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Domesticating the Computer with Steve Lewis
A tour of various computer systems across several decades, with a focus on the 1970s. This talk is a tribute to the progress that brought us the Information Age and is an overview of several contenders as "the first personal computer."
For the slide deck (in both PDF and PowerPoint format), with also extended slide notes past the end that couldn't be covered in the time permitted:
github.com/voidstar78/VCF2024/
For the Domesticating the Computer 1970s poster (use the "version2" branch):
github.com/voidstar78/mural1970/tree/version2
For information on the Robert Weiss large-scale computing history poster:
www.robertweiss.ch/computerposter/
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For more information about this discussion, including some corrections/clarifications, refer to the following:
voidstar.blog/domesticating-the-computer/
voidstar.blog/vcfsw-2024-domesticating-the-computer-discussion/
Aaron Edition: ua-cam.com/video/dTHV-qRf-0c/v-deo.html
Mandie Edition: ua-cam.com/video/alI_RnLbamo/v-deo.html
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VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=266MPYKQXSQPC
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Marketing a Revolution: The Story Behind Apple's Iconic Super Bowl Commercial
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Discussion with Dr. Anne Balsamo and Henry Whitfield (former Advertising Director at Apple Computer) about the making of Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl Ad and how it launched the “Think Different” campaign and redefined advertising. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to ...
History of the MiniDisc Format with Cory Wiegersma
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The history of the MiniDisc format and some common misconceptions especially regarding US law pertaining to digital home recording. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=266MPYKQXSQPC
Starting a Museum with John Hardie
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Join John Hardie as he discusses starting the National Videogame Museum and the history of how they got to where they are today. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=266MPYKQXSQPC
Playing Every Computer Video Game! with Jeff Wires
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Jeff Wires and is trying something that has never been done before. He's playing every video game in order of release! He runs a live show where guests can remote in and play games every weekday at 9pm central and the recordings are posted on UA-cam. Jeff started with the year 1971 and played every video game (consoles, handhelds, computer and arcade) in the 70s and we are now in the 80s! VCF S...
FujiNet State of the Union 2024
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An overview of the fast moving pace of the FujiNet WiFi Adapter for 8-bit systems, what systems are coming, software being worked on, and more! VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=266MP...
Machines from Around the World Are Not Like the Others with Shane Grieve
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In this presentation Shane discusses vintage machines from various locales and what it takes to collect them. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=266MPYKQXSQPC
How Atari Coin-Op Development Tools Worked with Thomas Cherryhomes
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Through this presentation, we show the assembler and linker used by Atari to modify a copy of Centipede, from its original source code, and subsequently assembling, linking, splitting onto ROMs, and running the resulting code. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to...
BASIC Past, Present, and Future with Cory Smith
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Part history and part analysis of how BASIC has changed and yet remained unchanged for 60 years; including the "Microsoft" influence (of almost 50 years). VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt...
VCF Showrunner Panel
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A round-table discussion with show runners from VCFs across the country. They talk about the ups and downs of producing a VCF, and attendees ask questions of the panel guests. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.co...
Updates to the Commander X16 with David Murray and Kevin Williams
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David Murray and Kevin Williams show off the new network card and MIDI card for the Commander X16, as well as a sneak peak at some of the other upcoming hardware and software. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like this. www.paypal.co...
Tektronix 4054 COLOR Vector Graphics Computer - How does it WORK? with Monty McGraw
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Tektronix lead the market in the 1970's and early 1980's with direct view storage tube technology. Monty presents the original Tektronix DVST technology introduced in 1963 and discuss how it is used in his Tektronix 4054A exhibit which includes an Option 30 Dynamic Graphics coprocessor and Option 31 Color-Enhanced Dynamic Graphics storage tube CRT. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts ...
There's New Value in Old Data: Recovering Legacy Tapes with Chuck Sobey
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Plano, Texas-based ChannelScience is developing breakthrough technology for the US Department of Energy to recover irreproducible scientific data stored on deteriorating legacy magnetic tapes. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content like th...
Taking Apart the Past: Reverse Engineering Vintage Computers
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Will Tooker and Alex Anderson-McLeod talk about what it takes to reverse-engineer vintage computer hardware and software, using the Apple Lisa and its computing ecosystem as a practical example. Subjects covered range from tools of the trade; how the multifaceted process of reverse engineering works; the philosophy and rationale behind reverse engineering; and why it's necessary for the long-te...
Porting OS-9 to the Foenix F256 with Boisy Pitre
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The Foenix F256 is a new retro computing platform for 6502 and 6809 enthusiasts. In this presentation, Boisy talks about how he approached porting the OS-9 operating system to this exciting system. VCF Southwest is made possible by the efforts of the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas, an 501(C)3 non-profit. Please consider a donation to help us continue to produce shows and content li...
The “Big” Tandy Systems with TJBChris
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The “Big” Tandy Systems with TJBChris
YouTubers Panel 2024
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UA-camrs Panel 2024
Archiving and Preservation Panel
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Archiving and Preservation Panel
Hardware is Hard: Hardware Designer Panel
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Hardware is Hard: Hardware Designer Panel
GlobalTalk: Bringing Appletalk to the Internet with Petar Puskarich
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GlobalTalk: Bringing Appletalk to the Internet with Petar Puskarich
The Art of Computing: The Merging of Technology & Culture with Dr. Anne Balsamo
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The Art of Computing: The Merging of Technology & Culture with Dr. Anne Balsamo
Interview with Tandy Engineer and Lawyer Steve Mosher
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Interview with Tandy Engineer and Lawyer Steve Mosher
Interview with Tandy engineer Jerry Heep
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Interview with Tandy engineer Jerry Heep
Coleco from the Trenches with Jennell Jaquays
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Coleco from the Trenches with Jennell Jaquays
Commander X16 Discussion with David Murray and Kevin Williams
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Commander X16 Discussion with David Murray and Kevin Williams
VCFSW 2023 Streamer Panel
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VCFSW 2023 Streamer Panel
Turbo9 - Pipelined 6809 Microprocessor IP
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Turbo9 - Pipelined 6809 Microprocessor IP
How I reverse engineered the Atari 2600 because I was broke, with Rebecca Heineman
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How I reverse engineered the Atari 2600 because I was broke, with Rebecca Heineman
The Ultimate Tandy Panel
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The Ultimate Tandy Panel
Future Directions in FujiNet with Thomas Cherryhomes
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Future Directions in FujiNet with Thomas Cherryhomes

