Exhibitors
What or who is an Exhibitor?
An exhibitor is anyone who wants to display a computer, accessory, software, hardware or any other artifact from Tandy Radio Shack computer history. Exhibitors may be vendors looking to sell their Tandy computing related products or may be hobbyists wanting to display their work for others to enjoy.
Exhibitor: Peter Cetinski
Hometown: New York
Title: A Collection of TRS-80 Model II/16 Boards
Website: https://pski.net/category/retro/
Pete will be exhibiting his collection of almost every board produced for the Model II/16 line of computers, including some rare examples like an x86 compatibility board and a 4MB XENIX board.
Exhibitor: Brendan Donahe
Hometown: Lago Vista, TX
Title: PiKey-10 and CoCoVGA
Website: http://www.pikey.tech
Website: http://www.cocovga.com
PiKey-10 enables the use of wired USB keyboards and Atari joystick/Sega joypads with the TRS-80 MC-10. It includes a 3D-printed riser that is installed between the MC-10's case halves to provide room for such enhancements.
CoCoVGA is an enhancement for 6847-based systems such as the Color Computers 1 and 2 and MC-10. It outputs VGA, supports all of the graphics and text modes of the 6847, and provides some additional features such as 16-color graphics, 64-column text, and software configurable character/tile sets.
Exhibitor: Peter Bartlett & Malcom Ramey
Hometown: Colorado and Tennessee
Title: Bartlett Labs
Website: http://bartlettlabs.com
TRS-80 Models I, III, and 4 up and running for everyone to use. Featuring modern upgrades including solid state hard drives, VGA graphics, and Ethernet.
Exhibitor: Eric Dittman
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Title: TRS-80 Video Display
Eric will have the RCA B&W television that was used for the Model I Video Display as well as a European style display and standard display for comparison.
Exhibitor: Ian Mavric
Hometown: Melbourne, Austrailia
Title: The Right Stuff (TRS)
Website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~ianmav/trs80/
FreHD, Hi-Res graphics, Quinnterface, adapters, cables, memory upgrades, kits for the Model I/III/4/Coco.
Exhibitor: Tim Halloran
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Title: ChromaTRS and Big Tandy Terminals
Website: https://github.com/hallorant/bigmit
Tim's exhibit will include showing ChromaTRS, and some interesting Big Tandy use of terminals. Stop by to play some color z80 games and login on an actual VT100 terminal.
Exhibitor: Robert Hardin
Hometown: West Virginia
Title: Tandy 68K
Exhibitor: Jeff Birt
Hometown: Woodstock, OH
Title: Hey Birt! What 'cha workin' on?
Website: http://www.youtube.com/c/HeyBirt
The Hey Birt! channel is an electric mix of retro and new tech, hardware and software. Focusing on passing on the repair techniques learned from a lifetime of tinkering.
Exhibitor: Michael Hill
Title: Tech Dungeon
Website: https://techdungeon.xyz
We create custom retro products using 3D printing, electronics, and software. We also repair and resell retro systems. Besides some retro Tandy hardware to sell we will have custom things like Tandy hitch covers for cars/trucks. Tandy lights, coasters, magnets, etc. We also have a LED matrix that cycles over a hundred different retro art and animations on it. The LED matrix is also reprogrammable by those so inclined as we furnish the information on how to write your own code for it.
Exhibitor: Arno Puder & Sascha Haeberling
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Title: TRS-IO and the RetroStore
Website: https://retrostore.org/
Website: https://github.com/apuder/TRS-IO
Arno and Sascha will be exhibiting and demoing the TRS-IO multi-purpose expansion card for the TRS-80 Models I, III and 4. They will also be demoing the Retrostore which is an on-line TRS-80 appstore.
Exhibitor: Matt Boytim
Hometown: Kokomo, IN
Title: TRS-80 Potpourri
A collection of miscellaneous TRS-80 related projects.
Exhibitor: Jay Newirth
Hometown: Pikesville, MD
Title: newSOFT
Website: https://jaynewirth.wixsite.com/newsoft
Selling Power Supplies for the Model 3/4/4D/4P, CASE Badges and RAM Badges, Drive Sleds for GOTEK/FREHD and Custom Cables.
Exhibitor: Randy Kindig
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Title: Floppy Days
Website: http://floppydays.com
Come visit the booth of the Floppy Days Podcast with Randy Kindig, where we talk about vintage computers from the late 70’s through the 80’s. There will be some Tandy machines on exhibit, some with modern upgrades.
Exhibitor: Simon Mccullough
Title: Tandy PCs
A collection of Tandy PCs.
Exhibitor: Dayton Computer Museum
Hometown: Dayton, OH
Title: Dayton Computer Museum
Website: https://www.dma1.org
Learn about the DMA Computer Museum and our collection of Tandy Computers and Accessories. See a few operating systems and demos of unique applications from the 1980s.
Exhibitor: Andrea Grimwood Zaleski
Hometown: Welland, ON, Canada
Title: Pastries and Pearls
Website: https://pastriesandpearls.com
We will be selling baked goods and candy in the form of Tandy computers.
Exhibitor: Mark Marlette
Hometown: Delano, MN
Title: Cloud-9
Website: http://www.cloud9tech.com
Cool stuff for your Color Computer. Since 1994, Cloud-9 has been in the business of developing and marketing cool hardware and software products for users of the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 1, Color Computer 2 and Tandy Color Computer 3. The company is made up of a couple of guys who get a kick pushing the CoCo beyond what it was originally designed to do.
Exhibitor: Frank Palazzolo
Hometown: Rochester Hills, MI
Title: The Pre-History of TRS-80 Graphics
Many of us discovered computer graphics on the original TRS-80 - 64x16 characters, and 128x48 pixels. This TRS-80 "standard" was likely influenced by at least two older machines, and possibly more. This exhibit showcases the origins of TRS-80 character graphics, across different machines.
Exhibitor: Kenneth Vrana
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
Title: Ken likes to fix things, but has has too much of it around the house
Lot's of TRS-80s and related equipment for sale.
Exhibitor: Henry Rietveld
Hometown: Brantford, Ontario
Title: TandyVision One with ECS Computer Add-on
The Radio Shack "Intellivision" complete with Mattel computer adapter add-on and music keyboard.
Exhibitor: Corey Blosser
Hometown: Haysville, KS
Title: Shall We Play a Game?
Tandy and Radio Shack branded TV and handheld games from the late 70’s and early 80’s.