Macintosh Quadra 950 running three 24” monitors and two portrait displays
B/W System 7 Monitors Control Panel showing five monitors arranged into one desktop
Hey Peter, man you know what I’d do with a million dollars?
Five monitors at the same time. #vcfw
Also from #vcfw was the BBC Micro: the Apple ][ of the UK. The BBC (in its role as a public service) pushed for computer literacy in the early ‘80s, with specs for a UK-built home computer, developed by Acorn Computers. The Micro was subsidized, put into schools, and widely adopted 🧵
Acorn’s BBC Master 128 displaying the home screen of BEEBFAX from 1986
The most amazing thing I saw at #vcfw was BEEBFAX: a digital news service delivered over the airwaves from the BBC to a home PC via teletext. A technological achievement so singularly remarkable, no one from the UK thought to mention it in 45 years 🧵 davidcwga.github.io/vcfw/#master
long empty hallway with sign at end pointing out where the free table is
#vcfw #freepile #freetable #therewasnoactualtableforfreejustitemsonthetable
Enter the Russians WHAT is thought to be the first computer game from Russia for the BBC Micro - Tetris - has been released by Mir-rorSoft. The package is claimed to be simplicity itself. A series of different shapes appear onscreen one at a time: By using keyboard or joystick you have to move and turn them - and ideally make them fit together in a line across the bottom of the screen. As your skill level increases the shapes appear more rapidly. MirrorSoft (01-377 4837) is so confident that Tetris will attract a cult following that it is organising a national competition with a first prize of a trip for two to Russia. Price £8.99 on cassette and £12.99 on disc.
#vcfw sometimes the simplest exhibits - a stack of bbc micro magazines to page through - are best
A cheerful retrocomputing enthusiast in a blue shirt with AMOGUS in the amiga font. He is posing happily behind a y2k era PC showing a blue screen of death due to an nvidia driver crash.
At #vcfw with @xodium.net demonstrating the longhorn beta experience