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  • @derekchristenson5711
    @derekchristenson5711 15 днів тому

    Too bad about the snafus, but it was still an interesting presentation. Thanks for posting it for the rest of us to see! In the future, I would humbly suggest that audience questions either be repeated, or the audience member with the question be given a wireless mic when asking it. I had to turn up the volume and rewatch several of the questions to understand what was being asked. 🙂

  • @jaimdiojtar
    @jaimdiojtar 3 місяці тому

    Warlock’s Dungeon doesnt exist anymore anyone have a reupload?

  • @kajsagauza
    @kajsagauza 3 місяці тому

    Amiga Basic dialects that are different from the Microsoft Basic included in the Workbench 1.1-1.3: * GFA BASIC * HiSoft BASIC * Blitz BASIC / AmiBlitz (the fastest?) * ABasic * AMOS BASIC (the most popular?)

  • @SiD3WiNDR
    @SiD3WiNDR 4 місяці тому

    An amazing feat. Well done everyone who helped out!

  • @derekchristenson5711
    @derekchristenson5711 4 місяці тому

    What a nice panel! I regularly watch several of these people, although I think at least one of them doesn't (usually?) show his face, as I didn't recognize him despite being sure I had seen videos he made. Too bad Maccy got too "tired" to continue to the end, though, hehe.

  • @derekchristenson5711
    @derekchristenson5711 4 місяці тому

    Wow, very cool! I've used OS-9 on my CoCo3 (with 6309 and 512K), and seeing it ported to a new-retro system is pretty neat. 🙂

  • @TwinOpinion
    @TwinOpinion 4 місяці тому

    This was GOLD!!! 👏👏👏 This was seriously blowing my mind the whole time. A true pioneer sharing the goods! Thank you!

