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<DIV><SPAN class=140085923-31082008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>An
important update: At the end of Claude Kagan's lecture, he will display -- for
the first time ever -- J. Presper Eckert's 1942 engineering
notebook.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=140085923-31082008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
figure that should get the attention of more than a few SIGCIS
members. :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Evan Koblentz<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:42
PM<BR><B>To:</B> members@sigcis.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [SIGCIS-Members] Event:
Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531113603-29082008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531113603-29082008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531113603-29082008>
<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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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<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></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>-
Evan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<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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face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078372203-29082008><SPAN class=531113603-29082008><FONT
face=Arial size=2>-
Evan</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>