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Exhibit: Levi’s Digital Voyage (Sponsor) (Seller)

Levi Maaia

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Exhibit: Levi’s Digital Voyage (Sponsor) (Seller)

Levi’s Digital Voyage is exhibiting a curated lineup from Levi’s vintage collection. This year he is featuring Japanese import 8-bit Nintendo systems to mark 40 years of the NES and Mario in the U.S. Visitors can also get hands-on time with a couple early versions of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate and Levi’s own first home computers: the Apple IIc and Apple IIGS, which sparked his interest in computing and retro tech.

The exhibit mixes nostalgia with technical depth and gives visitors a clear look at how these machines shaped the way we think about games, graphics, and personal computing from the 80s through today. He will also have a small sales section with some must-haves and hard-to-find items.

https://www.youtube.com/@levimaaia

Exhibit: The VintNerd (Sponsor)

The VintNerd

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Exhibit: The VintNerd (Sponsor)

Sponsor: Compute!'s Gazette (Sponsor)

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Sponsor: Compute!'s Gazette (Sponsor)

Proud to sponsor VCF SoCal 2026! Clubs and Festivals are the heart and soul of Retro Computing...be sure to get out and enjoy!

https://www.computesgazette.com

Sponsor: Aquarius+ (Sponsor)

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Sponsor: Aquarius+ (Sponsor)

What would the Aquarius have evolved into if Mattel hadn't abandoned the system back in 1984? The Aquarius+ is the next-generation of Z80-based 8-bit hardware for the Aquarius platform.

https://github.com/fvdhoef/aquarius-plus

Vendor: Learn to Solder Booth

FutureVision Research

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Vendor: Learn to Solder Booth

FutureVision Research provides electronic kits for students and hobbyists. Stop by our soldering area, purchase a VCF SoCal Solder Badge and learn how to solder - we'll have all the tools needed. Check out our take-home learn to solder kits, too!

https://FVResearch.com

Vendor: FujiNet Sales

FutureVision Research

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Vendor: FujiNet Sales

FutureVision Research is your trusted source for all production ready FujiNet interface devices. FujiNets for multiple platforms will be available for sale, including versions for the Atari 8-bit, Apple II & III, Coleco ADAM, Tandy CoCo 1, 2, & 3, and RS-232 (for MS-DOS compatibles).

https://FVResearch.com

Vendor: Vintage Computer Parts

Jeff’s Vintage Electronics

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Vendor: Vintage Computer Parts

Vintage computer parts & accessories. S-100 boards, PC boards, ASCII terminal boards, cables, chips, CPUs, other electronic parts.

Vendor: Vintage Computer Artwork

Jeff's Vintage Electronics - Artwork Division

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Vendor: Vintage Computer Artwork

Original vintage computer paintings, prints, stickers, etc.

Vendor: Maxi's Retro Tech

Maxi's Crafty Services LLC

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Vendor: Maxi's Retro Tech

Vintage Video Games, Vintage PC Software, Vintage PC Hardware, C64 Software

https://maxisretrotech.com

Vendor: Artisan Graphic T-Shirt Brand

STORY SPARK

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Vendor: Artisan Graphic T-Shirt Brand

Original tech + pop culture inspired graphic T-shirts, stickers, and art.

https://storyspark.com

Vendor: Rejuvenated Macintosh Computers for Sale

Retro Acceleration

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Vendor: Rejuvenated Macintosh Computers for Sale

Refurbished vintage Macintosh computers for sale. Most have some form of accelerator card to improve performance. All have BlueSCSI and refurbished/functioning floppy drives as applicable, MacEffects cases, grayscale and color LCD mods in compact Macs. Mac SE and Mac SE/30 primarily available. Selling part of my collection to keep my hobby funded.

Vendor: Sonic Retro Tech

Navarro Engineering

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Vendor: Sonic Retro Tech

Selling Powermacs, Sony Vaio, Toshiba Libretto, and a huge lot of parts. Also selling video game consoles parts accessories and games.

