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Ärende: [VOICENWS] Event: Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0, this weekend!
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From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org>

[Moderator note: The following is not directly related to OS/2 or 
eComstation, but since it is the group that is sposoring the museum site 
where the OS/2 museum will be housed I am taking the liberty of passing it 
on.  Last year I had an OS/2 museum exhibit table which received a lot of 
attention. Unfortunately (well not too unfortunate I suppose) I will be on 
a cruise to Bermuda during this year's event.  If anyone is in the area I 
highly recommend attending if they have the time.]

MARCH, VintageTech, and the InfoAge Science Center announce the Vintage 
Computer Festival East 4.0

     * What: A celebration of computers, technology, and culture from the 
1940s - 1980s. Open to the public
     * When: June 9-10.  Lectures from 10am-2pm, exhibits from 2pm-6pm both 
days
     * Where: InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall Township, 
N.J., 07719
     * Cost: $10 for one day, $15 for two days, free for 12 and younger, 
free parking
     * Contact: Evan Koblentz, evank@midatlanticretro.org, 646-546-9999

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Do 8 bits excite you more than 64?  Prefer blinkenlights over SVGA?  Yearn 
for the days of input via toggle switches and paper tape?  Or just want to 
play some Pac-Man?  Then check out the Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0, 
June 9-10, at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey.  This year's 
event is again hosted by MARCH -- the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists.

The Vintage Computer Festival began in 1997 in Silicon Valley, migrated 
eastward in 2001, and became a MARCH event in 2006.  So what is a VCF? 
Imagine an antique car show where every owner let you test-drive his car, 
and where Henry Ford gave a lecture and signed autographs!  It sounds 
unreal, but that's what happens with vintage computer technology at every 
edition of the VCF.

This year's edition of the VCF East will feature 20 exhibits of computer 
technology from the 1940s to 1980s.  Visitors will have the opportunity to 
use an IBM punch-card machine, witness a legendary Digital Equipment Corp. 
PDP-8 minicomputer in action, and experience all the top brands of 1970s 
microcomputers from companies like Apple, Commodore, and many others. 
Older S-100 kit computers, single-board computers, portables, and even 
analog and prehistoric computer technology will be demonstrated.  On the 
extremes, we have one exhibitor preparing to show an authentic NASA Apollo 
flight computer, and another who'll display the most classic videogame 
console ever -- Atari -- play it 'til you drop!  Read the full exhibitor 
list at http://www.vintage.org/2007/east/exhibit.php.

If that's not enough, then listen to some of our guest speakers.  The 
highlight this year will be a 30th anniversary panel in honor of Commodore, 
which was headquartered nearby in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  The panel's 
star is Chuck Peddle, inventor of the famous MOS Technology 6502 chip, used 
in a wide variety of classic single-board computers and in microcomputers 
such as the Commodore PET and the Apple II.  Peddle will join us via live 
videoconference, in which he promises to share previously untold stories, 
after which he’ll answer audience questions.  Commodore engineers appearing 
live at our show will include Bil Herd, Bob Russell, and Dave Haynie. 
We'll even have a birthday cake featuring the famous Commodore 
"Chickenhead" logo.  Other speakers this year include Herb "Dr. S-100" 
Johnson, who'll explain the history of the CP/M operating system; Bill 
Degnan and Sellam Ismail; who together will give a crash-course in vintage 
computer discovery and restoration; and others to be announced.  In 
addition, Ismail will give a second talk, but the topic is secret!  You’ll 
have to be there to find out what he plans.

Yet another highlight of the VCF East 4.0 will be our new VCF Theatre, 
organized by acclaimed technology filmmaker Jason Scott.  His films include 
"BBS: The Documentary" and the upcoming "Get Lamp" about text-adventure 
games.  At the VCF Theatre, he'll be screening vintage computer-themed 
movies all weekend long in the afternoons.

New this year is the donate-to-sell booth.  Here, everyone is welcome to 
donate vintage computing items, with all proceeds to help MARCH build its 
computer museum.  Our museum directly benefits future generations, so do 
your part and give something to this wonderful non-profit cause!  (We 
request that any unsold items be re-claimed before you leave the VCF.)

Did we mention the prizes?  We'll have t-shirts, vintage computer replica 
kits, books, and maybe a surprise or two.  All you have to do to win is 
show up, and be there when we announce winners each day.

Finally, should your historic technology interest extend beyond just 
computers, then you've come to the right place.  Our venue at the InfoAge 
Science Center is historic in itself.  The facility began life in 1912 as 
an R&D center for Britain's Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., and then spent 
several decades as Camp Evans, a top-secret laboratory of the U.S. 
military.  RADAR that first spotted airplanes over Pearl Harbor and 
mankind's first radio signal to the moon were invented here, along with 
numerous other achievements.  Today, the center is on the National Register 
of Historic Places and is a Black History Site.  It's also home to the 
National Broadcasters Hall of Fame and an assortment of non-profit clubs 
all related to the history of technology, with a local focus.

Driving directions, lodging information, exhibit details and more are 
posted at www.vintage.org/2007/east/.

     * For more information about MARCH, visit www.midatlanticretro.org
     * For more information about the InfoAge Science Center, visit 
www.infoage.org
     * For more information about VintageTech, visit www.vintagetech.com

General questions?  Want to exhibit or have a vendor booth at the VCF East? 
  Member of the media?  Contact VCF East producer and MARCH president Evan 
Koblentz, evankDESPAM@DESPAMmidatlanticretro.org, 646-546-9999.






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