Vintage Computer Festival East (USA-Wall, NJ)
It's happening on April 14,15,16 - in one week!

2 day of exhibits, 3 days of classes, 3 days of speakers, 2 round
table sessions... it's incredible show this year.

All info:

https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-east-schedule/


Streams to watch presentations:
VCF East 2023 b Day 1 (Friday) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UAUG7yR_dA VCF East 2023 b Day 2 (Saturday) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGn2FI3-xVY VCF East 2023 b Day 3 (Sunday) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj1AFDbQr9I


Here is a list of just the speakers this year:

Byron Stout Modern Tools for Commodore 64 Sprite Animation
Maki Kato Verifiable Credentials: Intro and a discussion
about how we might use them as a community
Leo Binkowski The Ghost of NABU Past
Alastair Hewitt Novasaur TTL Retrocomputer
Jim Hall Toy CPU
Brian Johnson Emulating the NABU PC
Streamer Roundtable:
Multiple Bil Herd, David Lovett, Adrian Black, Fran Blanche, Jeri Ellsworth


Adrian Wilson Quantel's Paintbox: The Computer That Changed What We See
T. CherryHomes #FujiNet - Latest Editions
Jerry Crisci I Was There for the Revolution: Lessons and Reflections
from 35 Years in EdTech
Liza Loop Computer Literacy in the 70's and 80's.
Margaret Morabito The Early Years of Online Education
Jeri Ellsworth From C64 DTV to Tilt Five: A lifelong passion for gaming and inventing
Streamer Roundtable:
Multiple Bil Herd, Michael Stanhope, Steve Matarazzo, Sean Malseed, Dave Murray


Christian Berger An introduction to teletext
Byron Stout What can vintage computing tell us about the next
generation of Engineers?
Jason Perkins 40 Years of Apple Lisa - Now with Source!
Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman LOGO, teaching with computers
Frank O'Brien Flying to the Moon: A view from the Apollo Guidance Computer Michael Casedevall The Unseen World of Pow

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On 09 Apr 2023, massiverobot said the following...

Vintage Computer Festival East (USA-Wall, NJ)
It's happening on April 14,15,16 - in one week!

And just like what happens every year, I have to work on Saturday so I am going to miss it! (Can't do Sundays as that is family day)... Maybe next year...

Al

... The seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago

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Try the streams if you can't make it. Also each speaker and the Roundtables will eventually be edited up and released on the VCFed YT channel - after
about a month or so.
-massive

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On 10 Apr 2023, massiverobot said the following...

Try the streams if you can't make it. Also each speaker and the Roundtables will eventually be edited up and released on the VCFed YT channel - after about a month or so.
-massive

Cool.. I will check them out.. Thanks for the tip.. I used to go to the original VCFed it was in Trenton at a college it was unbelievable!! A football sized area of old stuff in a flea market setting, inside there was vendors everywhere!! I would usually go on Sunday and stay all day it would take the entire day to get through the whole thing, then at closing time 6pm the folks outside selling the used stuff would start tossing the leftover stuff in dumpsters.. I picked up a few 286's and XT's along with a bunch of monitors one year from the dumpster! Sold them on craigslist for some $$$ all because I formatted HD's installed DOS and Windows on the drives. Loved going to those shows!!

Al

... Help! I can't find the "ANY" key.

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Bucko wrote to massiverobot <=-

Cool.. I will check them out.. Thanks for the tip.. I used to go to the original VCFed it was in Trenton at a college it was unbelievable!! A football sized area of old stuff in a flea market setting, inside there was vendors everywhere!!

VCF West last year was a little disappointing compared to other years,
and much more expensive than I remember. I did like seeing a PiDP-11 up
close, but the sales area was pretty slim. If you wanted a part from a
broken midrange computer, you might get lucky, or a yellowed IBM PC
compatible for a couple of hundred dollars.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA that hosts it is worth
the trip. They have a PDP-1 that plays spacewar and a working IBM 1401
that they IPL (initial program load, IBM-speak for "Power On") and teach
kids about. Lots of little iron, too, including an Apple 1 signed by
Woz.

They ask for volunteers, to get a generation of kids familiar with
maintaining a lost generation of Big Iron. If I was a kid living in the
area, I'd be all over that.

I went to the gift shop to get a refill for my Thinkpad.

https://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/10/01/the-original-ibm-thinkpad/


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