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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.