Vintage Computer Festival

But we were doing 250 to 300 over the course of the weekend.

And people were asking, when is VCF coming back? I said, well, we have this.

And it's like, no, we wanted VCF.

So we have done our first VCF, which we're right in the middle of.

And yesterday we had something like 759 people.

So...

But the other thing, people can also volunteer.

Really, for events, it's great to have a pool of people that want to volunteer and help out with... with handling events, handling as a docent, if there's some interest in something that the museum is presenting.

PLATO was the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, a groundbreaking graphical client-server computer system aimed at education.

To assist in this interview, I was joined by Thomas Cherryhomes and Michael Sternberg, who were on a road trip to a Vintage Computer Festival conference.

In 2018, Tom Cherryhomes created Irata.online, a modern working version of the Play-Doh server and terminals.

Michael Sternberg helped reverse engineer the Play-Doh cartridge for that project.