| VCF Midwest 18 Exhibitor and Vendor List |
| NAME | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | LOC |
LGR | LGR Things | An exhibit of computer hardware and odd projects featured on the LGR YouTube channel. Also offering a selection of merchandise for sale. Case badges, vinyl decals, pins, and even shareware on floppy disks! | V01/V02 |
The 8-Bit Guy | Come see the Commander X16 and pick up any remaining copies of Petscii Robots before they are all gone! | Table of The 8-Bit Guy. He'll be signing autographs for free, selling games, and showing off the Commander X16 | V06 |
Krazy Ken | Computer Clan | Meet Krazy Ken and enjoy a collection of rare and retro computers. | V03 |
Ben Heck | The Ben Heck Experience | Ben Heck brings cool hacks and giveaways to VCFMW 2023 | V04 |
Voidstar | domesticating the computer | Mural to the 1970s history of bringing the computer into our homes, finally making the "appliance computer" a reality. Also featuring a special X16 appearance! | V05 |
2TailedFox | A bit of everything from c64 to atari to athlon to p4. Lots of Ram too. | A bit of everything from c64 to atari to athlon to p4. Lots of Ram too. | A39 |
Allan DeYong | Lightscribe, Free Play & Sales | Free play on PCs and N64 (up to 4 players!), Lightscribe demos/instruction with free Lightscribe CDs to burn graphics onto. PCs and PowerPC Macs for sale | A32/A33 |
Amiga of Rochester | Onsite soldering and repair of vintage computers | We will be offering onsite recapping and vintage computer repair. | A20/A21 |
Danielle - thegirlg33k | Retro Japanese Computing | Check out some software and games from some of the most interesting Japanese computers from the 80s and early 90s. Featuring brand new hardware mods and software coming straight from Japan! | A08 |
Frank Palazzolo and Evan Allen | Various and sundry restorations, and Demon Debugger update | Various restorations: Northstar Advantage, Exidy Sorcerer with S-100 expansion chassis, and hopefully, a Pizza Time Theatre "Cyberamic Control Center". Also, the latest Demon Debugger project. | A16 |
Ian Scott | Emulating ISA bus cards with the Raspberry Pi Pico | Demonstrating PicoGUS, an ISA sound card emulator powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 microcontroller, as well as other Pico-powered ISA cards like PicoMEM and PicoPOST. | A10 |
Jonathan Herr | Electronic Test Equipment and other things for sale | I should have a few pieces of vintage electronic testing and prototyping equipment, possibly for sale. | A31 |
Joshua Conboy | OS/2 and You. A Retrospective in what could have been | All things OS/2. iBM and Microsoft’s ill foster collaboration turned into IBMs last hope for beating Billie G at his game. | A41/A42 |
Ken Van Mersbergen | Coleco ADAM, TI-99 4/A, SegaScope 3D! And items for sale. | Displaying the Coleco ADAM, TI-99 4/A and SegaScope 3D! | A01/A02/A03 |
Kevin Moonlight | IBM Palm Top PC110 | Play hands on with the IBM PC110 and many related peripherals. Multiplayer gaming, boot your favorite operating systems, take selfies, compose midi music, place telephone calls, experience 90's mobile networking and client/server software and much more. | A40 |
Kyle Timmerman | The OPL Archive | The Yamaha OPL series of sound chips brought FM synthesis to the masses via the AdLib and Sound Blaster cards, and The OPL Archive is dedicated to collecting, documenting, and preserving the music made with these chips in a unified, hardware-playable format (VGM). Learn about FM synthesis and listen to the music the Archive has collected so far. | A07 |
Liam Coyne | Atari 16/32 bit and Sony MSX Late Era | Displaying several late era Atari 16/32 bit home computers (Falcon 030, Mega STE, ST) plus Sony MSX and Atari Jaguar. | A27/A28 |
Jeramy Breckles | PCs and 1980s Micros | I will be selling extra DOS/Windows computers, associated parts, and getting the word out one my cloned projects of 1980s micros from the USA and UK. | A13 |
Midwest Classic Videogame Museum | 40th Anniversaries of the Topo Androbot and Phillips G7200 and G7400, Early Soviet Gaming, Computer and Game Sales. | A 40th anniversary display celebration for Topo Androbot with a Topo 1 & 2 and a reproduction Androman and various related paraphernalia.
