Filed under: Retro computing

This is it. This was the last ICF. Its over. ... BECAUSE the next event is going to be VCF PNW!

It was time for the upgrade. Intraspace is a nice cozy venue, but we were clearly maxing it out with the number of exhibits and visitors.

This year all photos were taken on a Sony FDMavica MVC-FD75. All images stored to and retrieved from 3.5" floppy disk. The setup this year was similar to last, with the addidion of the PowerBook 2300c I restored.

The Atari needed a quick patch, Ive had trouble with the mini-din connector for the RGB+S video, the wires will touch and I'll loose a color channel. I need to make a PCB for that, but time is the enemy.

I also had a little trouble with wifi on the 2300c. The wifi selector DA kept locking up the system. I found if I disabled extensions at startup it was more stable but it crashed once even then. I feel the call of MPW, maybe I'll put this bug on my list of projects. Still, I did get it on the network.

The Ultra 2 performed flawlessly and had several people logged in to it over the network at once while I was watching The Matrix on it.

I also got career advice about becoming a DOS programmer which I promptly ignored and went back to C on classic MacOS.

And someone brought a LISP machine. Space cadet keyboard and all.

Unfortunately it suffered a disk problem and wasn't running for long, so I didn't get to play with it. Hopefully it will be back for VCF PNW.

I'm really excited to see this event grow. I had a ton of fun explaining my computers to visitors and talking with others about their machines. Its great to see how many people care about keeping these machines running and not just dead objects in a museum. I think the modern web has a lot to relearn from the past web and I'm glad we're keeping that alive.