Vendor: PC games and more!

G.S. Collectibles

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Vendor: PC games and more!

Step into a world of nostalgia and discovery! G.S. Collectibles specializes in authentic vintage PC games, rare console titles, and unique tech gadgets from the past and present. Whether you’re a collector, a gamer, or simply love the charm of retro technology, you’ll find something that sparks excitement.

https://www.instagram.com/caballerodebronce/

Vendor: Vintage Apple PC and Components

Highest Standards LLC

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Vendor: Vintage Apple PC and Components

Vintage Apple Computers and Components

Vendor: Computers, Books, and Toys

The Ogaek Store

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Vendor: Computers, Books, and Toys

Selling Computers, Monitors, Toys, Books, and Retro Electronics

https://www.ebay.com/usr/the_ogaek_store

Vendor: Official Festival Swag

VCF SoCal

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Vendor: Official Festival Swag

Head to the Grand Foyer to purchase the Official Festival T-shirts, Hats & Other Goodies

https://www.vcfsocal.com/category/swag

Vendor: Consignment Area

VCF SoCal

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Vendor: Consignment Area

Head to the Consignment Area to check out the vintage and retro deals

https://www.vcfsocal.com/consignment

Exhibit: Super Long Computer and other Oddities

Jeri Ellsworth & Amy Herndon

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Exhibit: Super Long Computer and other Oddities

The TI-99/4 computer with all of the sidecars, plus the TI-99/4 Color Monitor.

Exhibit: FujiNet - Retrocomputing Network Adapter

FujiNet Team

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Exhibit: FujiNet - Retrocomputing Network Adapter

FujiNet is a multi-peripheral emulator and WiFi network device for vintage computers. The first completed hardware was for Atari 8-Bit computers and development has begun for other systems with the goal of supporting as many as possible. What sets FujiNet apart from other WiFi devices is the new Network Device (the N device, or NDEV). The N device allows vintage computers that do not have enough processing power to handle TCP/IP connections talk to the modern internet over WiFi. Virtual adapters have been created for many protocols including: TCP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, TNFS, HTTPS (SSL/TLS), SSH, TELNET, WebDAV and JSON parser.

https://fujinet.online

Exhibit: Modoom: Modem Doom

Chris Satterfield / Compgeke

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Exhibit: Modoom: Modem Doom

Come experience the low latency and high reliability of Dial-Up Doom over actual telephone modems! Remember the good(?) old days! We will have a full dial-up setup running with APCI Doom with support for up to 8 players over dial-up.

Exhibit: Tandy 1000 SX and More

Giancarlo Carini

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Exhibit: Tandy 1000 SX and More

A Tandy 1000 SX will be predominantly featured as the main piece, along with a Gateway Pentium III Laptop and a Wyse Industrial PC with Windows 98SE.

Exhibit: Project IVY - Celebrating Portable Computing

Project IVY

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Exhibit: Project IVY - Celebrating Portable Computing

Project IVY is all about restoring wonderful old portable PCs, with an emphasis on IBM ThinkPads. Favorites include the ThinkPad 701C with its folding keyboard, an early 2-in-1 tablet and laptop the ThinkPad 360P, and the very first IBM ThinkPad the 700C. Along with a variety of Palm Top PCs!

This year I'm also pleased to show off the Tadpole Sparkbook 3XP running Solaris Unix and a rare GRiD Compass II, one of the earliest laptop computers.

https://katarinamelki.net/ivy

Exhibit: Amiga Video Toaster

Marc Rifkin

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Exhibit: Amiga Video Toaster

Experience the Amiga's legendary graphics, video and sound capabilities. Including the Video Toaster with video effects, titles, graphics and 3D animation. Lightwave 3D software, used in many famous TV shows and movies. And more audiovisual tools made possible by Amiga.

