LGR Vlogs: Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2024 

I'm not sure if the hotel phone needs retrobright, or if it is supposed to be that color.

And this is why I don't even try to make these wrap up videos. What a great one Clint! And yeah, I always feel like I look like a dufus flailing about in the background! LOL!

Even in a crowd, You can tell Adrian Black is easily the most enthusiastic one of the bunch. It's so easy to pick out his voice lol.

lol, I'm a UTD alum, live nearby, and had no idea this was a thing. maybe I should pull my head out of the sand from time to time. glad you had a great time in our neck of the woods, Clint!

Love seeing Andrew Hulshult, Adrian, Action Retro and LGR in the same video. It feels like a great celebration of old retro PCs.

Nothing like visiting the backrooms of an event space :D

That's me at 11:48 with my Tektronix 4054A vintage vector graphics microcomputer from 1979! Great video!

Wish you Godspeed on the hunt for that DataDesk keyboard! Glad you liked my table and it was great meeting you!

LGR has perfectly captured the experience of being at an airport, possibly by filming at an airport

THANK YOU for filming with your phone/camera the _proper_ way !

Day 2 at about 36:13 that was me in the MST3K shirt with my bald head. I saw you there but did not want to interrupt your morning coffee and vlogging! I'm glad you got to experience Whataburger and Canes deliciousness. I loved talking to the Tandy guys in that room. So. Much. Neat. Stuff!

Love the techmoan reference :)

Hey, Clint! It was SOOOOO great to hang out with you at VCFSW...what great coverage of the whole event in a neat nutshell... and thanks for the Forgotten Machines table showing (and Pertec Key-To-Tape exploration!) at 27:26 and 27:57.... you rock!

Clint it was a great pleasure to meet you! I never dreamed that my MiniDisc collection would end up in one of your videos on one of your channels.😊 I should've shown you that VU meter MD car Deck in action when I bumped into you(again) going down the stairs at the car park since were literally feet away from it. I didn't want to intrude further, so I didn't but it was nice talking to you on the way into the building & taking a photo with the MD car deck you did show on the video. Thank you!😊 I also had no idea you also went to the video game museum too. I must of barely missed you because I left around the time you showed up. I did notice you did meet Asivery (the developer for WebMD) at the video game museum when discussing the Apple II's. He's a young bright mind and being into retro tech and coding for it at such a young age is commendable. 😊 I'm also happy to see Blerbs back! I did want to ask you if you would mind doing a video on a Japanese dictionary/organizer set of Machines I've gotten. They would make for an interesting video. I did have them in the room when you came in but weren't out on display unfortunately. 😢

33:33 and 49:19 it can definitely be said that VCF Southwest is considered the “Home Show” for both Usagi Electric and the 8-Bit Guy since they both live in Texas!

Clint: Wow! That went incredibly quick! Only took 30 minutes. Airport: Oh, my sweet summer child...

So much awesomeness, gotta make the pilgrimage one of these years. Thanks for letting us browse these far away festivals vicariously through you! 👍

That Mini-disc area looks like the sort of place Techmoan would feel right at home...

From the UK; I love this style of documentary/vlog. Great to see the American way of doing things, being more easily watchable by your laid back style. Please keep 'em coming when you can.

Did I understand that right? That was andrew hulshult picking you up at the airport? 😱

some of the background convos are as interesting as what clint is recording

"Doesn't smell like farts"....thats a very important part of traveling

OMG, that last bit. So sorry Clint! Such a great show to have all that happen.

Great seeing you, Clint! Hope to see you at next years show.

I really want an Film Camera Festival like this. Just seems like an awesome time nerding out with other people interested in the same stuff.

I didn't know MiniDiscs was still popular. I have a portable player/recorder, and didn't know it was a thing til someone gave it to me.

Haha! Glad you remembered everything this time -- I certainly didn't! I was short a ton of cables to make my displays work. Thank goodness for the Microcenter nearby! XD

I'm happy you were able to enjoy yourself and take the convention in relatively stress-free. I'm the guy with the patch vest holding the Dos 5 book @ 35:51. I grabbed that to go along with the copy of Dos 5 I found at Computer Reset - also thanks to your videos! Thoroughly suggest the show to anybody thinking about attending.

Dinner time for me in an hour here in the UK. The perfect thing to watch while munching on a cheeseburger or whatever I decide to have. Being totally housebound and even knowing I can never be there Clint's videos are perfect enough for me to imagine I can be there.

