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.)