Albert Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Applefritter.com has posted recordings of the talks that took place at the Vintage Computer Festival just over a week ago in Boston. One of the talks covered the Atari 7800's 20th Anniversary, and was presented by Curt Vendel of Atarimuseum.com and Steve Golson, one of the original designers of the 7800. The presentation and accompanying slide show covered the history of GCC (the company that designed the 7800 for Atari, as well as many 7800 games), Atari, and the 7800. Sitting in the front row of the audience were 10 former GCC employees, who provided additional insight during the presentation. You can listen to the full talk here, and can find more talks from the Vintage Computer Festival here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Thanks for posting this Albert... The talk was a lot of fun, afterwards Steve and I put on a several table presentation of Atari 7800 artifacts on display and while our talk went way over our time limit, the question and answer session, plus the ad-hoc GCC reunion moved over to the Atari 7800 History display. It allowed the showgoers, myself and GCC guys to really have a great time going over stuff, talking about who did what and when and so forth, Steve and I fired up a lot of equipment and even got the original prototype computer enhancement running, I got OSS/Atari 7800 Basic running, VideoWriter and some Atarilab modules running, a few more computer app boards I am still working on and also I just got Star Typer running again and just need to do some test. I will have some photo's and recap pages up on Thursday, I will post once its all posted. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackAtarian Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 what about some pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 This is great I enjoyed every minute of it! Did anyone do a video shoot of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 what about some pics Pic's will be posted on Thursday, video coming on DVD in a few weeks along with some other great stuff. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 along with some other great stuff. Curt Like a 7800 computer keyboard!!! Hey, I can dream. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 I'm trying to transcribe this for those would rather read it. I've done about 15 minutes so far, out of 65:36. Maybe it'll be ready by the end of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 I'm trying to transcribe this for those would rather read it. I've done about 15 minutes so far, out of 65:36. Maybe it'll be ready by the end of the week. So Bruce, besides being a great programmer, I take it you're a stenographer too Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 Nope, just a touch typist. If I were a stenographer, it would have been done already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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