The Vintage Computer Festival events may have been postponed or cancelled this year, but that's no reason we can't share our love for retrocomputing and retrogaming with a Virtual Fair!
Browse through these videos, meet the enthusiasts and listen to their stories. Want to make your own video? Great! Keep it to 5 minutes or less and publish it to YouTube with the hashtag #RetroFair or #RetroFair2020.
You can find videos below and on this YouTube playlist. Enjoy!
If you have a VR headset such as an Oculus Quest or Go, copy this location and view it with the photo app's external source option and you can virtually visit the Living Computer Museum!
A message from Michael Brutman from the VCF!
My History of Computers - Part 1
Playing dumb?
Apple //e and //c with modern peripherals
Teensy port of Altair 8800 Arduino Project for the Arduino platform..
The TRS-80 Model 4
A DIY Open Source Hardware Solution From 1985!
Make your own 3D printed mini Enigma machine
One of the best British 8bit microcomputers of the 80s
Build a 3D printed mini Cray Y-MP Raspberry Pi Zero case
Updating the classic Altair 8800 game.
The Momebrew Altair clone: Recreating the classic computer.
Quick demo of my TRS-80 Color Computer 2 for #RetroFair2020.
Vintage Computer 1984 IBM PCjr Brief Overview and Tour for RetroFair.
Retro Modern
Back in the 1980s an EGA monitor was a rare and expensive beast.
This short film details my Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
A brief memoir of my days using a Commodore 64.
Virtual VCFPNW - Visit a mid '90's era BBS and play some games!
Tandy 102 laptop with REX flash module.
An Altair clone mixing new and old parts.
The amazing vector-based games console.
My Amstrad PC 1640 DD from 1987 running GEM.
A quick presentation about my personal reasons for why the Amstrad CPC 6128 is my favorite retro computer.
A bit about the Sharp x68000 with video of it running a couple games.
Talking about Scriptable Machine for adventureE Games (SMEG) for the ZX Spectrum.
Modern remakes of Radio-86RK, MSX2, and ZX Spectrum from the 1980's we were planning to show at VCF PNW 2020.
Chris Davis and the Altair-duino from Adwater & Stir
Here's an overview of the OpenAC1 Apple 1 clone for #RetroFair2020.
Connecting to an old UNIX BBS running on an AT&T 3B2/500.
Here's a video showing the IMSAI8080esp, a 1:1 or full scale replica of the IMSAI 8080 CP-A front panel.
The Signetics Instructor 50 was a 'trainer' for the Signetics 2650 microprocessor.
Creating and Running BASIC Programs on a PDP-8 using SIMH.
Live from VCF Pacific Northwest 2020 (Quarantine Edition).
This short video shows the ASR-33 teletype's carriage return action in slow motion.
How do you pick your favourite retro system?
This is my Retrofair 2020 exhibit showing off a TRS-80 Model 1 implemented on a cheap FPGA development board.
A quick look at the IBM PS/2 Model 25, a strange PC compatible that stands out among a family of strange PC compatibles.
Barely vintage and barely computing, but dammit I want to participate in the VCFPNW..
Prototype of a VT100 terminal, VIO and Cromemeco Dazzler display in one add-on card.
Building a Jupiter Ace clone - a FORTH based micro from the 1980s.
Assembling a ZX Spectrum 128K 'Harlequin' Clone, and one of my current retro-development projects
Cancellation of the PNW VCF.
Some graphics generated on a DEC PDP-7 set to bad music.
A look at the museum's PDP-8 'Straight 8' minicomputer.
The famous Game Of Life by John Conway on a PDP-7.
Running BASIC on a PDP-8 under TSS/8, an innovative multiuser OS.
Restoring a CDC 6500 with Bruce Sherry. So many wires!