There is also VCF SE taking place next week. http://vcfse.org/ I had hoped to get my friend Dave Needle to present at it. Sadly he passed away in February: http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/consumer-electronics/gaming/si... Many thanks Adam On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net> wrote:
VCF East XI is April 15-17 this year, at our usual haunt -- the InfoAge Science Center, in Wall, New Jersey.
The agenda....
- Friday: Fifteen tech classes/lectures, an eight-bit game programming hackathon, after-lunch keynote by John Blankenbaker who invented the Kenbak personal computer in 1971, long before Altair, Apple, etc.
- Saturday morning: Keynote by Stewart Cheifet, who hosted "The Computer Chronicles" PBS television show in the 1980s
- Sunday morning: Keynote by the legendary Ted Nelson. We've been trying to get him for many years....
- Saturday/Sunday, rest of the day: several dozen hands-on exhibits of 1960s-1980s computers, all up and running for visitors to enjoy. Also: learn-to-solder classes and tours of the various wings at the InfoAge center, including the newly doubled-in-size computer museum. (We were operating a "living" exhibition long before Paul Allen came up with that name...)
This will be the first Vintage Computer Festival under its new ownership, the Vintage Computer Federation, which is a 501c3 non-profit.
The web site is www.vcfed.org and the geek-in-charge is me. :)
thanks, - Evan
PS. - the new Federation also owns VCF West, which will be Aug. 6-7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. (VCF Southeast, VCF Midwest, and the European editions are independent.) _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org