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248: Peace, Love, and Old Computers

Aug 18, 20241 hr 32 minEp. 248
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Our good friend Steve Lin joins us to run down the trip he and Brad recently took to the Vintage Computer Festival: West Coast Edition, hosted in Mountain View, CA's wonderful Computer History Museum. Did you ever wonder about the strange arrow-key layout of early Soviet computers? Or how to build your own CRT out of a tube you found on the sidewalk? Or what it takes to rebuild the entirety of the early online service Prodigy from scratch? Or about the time Intel shoved a hundred 286s into a single computer? Then this is the episode for you!

Show notes and links for this episode: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-248-vcf-west

Our photos and videos from the festival: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KW4WX6tYLyjyamYXA

You should really see the home page for the VCF Midwest in Chicago: https://vcfmw.org/

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