VCF East and Maker Faire Make For a Busy Weekend

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While I started using Macintosh computers in 1984 and often used them at home, college and work over the years, I've never owned one (the one at home was my dad's who lugged it home from work).

Until this weekend, courtesy of the free pile from #vcfEast. Here it is separated by 4 inches and 23 years from an Apple IIe. It's weird to me that both of these still work (dead battery for the Macbook Core Duo, otherwise still boots - not bad for a 20 year old laptop). With 32bit support in Linux going away soonish, I'll be installing the most current distro possible so I can get some fun out of this machine. Probably LMDE? We'll see.

#appleII #macintosh #linux #retroComputing

Some cool stuff from this weekend's VCF East. The Retro Tech Foundation (h😞t
tps://www.retrotechfoundation.org/ ) set up a booth that has the perfect recreation of a picture of Steve Jobs at one of the assembly spaces for the original Apple 1. Everything was reproduced down to the finest details. You could have your picture taken right there. Very cool :)

#apple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vcfeast #stevejobs

As I was leaving #VCFEast, I saw a lot of cop cars on my way out. Anyone know what happened?

Edit: just learned what happened

https://xoxo.zone/@scruss/116432860056280430

Saw this Coleco Adam with keyboard and printer (which is also the power supply) for just $50 earlier today, but I simply do not have the space for it. Someone later bought it for $25, which is a great deal if it can be brought back to life.

A neat and weird machine.

#vcfEast #retroComputing #ColecoAdam #Z80