Exhibit: Small Machines with a Big Punch

XodiumLabs

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Exhibit: Small Machines with a Big Punch

This exhibit features a couple of smaller computers of the mid 2000s that have been upgraded beyond what they were originally envisioned to handle: A wild G4 Cube, and a more modest (but still fun) Shuttle XPC. Loaded with era appropriate games and software for your enjoyment.

https://xodium.net

Exhibit: PPC.IO

Trekintosh

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Exhibit: PPC.IO

Apple made a lot of all-in-one computers! A complete collection will be displayed of all the major forms of Apple PowerPC AIO (hence the name) computer! The machines will be networked and have a smattering of period accurate software.

Come meet all the compact powerhouses that dotted schools and homes around the world, powered by the best CPU architecture ever made!

Exhibit: Luggables!

Zachary Calcagno

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Exhibit: Luggables!

Before there existed laptops that could do everything a desktop computer could do, there were luggables! Behold these massive, awkward machines that could do everything you wanted, if your arms didn't wear out first.

Exhibit: Commodore 128 40th Anniversary ...Again

8bithe.art

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Exhibit: Commodore 128 40th Anniversary ...Again

Two processors means two 40th anniversaries! Come check out Commodore's last 8-bit powerhouse, along with modern software, repro motherboards, and more!

https://8bithe.art

Exhibit: Best of the mid 2000!

Bucket of Pixels

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Exhibit: Best of the mid 2000!

Experience an era where computers were the future & looked the part, with sleek curves and bold designs as we moved away from the boring beige boxes of yesteryear & began to unlock real power!

Exhibit: Robot Slow Scan Television and Keyboards

Goncalves and Company

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Exhibit: Robot Slow Scan Television and Keyboards

A demo of Robot Research Model 4000 Slow Scan Converters, used to transmit and receive video at a frame every 8 seconds! using all 74 series logic and SRAM - no microprocessors. Video at the show transmitted and received live off a tin-can phone! Also with matching Model 400 Super Keyboards used for slow scan, radio teletype and serial terminal use.

https://www.w1euj.com/robot

Exhibit: Keith's Mac Hacks

Keith Kaisershot

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Exhibit: Keith's Mac Hacks

Keith is a programmer with a penchant for hacking vintage Macs. Come see and chat about his:
- Macintosh Plus outfitted with pre-production "Twiggy" ROMs and software from 1983 and earlier
- Bandai Pippin game console running classic Mac games thanks to his Pippin Kickstart software
- And more!

https://blitter.net

Exhibit: Magic-1 HomebrewCPU

Bill Buzbee

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Exhibit: Magic-1 HomebrewCPU

Magic-1 is a homebrew multi-tasking, multi-user minicomputer built from roughly 200 74-series TTL devices using wire-wrap construction. It runs the Minix operating system and has been in continuous operation for more than 20 years. Also appearing will be a newly designed, card-compatible Magic-1 clone built using PCBs.

http://www.homebrewcpu.com

Exhibit: Retro Ricing

RevisionY2K

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Exhibit: Retro Ricing

You ever hear of Pimp My Ride? That notorious show that would take boring, beat up, worthless economy cars and transform them into ostentatious, overwhelming, garish, insane vehicles that were the textbook definition of "lipstick on a pig"? What about sleepers? Restomods? JDM drift machines? ...Well, this is the computer equivalent of that. There are no faithful restorations; no modest rebuilds; no "classics". The unloved, the uninteresting, and the undesirable are all chopped, slammed, blinged, gassed, roached out, ratted out, rodded out. Witness one man spend too much money lowering the collector's value of already-worthless computers, all in the name of smiles-per-gallon :D

Exhibit: The Wind Terminal (Friend of the Fest)

Wind Terminal MCP

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Exhibit: The Wind Terminal (Friend of the Fest)

The Wind Terminal serves as an ethereal bridge to the spiritual realm, allowing anyone to share messages, reflections, and memories through simple text based interface. We build on the idea of the traditional Wind Phone, transforming neglected and forgotten technology into a renewed, meaningful platform for connection.

https://www.windterminal.com

Exhibit: The VIC-20 Computer: Present and Future

Larry Cameron

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Exhibit: The VIC-20 Computer: Present and Future

The last VIC-20 computer rolled off the assembly line 40 years ago, but its heart will go on and on (credit to Celine Dion for the corny lyric).

