The Retro Roadshow
@retroroadshow.org
The Retro Roadshow is the San Francisco Bay Area's premiere pop-up museum of vintage technology! Visit www.RetroRoadshow.org to learn more
We were so excited to partner with the Computer History Museum for their recent celebration of Apple's 50th birthday! We brought some rare jewels from our collection to share and the response was wonderful. This whole event was a truly magical experience! #Apple
The Watsonville community turned out in style for our recent Retro Roadshow "Mario Through The Ages" event! Everyone had a great time learning and getting hands-on with our vintage consoles. Let us know if you'd like to see it at your local library, school, business, or other venue! #Gaming
We had a BLAST bringing Retro Roadshow's Console Chaos to the Sunnyvale Public Library! This show explores the 'console wars' of the late '70s through the '90s. This is becoming one of our most popular events - let us know if you'd like to see it at your local library, school, or business! #BayArea
Me: "Huh, why has my lower back been super sore for days?" Also me: "Oh, I forgot to share that pic I took when we were packing out of our Retro Roadshow event in Alameda last weekend!" #Gaming
Sega Genesis & 32X playing "General Chaos" on an RGB-modded Sony KV13M. Pretty nice way to pass the time on a lazy Sunday! This game is an awesome mix of realtime strategy and cartoonish humor, but it rarely seems to get mentioned anymore. Definitely check it out if you can!
I hope you all have / find someone who looks at you like Kirk looks at the Enterprise 😍
The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 8mo agoHappy Valentine's Day!
Hey @actionretro.bsky.social - I'm having no luck accessing FrogFind at the moment. Is the issue on my end or is the frog on vacation this weekend?
Thanks to @willsmith.fun and @retroroadshow.org for a really cool look at the BeBox and BeOS, and a bit of a history lesson. www.pcworld.com/article/3057...
This dual-CPU PC from 1995 was so cool, Microsoft had to kill it
Huxley Dunsay of Retro Roadshow joins us in the PCWorld studio to show off the BeBox, a 90s dual-CPU PC with a custom operating system.
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I had a chance to spend some time a super-rare BeBox thanks to the folks from the @retroroadshow.org. The BeBox represents a road not travelled for the Mac, this was the other company Apple could have bought, if they hadn’t bought NeXT and brought Steve Jobs back into the company.
This rare BeBox still works!
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Just watched this PC World video with Huxley from @retroroadshow.org showing the BeBox in action. I need to take my BeBox out soon. This shows the original dual 67MHz PPC model. I have the later dual 133Mhz model. Nice work Huxley! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OHk... #vintgecomputer #retrocomputer
This rare BeBox still works!
YouTube video by PCWorld
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I've been combining my love of Original Series Star Trek with my complete lack of taste, common sense, and Pixelmator skills. Enjoy? #StarTrek @startrek.bsky.social
It's very much a work in progress, but we're delighted to announce that we'll be exhibiting our new #Apple Lisa 2/10 at several Retro Roadshow events! It's almost impossible to get hands-on with these rare machines, and we really can't wait to share with you all soon
My fun project for the evening: repairing this trash-rescued KEC TV, and doing a total overhaul on this formerly-busted Nintendo GameCube. They look fantastic together! #gaming
User Interface Design peaked with the MacAddict Magazine CD-ROM interface in 1996. Everything prior was just building up to this, and everything afterwards was a mistake. BRING BACK THE “3D PYRAMIDS + HOVERING GLOBES WITH ORBITING PARTICLES” AESTHETIC YOU COWARDS
With the Apple Creator Studio announcement, this old post is even more relevant. Keynote is the overlooked jewel of Apple’s macOS apps - literally the best piece of software they’ve shipped in 25 years. Happy to see Keynote sharing the spotlight and getting some well-deserved love! @gruber.foo
The Retro Roadshow@retroroadshow.org · 2y agoIf you happen to know anyone at Apple who works on Keynote, please pass along this message: I love you. Compared to the alternatives (you know what they are), Keynote feels like a miracle of thoughtful design. I sincerely love this app, and by extension, I love anyone and everyone who made it.
From our family to all of yours ❤️❤️❤️ youtu.be/hMRQi7PMQE4?...
The Dunsany Family Sitcom
YouTube video by The Retro Roadshow
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Yesterday was a BIG DAY for us: @marketplace.org aired a lovely segment about our Retro Roadshow! It feels incredible to be getting exposure and recognition like this. 2025 has been amazing, and we're making big plans for 2026 - we hope to see you all in person! www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
Running a vintage tech museum as a family
Sarai and Huxley Dunsany tell the story of turning Huxley’s vintage technology collection into the family business.
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I was taught that a Chekhov's Gun is something that's mentioned at the start of a story to foreshadow something happening later on. But in 'Santa Baby', they mention a Chekov My Christmas List, and then it doesn't get mentioned again? Is Eartha Kitt just bad at storytelling?
This was so much fun to do! We hope you all enjoy watching as much as we enjoyed filming with Will and the PCWorld crew 🤩❤️
Will “Available for Contracts” Smith@willsmith.fun · 10mo agoHux and Sarai from the @retroroadshow.org brought a TI-99/4A to the PC World studio to let me relive a little bit of my computing past, because it was my first real computer! Watch me relive my past here:
Thanks to Mtn. View Public Library, The Friends of Mtn. View Library & their devoted community for a successful "Console Chaos!" event! The positive feedback we received was truly humbling. Spread the word about the Retro Roadshow! www.RetroRoadshow.org
20 years ago I was a huge fan and advocate for the gorgeous Mac app called Delicious Library. Sadly that app is dead now, and I'm baffled - what are people using today to catalog books and other physical media? @gruber.foo #macos
I was unloading for our Apple-themed Retro Roadshow event at the Sunnyvale Library yesterday. When I set our Flower Power iMac down onto a flatbed alongside our NeXT MegaPixel Display, my Internet-addled brain went "huh... I've seen his before..." Took me a moment but I figured it out 😂
The Retro Roadshow is making our 3rd consecutive appearance at the Bay Area Maker Faire! Our exhibition this year is titled "Fly to the Future!" and features an incredible range of flying-themed games running on classic consoles and computers. We hope to see you there! https://youtu.be/MSkDVchVIfk
We had our whole 2025 Maker Faire lineup of vintage computers and gaming worked out weeks ago, but when news broke that Apple co-founder and all-around delightful human being Steve 'Woz' Wozniak would be in attendance we had to make a last-minute change: the Apple IIe is coming out to play!
Big shout-out to Sean / Action Retro, who not only makes fantastic YouTube videos, but also now offers the ultimate shirt for my regular spelunking expeditions to our local electronics recycler! #EwasteConnoisseur @actionretro.bsky.social
Our thanks to Gilroy Public Library and their devoted community for a successful "Mario Through The Ages" event! The positive feedback we received was truly humbling. Tell your family, friends, co-workers, and employers about the Retro Roadshow - spread the word! www.RetroRoadshow.org
The Retro Roadshow would like to express our thanks to Los Altos Public Library and their community for a successful "Mario Through The Ages" event! Tell your family, friends, and employers about the Retro Roadshow - help spread the word! www.RetroRoadshow.org See you soon! - Sarai & Huxley
