The Festival of Portable Computing

Name: The Festival of Portable Computing
Start: 2024-05-18T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-19T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Rene Court, Coldhams Road, CB1 3EW Cambridge, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun May 19 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Rene Court, Coldhams Road, CB1 3EW Cambridge, United Kingdom | Cambridge, EN

We're holding a special Retro Computer Festival weekend as part of our Computing on the Move season celebrating the portable computer. Portable computing is ubiquitous now - laptops are everywhere and a modern smartphone can out perform a 70s mainframe. The first commercial portable computer - the IBM 5100 from 1975 - weighed 24kg and still needed to be plugged into the mains. That's heavier than 200 iPhone 5s!
We're inviting collectors and portable computer enthusiasts to come show us their favourite machines, tell us about their history and demonstrate what they're capable of - expect everything from tiny pocket computers to huge luggables, and everything else in between. And of course, we'll be getting some rare and unusual portable machines on display from the museum's own collection!
So watch this space - we'll be updating this page with the news from the exhibitors shortly and tell you more about what you'll see. The exhibits might be small - but the event won't be!
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72231/The-Festival-of-Portable-Computing-18th-19th-May-2024/