Vintage Computer Festival South West and VICs
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2023 12:25 am
A few weekends ago, I took Victor (6560/61 FPGA replacement) and the associated gubbins to the VCF SW in Dallas, Texas. VCF is a USA-wide organisation that set up pretty significant events where people exhibit "old" computer-related equipment and paraphernalia (there was a modern valve computer, for example). Commodore equipment is abundant. One chap had a prototype 16KB VIC made by Commodore and a "brown board" VIC-20, where the PCB is unlike any other commonly found.
VCF SW information can be found at vcfsw.org; there is a YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@VCFSW, and a video of my exhibit there is here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu8HzBcfQoE
This is a picture of CommodoreZ's 16KB and Brown Board VICs. It's deliberately at a high resolution so you can zoom in on those RAM chips on the 16KB board. Unfortunately, it's not a brilliant shot of the brown board.
VCF SW information can be found at vcfsw.org; there is a YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@VCFSW, and a video of my exhibit there is here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu8HzBcfQoE
This is a picture of CommodoreZ's 16KB and Brown Board VICs. It's deliberately at a high resolution so you can zoom in on those RAM chips on the 16KB board. Unfortunately, it's not a brilliant shot of the brown board.