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Apple, Atari, and Commodore, Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den

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If you like this sort of thing, I encourage all bay-area HN-ers to visit the Vintage Computer Festival West: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

The page still shows last year's event, but it's a yearly event, usually held in August at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

I've exhibited my collection of Acorn computers for the past two years and I hope to be there again this year. It's a really fun weekend.

Tangentially related, https://mess.foundation/full-collection/ (Melbourne) and https://fiveg.net/ (Tokyo) are both wonderlands of noise history too.

I’ve got lots of vintage machines but I’m going to sell them all because I’ve realized I enjoyed collecting them more than owning them.

You need a patron for whom to collect these machines, and who pays not only for them, but also your collecting skill. :-)

Given the way this post title was compressed, it’s rather apropos that the post showing up right next to it on the HN front page is “Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen”.

Jesus, they have an A3000 in a shelf, and not in use.

It has been at least 20 years since I plugged my Timex 2068, and I am not plugging it ever again, the chances that it will burn out just by seeing electricity after all these years is quite high, specially given how condensators detiorate over time.

> condensators

In English, the term is now capacitors.

FWIW, it's still "condensators" in Dutch.

Thanks.

Got one in my desk drawer myself, pretty much the only machine remaining from my (much smaller) collection of Vintage computers. I should take it out more often.

An amazing collection of gear from way back. All that stuff was current when I was starting my IT career.

Question: the guy is into ham radio as well - a lot of us were into that before home computing was really possible. On top of the amplifier and underneath the atenna match box looks like a transceiver but I can't make out what it is. Does anyone know what equipment this is?

Elegant weapons for a more civilized age.

Never seen a Color Computer 3 with that keyboard. The layout is factory correct but the colors appear to be custom.

I wish I still owned my Apple IIc. I sold it for chump change 30 years ago.

I'd love to have a similar setup at home, kudos to the owner.

Pretty awesome collection, I'm jealous!

So very cool.

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