Vintage Computers Galore Take Over the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center

Jeff Joiner

The Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center is a popular spot on the UT Dallas campus for all kinds of events both for University groups as well as off-campus organizations. This June, the National Videogame Museum held its Southwest Vintage Computer Festival at the DGAC, which attracted more than a thousand early computer hardware, software and video game enthusiasts to the center for a three-day event. The festival included a trade show with vintage equipment and software for sale as well as seminars on the history of retro equipment and the repair and restoration of vintage computers, monitors and accessories.

The DGAC is the ideal meeting space for multifaceted events that require both a trade show venue as well as space for multiple education seminars and lounge space for participants to meet and exchange ideas and swap computers, software and accessories.

Large group of people gathered at a vintage computer exhibit.
An exhibitor (left) describes the vintage computer equipment he’s selling at the Southwest Vintage Computer Festival at the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center this summer on the UT Dallas campus.
Smiling man in blue t-shirt looking at a vintage computer.
A vendor with his collection of older computer equipment for sale in the DGAC.
Man pointing on the screen of a vintage computer.
Exhibitor Ken Romaine points out the operating system of a vintage computer system built by Centurion Computers in Richardson, Texas, in the 1970s. A former computer engineer, Romaine worked for Centurion and helped design and build their computers.
Two men repairing a vintage computer chip board.
A pair of vintage computer fans work on a computer mother board in a retrotech seminar focusing on refurbishing systems.
Two people playing a game on a vintage computer.
The Vintage Computer Festival included every kind of early computer game still in demand by early gamers. This pair of games relied on computer keyboards and a mouse to play rather than joysticks or high-tech game consoles.
Man pointing at the screen of a vintage computer.
Everything from vintage computer monitors to early operating systems generated interest from enthusiasts attending the Southwest Vintage Computer Festival at the DGAC.

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