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<DIV><SPAN class=531113603-29082008><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=218093203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>...Just wanted to
invite everyone to an upcoming event at my museum (the InfoAge Science Center,
located on the NJ shore in Wall Township)...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218093203-29082008>It's the Vintage
Computer Festival East 5.0<SPAN class=531113603-29082008>, Sept.
13-14</SPAN>. The VCF first existed in Silicon Valley back in 1997 and
then expanded to other regions. VCF is a ** celebration ** of computers
from the 1940s - 1980s. Imagine a car show .... and the imagine that every
owner lets you drive his car! That's what the VCF is all about, seeing the
computers up and running again. We also have special events. This
year's are </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class=218093203-29082008><SPAN
class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>a replica creation workshop,
where you can build a replica of the Apple 1 or the KIM under kit creator Vince
Briel's guidance, and we'll have a ceremony and tours for the "beta" opening of
our computer museum. (We've been in "alpha" for the past two
years.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sign up for Vince's
workshop at </FONT><A
href="http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=104"><FONT
face=Arial
size=2>http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=104</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2>.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>We'll also have some
cool guest speakers. Most notably, on Sunday, we have Bill Mauchly.
Bill is the son of ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly. We also have a
lesser-known engineer named Watts Humphrey, who wrote the proposal for the
military's "MOBIDIC" computer in the 1950s; it was an early example of
client-server architecture. And we've got Claude Kagan, who spent 30 years
at Western Electric and Bell Labs and who worked to get our museum a
first-generation <SPAN class=218093203-29082008>DEC </SPAN>PDP-8<SPAN
class=218093203-29082008> minicomputer</SPAN>.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tickets for one day
are $10, both days combined are $15, and anyone younger than 18 is free.
Parking's free too.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>-
Evan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><SPAN class=531113603-29082008><FONT
face=Arial size=2>PS - Just as I spoke at SHOT last year about the hobbyist side
of computer history, it would be beneficial to have someone from this list speak
to our hobbyist audience about academic side of computer history -- how we
hobbyists can help, and how we can learn too. Tom isn't able to make it
that weekend. Unfortunately my other choice was Michael Mahoney.
:( Is anyone else here interested in talking at our
event?</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><SPAN class=531113603-29082008><FONT
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Evan</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>