40th anniversary displays for the Philip's G7200 and G7400 computers. And a walk thru early Soviet gaming systems. As well as some computer and console game and hardware sales/trading. | A17/A18/A19 |
Marvin Johnston | Misc books and hardware | Misc computer books and hardware | A29/A30 |
Matt 'Tempest' Reichert | Obscure Computers: The Exidy Sorcerer, Umtech VideoBrain, & Spectravideo SV-328 | I will be displaying three obscure computers that most people have never had a chance to see in person: The Exidy Sorcerer, Umtech VideoBrain, & Spectravideo SV-328 | A05 |
Nephrite.FM | Nihongo Retro | Featuring early 80s and 90s Japanese PCs, Software, Peripherals and Interesting Manuals and Mangas covering Basic Programming! We plan to feature PC-98 Models Ap2, and other similarly specced machines (some for sale), an 8801 MA, 8001mkII, 6001mkII, a complete Famicom Basic system, and even a US-based TRS-80 Model III. | A14/A15 |
Nik Chavez | NK-Tech-Fix Vintage Market | Vintage and retro gear from a tech-support lifer who loves to save and share the history. | A34 |
Paul Wilga | Commodore / Mac Demos and Retro Sales | Commodore REU games, demos, and music. Retro Mac computing using SCSI SD technology. Retro computer and gaming sales. | A37 |
PlayPi Games | BASIC Demos | Come see BASIC on display. | A09 |
Russ Fierce | Telephone & Old PC Sales | Selling Western Electric Key Phones & Equipment along with Working IBM Monitors. | A11 |
Scott K | Towered Amiga 1200 + Mediator, Desert Bus on Sega CD, garage sale. | Towered Amiga 1200 + Mediator setup, play desert bus on Sega CD, random stuff for sale. | A23 |
Skye Janis | The History of FM synthesis in computers, games, and music | A collection of sound hardware and demos utilizing FM synthesis, and information about its relationship with video games, popular music, and home computers. | A06 |
Steve Mahoney | Lots of Vintage Software and Hardware for Sale | A bit of everything. A lot of software, A boxed Leading Edge Model D, Monitor and Keyboard, TRS-80 Model 4P, Tandy 1000, etc etc. | A24/A25/A26 |
Action Retro | Totally Normal Computing | A collection of supremely-upgraded Macintosh computers from different eras, spanning 68k to PowerPC. | B31 |
Atari BBS Community | Atari BBS Community (We're still here!) | Atari BBSs still exist in the modern area and are thriving! Join us! Live demos! | B13 |
Avery Grade & Bea Thurman | Apple II: Sight & Sound | A collaboration of 2 great era’s of Apple ][ sight and sound hardware and software. Be amazed at what the humble Apple could do with just a little bit of hardware and some know-how. | B09/B10 |
COCOMAN.biz | Display Demos and sales | Home of Australian inspired accessories for the Tandy Color Computer , MC-10. Home of the Apple IIgs SCART video cable! | B34/B35 |
Dante Blando | Welcome to NetWinder | In 1999 Corel introduced an ARM-based desktop server running Red Hat Linux. This year I've put an SSD in one -- but will it survive? | B29 |
Darren Young | NABU PC’s, RC-2014’s and other Z80 based fun | We’ll have a few NABU machines, option cards, software and accessories to check out as well as some RC2014 kits to see and play on. | B20 |
David Kuder - V2 Retro Computing | V2 Analog - software defined peripherals for the Apple II | David has been developing a line of open source software defined peripherals for Apple II computers. Example systems will be on display, with a limited number of cards available for purchase. | B04 |
Evan Wright | Cross-platform adventure games | Demonstration of cross-platform adventure games made using Lantern | B28 |
GFA Basic (Lonny Pursell) | GFA Basic for the Atari ST | GFA Basic, one of the Atari ST's most popular programming languages! With demos! | B14 |
