[SIGCIS-Members] Vintage Computer Festival, revisited

[Evan Koblentz]

Update -- the event flier can be downloaded from my personal site at 
http://www.snarc.net/vcfe7flier.pdf



On 03/02/2011 03:13 AM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I never seem to get much interest from SIGCIS people for the Vintage 
> Computer Festival, but the upcoming edition (VCF East 7.0) might 
> appeal more to this group than in years past.
>
> This year's speaker line-up includes Ruth Lewart, who worked on Bell 
> Labs' TRADIC; Vincent Pogorzelski and Donald Caselli, who both worked 
> at Monroe Calculator and specifically worked with the Monrobot XI; Joe 
> LaViola and Al Rollin, both of UNIVAC/Unisys; and Michael Holley, who 
> was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and is an expert on 
> Southwest Technical Products.
>
> Also this year, we're having a panel discussion about the New York 
> City / New Jersey / Philadelphia region in the mid-1970s, including 
> Roger Amidon (of Xitan / Technical Design Labs, which were S-100 
> companies), Dick Moberg (founder of the Philadelphia Area Computer 
> Society and the 1978 Philadelphia Computer Music Festival), and Larry 
> Stein (owner of Computer Mart of Iselin, N.J., which was one of the 
> first computer stores in the state.)  For this panel we also invited 
> (but have not yet received confirmations from) John Dilks, who 
> produced the Atlantic City PC'76 show; Sol Libes, who produced and 
> still runs the Trenton Computer Festival and the Amateur Computer 
> Group of New Jersey (possibly the longest-running user group); and 
> David Ahl, who published Creative Computing magazine.
>
> And that's just in the morning sessions.  Afternoons at our event 
> feature the exhibit hall, a build-your-own transistor-logic circuit 
> workshop, book sale, consignment, and museum tours.
>
> Our venue is the InfoAge Science Center, located in Wall, New Jersey.
>
> Our event is a wonderful opportunity to hear from people who worked in 
> the field and (most important of all) to see vintage computers boot up 
> and run again!
>
> Our event site is http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/ and we're on 
> Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast7 .
>
> - Evan
>
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