At this booth you can see some recent additions to the VIC-20 family and some ideas about what the future might bring!

If you had a VIC, used one, loved it, and know it to be the special machine that it is then please stop by and say hello!

Exhibit: Preserving the Computer Museum of America

Former staff of CMA

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Exhibit: Preserving the Computer Museum of America

Forty years after it's founding in San Diego, and 15 years after it folded, a unique partnership between San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University is cataloguing the vast collection of the Computer Museum of America.

Exhibit: Cataloguing the Computer Museum of America

Paul Gray Personal Computing Museum

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Exhibit: Cataloguing the Computer Museum of America

How Claremont Graduate University and its Paul Gray PC Museum have catalogued the holdings of the former Computer Museum of America at San Diego State University.

https://research.cgu.edu/paul-gray-pc-museum/

Exhibit: Modded Vintage Apple Computers

Austin

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Exhibit: Modded Vintage Apple Computers

A display of a few favorite Apple computers that I have restored and modded over the past years. All of these computers have been restored and upgraded with at least one, if not numerous, modern components. From adapted SSDs and new batteries to RGB screens, they have quite a lot of cool features.

Exhibit: Liminal Microcomputers

Craig Cole

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Exhibit: Liminal Microcomputers

Where early microcomputers hum patiently, calling to all the curious who pass by to witness that the spark of the digital age still lives in their processors, their keyboards and their screens. Each is a survivor of the relentless march of technology—rising from relic to revered!

https://www.coderatlarge.com

Exhibit: Retro Bytes & Pizza Fights

Karate Pizza

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Exhibit: Retro Bytes & Pizza Fights

Retro Bytes & Pizza Fights is a four-station retro PC arena showcasing the fast, fun, and wonderfully unpredictable systems of the 90s and 2000s. Every station brings its own personality, quirks, and surprises. Visitors can jump between eras, dive into classic hardware and operating systems, mash buttons, and fully experience the joyful chaos of vintage computing.

Exhibit: Apple Server Computers

Peter Monta

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Exhibit: Apple Server Computers

Get hands-on with Apple server equipment including Xserve, Xraid and G5 Power Mac computers. Other early 2000's G4 hardware will be on the network.

Exhibit: Retro Tech and "Portable" Computers

Brian Goode

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Exhibit: Retro Tech and "Portable" Computers

Tandy Models 102, PC-2, and 4p. Osborne One. Epson PX-8. ZX Spectrum. Original Nintendo NES hooked up to a 1.5 inch Sony Watchman. WiFi-enabled 1960's vintage lamp. Various thermal and pen-plotter typewriters and word processors. Vintage Casio and Seiko (!) synthesisers.

Exhibit: Skunklabz Retro

skunklabz

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Exhibit: Skunklabz Retro

Welcome to the skunklabz retro journey from Commodore to PC where I'll showcase some of the machines from my childhood and some other interesting machines from my collection.

Exhibit: Vintage Tech Museum & Community in the Metaverse

Muze XR

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Exhibit: Vintage Tech Museum & Community in the Metaverse

We are the creator of Muze XR, a virtual exhibition platform. We regularly host virtual meetups in the metaverse focused on computer history and retro arcade games, which you can join using a VR headset or a regular computer. Muze XR offers high-quality graphics and unique technology that recreates hardware, software, and technological innovations from history. We are currently looking for participants for our virtual retro tech meetups, and by joining now, you’ll get free access to our curation tools!

https://muzexr.com

Exhibit: Core64 - Interactive Core Memory and a 6502

Andy Geppert

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Exhibit: Core64 - Interactive Core Memory and a 6502

