[TriEmbed] Virtual Vintage Computer Festival

[Pete Soper]

    When we can safely travel and be indoors with casual strangers
    again, those of you who find yourselves near Mountain View,
    California should consider visiting the Computer History Museum on
    Shoreline Blvd. Plan on a day or two if you're hard core, a half a
    day if medium interested. You can walk INSIDE a piece of the ENIAC.
    They also have some pieces of the SAGE (IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer for
    the Air Force that defined the state of the art in aspects of
    graphics processing in the 1950s), a Cray One, etc, etc, as well as
    tons of more recent stuff. 
    -Pete
    
    On 8/1/20 11:01 PM, Rodney Radford via
      TriEmbed wrote:
    
    
      
      
        I watched the Virtual Vintage Computer Festival
          today and really enjoyed it and thought some on this list
          would enjoy some (all?) the sessions.
          
          
          You can see them on their Youtube channel:
          
          
          https://www.youtube.com/c/VintageComputerFederation501c3/videos
          
          
            Some of the highlights (to me) were:
          
          
          * two talks on the ENIAC - how it worked, real issues
            found, etc (I ordered the ENIAC technical reference manual
            reprint mentioned in the video)
          * recovering magnetic media from tape
          * retroshield for the Arduino Mega - he uses the Arduino
            to handle the RAM, ROM, IO, etc, but then plugs in a real
            CPU chip and he has adapters for several of the 4 and 8bit
            older CPUs
          * Sol 20 - but this one is special to me as I own a Sol
            20  ;-)
          * MIT Whirlwind system
          * Apollo DSKY - making a real Apollo display work 
            * Advanced 6502 programming (great description of the
            architecture and I ordered both of the books mentioned)
          
            But honestly, there was not a single presentation that I did
            not find fascinating. So if you have the spare time and want
            to learn about older computers, please take a look at the
            videos.
          
            I have attended a few other virtual conferences in the last
            few weeks, and plan to attend more as they become available
            (virtual vintage computer east will be in October)
          
          
        
      
      
      
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