac, but I honestly am not sure). That’s just the hardware; I have hundreds of games crossing all of those systems. I need to dig through that stuff sometime and catalog it.

Damn that’s hot.

T-Mobile Worker Goes Ballistic, Insists Sidekick 3 is Real - Gizmodo:

WORK FOR T-MOBILE, AND I AIN’T STUPID!! I DON’T CONFUSE OTHER NOKIAS, SEIMENS, OR ANY OTHER LOOKING PDA’S AND SIDEKICK LOOKALIKE DEVICES. GO AHEAD AND WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR. BUT LEAVE MY DAM AD ALONE BECAUSE I WORK FOR T-MOBILE AND WE GOT THE OFFICAL WORD THAT THE SIDEKICK III IS COMING OUT BEFORE X-MAS. WE DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THE NEW SIDEKICK WILL BE OR HOW IT LOOKS LIKE, BUT IT IS COMING OUT. OKAY. SO KEEP YOUR WANNABE TECHNICAL “I KNOW ALL CELL PHONES SH!T” TO YOURSELF AND WRITE ME DIRECTLY INSTEAD OF PUTTING OUT THAT MY AD IS FALSE AND A RUMOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clint. Call me. You need help.