<div dir="ltr">I was there, it was great. Made meself a silly watch at the Learn to Solder station (even though I already know how to solder). <div><br></div><div>The most fun talk I saw was Ray Holt talking about the F14 flight computer, one of the first microprocessor-based computers ever. The F-4 had a completely mechanical flight computer ( like an automatic transmission circa 1965). They built the machinery, but didn't bother with assemblers, linkers, and all that other modern fooferaw. He wrote the software it ran in BINARY ( **not machine code** ) on graph paper. It was awesome. He had old notebooks full of hand-written 1s and 0s, plus the first chips off the asembly line and a bunch of other souvenirs. You can see his page about it ( <a href="http://www.firstmicroprocessor.com/">http://www.firstmicroprocessor.com/</a> ).</div><div><br></div><div>I also got to hold an actual Curta ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta</a> ) in my hand for the first time. They currently go for $1,000 - $1500 on ebay. Several IBM 1391401 keyboards were on sale in the consignment area for $20-$25, but they were gone by the time I ginned up enough organization to go grab one.</div><div><br></div><div>You shoulda gone.</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Whoaa I missed this. Darn it...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Anybody been there?</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2016 11:08 PM, "Raylynn Knight" <<a href="mailto:seca900rider@gmail.com" target="_blank">seca900rider@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Took my grandkids last year and they enjoyed it more than I expected.<br><br>Ray Knight<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Feb 17, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">In case you haven't heard the news..<div><br></div><div><a href="http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/" target="_blank">http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is the 4th annual. These shows are really fun. Who knows, yoiu might see some of your current hardware exhibited as antiques!</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div>
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