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A festival of vintage computers
Created: 12/05/2007
Video description: Where do old computers go to die? We're not sure, but we do know the location of the digital old-folks home. We take a trip down the valley to Mountain View, Calif., for the 2007 Vintage Computer Festival. We happily discover 8-bit wonders just living life as if it were 1980 all over again. We find Commodore PETs and SuperPETs, Atari 400 & 800s, Tandy TRS-80s, Sols, Altairs, Data Generals, HPs, and even a LINC from 1962. Vintage computers on Geek Entertainment TV

A festival of vintage computers Video Transcript

[ Music ] ^M00:00:42

>> So, do you say this is the very first PET?

>> Yeah this is one the first one that they released in 77. You see other ones but usually the older ones have this [inaudible] vessel and the blue green round the monitor.

>> Right, and you say that this is an old calculator keyboard.

>> Yeah that's a calculator keyboard.

>> Right.

>> And then it had like a consumer model tape deck, you can see that they cut out the battery compartment.

>> Oh yeah, oh yeah.

>> [ inaudible ]

>> So these are literally handmade.

>> Yeah, usually the first - the first of any computer is kind of like - ^M00:01:07 [ Music ] ^M00:01:54

>> Why do you think so many people call or would refer to it as the TRS-80?

>> There's a lot of jealousy about it, you know. People have been around since the Altair, build up the Altair and spent thousands of dollars on the Altair were confronted with the fact that now they had a computer that you could buy off the shelf for a lot less money that did all the things they struggled to do.

>> Right.

>> And now the Altair is clicking and running good. They had to find something wrong with it. ^M00:02:23 [ Music ]

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