Midwest Classic vintage computer area

Martin, Thanks for sharing this information. I can't attend - I live in Boston and I'm quite a tight budget - but I think there's a way we can help each other. I'm a reporter at eWeek (the ZD magazine formerly called PC Week), and seperately, I'm writing a book about the history of handheld computing. The slant is, what can the history teach us about the future? Obviously handheld electronic games count as handheld computers. I'm well aware of the mainstream products, like the mid-1970s Mattel games (spent many hours with my football game as a child!), Gameboy/Lynx, etc. I bought a copy of the book Supercade, but to my disappointment it didn't focus much on handhelds. In your opinion, what was the FIRST electronic handheld game? What was the first to give users the choice of many games in one? First to actual have graphics? Color graphics? Did any systems have other more computer-like software? I'm interested in discussing this at length. If you're still online though, perhaps we could chat now, just to say hello and introduce ourselves: I always enjoy meeting others who are into this stuff. Thanks, Evan Koblentz (617.461.7194) --- Martin Scott Goldberg <wgungfu(a)csd.uwm.edu> wrote: