This is the VCF East convention experience! At least as it was for me across 4 days in April 2025. Flying from North Carolina to New Jersey, getting settled in Neptune, enjoying beachside pinball and InfoAge museums, lots of wandering the event itself, then flying back home and evaluating.

• Some relevant links:
https://vcfed.org/events/vinta....ge-computer-festival
https://silverballmuseum.com/asbury-park/
https://www.coasterfactory.com/
https://www.elisoftware.org/
https://www.mdcon.live/

00:00 traveling
03:50 hotel check-in, food
09:10 Friday at the show
28:33 the beach, pinball museum
40:46 Saturday events
01:24:01 heading home

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Assembling a mid 90s Windows NT workstation computer! Specifically NT 4.0 with two Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz processors, maxed-out RAM, and a Matrox MGA Millennium video card. All in an awesome metal case on wheels. Testing, dusting, building, troubleshooting, games, CAD rendering and more! Most of which I've never done so let's dive in and make some mistakes.

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00:00 what we're making
02:01 the motherboard
06:58 the tower case
11:38 a talking BIOS
12:20 testing the Socket 8
14:16 cleaning the mobo
15:53 upgrading cooling
17:49 swapping casters
20:48 cleaning the case
21:51 standoffs, cables
22:46 Matrox Millennium
23:42 power supply issues
25:02 Quantum Bigfoot HDD
26:15 choosing an OS
27:40 installing NT 4.0
30:50 first NT impressions
32:38 3D Pinball Space Cadet
33:15 NT driver complaints
34:36 MIDI playback
35:38 Photoshop 5.5
36:43 AutoCAD R14
38:23 MS-DOS "support"
39:35 the Duke 3D test
40:21 Quake II and OpenGL
41:46 Age of Empires
42:43 Matrox MGA stuff
43:53 Asymetrix 3D F/X
45:05 ray tracing
46:23 Tandberg SLR50 tape drive
48:37 intake fans, 5.25" infrared
51:11 freezing on boot
51:59 in summary, I'm frazzled

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