Yes! Can you believe it? Years ago Bill Dromgoole diagnosed, troubleshooted and repaired the Univac 1219B that sits in the VCF museum. As far as we know the only one of its kind still in operation. At every VCF East for years he has demonstrated this machine to visitors and lamented "I don't know what to demo". Everyone was happy just to see it working, the blinking lights, the loud noise, the tapping of the teletype and Bill's explanation of how it worked. About 4 years ago a young whippersnapper Steve Schivone came along and was fascinated by this machine and wanted to learn all about it. I mean, can you blame him? Learning to use a working mainframe computer? Bill Dromgoole took him in as an apprentice and he learned this system in and out. A few months ago Steven met some other "young" guys who thought using and learning about this system would be cool! So they got to thinking. "What can we do with this system?". So they made a C compiler. Not satisfied, they created a BASIC interpreter. Then they loaded the Oregon Trail. Imagine playing that on a teletype machine on a machine used for ballistics control on a naval ship! Next up was a series of common BASIC programs and games like Zork. And "modern" games like Wordle. All very cool. then they were like Light Speed is too slow, let's go to Ridiculous Speed. So they created a Minecraft server on the machine! What an incredible and fun feat! Who would have ever thought of such a thing! But ... they were not satisfied. They needed to go to Ludicrous Speed! So they made Doom on this machine. Yes. Doom! The thing that everyone making a new innovative system uses as a test "Does it play Doom?". I couldn't believe it was possible, but I saw it with my own eyes! So when you are at VCF East, stop by the Univac found in the Vintage Computer Museum and play all these fun games! VCF East runs April 17-19. The demo will run Saturday and Sunday 1PM to 3PM April 18 & 19. Take care! Jeff Brace VCF East Showrunner