Vintage Apparatus

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The social footprint for the Vintage Apparatus team - website, YouTube channel, and general retro nerdiness.
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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

First full day at VCF East 2026 went great. Met tons of awesome people and got to have good conversations about my UnixPC, Pro 380, and Kaypros. We had a really rough start to the show with several machines going offline, but that's the fun of old computers.

Coming away with some great new ideas for projects! Onward and upward

This was not how I wanted to start my trip to VCF East this year. This is/was/is a DECmate III that had a full on case failure while I was carrying it. Ah well. A project for another day.

If you're coming to VCF East, please stop my table, I'll have Vintge Apparatus stickers!

#vcf #vcfeast #retrocomputing

It's ALLIIIIIVVEEE!! This UnixPC aka AT&T 7300 will be with me at #vcf this coming weekend. Come check it out! I'll have some other tasty stuff too.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #unix #att #1980s

Getting closer to having the 3b1 up and running for VCF East 2026! Hit some problems with the MFM emulator and the power supply, but I may have a working solution!
If this screen looks familiar, I bet I know where a chunk of your GPA in college went.

I thought this was common knowledge, but everyone I poitn this out to goes "Wait, really? I had no idea!" So here ya go, something that you can show off to friends at your next social event.

https://youtube.com/shorts/FFkVplaEsDY

An Apple Power Supply feature that some people may not know about!

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In one of my recent videos, I noted I had a Visual Commuter 'laptop' (really a portable) computer that I'd never seen before. I just found an ad for one on FBMP, nearby - I'm half tempted to get it just so I have one machine and one for spare parts. Seeing two of these rare birds is fascinating!
So, not so vintage, but fun anyway. I have a linux laptop many folks have seen in my videos - a 6th gen X1 Carbon I really like - but it has a bad CMOS battery in it. Finally sitting down to replace it tonight.

So, if you're a vintage computer nerd, and a bit of a collector, and maybe a bit of a pack rat, what does. your storage unit look like? Lets take a look...

https://youtu.be/4trzVGXnMS4

What's in a Vintage Computing Nerd's Storage Unit?

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