July Meeting - Meeting Report and Photos

Epsilon has published a blog post today covering our most recent July 2016 meeting, with plenty of photos and coverage of the meeting.

Please head over to the following link to take a look:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/adelaide-retro-computing-group-july-2016.html

Vintage Computer Forum

A new Australian Vintage Computing Forum has been brought online this week! The address to go to is:

http://vintagecomputerforum.com

Feel free to sign up and join in on discussing all things Vintage computer related!

Our June 2016 event

Our last event in June 2016 seemed to attract some attention from viewers in Spain.  Here is an article that they published:

https://retromarket.club/index.php?command=show_news&news_id=34393

Hopefully your spanish is up to scratch :)

See you lot soon

Photos from the June 2016 Event

Thanks to everyone who came to our event last night, and especially those people who brought in many interesting and rare Retro game console systems to display on the night.

Epsilon has covered the latest Adelaide Retro Computing event held last night, with lots of photos and information on the many systems on display.

The link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/adelaide-retro-computing-meeting-june.html

We also ran a 2 player retro game console competition for an Atari Flashback 3 system, which lots of people had a go at trying to win - well done to our winner on the left (in the photo below), who was presented the system by prize donator Epsilon (on the right) during the evening:

The meeting was a lot of fun and we hope to see you all at our next meeting!

Meeting this Friday 10th

This week we are holding a meeting.  Details are on this website and Facebook page.

Simon Hackett, who rose to prominence after founding and leading the company 'Internode', has confirmed that he will present later this year.  Simon is known for his passion of vintage machines (see his blog post here) but is also very active in the community with his latest modern developments in renewable energy.

He currently runs an office space called 'Base64' situated on North Terrace here in the Adelaide Central Business District.  I was quite impressed, after a personal tour of his space, at how atmospheric it is with internal gardens and displays.  Vintage computers are also displayed here at Base64 where they allign the outer perimeter of the main conference room.

Photos from our meeting

Further pictures and a writeup is available here: http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/adelaide-retro-computing-meeting-april.html

Meeting 8 April Report

Thank you to all who attended this meeting in our new venue: Eastwood Community Centre Hall.  Last month we situated ourselves in the meeting room at the back of the Centre which met its maximum capacity of 20 persons.  From now on we will hold ourselves in the main Hall which is quite spacious and has ample room for equipment and floorspace to create a presentation area.

Thank you to those who brought in their equipment: Epsilon (CD-TV), Nathan Butcher (Commodore 64 & Commodore 64 Reloaded), Nathan and James Stanley (Commodore SX-64 & Amstrad Sega PC - wow!), Paul Monopoli (brought his vast collection of Amstrad PC units), Alexis Kotlowy (The other Amstrad CPC6128), Gabriel Suki (Commodore Amiga CD-32), Aron Gooch (Amiga 500 with Raspberry pi sidecars expansion), Tim Koch and myself with the other SX-64.  If you have been missed from this list, we can add you on.  Just send a message to Epsilon or myself.

Two presentations took place.  First at 8:00pm Paul Monopoli from the Retrospekt team presented the  Amstrad range of machinery.

Secondly, Nathan Butcher, at 8:30pm presented the Commodore 64 computer and also discussed the reloaded machine.

Nice to also see some new faces tonight.  I did have a chance to have a chat with you all at some stage.

Our financial position is now at a stage where we are affording the hall hire and food/drinks due to larger turnout numbers.  I was happy to put in my own funds into the group to get it off the ground.  We have achieved that together and we are moving forward putting one foot in front of the other.

Next month we are meeting at the same place, same time and with a new theme.  Stay tuned for details!