Quite fitting you got binary number room 1010!

Aw I miss the berbs. Nice blerb man.

Clint you have no idea how much these vlogs relax me, exquisitely interesting & chilled. P.S unfortunately there's a downside for people who require complete silence & darkness to sleep, you're really at the mercy of a lot of variables especially when travelling. As a single guy, I've slept every night with my tv on sound n all for ever, therefore i can sleep through most anything, except for one thing.......HEAT & HUMIDITY.

What a fun chill video to just have on in the background. Love it

44:25 - Man, my dad's office had these plotters and I loved using the little pens to draw

Ok, that did NOT feel like an hour and sixteen minutes. Such a lot crammed in; great video. :)

You DO live in really beautiful spot, Clint. Open the curtains and get greeted by lovely trees filtering the morning sunshine.

I know very little about vintage computer history (more a home video history guy), but god I love these type of videos.

I agree, watching techmoan at the end of the day is relaxing!

Thanks for making these videos, very relaxing to watch just like going to a convention with a friend!

These trip vids are always SO GOOD. And not too long either, btw. Perfect length for the amount there was to take in.

Thanks for taking us along, it all looked amazing and exhausting.

I thought seeing the Techmoan intro was exciting but knowing that Adrian could get a break from that Plexus long enough to hang out with LGR was truly awesome! Just when I was wondering where the 8 Bit Guy was LGR found him!

Im glad you caught what that Farmers weather thing was in the COCO box. Ive been wondering what that was since I saw pics from the show.

So cool to see and hear Polish people at festivals like that in US.

The 'MC Mechanic' that Andrew handed you @31:00 is a microchannel POST code reader; Although the cheap parallel port POST code readers work on all PS/2s, Eric (TubeTimeUS) designed the MC Mechanic. You can almost read the credits on the reverse side (I've done a video on it to see it fully populated), including for my limited input for his project. I don't know if it could make your relationship with microchannel systems any easier...

Looks like a really cool event! I've been to VCF Midwest once and see what you are saying about a different vibe.

I just love these vlogs. Clint is capturing that essence of traveling alone very well. I'm also bummed that we don't have this old tech culture in this part of the world as such, but happy to see my favorite youtubers in the same place. Maybe someday I'll find the time to visit some of these festivals in the states. One can only hope!

Even the part before the festival was genuinely interesting to see. Thank you so much for making these vlog videos that allow us to experience the events too

Thank you as always for sharing these travel vlog style videos. I promise you if you get tired of doing the whole "retro tech" thing on RU-vid, you could easily switch over to travel vlogging and become as successful!

So great to see another Road Trip video! Thank you!

Thanks Clint, love these longer recap videos!

The Doubletree in Dallas was a little strange - We were on the "1st Floor" - which still required use of the elevator!

Seeing Bolo running on those Mac's brings back memories I forgot about. By the early 2000's there weren't many people playing it online anymore but pre-teen me had a lot of fun making custom maps and playing solo.

Thanks for the vlog it looks like this trip really knocked the wind out of your sails! Anyway really appreciate the walk around an event a lot of us could never get to.

What a great show! That was me with the Lisas running LOS, Mac OS, and GEM. It was great meeting you and getting to talk tech for a couple minutes, especially about the Lisa XLerator!

I can watch this all day !! Thanks :- )

This is why I love the internet. I'm an old school computer connoisseur too but didn't know of this, wouldn't had the time off for this, or had the money at this time. Clint you're giving me the full experience when I got a chance to watch on my day off. It really made my day. Last time this sort of thing happened was with Band of Friends like about 10 years ago when a full tribute Rory Gallagher band played somewhere in Europe and the same thing happened. Keep doing what you're doing man

Great video, enjoyed spotting the GP32 at the video game museum. Odd timing as I found both my GP32 and GP2X yesterday and fired them up. Great machines.

I had one of those Acer Aspire models back in the day. Never knew it would be a collectible! Tried to install Red Hat 3.0 Linux on it once, lot's of things wouldn't work because it had a proprietary sound AND modem hardware, all in one board (made by IBM). Guess what? No drivers for Linux - was a very common issue at the time.

love these type of videos from you, cheers!

Awesome, thanks for the recap!! Good to see Clint again, I hope he's doing well. One thing you discover when traveling: it is always good to be home again. Cheers!

