TONIGHT! Old School Cool Night, March 5th, 7:30 - 10:30 pm


Where: VHS
When: Thursday, March 5th, ,2015, 7:30 - 10:30 pm
Cost: Free and open to everyone

Remember back in the day when you’d use your slide rule to calculate square roots, your 16K computer to play Xs and Os, or your phonograph to listen to the latest hits? Those days are back.

Bring your old computer, machines, radios, gaming systems, tools, devices, and of course…beer and hang out for a night of tinkering, show and tell, and reminiscing at the hack space.

Please don’t bring anything that is excessively radioactive or that contains asbestos.

Devices must be manufactured prior to 1990. Open to everyone!

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Cool idea for a night.

I don’t even have anything from before 1990 anymore! Well, except for…erm…maybe some…no wait…maybe some pieces of bone…erm…my DNA?

Would be fun though! Can we watch 2001 on an old school projector? :smiley:

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First this needed to be posted.
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Anyone remember the flying toasters?

Nope, not even your bones

According to researchers, the body replaces itself with a largely new set of cells every seven years to 10 years, and some of our most important parts are revamped even more rapidly [sources: Stanford University, Northrup].

Source Does Your Body Really Replace Itself Every Seven Years? | HowStuffWorks

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I’m bringing code! I have a TI994A Emulator on my laptop so we can play Parsec.

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Also possibly I will bring one of these…an old Crosley suicide radio (chassis is live…by design). All the old timey wax capacitors are blown, so I have to replace them. I’m pretty sure the tubes are still all in good shape though.

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This is a Vectrex which I will bring. The Vectrex was a vector based home game system released in 1982

Vector graphics means the electron beam that forms the display is steered to form lines that make up the picture. This is contrasted with a standard Raster display that is composed of rows of pixels.

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The Value Village on Columbia in New West has an Intellivision and a HUGE stack of games, if anyone is interested. I didnt get a price, but it was in the case behind the counter where they keep the stuff they know has value so don’t expect a $5 goldmine

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Don’t forget this is coming in March. I really hope someone brings an Atari system. Perhaps finally I will master Pitfall.

I have a new job in Victoria so, unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend. :sob:

Aw - too bad. But congrats on the new job!

I can bring a real TI-99 with Parsec if that helps. :B My Amiga 500 and Atari 4-switch will probably also be in attendance, provided I’m free on that Thursday. Should be good!

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Oh my god! I would love to see a ti99 with parsec. Do you happen to have the
original joystick? Woot!

I don’t, sadly. Don’t even think I have anything compatible - it’s doesn’t work with Sega/Atari 9-pin controllers without an adapter as far as I recall.

No worries. Still good though.:slight_smile:

surely someone here will want to grab this: craigslist | canada

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Don’t forget - Old School Cool Night is this Thursday night! Hope to see you and your old gadgets/tools/etc there.

I just accepted a donation to the space of a working telex magnabyte w/attachements (which was used in the early 90’s to project from a computer using an overhead projector) which may be of interest to folks at this meetup as well. At the moment it is sitting next to the projector

Thanks! That’s awesome.

I don’t know if it is something we’ll have a permanent use for, but as a novelty for the Old-School night it seemed fitting. After that… I don’t know if the space is the right home for that particular toy… not sure. I’d love the case it came in though :stuck_out_tongue:

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