Enjoy a hands-on exhibit with Core Memory, a 6502, and Neon Pixels! Celebrate the recent 50th Anniversary of the 6502 by interacting with the microprocessor using a magnetic stylus and Core Memory. Try your hand at games, painting and making music with Core Memory as a MIDI grid controller too! These are some examples of fun and learning that can be had with this old-fashioned memory. Maybe even make some of your own Core Memories! Learn all about Core Memory and its place in the computer history timeline.

https://www.core64.io

Exhibit: COSMAC 1802 Computer (1977 - 2026)

Steve Botts

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Exhibit: COSMAC 1802 Computer (1977 - 2026)

Showing a COSMAC VIP clone I built in 1977-1980 with pictures and stories (ask me about the time I almost sent a COSMAC into orbit). I will demo the computer, but if it is having issues (It is wire wrapped and about 100 years old in computer age?), I have an FPGA running MicroVIP by David Hunter with my custom-made keypad interface card we can play with.

http://www.youtube.com/@bwave57

Exhibit: KansasFest - 2026

KansasFest

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Exhibit: KansasFest - 2026

KansasFest is the largest and longest running annual convention dedicated to the Apple II Computer!

Come by the table to find out about the in person event this year, July 14- 19, 2026 @ University of Illinois Springfield or our on-line virtual event.

https://www.kansasfest.org

Exhibit: Hector, l’ordinateur qui à la pêche

Rémi Arnaud

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Exhibit: Hector, l’ordinateur qui à la pêche

In 1979 the Interact Family Computer was born in California. It did not survive the Wild West but was adopted by a French company and in 1983 reborn as Hector.

https://sasfepu.com

Exhibit: Simpel Technologies

Simpel Technologies

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Exhibit: Simpel Technologies

A collection of technology including computers, networking hardware, and office appliances from the 1980's to the early 2000's.

The exhibit will showcase computers from an early 90's industrial bus-oriented Computer, to a Pentium IV PC with Rambus memory modules. There will also be a couple typewriters including an IBM Wheelwriter which shares the same keyboard mechanism as their model M PC keyboards. And finally there will be an analog phone line setup and working dial-up network between the PCs along with a few landline phones.

Stop by if any of these things sound interesting or if you would just like to chat, I am more than happy to tell you more about the exhibit and talk about vintage technology in general.

Exhibit: The Motorola 68000 CPU

Retro Projects

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Exhibit: The Motorola 68000 CPU

This exhibit will feature the Motorola 68000 CPU that was used in the mid-1980s and beyond to power several popular computers. A selection of 68000-based computers such as the Amiga 500 and 1200, Apple Macintosh SE and LC, and Atari 520 and 1040 ST will be on display for you to experience this 32/24/16-bit processor.

https://retroprojects.org

Exhibit: Retro Games

Perry Rivera

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Exhibit: Retro Games

TeensyRom NFC Game Loading

Exhibit: Maker Faire Orange County

OCreate

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Exhibit: Maker Faire Orange County

Come experience the fun of making and learn about our event we host every year. Come find the hobby you didn't even know you wanted.

https://makerfaireoc.com

Exhibit: That Electronics Fool

Alexander Ramirez

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Exhibit: That Electronics Fool

A small collection of old computers, computer related items, and other oddball devices that have been featured on "That Electronics Fool" YouTube channel. Hopefully the Aptiva Stealth will survive the entirety of the show!

https://www.youtube.com/@ThatElectronicsFool

Exhibit: PDP-8/e with Diablo Disk Drive and a Disk Tester

George Wiley

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Exhibit: PDP-8/e with Diablo Disk Drive and a Disk Tester

Exhibiting a PDP-8/e CPU and Diablo Model 31 disk unit running DEC OS/8. Also a demo of the RK05 disk emulator operating as a disk tester to test the Diablo Model 31.

https://github.com/g-wiley

Please Note: The lists, dates, and times of Exhibitors, Vendors, Speakers, and Other Activities can change depending on the different participant's own personal situations, festival changes, and other circumstances.

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