This looks like an amazing show of old computers. All these were state of the art of the time, but have come a long way since then but still fun to hark back to old machines. Today I still own our Apple 2+ from the early 80's and beside me have Amy brothers old Powerbook 3400c blrick of a laptop.

Excellent video blog on VCFSW Glad you had a wonderful time! Also thank you for including some of my display items! Keep up the great content!

That was a fantastic Vlog to watch! I definitely want to go to one of the VCF events, but I'm leaning towards VCF West, because I'd love to see the Computer History Museum, but also because of the climate there. I'm a Denver native, and I still live there, and it feels uncomfortably humid here in the summer when the humidity level reaches 40%, so I don't think I'd to to well in Dallas! But still, there were so many cool items that you filmed there!

Very fun show. My old man & I ran the NeXT Computer table (sadly not featured in the vlog) and it was cool of you to stop by! We got Doom and the id Software editing tools running later in the show, plus a bunch of donations, so next year will have more going on.

That I really enjoyed! Thank you for making this video. Great stuff.

It's awesome to see some of the TI mini computer schtuff (however short the clip). That's what I first learned on because my dad bright home a system from his work.

Thanks for taking us on your trip!

Thanks for coming out to the show! Hope we'll see you again next year. (Hopefully with less stress & hassle w/ your hotel and flight(s) home.)

I do model railroad trains exhibitions with my local club, when we organise is a pain, but when we just go visit is so much fun, and you meet all your friends. While the public is nice to see, and the reaction at model trains on the kids faces makes everything worth it, i still prefer to go chill and visit the town, and meet the people there. still am tired AF but its fun too meet your online friends and collaborators! And go have a drink after with them!

Great seeing so many people I follow in the vlog.. great job man.

"Why am I outside? It's so stupid hot." Welcome to Texas. Lol

Great video, loved your adventure. Thank you

Wow , what a journey . really liked the up's and down's on the video, life "ain't" perfect :3

Im lookin forward each year to this video gems. Thanks clint..its like a micro vaccation for the people across the pond aswell.

Glad you could make it out to see the show! It was great seeing you again after Computer Reset. :)

Nice little glimpse of that Nikon/Kodak early DSLR, and that pen plotter was amazing!

Love these videos Clint please keep doing em.

There was an entire MD room? Amazing!

Another great vlog! I wasn't able to make it this year, so this was GREAT to watch. Looks like VCFSW put on another great show!

Woohoo!! Just watched the previous edition and 10 mins ago it’s the 2024 vid uploaded!! My day just got better

Amazing! I hope that I get to go there one day in the future! Amazing job there! Keep those computers clean and remember to show them love!

Such a nice festival to go to. Was great to have a quick chat and selfie with you, and I'm gonna make VCF SW an annual tradition

Great Vlog! And well, if I ever find myself at once of these I will have to remember to bring an extra suitcase so I can dive into that free pile!

I love videos like this. A look at the US from ground lvl from my favourite youtuber!

Noticed the Konix Speedking joystick at 16:07. These sticks were popular in England, especially in the Spectrum/ C64 era.

Thanks for covering this! It was neat to see all the Sony and Sharp products, Toshiba too....in the 90s and 2000s, they were the Samsung and LG of the day....

Nice nature @ the end.

11:39 - A Microbee! That's a LONG way from home. It's an Australian educational computer that I'm very fond of.

Very cool to see y'all at David's

I need to check one of these things out. Thanks for the vid Clint. Your sandwich eating reminds me of LGR foods.....RIP.

Thanks for taking us along lgr

Broken hotel room and broken plane(s). Quite the luck!

Love that you still made a vlog even though you didn't exhibit this year! Con season is my favourite time of the year :)

49:17 & 50:16 and GREAT coverage of the Usagi table - EDS PC and Centurion in action!

Great stuff, that looks like a really nice convention. I wish we had that kind of stuff in Romania, but there was just a tiny Tech Expo a bit earlier... I'm glad we got a bit of nature footage too. :)

My second pc was a petroleum green Acer Aspire. I LOVED it!!! Very upgradable with a unique design. It was only when wanted to go SCSI that I got rid of it.

15:56 One of the better choices to showcase any Amiga! Classic Bitmap Brothers. 32:15 Journey to Silius!

Nicely covered! I had a blast there as well (first show for me)! Well worth the 1984 mile round trip road trip! We passed each other in Chick-Fil-A Saturday evening, but didn't get a chance to say hi.

I love these travel stories!