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"VCF-E 10.0" or Vintage Computer Festival - East 10, was held April 17-19 2015, at the Infoage Center in Wall, NJ USA, operated by the MARCH vintage computer club at Infoage. Exhibitors, talks on Friday, and a vendor/consignment area. Hundreds attended. I was a vendor so between working my sales area, visiting the consignment area, I was too busy to spend a lot of time at the other exhibits. I'll add more photos and links.
I do a lot of other restoring and preserving computers of the 70's and 80's. - Herb Johnson
I simply was not able to cover or see many of the exhibits, in two large rooms. I took photos of many. The exhibit proposals are/were at vintage.org's VCF-E exhibits Web page. Please contact me for any errors or omissions on this page. Also, I'd be glad to add Web links to the exhibitors, to their exhibit Web pages - let me know - and please link yours to this page. - Herb
As I correspond with exhibitors and participants, I'll highlight their exhibits and Web pages in this section.
Spreadsheets! VisiCalc and its cousins - A specific Web page on VIP and CosmacCalc by Douglas Crawford CosmacCalc was written by Doug in CHIP-8 and under a Java emulation/assembler called OCTO. Doug corresponded with me as he worked on that page, explained more about CHIP-8, and looked at my site's COSMAC content. He said: "Good reading [your work on the 1802 crossassembler] A18! Your nod to [COSMAC] history and tracking throughout your site is something that more sites should do. [To learn about CHIP-8 and OCTO,] I think you would find it instructional to poke around the sample programs on the OCTO side. they are in a drop down at the top center of the screen. As you probably know, CHIP-8 itself was *I THINK* first released in the VIP manual. That's the place to start. Other than that, it's written about all over the web now. - DC".
My good friend and colleague David Gesswein presented his Claude Kagan/RESISTORS Straight 8 restoration. I describe David's work further on my Claude Kagan memorial Web page. David's own description of the restoration is on his Web site.
Thanks for compliments from Corey Little and his Web page about his Apple turnovers exhibit.
Oscar Vermeulen blogs on his experiences with the PDP-8's on exhibit; and his own exhibit. He and I corresponded in April about his PDP-8/i replica and his earlier S-100 vintage computing interests. I have a little PDP-8 stuff on my site.
PDP-8 50th anniversary
Claude Kagan/RESISTORS Straight 8, David Gesswein - see above for details
Happy 50th, PDP-8! Kyle Owen
DEC PDP-8/M, Brian Stuart
DEC PDP-8/L, Ethan Dicks
PDP-8 into the 1980s and beyond, Lou Ernst
PiDP-8/I: a simple but faithful PDP-8 replica, Oscar Vermeulen - see above
other minicomputers
Minicomputer madness! (DEC), Dave McGuire
PDP-11 UNIX, Ian Primus & Jon Chapman
Apple
Apple Newton: Indispensable tool of the future!, Andy Molloy
Your favorite (early) Apple, Tony Bogan
Apple turnovers, Corey Little
Unusual portable Macintoshen, Matthew Bergeron
Vintage Mac Museum, Adam Rosen
Atari, Commodore, Tandy
Have you played Atari today?, Peter Fletcher
Atari modification mania! Ralph Dodd
Atari 8-bit family: Yesterday and today, Bill Lange
Video Toaster, Jeff Salzman
Desktop video: Amiga 2000 and Video Toaster, Matt Patoray
30 years of Commodore Amiga, Bill Winters & Anthony Becker
Commodores on the Internet, Daniel Kovacs
The Custom TRS-80, Mike Loewen
Early stuff
Early microcomputers and amateur radio, Mike Willegal
Moore's law: 4004 through 8080, Corey Cohen
Single-board computers, William Dromgoole
Computing at the dawn of the (previous) century, Michael Pearson
Early embedded computing, Ben Greenfield
Spreadsheets! VisiCalc and its cousins, Douglas Crawford - see above
Basically, it's BASIC: 50 years and counting, Joseph Oprysko
That magical paper tape, Bill Degnan
The Fairlight CMI, Anthony Stramaglia
BBS: The experience, Jeff Golas
Vintage remix
Vintage computing meets the hackerspace, Christopher Parish
Maker tech meets vintage tech, Steve Mayo
Modern fun for old computers, Michael Hill
Here's a list of vendors and some photos of the sales/consignment/vendors area. Descriptions at vintage.org's VCF-E vendors Web page.
Corsham Technologies -
Retro Innovations
Herb's Stuff - 1802 Membership Card, various vintage computer items.
Here's the sales Web page I set up before the show
more about the 1802 M/S card
Jeff Galinat - S-100, IBM-PC cards, components. Sells Arduino/Rasp Pi at other events
Bewitching Brew Soap - vintage-computer themed soaps
A sales table of largely Commodores
A sales table of Newtons without wall-warts
MARCH's consignment area including:
a fellow on Sunday with various items which sold fast
Presentations were described at vintage.org's VCF-E sessions Web page. I was not able to attend many of these.
Presentation of restored Kagan/RESISTORS PDP-8 -
Here's an explanation.
I, Herb Johnson gave an unscheduled talk on S-100 history - here's a text summary
John Mohahan of s100computers.com also spoke at my talk
Jack Rubin (right) and Vincent Slyngstad (left) in discussion
Friday noon pizza
MARCH recieved their Philbrick analog computer just before the event.
I'll add links as owners permit, or as they contact me with links. Please return the favor. - Herb
Mike Loewen's photos of the event.
an article on hackaday covers VCF-East in part. The photo of the "keyboard for two dollars" shows ME, in the upper right-hand corner, facing camera, behind my sales table.
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