  • @Tarukai788
    @Tarukai788 4 місяці тому

    Action Retro after my own heart with that 98 XJ Cherokee, love those bricks and had the same year myself, missing it every day!

  • @markwiedmann5630
    @markwiedmann5630 4 місяці тому

    I think David nailed it with the X16. I wanted to get into lower level programming with some "simpler" hardware and make some games. As you start looking at existing systems you start hitting some barriers (older hardware not that reliable, dev tools a little outdated or difficult to use, graphics programming really challenging with mostly low color/res options, difficultly curve just a bit too high). Then some systems are too modern and meant more for IoT or electronics projects (RaspPi, Ard.). Most importantly, you kinda want to feel like your code is REALLY running on something and that you understand how it all works (hardware and all). I think the X16 really hits a sweet spot and there will be (and is) a community for it. I've had a blast coding for it. I made the Warlock's Dungeon game he briefly demoed and I learned a TON about lower level coding. I hadn't done much C in a while and certainly not for a 6502. It really made me appreciate every bit and byte being used and how to be efficient. This has helped me in my day job working with higher level languages more than I could have imagined. I couldn't be happier with this system and I thank David a ton for making this happen.

  • @jvburnes
    @jvburnes 5 місяців тому

    Have you run OS9 or Flex on it? How hard would it be to add 6309 instructions?

  • @jvburnes
    @jvburnes 5 місяців тому

    This needs to run DEFENDER :)

  • @jvburnes
    @jvburnes 5 місяців тому

    Has this been synthesized on Altera yet? Maybe Cyclone V?

  • @Galaga7800
    @Galaga7800 5 місяців тому

    This is all so amazing! Thanks to everyone who helps with this project. I could spend the rest of time just exploring with my FujiNet. Side note... the person commenting on this being the "ultimate multicart" at 43:14 sounds an awful lot like Kay Savetz from the Antic podcast... Edit: Should've watched until the end before commenting. Turns out Kay is in the room so, it probably was!

  • @CityXen
    @CityXen 5 місяців тому

    Cool!

  • @retrotechnerd
    @retrotechnerd 5 місяців тому

    The host is dressed in pretty much the same outfit I wear to bed. Must have taken him a while to pick out his best white undershirt to be immortalized on UA-cam. Props to the Mac girl for being the best dressed person on the panel.

  • @thefurthestmanfromhome1148
    @thefurthestmanfromhome1148 5 місяців тому

    Fantastic, when you combine her talk with interviews with DK 2600 coder, Dan Kitchen, we can at least try and stop the spread of false information that Colecovision deliberately sabotaged the Intellivision and 2600 versions of games.

  • @Retroman8000
    @Retroman8000 5 місяців тому

    Murray sits like an idiot.....

  • @RockwellAIM65
    @RockwellAIM65 5 місяців тому

    What we really _needed_ was a portable machine like the Trs-80 Model 100 but of course you didn't give us what we asked for so... now we have nothing. Thanks but no thanks. I mean I'm happy for you but sheesh- this could have been a really great dffort instead of a mediocre effort.

    • @MudSluggerBP
      @MudSluggerBP 3 місяці тому

      I’d like to see the one you’ve built …. I’ll wait 😂😂

  • @WilliamHostman
    @WilliamHostman 5 місяців тому

    SBasic for CP/M was out in like 1981... I never got the hang of it, but it shipped with the KayPro II... label based no-line-numbers compiled basic.

  • @mrnelgin
    @mrnelgin 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for demoing End Of The Line BBS. If you had poked around, under Text Files, there's "Art Packs" at the bottom with several gigabytes of ANSI files.

    • @VCFSW
      @VCFSW 5 місяців тому

      EOTL is one of our favorites too. <3

  • @8-bitwallofdoom
    @8-bitwallofdoom 5 місяців тому

    Just getting to this video! Nice job Boisy; I could tell there was lots of interest and hopefully a ground swell of interested parties for the K2. NitrOS-9 is indeed the OS that every piece of hardware dreams about; I'm glad that we have it on the Foenix platform. Thank you for this body of work.

