It was sponsored by the Chillwack Retro-Computing Club of Chilliwack BC Canada, and was an area within the larger Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 2024.
Pictures of some of the exhibits at the Retro-Computing Expo, taken by John Ball:
(Click on a picture for the full size, uncropped version.)
1 | John Ball brought his (currently not working) Four-Phase Systems IV-70 and -90 systems, along with some peripherals, including a pair of Diablo Model 31 disk drives, and an AL-1 processor board that was built with custom LSI chips. | |
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5 | George and Peter Phillips brought a TRS-80 Model 1 with 16K RAM, cassette only. On the right is a TRS-80 Model 4P with 64K, and a FreHD hard drive emulator. The laptop was to load Galaxy Invasion onto the Model 1. The 4P was playing movies using George's trsvid program. Seen is the Six Million Dollar Man intro, but a Simpsons' episode was much more recognizable to anyone under 55. | |
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10 | Rizal Acob (aka RizThomas) showed part of his Commodore Computers Collection, which included (starting from the left): VIC20, C64, SX64 portable, Amiga CD32, and Amiga A1200. Also on display was a Vectrex game console, and the Canadian NABU computer. | |
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Wim Teuling had two tables displaying many popular European home computers
of the 1980's, including the Spectrum 128K, Amstrad CPC 6128, and Elan
Enterprise 64K. Some of them I had never even heard of before, let
alone seen in real life. (This picture was taken before the show opened, while Wim and his wife were still putting together dozens of cardboard boxes on which to mount their poster -- see below.) |
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Wim Teuling's display after his
beautiful poster (.pdf, 10.2MB)
was put up. He won the "Best Exhibit in Show" award. (This picture was taken by Rob Carnegie.) |
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15 | Daniel Deyette brought five machines. From left to right: a Performa 6320CD, an Apple IIGS running the infamous Oregon Trail, a Macintosh Plus, a Pentium 200MMX, and an AT&T 386SX at the end. | |
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Table shared by Iain McFetridge and David C.Wiens. Iain: IMSAI 8080, Ampro Little Board Plus Dave: SwTPc 6809, Sardis Technologies ST-2900 (Note: the IMSAI 8080 and SwTPc 6809 computers are both for sale.) |
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Closeup of David C. Wiens'
SwTPc 6809 SS-50 bus computer. It contains a SwTPc MP-09A CPU board,
Micom DR8264-68 64KB DRAM board, homebrew wire-wrapped 2-port serial board,
SwTPc DC-2 floppy disk controller with Percom SEPARATOR floppy disk data
separator. Parts of it were purchased in 1978. The ST-2900 (upper right) was introduced 40 years ago (June 1984). It has a 1 MHz 6809, 64KB DRAM, 2 serial ports, floppy disk controller, and a 6522 for parallel ports. |
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Last revised 2024-Aug-13 12:51 PDT.
Copyright David C. Wiens and John Ball.