Star attraction of Vintage Computer Festival was the LINC

[greggh]

http://www.news.com/1606-2-6217243.html

They get to the LINC about a minute from the end. I used to have old Ataris and and even one of the first add-on floppy drives called the Indus GT that I paid about $250 for. Wish I still had some of that stuff.

[davijordan]

Shoot, I would have sold my soul to go to that show. Brought back memories for the short clip it was, You are right about the indus gt. it was half the size of the atari drive, sleek looking, and much faster. I used to work in a family owned computer store at that time. There was one instructor who taught for the University of Houston and he had all his lectures on the old eight bit atari floppies. I converted most of his lectures to ascii and moved them via rs232 to Atari ST when he upgraded. Did that for people who had commodores also. A lot of the early game programmers use to come there. I was lucky enough to play some of the pre-release goodies once in a while. I helped write one or two programs myself. Even then, I think I bought one of everything. I have since given or traded it all away. I miss all those babies, but I would not go back. Probably soon I will feel the same way about all the junk I have now.