  • @MYJ61
    @MYJ61 5 місяців тому

    WOW! Do I feel old now. Two of us started our county school’s computer club with a sponsor teacher using a teletype machine and a 300baud acoustical modem. No floppy drive, our programs were on yellow perforated paper tape (perf tape).

  • @WilliamHostman
    @WilliamHostman 5 місяців тому

    I'd seen at least one vid of each panel member except the moderator... The ones I'm subscribed to are 8-Bit Guy (and his now defunct 8-Bit Keys), Usagi-sama ;), Action Retro, Adrian (I and II), and I think I subscribed to Mac Librarian last week... I've watched a lot of LGR... but never subscribed. (Sorry Clint, most of your vids are of things I have no nostalgia for)... I also sub Techmoan, Tech Tangents, 8-Bit Show & Tell, and a couple other tech youtubers... And like with Clint/LGR, I watch some Nostalgia Nerd and MVG, but much of it I skip. Man, it's great to hear ll the good stuff in this... And I need to figure out when and where the meetups are in Portland.

  • @Atari.Geezer
    @Atari.Geezer 5 місяців тому

    I heard Kevin talking about the radio card, would like to know more about it as to what radio module it uses... Am I the only one who is interested in it???

  • @MrYossarianuk
    @MrYossarianuk 5 місяців тому

    I think you should do all c64 games...

  • @T.E.S.S.
    @T.E.S.S. 6 місяців тому

    20 minutes in and wondering when you'll allow Kate to speak

  • @TheSulross
    @TheSulross 6 місяців тому

    The breadth of computing devices that Tandy/Radio Shack offered is indeed astounding

  • @alexshadowfax1119
    @alexshadowfax1119 6 місяців тому

    Awesome presentation Jeff, I think you gave non viewers of the show a good idea of what to expect when they tune in.

  • @Dsun4456
    @Dsun4456 6 місяців тому

    Looking forward to that upcoming Baby Pac-Man restoration video from Time Rift Arcade. I played it one time at a Showbiz Pizza way back in the 80's, but was to young to understand how it worked.

  • @ericgillespie4062
    @ericgillespie4062 6 місяців тому

    3:23 "It might be a year or two off because part of this was written with ChatGPT because why not?" Laughing off potential criticism of language model usage while also blaming it for any inaccuracies... classic!

  • @ericgillespie4062
    @ericgillespie4062 6 місяців тому

    Come on, repeat the audience questions!

  • @CityXen
    @CityXen 6 місяців тому

    Wish we could have made it to this VCF. Maybe next year!

  • @TeDiouS1001
    @TeDiouS1001 6 місяців тому

    After missing out, I appreciate all these being shared. Thanks to vcfsw and the x16 teams!

  • @UXXV
    @UXXV 6 місяців тому

    Mul Tim etir? Multi meter ?

    • @AlexElectronics
      @AlexElectronics 5 місяців тому

      I always say multi-meter since it’s a meter that can measure multiple things, but I just looked it up and apparently the “proper” pronunciation is mul-tim-eter. So it looks like Will was pronouncing it correctly in his part of the presentation, and I was saying it wrong in my part! But I’ll still probably stick with multi-meter, even if it’s technically wrong, just because I think it better emphasizes the function of the meter as a device that can measure multiple quantities.

    • @UXXV
      @UXXV 5 місяців тому

      @@AlexElectronics turns out the British and American pronunciations are different! Another one to add to the solder router and aluminium pile!

    • @AlexElectronics
      @AlexElectronics 5 місяців тому

      @@UXXV Interesting!

  • @av_oid
    @av_oid 6 місяців тому

    Good discussion. Like many on the panel my first computer was also a Vic20, but the computer I had the longest as a kid was an Apple IIc, which from memory is the last computer Steve Jobs launched before he was kicked out by the board.

