Vintage Computer Festival This Weekend @ Purdue
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.


Sync Computers says...
Some vintage computers i used to own:
TRS 80
Commodore 64
Amiga 600
Amiga 2000
Gosh those were the days…