Sat. Aug. 1st: ABQ Retro Computers Summertime Meetup

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ABQ Retro Computers returns with a vengeance! Join us at Johnny Tapia Community Center for a celebration of old school tech and blood-pumping action! The history of home computing LIVE and HANDS-ON.

Johnny Tapia Community Center @ Wells Park

500 Mountain Rd NW

10AM - 2PM

FREE ENTRY
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Did you guys make the switch to JTCC in 2024? I recall there was a venue issue & swap that year. It’s been a few years since last time I made it but looking forward to it this year. My oldest and middle kids are old enough (9 & 6.75) that they might be interested in tagging along and looking at a bunch of crusty old computers especially if they see Q3A going :geek:

I guarantee they’ll ask if Minecraft runs on it lol.
 

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For now, JTCC is a temporary location. We've been using Quelab at their new location, but had to find another venue due to scheduling conflicts.

We'd love to see all of you there though! I haven't seen any plans for Q3A (just original, to celebrate it's 30th anniversary) but we'll see what we can do!
 

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This years event was lots of fun! I definitely enjoyed playing Q2 on the v3 box. That brought back all sorts of nostalgia for me lol. I also enjoyed talking to Lewis who had an extensive laser disk table. That was really cool and his player that read like 6 different disk type and sizes was impressive. He had some really cool Japanese import Ldisks. I had no idea that when the laser disk format was first released that it had digital sound but analog video. I also enjoyed the functional greaseweazle table. That is really cool. It will be very cool to see how his design evolves.

This was my oldests (9y/o) first “retro computer” get together and he had a blast - it certainly helped walking away with a Pentium3 box with w98/Duke Nukem! He has been learning strategies to work with his ADHD and I haven’t seen him stay that laser focused on one task that long (2+ hours?) in quite some time :) He was just now asking me where he could set up his new computer, so I’m excited for him. Thank you again for the generosity.

I myself ran into a gentleman who had an extra bluescsi 1 kit, so I am excited to put that together and see what I can do with it.

Again, we had a blast. It was great fun. I am looking forward to October. What is the registration process for getting a table to demo some machines?

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greaseweazle
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X86 boxes+ Altair
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Mas x86

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Atari+Greaseweazle+Lewis and his laser disk table.

I totally forgot to get a pic of the Macintosh plus running my favorite text adventure ZORK1. That was very cool as was the graphite clamshell running DOOM and the g1 iPod. Very cool 😎

GO TEAM RANGER!!
 
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