  • @HeyBirt
    @HeyBirt 6 місяців тому

    Prototype of ABC was done in 1939.

  • @blodyholy_
    @blodyholy_ 6 місяців тому

    There will definitely be a market for current tech in the retro market in say 30+ years; just like tech from 30+ years ago is now.

  • @chronologicallygaming
    @chronologicallygaming 6 місяців тому

    Thank you VCFSW! Had a blast and you all rock!

  • @Soso-km8er
    @Soso-km8er 6 місяців тому

    ATARI ST and Amiga had some great Basics, first and foremost GFA-Basic and Omikron-Basic. They were so powerful and easy to use that regular people made amazing programs with these, just like it was intended by Kemeny and Kurtz.

  • @johnjoyce
    @johnjoyce 6 місяців тому

    There is no C# in Apple platforms…

  • @lsdowdle
    @lsdowdle 6 місяців тому

    It would be amazing if we could get a MiSTer FPGA core for the Commander X16.

    • @Ehurst01
      @Ehurst01 5 місяців тому

      I believe there is one in development

  • @ClausB252
    @ClausB252 6 місяців тому

    Got to use a 4052 at college in 1979. Fun!

  • @Gary_Hun
    @Gary_Hun 6 місяців тому

    Even if someone's questioning the legitimacy of such a project / product, it still should be universally agreed on within the community, both in the 8bitguy's, and retro computing overall, that it is fun and interesting to witness how such a thing gets designed and built. I don't get the verbal blank staring naggers, how are you not interested in getting a first hand view of how a computer becomes a reality?

  • @Gary_Hun
    @Gary_Hun 6 місяців тому

    I believe it is fun throwing around "an 8bit computer wow!", but isn't it a bit of a stretch to say? How exactly is this just an 8bit computer, down to some very fundamental level? Because if there can be Sega Mega Drive killer games, and all sorts of productivity software with nice interfaces, seriously how or why is it 8 bit? Is it ridiculously limited in how much memory it can address? Or how precise numbers it can do math with? What?..

    • @MikkoVuohi
      @MikkoVuohi 5 місяців тому

      It has an 8-bit CPU with an 8-bit memory bus.

  • @Gary_Hun
    @Gary_Hun 6 місяців тому

    Why would anybody become nostalgic about a modern phone, these are hardware coming as regularly and inconsequentially as software updates... besides, they have become way over complicated, their inner workings inaccessible, crappily constructed glued trash, and just overall shallow super fast and therefore boring devices. And EVERYTHING one could love on them is a service now. And said services are tuned to give you an interest rush for 3.2seconds tops. Blurgh...

  • @Gary_Hun
    @Gary_Hun 6 місяців тому

    3:12 - He was a guest when it was chronologically appropriate to your channel, now he is irrelevant. Seriously, i've known of Chronologically Gaming for an entire 2 minutes, and i know his shtick better than he does. These ARE just random misfits from all over the world, with cute animals and a computer in the background somewhere! What a fail.

  • @ASBO_LUTELY
    @ASBO_LUTELY 6 місяців тому

    As a brit I only know LGR, 8 bit guy and Adrian's digital basement.

    • @av_oid
      @av_oid 6 місяців тому

      Where is Nostalgia Nerd is what I was thinking :).

    • @VCFSW
      @VCFSW 5 місяців тому

      We try to include as many of the celebrities as possible while also giving some exposure to up-and-coming channels. If Nostalgia Nerd was at the show and we were aware of it then we might have been able to make it happen, but alas we are not aware if they attended.

  • @limabravo0001
    @limabravo0001 6 місяців тому

    Incredible nerd power in one room. My fave is Adrian. I enjoy watching him sound all technical and knowledgeable, and watch him not fix computers after multiple hour multiple spanning videos. I always end up saying "Goodness."

  • @pmcgee003
    @pmcgee003 6 місяців тому

    I am gratified that you at least experienced the refined purity of Object Pascal. 😊

  • @engellenkatu
    @engellenkatu 6 місяців тому

    Thanx for sharing te presentation