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Oops, I forgot to mention the date!  The VCF East is Sept. 13-14.  Sorry.
:)

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Subject: [ISEN] Event: Vintage Computer Festival


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...Just wanted to invite everyone to an upcoming event at my museum (the
InfoAge Science Center, located on the NJ shore in Wall Township)...
 
It's the Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0.  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 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.)
 
Sign up for Vince's workshop at
http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select
<http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=104>
&id=104.
 
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 DEC PDP-8 minicomputer.
 
Tickets for one day are $10, both days combined are $15, and anyone younger
than 18 is free.  Parking's free too.
 
- Evan

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