Well, we will see whether I shine in my 15 minutes of fame or embarrass myself, but I will be on Chesapeake Collectables, Maryland Public Television's version of Antiques Roadshow, on June 15th at 7:30pm. Also repeated a couple of times later in the week. I will be showing (having appraised) a full up operational Altair 8800 along with the January 1975 Popular Electronics and an ADM-3A. It was running CP/M along with a couple of simple programs I wrote to provide some blinkenlights. MPT even mentions it in the intro to the June program guide: https://files.constantcontact.com/e88923da701/caa9ca5e-e0fe-4677-81f3-af4ea3... Folks from Pennsylvania down to Virginia should be able to watch it locally. I think it will end up on the PBS web site after a couple of months. If anyone desperately wants to see it, and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I may stream my part from my server. Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com
First, Congrats. I would enjoy seeing this. Second. Looks like we may be able to see it here https://www.youtube.com/@ChesapeakeCollectibles On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Well, we will see whether I shine in my 15 minutes of fame or embarrass myself, but I will be on Chesapeake Collectables, Maryland Public Television's version of Antiques Roadshow, on June 15th at 7:30pm. Also repeated a couple of times later in the week. I will be showing (having appraised) a full up operational Altair 8800 along with the January 1975 Popular Electronics and an ADM-3A. It was running CP/M along with a couple of simple programs I wrote to provide some blinkenlights.
MPT even mentions it in the intro to the June program guide:
https://files.constantcontact.com/e88923da701/caa9ca5e-e0fe-4677-81f3-af4ea3...
Folks from Pennsylvania down to Virginia should be able to watch it locally. I think it will end up on the PBS web site after a couple of months. If anyone desperately wants to see it, and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I may stream my part from my server.
Bill S.
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Awesome! On 6/1/2026 1:45 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Well, we will see whether I shine in my 15 minutes of fame or embarrass myself, but I will be on Chesapeake Collectables, Maryland Public Television's version of Antiques Roadshow, on June 15th at 7:30pm. Also repeated a couple of times later in the week. I will be showing (having appraised) a full up operational Altair 8800 along with the January 1975 Popular Electronics and an ADM-3A. It was running CP/M along with a couple of simple programs I wrote to provide some blinkenlights.
MPT even mentions it in the intro to the June program guide:
https://files.constantcontact.com/e88923da701/caa9ca5e-e0fe-4677-81f3-af4ea3...
Folks from Pennsylvania down to Virginia should be able to watch it locally. I think it will end up on the PBS web site after a couple of months. If anyone desperately wants to see it, and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I may stream my part from my server.
Bill S.
-- Best Regards, Douglas Crawford VCF Museum Manager InfoAge Science & History Museums 2201 Marconi Road, Wall, NJ 07719
This is not the full video but you see William and the computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJUUw-dZ1P4 On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Well, we will see whether I shine in my 15 minutes of fame or embarrass myself, but I will be on Chesapeake Collectables, Maryland Public Television's version of Antiques Roadshow, on June 15th at 7:30pm. Also repeated a couple of times later in the week. I will be showing (having appraised) a full up operational Altair 8800 along with the January 1975 Popular Electronics and an ADM-3A. It was running CP/M along with a couple of simple programs I wrote to provide some blinkenlights.
MPT even mentions it in the intro to the June program guide:
https://files.constantcontact.com/e88923da701/caa9ca5e-e0fe-4677-81f3-af4ea3...
Folks from Pennsylvania down to Virginia should be able to watch it locally. I think it will end up on the PBS web site after a couple of months. If anyone desperately wants to see it, and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I may stream my part from my server.
Bill S.
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Actually I found the video, you can see him at 21:11 https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1303-strange-societies-communist-propagand... On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Well, we will see whether I shine in my 15 minutes of fame or embarrass myself, but I will be on Chesapeake Collectables, Maryland Public Television's version of Antiques Roadshow, on June 15th at 7:30pm. Also repeated a couple of times later in the week. I will be showing (having appraised) a full up operational Altair 8800 along with the January 1975 Popular Electronics and an ADM-3A. It was running CP/M along with a couple of simple programs I wrote to provide some blinkenlights.
MPT even mentions it in the intro to the June program guide:
https://files.constantcontact.com/e88923da701/caa9ca5e-e0fe-4677-81f3-af4ea3...
Folks from Pennsylvania down to Virginia should be able to watch it locally. I think it will end up on the PBS web site after a couple of months. If anyone desperately wants to see it, and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I may stream my part from my server.
Bill S.
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Well, that didn't turn out too badly. I did watch it on Monday. I can't tell you how hard it is to talk with three cameras (one on a boom) and about 10 people watching you. Hard for me anyway. One or two people standing in front of my exhibit at VCF and I can chew your ears off. The director says "go" and I can no longer speak English. So we let the appraiser do most of the talking. We also went a little conservative with the hardware values and they seem to have dropped the appraisal of the magazine. I don't think either of us said anything factually wrong. I wrote a stupid little BASIC app, really designed to blink the lights, and they didn't show the blinking lights. Still, it got some good positive feedback from some of my neighbors, coworkers and causal acquaintances... "Oh that's what you do for a hobby, I understand now." On 6/19/2026 12:54 PM, Christian Liendo wrote:
Actually I found the video, you can see him at 21:11
https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1303-strange-societies-communist-propagand...
On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Well, we will see whether I shine in my 15 minutes of fame or embarrass myself, but I will be on Chesapeake Collectables, Maryland Public Television's version of Antiques Roadshow, on June 15th at 7:30pm. Also repeated a couple of times later in the week. I will be showing (having appraised) a full up operational Altair 8800 along with the January 1975 Popular Electronics and an ADM-3A. It was running CP/M along with a couple of simple programs I wrote to provide some blinkenlights.
MPT even mentions it in the intro to the June program guide:
https://files.constantcontact.com/e88923da701/caa9ca5e-e0fe-4677-81f3-af4ea3...
Folks from Pennsylvania down to Virginia should be able to watch it locally. I think it will end up on the PBS web site after a couple of months. If anyone desperately wants to see it, and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I may stream my part from my server.
Bill S.
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