Cambridge Retro Festival 2023

By Colin Hoad | Nov 07, 2023
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I was very fortunate to be able to attend both days of the awesome "Retrofest" event at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge over the weekend and took a few bits of video while I was there. I actually spent far more time talking to exhibitors than I did filming footage, so it's quite short and it's also missing some of the exhibits I especially enjoyed (shout outs to Dean, Andy, Dave and Josh - sorry I didn't have any footage to show of your great exhibits!) but hopefully it still gives a flavour of the event. I met lots of lovely people (and their machines) and hope to return next year!


00:00 Intro

00:07 Main Exhibition Hall

00:12 Jeremy Owen's plotter

00:23 Commodore PET running my simple BASIC program!

00:26 Stephen Usher's Memotechs

00:33 Tom Stepleton's Tektronix vector storage tube

00:42 Binary Dinosaur's original Model A Beeb and Positron 9000

00:48 Jonathan Pallant's homebrew ARM computer running his own Neotron OS written in Rust

00:51 Dolo Miah's (aka @6502Nerd) Orics and homemade "BBC" (Breadboard Computer)

01:00 Tim Gilberts' SCRUMPI 1 replica

01:04 Ben Coffer's (aka Sharpworks) Sharp MZ80K and MZ700

01:07 Alex Brown's dazzling array of Psions

01:14 BBC Micro signed by the original Acorn team!

01:16 Main Exhibition Hall

01:24 Outro