[vcf-midatlantic] VCFe 2019 - Atari 40th

[dillera at gmail.com]

Dean - i will bring it up for you to display. It's pretty cool in terms of radical re-interpretation of the Atari-8Bit.

And with it hookup up to a DVI LCD Panel and a nice PS2/keyboard it's a very interesting discussion piece.

Also, it's tiny.

https://imgur.com/a/IHYDwyv

-andy


> On Jan 20, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> Andy,
> I'd love to have it as part of my exhibit, if you'd like.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 3:00 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> I will bring my Atari 10888xel to the show for fun
>> 
>> I don't expect there to be enough space. The Unix exhibit will be big, but
>> we have a finite amount of space to share with all exhibitors at the show.
>> It would not be fair if someone else has a tight space while another
>> exhibitor has something unrelated to their own exhibit just for fun.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 9:16 AM andy diller via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org wrote:
>> 
>>> We are also missing that 2019 is the 40th anniversary of the Atari 8bits.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - the Atari 400 and 800 were announced 40 years ago on Dec. 14th, 1978
>>> - first presented at the Winter CES in January 1979 as the 400 and 800
>>> - The computers shipped in November 1979
>>> 
>>> One of the earliest media coverages, at CES:
>>> https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1979-04/page/n19 <
>>> https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1979-04/page/n19>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I will bring my Atari 10888xel to the show for fun, but I'll be focusing
>>> on the Unix exhibition, and I'm sure there are some people working on
>> some
>>> great Atari exhibits for the show- I just had seen it mentioned on the
>>> list, and we should perhaps note this in promotional materials, or
>> perhaps
>>> try to attract some Atari-related guest keynote speaker.
>>> 
>>> -andy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> footnote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family
>>