Retro-Computing Expo 2024

June 22, 2024

at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster BC Canada

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.)

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5 icon to link to ????? 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 icon to link to ????? 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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14 icon to link to ????? 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.)
22 icon to link to ????? 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.)
15 icon to link to ????? 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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19 icon to link to ????? 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.)
20 icon to link to ????? 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.


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