These are some choice shots of what appears to be a Fairlight product demo happening at the 1983 US Festival Technology Expo. Although not widely known, the Woz intended the US Festival to be an Epcot Center of sorts; if you got tired of waiting for Van Halen to take the stage you could walk a half mile to an air conditioned tent and check out the latest greatest computer and music tech.

Over 100 exhibitors will be there. On the musical side will be, from Vermont, New England Digital with one of the world’s most advanced computer music systems, the Synclavier II. Also, AlphaSyntauri will have their keyboard-based computer music systems for the Apple II on hand. Seymour Duncan will showcase their guitar pickups. Simmons Drums will show their computerized drums. Inventor-musician Emmett Chapman will demonstrate “The Stick.”

Hope they didn't get any dust in the floppies.