Gibson Goodrich | Zap coders Home brew Gameboy game | A brand new game for the GameBoy Color Created by middle school Kids. | B26 |
Intergalactic Microsystems | The Victor 9000 ~ A Better PC! | Try out a Victor 9000 PC, play some tunes on a Radio Shack Microcomputer Trainer, or get an image put on floppy with our AppleSauce FDC | B03 |
Jim O'Keefe | Tandy Model 1 and Coco fun stuff | Will have a couple of Tandy Model 1's and Coco3 | B21 |
joshua stein | Classic Macintoshes | Modern software on classic Macintoshes | B32 |
June Tate-Gans | Nybbles and Bytes Randomness | Come and play with a Nintendo Famicom running Family BASIC, write a game on June's Commodore 128Dcr, have your name punched out on legit paper tape on a Heathkit H11A, or just have fun jeering at June during some live BASIC programming on an IBM PS/2 Model 77! | B11/B12 |
Ken Waters | NitrOS9 EOU | Display the NitrOS9 EOU project on the CoCo 3 as well as other TANDY related goodies. | B24 |
Malcom Ramey | TRS-80/Tandy systems | Various Trs-80/Tandy Systems | B30 |
Mike Stroz | Crusty's Corner | Crusty the Mac SE will be on display, we'll see if he survived the creek | B19 |
Neil's Computer Service | Tandy Color Computer Goodness & Gamester Arcade Joysticks | Will be displaying custom made Gamester Arcade Joysticks designed for Tandy CoCo & Tandy 1000 PC's. They will be available for sale along with other Tandy miscellaneous items. | B22 |
Nicolas Mailloux | Early 80s Luggables | Altair 8800 Clone with RS-232 typewriter to act as teletype. I'll be running CP/M games and software (maybe a BBS if pots are available). | B01 |
Randy Kindig - Floppy Days and ANTIC | Floppy Days and ANTIC Podcasts | Material and information about the Floppy Days and ANTIC Podcasts with Atari and other computer displays. | B15 |
Ron’s Computer Videos | Retro Macintosh display and Ron’s Computer Videos information | This will be a space for me to show off Macintosh, portable hardware relating to my proposed session about collecting PowerBook computers. | B02 |
Scott Hardin | The 'Other' 8-Bit Computer Maker: Sinclair ZX Series | Working demonstrations of Sinclair computers imported from the UK to include ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Spectrum+, Spectrum 128k and Spectrum QL. Include historical documentation and accessories such as Interface 1, Microdrives and cartridges. | B27 |
sloopy malibu | DriveWirelessly | Drivewirelessly for the Tandy Color Computer | B25 |
Slor | Atari for Show, Small Iron for Dough | Atari and other 8-bit demos + various hardware for sale | B05/B06 |
Suburban Chicago ATarians | S.C.A.T. Atari Users Group | Exhibiting Atari 8 bit and ST Home Computers | B07/B08 |
System Source Computer Museum | 50 Years of Unix | An exhibition of various flavors of Unix. | B16/B17/B18 |
Byteshift | Amateur Packet Radio and Microcomputers | A demonstration of 1200 baud communication over VHF, just like I used to do it as a teenager | C29 |
CBMSTUFF.COM | CBMSTUFF.COM products | From WiFi Modems to replica keycaps, CBMSTUFF.COM has your modern retro needs! | C09/C10 |
Commodore Z | VIC-20 Shenanigans | Oddball VIC-20 variants and other weird Commodore goodies! | C02 |
Commodoreman | Commodoreman's Retro Corner | Commodore drive power mods and Foenix Retro Systems tech sampling | C13/C20 |
David Haynes | Commodore SX-64 and 128D Commodore Classic Computers. Disk Imaging provided. | I plan on having a table full of Atari 400/800/800xl/XE and a few Atari ST 520s and ST 1040s for sale. The other table a couple of Commodores on it. A 128D and a SX-64. Also kryoflux/zoom/ for imaging disks if anyone has anything interesting to archive😉 | C25/C26 |
DDI | DDI Projects | C64 Custom Cartridges & JAMMA Console Projects | C15 |
Ethan Dicks | Astonishing Amiga Accessories | Ordinary Amigas with extraordinary upgrades | C05 |
