Episode list

Listen here:

This episode was recorded live on the show floor at the 2026 Vintage Computer Festival Midwest!

We both went down to Chicago for the twenty-first Vintage Computer Festival Midwest! We ran tables, did talks, and hung out with our friends. And recorded a podcast episode together!

We managed to interview a few cool folks while we were there:

• Jeff Geerling and his NTP time booth!
  • web
  • YouTube
• The Taylor and Amy Show, who were building an Altair clone!
  • YouTube
  • build your own Altair clone
• The Retro Tech Foundation, and their fancy recreation of Steve Jobs' garage!
  • web
• Joe's Computer Museum, home of all manner of parts to keep old computers computing!
  • web
  • YouTube
• Ron's Computer Videos, who was doing a talk with Steve when we interrupted him.
  • web
  • YouTube
  • Ron's merch store (which he plugged when we accosted him onstage)
• Steve from Mac84, who was doing a talk with Ron when we interrupted him.
  • web
  • YouTube
• Ian Scott, creator of the PicoGUS and the soon-to-be-released PicoIDE!
  • web
  • US orders
  • EU orders
  • UK orders
  • Ian also referenced Kevin Moonlight's wonderful PicoPCMCIA card
• Eric Helgeson, creator of the BlueSCSI project!
  • web
  • where to buy (there's a lot of options)