#vcfsw2025

Portable Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

Commodore Computers at VCFSW 2025

Usagi Electric, Forgotten Machines, & Nevets at VCF Southwest 2025

[Usagi Electric], [Forgotten Machines], and [Nevets01] collaborated on a massive exhibit of unique old hardware.

[Usagi Electric] had an interactive exhibit with his recently rebuilt PDP 11/73 running examples of spectroscopy analysis using a Bomem vector processor. [Usagi] also demonstrated a Data General Nova 1210 running BASIC.

[Forgotten Machines] had a variety of old terminals, computers, and peripherals on display. He was on-hand throughout the show to help anyone image and preserve their old magnetic media.

[Nevets] had an interactive exhibit with a Data General Nova 1200 running BASIC alongside a (sadly non-functional) Digital Computer Controls D-116, a clone of the Nova 1200.

8-Bit Home Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

Homebrew Computing at VCF Southwest 2025

Workstations at VCF Southwest 2025

For anyone needing to do more than basic computing, there was an assortment of high-power workstations on display this year, such as these AT&T and HP Unix machines. There was even an entire room dedicated to Unix workstations, including this row of NeXT computers and some Sun UltraSPARC machines.

[Wave Design] uses vintage tools, such as these SGI workstations, to create new artwork. [Wave Design] was a VCFSW 2025 Silver Sponsor.

One of the oldest high-power workstations on display this year was the Tektronix 4054A vector graphics computer [Monty McGraw] demonstrated. [Monty] used a workstation similar to this one in his first job with the USAF in the late 1970s.

Eastern Bloc Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

Apple Computers at VCF Southwest 2025

Apple computers from the earliest Apple ][ through late PowerMac G5 towers were well represented throughout the show floor.

There were however a few exhibits featuring Apple computers that were particularly notable.

First we have a massive collection of Apple Lisa and Mac computers from [Alex] & [William] who also gave a presentation this year on their work building the Lisa OS from source.

[Stephen] and [Kevin] demonstrated their recreation of the Tic-Tac-Dough game show display board which used nine Apple II computers to drive nine monitors. Local photographer [Paul] shared an interview and live demonstration of the exhibit on YouTube.

[Petar] showed off a collection of late Apple II era computers & peripherals with original packaging and in-store signage.

And finally [Murdock] showed off a Radius 81/110 workstation, an PowerPC 601 Mac Clone he used for music production in the 90s.