Genericable | Behind the Screens | Ever wondered what powered The Weather Channel? How about Prevue Guide? We're showcasing a mini cable TV headend that features the Weather Stars that powered the local forecast in your area, the Amiga powered Prevue Guide channel, equipment from the emergency alert system, character generators, and more! | C16/C17/C18/C19 |
jbevren | C64 and C128 timing and analysis | A continuation of last year's efforts to find and resolve timing glitches on crappy expansion buses | C04 |
Jeff Daniels (Denial) | Vic 20 Quick Reference Handbook | The debut of a new reference guide for the Vic 20. | C01 |
Jessica Petersen | Commodores & Other Stuff | Interactive display of various 8 & 16-bit vintage computers | C27/C28 |
Jesus Eric | CBMSX64 ULTIMAX | The Ultimate Portable Executive Computer - A 40th Anniversary tribute to the world's first color portable computer | C07/C08 |
Jim Happel | Jim_64 and friends commodore showcase | MEGA65 running four player games and my BASIC Star Galactica (all BASIC) game, Commodore PET with joystick games, and lots of SX-64s. | C11/C12 |
Keith Henrickson | Esoteric Commodore Hardware | Various pieces of Commodore peripherals that, while not rare, were uncommon in the day. Maybe some extra bits and bobs as space permits. | C22 |
Kevin Ottum/Jim Peters | Nu-Brick Power Supplies /Misc Commodore | Nu-Brick Power Supplies /Misc Commodore | C23/C24 |
Mark Gladson | Commodore projects for sale | Selling over flow in my collection and some of the projects I have built over the years | C14 |
RETRO Innovations | Contemporary Gear for Classic Systems | Exhibits and Sales for various classic 8 bit machines, including Commodore, Atari, Tandy, and TI | C31/C32 |
Ronald Coon, Jr. | Retro computing / Bulletin boards / 8 bit music | Retro computing from the late 70s and 80s. Computer bulletin board (Never Never Land Bbs) and 8-bit music too. Near Jesus Eric! | C06 |
Team ECCC | Commodore 8-bits for fun and mild profit | The usual Commodore 64 and nearby peers from the usual aging nerds. | C33/C34 |
The Commodore Room | The Commodore Room | Cool Commodore items for sale and play. | C21/C30 |
Adwater & Stir | All of These Computers Are Fake! | I love re-creating vintage computers with modern components. It gives me a greater understanding of these computers and is a link to the dawn of the computer revolution. Plus it lets me design and build things, which I really love to do. | D23 |
Anthony Bolan | Silicon Graphics - Three Gamers, One Computer | Come and play Minecraft and Quake on a three-seat Silicon Graphics Octane computer! Also featuring other uncommon SGI systems and configurations. | D26/D27 |
Aron Hoekstra | Cromemco Z-2D & HDD11 | Restored Cromemco Z-2D S-100 computer with accompanying 11 MB 8" Hard Drive | D04 |
Chris and Gavin Tersteeg | Gotta Collect Them All | Recreating the Ferguson Big Board, DIY Sinclair Spectrum ZX's and Cosmac ELF's, oddball CPM luggables, and all kind of new PCB projects. | D31/D32 |
Chris Simmons | IBM Workstations and Terminals | A few interesting IBM machines, such as working 3290, AT/G, and possibly others | D14 |
Connor Krukosky | Sark and Conmega's hacking corner | Sark and Conmega's hacking corner, we hack on stuff :) | D08 |
Dave Runkle | Computer form the 70's. Elf, Altair, Heathkit | A selection of vintage 70's 8-bit home computers including the Heathkit H8, Altair 8800C and the Popular Electronics COSMAC Elf. | D13 |
Forgotten Machines | Computers most of the world has forgotten about | The rare, the obscure, the unknown, all about computers that truly are...Forgotten Machines! We investigate, reverse-engineer, and restore computers and systems that almost nobody else knows about. We also do data-recovery on the oldest of magnetic media to preserve old operating systems and software! | D35/D36 |
