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This episode was recorded live on the show floor at the 2026 Vintage Computer Festival Midwest! We both went down to Chicago for the twenty-first Vintage Computer Festival Midwest! We ran tables, did talks, and hung out with our friends. And recorded a podcast episode together! We managed to interview a few cool folks while we were there: Jeff Geerling and his NTP time booth! web YouTube The Taylor and Amy Show, who were building an Altair clone! YouTube build your own Altair clone The Retro Tech Foundation, and their fancy recreation of Steve Jobs' garage! web Joe's Computer Museum, home of all manner of parts to keep old computers computing! web YouTube Ron's Computer Videos, who was doing a talk with Steve when we interrupted him. web YouTube Ron's merch store (which he plugged when we accosted him onstage) Steve from Mac84, who was doing a talk with Ron when we interrupted him. web YouTube Ian Scott, creator of the PicoGUS and the soon-to-be-released PicoIDE! web US orders EU orders UK orders Ian also referenced Kevin Moonlight's wonderful PicoPCMCIA card Eric Helgeson, creator of the BlueSCSI project! web where to buy (there's a lot of options)

In this first episode, we are doing first episode things! Thrill as we discuss exactly how we're going to make and publish a podcast. We also go into our motivations for making videos about retro and modern tech, and discuss our upcoming trip to Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2026. What can we say? It's two friends talking about tech.