They're alive! At a classic computer festival, enthusiasts keep retro hardware running [Resources_Geek Life]

Amonochrome glow spilled out into the room, produced in the old-fashioned way: by hurling electrons at a phosphorescent screen. The high-pitched rasp of a dot-matrix printer pierced the air. For a second I was back in the 1980s–the 8-bit age, when computers stopped being things that people saw only in movies and magazines and started cluttering up their homes. Then someone jostled against me, and I returned to the present and the crowded exhibition hall of the Vintage Computer Festival East (VCF East).