Jack Rubin and Mike Zahorik | PDP-8s and Teletypes and More! | Extrememly DECified | D01/D02 |
Joe Marlin | It's Just a PC | Turning consoles into home micros for no sane reason | D28 |
John Orwin | Apollo Computer Domain/OS | Demonstration of Apollo workstations running Doman/OS | D19/D20 |
John Sennesael (jns) | Nuclear Keyboard & SDF commode chat | Nuclear Keyboard & SDF commode chat on Honeywell terminal, payphone, random stuff | D29/D30 |
Josh Bensadon | RCA COSMAC 1802 | The RCA COSMAC 1802 microprocessor and the COSMAC ELF. | D11/D12 |
Josh M. "NightWolfx03" | Retro PC Stuff | An assortment of retro pc oddities from my personal collection. May include multi way Pentium Pro shenanigans. And some stuff for sale. | D07 |
Mike Katz | All sorts of interesting electronic stuff. | Operating PDP-8 AND PiDP-8 | D17/D18 |
Mike Mason | IBM AS/400 - SRS BZNS | The world of AS/400 | D15 |
Museum Of Batch and Time-sharing Computer History | MoBATCH 4U | Batch computing for everyone | D09/D10 |
Nevets01 | Graphical Mini | Tektronix storage terminal, driven by some DG-esque gear. Possibly other things. | D34 |
pjustice | pjustice and thebug do ??? | Will provide details when we figure out what we're exhibiting (I know, I know, < 4 months :)) | D16 |
Scott Swazey | GT40 lunar lander and the Next Generation Retromodem | Demonstration of a working GT40 running lunar lander. Retromodem: A non-destructive WiFi replacement for your external Hayes Smartmodem. Now with simulated audio dialing. | D03 |
Shadytel Midwest | Shadytel MidWest Telephone CO | The midwest arm of Shadytel will be providing telephony services to the rest of the show. Come see the 'CO' and we'll show you the equipment that runs it all. Our display will include a Meridian 1 PBX, a demo step switch, a cisco ISR for T1 switching, and a smattering of telephones and other equipment. | D38/D39 |
Steve Maves | Engineering Workstations of the 1990s | Various Workstation Computers and Software from the '90s. | D33 |
Ted N / KC9LKE | GIMIX Ghost, OS9, Retro Electronics Projects | GIMIX Ghost with OS9 L1 & L2, Using FPGA's with 8 Bits, Retro Electronics Projects | D21/D22 |
wastedmemory & dragonmere | RogueServer.com Telephone Meetup | A collection of phone recordings, pbx equipment, and even some asterisk stuff. Maybe we can find the red box that was made out of toaster parts! | D37 |
Whistler | Gaming on Rare and Obscure Workstations and Servers | Come play 90s and 2000s games on our selection of obscure hardware. | D05/D06 |
William Donzelli | Stuff. And things. | Stuff. And things. | D24/D25 |
Core64 / Andy Geppert | Interactive Core Memory - Core64 | Weave your own core memory and bring it to life with LEDs and a magnetic stylus! Try out a magnetic airbrush, games, and flux detector. Or hack it to learn and flex your own creativity. | F02 |
Dave's Retro Video Lab | Dave's Retro Video Lab Time Machine | Dave will demonstrate time travel using several video cameras plus a Panasonic video switcher. Stand on our special time portal and guests will travel back to the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. It's safe for all ages. | F04/F05 |
David Glish | Atari Hardware | Hardware for the Atari computers and some 8-bit and ST chips | F14 |
Geekenspiel | Stickers, badges, retro PC flair. | Stickers and badges geared toward retro PC customization and restoration. | F06 |
inversephase / nocturnalplant | Chiptunes! Game Music! | Chiptunes, Game Music, Tributes, and maybe some other fun stuff. ☺ | F11/F12 |
Jay Graham | BlueSCSI Demo and Sales | We will be demonstrating the BlueSCSI devices as well as having some available for sale for the retro computing hobbists. | F09/F10 |
