But if you look at the difference between the mini's and micro's of that age, I really could see things like the Atari 2600 being an exhibit. As the early gaming consoles also brought many different microprocessors into the home. And had just as much to do with ushering in the digital age as general purpose computer systems. Just because they're "dedicated" to home entertainment that's no reason to really exclude them. Although I would see limiting the number of exhibitors, and requiring the exhibitor to come up with a theme for their exhibit. An example could be like when I did my "Basically it's BASIC" exhibit. The Atari 2600 does have a cartridge version of BASIC, that people could write programs with. Or maybe an exhibit "Flight Simulators throughout the years" as an example, and have a mixture of both game consoles and computer systems. But no matter how one looks at it, gaming consoles have been integral in the development and popularity of computers. On Saturday, December 17, 2016, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
There are a lot of other computers that have a 40th this year. Northstar
Horizon comes to mind, but many others. Plus PDP 11/04 /34 /45 /55. Atari 2600....
Can't all be teams though. :)
An exhibit about just the 2600 would not be on-topic for VCF.
Unless it included the JOLT computer 2600 was prototype or similar tie-in. My point though was just that if someone was thinking of exhibiting something, there are other 40th's that one could choose, including the list that I pulled from my head. I could be wrong about the PDP's being 1977, they might have been 1976.
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