Kyle's Digital Lab | Kyle's Krazy Tech | I am a young YouTuber that will be showing off and demonstrating some of my retro broadcast video gear collection and vintage laptop collection. I will also be selling some of my video gear. | F03 |
Mike Connick | Vintage Apple II, Lisa, & Mac Items for Sale | I will be selling Apple II monitors, a Lisa 2, Mac Color Classic, Mac TV, and other miscellaneous vintage items. | F13 |
Old School Gamer | Promotion of retro gaming and computing magazine plus products related. | Promotion of retro gaming and computing magazine plus products related. | F07/F08 |
Pete Cooper | Selling off my collection part iii | I have many PC compatible and Apple machines and accessories to sell off at reasonable prices. | F01/F15 |
Vintage Computer Federation | Vintage Computer Federation Museum | Find out about our non-profit museum, festivals, repair workshops and swap meets. | F00 |
Jack Noble | Mac LC /w Apple IIe Card | A fully upgraded Macintosh LC, with an Apple IIe PDS Card, and two external 5.25" floppy drives. | FS15 |
8-Bit Classics | 8-Bit Classics will be selling various products offered on their website. | 8-Bit Classics will be selling various products that we sell from our website including AV cables, power adapters, and more. | H12 |
Bonus Life Computers | Fully restored Commodore, Atari, Apple, TRS-80 and S-100 Systems | Bonus Life Computers restores '70's and '80's computers from all of the major brands to as near new as possible. For most systems, we even provide a warranty! Also selling vintage computer software, books and ephemera. | H03/H04/H05 |
Eco-Tronix | Eco-Tronix | We have all kinds of vintage misc. completed computer projects, to parts, etc. | H13/H14/H15 |
Ecotech computer solutions | PC gaming and accessories | Retro pc gaming and accessories | H08/H09 |
Karl and Ted | Karl and Ted's Excellent MacVenture! (Almost 200 Mac's for sale!) | Karl and Ted's Excellent MacVenture! A joining of a ridiculous collection of a ton of various Apple/Mac machines that have been waiting to be adopted to a new home. Also, a fun PowerPoint presentation running on the worst PowerPC Macintosh ever made to showcase how awful it is. | H21/H22/H23 |
MacEffects | MacEffects Creations Exhibit | Come see MacEffects newest creations as well as previous projects. | H24/H25 |
RF Computers | Macs, commodores and more | Displays of Macintosh, Commodore and other micros as well as interesting sales | H28 |
Rick Tribble | Power PC Macintosh Computers, Atari 8 Bit computers and more | Power PC Macintosh Computers, Atari 8 Bit computers, Heathkit education books, Vintage Integrated Circuits books, and more | H10/H11 |
Sam Mijal | Everything from IBM to Zenith! | Surplus equipment from my collection! | H06 |
Steve Hatle | Apple/Sun/80s machines and Misc | A mix of Apple II, Mac, and Unix workstation machines and accessories. Some displays, and lots for sale. | H26/H27 |
Tech Dungeon | Retro systems, and custom retro products | We have Atari, Commodore, Tandy and other retro PC's. We also make many custom products and incorporate 3D printing into our products when possible. | H01/H02 |
Wisconsin Computer Club | Best of the Wisconsin Computer Club | A collection of the Wisconsin Computer Club's best exhibits from 2023, featuring our most unusual machines and projects. | H07 |
Will Parnell | Vintage PC LAN party | Vintage miniature LAN party - Quake/UT/other games. In hotel area near Bistro doors. | S00 |
Build-a-Blinkie | Learn to Solder! | Young and old can learn the basics of soldering by building one of our "Blinkie" kits right here at the show. We have the kits, tools, and techs to ensure total success building a blinkie! In hotel area near Bistro from 9am-6pm on Saturday only. | S01 |