Vintage Computer Festival - East 9.1

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Introduction

"VCF-E 9.1" or Vintage COmputer Festival - East 9.1, was held April 4-6 2014, at the Infoage Center in Wall, NJ USA, operated by the MARCH vintage computer club at Infoage. Thirty five exhibitors, 12 workshops, a dozen talks, and a vendor/consignment area. Hundreds attended. I had an exhibit on early computers so between working my exhibit, visiting the consignment area, I was too busy to spend a lot of time at the other exhibits. And, I was ill on Friday the 4th and not in attendence. So my review of the event in photos is very brief. Just too big....

I do a lot of other restoring and preserving computers of the 70's and 80's. - Herb Johnson

Exhibits

I simply was not able to cover or see every one of the three-dozen 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 mine. - Herb

Mike Loewen, HP 2109E Minicomputer
Andy Molloy, Handheld Electronic Games
Dan Roganti, Jeff Brace, C-64 Multiplayer Network Gaming
David Gesswein, PDP-8 Mark-Sense Batch
Herb Johnson, Before the Revolution, Pre-Altair Microcomputing See my exhibit Web page at this link
Alex Bodnar, Small Bus Data Center (H-89)
MARCH, UNIVAC 1219-B
Corey Cohen, Games Drove the Hobby (SCELBI, MITS, etc.)
Mary Hopper, Children's Machines (Mindstorms, TI-99, Lego)
Bill Sudbrink, Dual Dazzlers
Bill Degnan, PEEKing under the hood using BASIC
Mike Willegal, Bringing Microcomputers back to life
Sridhar Ayengar, VAXen
Michael Hill, Modern Stuff for Old Computers (Commodore)
Bob Applegate, Franklin's Apple II clones and prototypes
Rob Clarke, Commodore Curios
Adam Rosen, Vintage Mac Rarities & Highlights
Anthony Stramaglia, Unique UNIX
Christopher B., Apple 1 (original)
Michalina Jernigan, Early Desktop Publishing on C-64
Steve Mayo, Amiga Past and Future
Scott Baret, Apple Obscurities (Macs)
Linda Baret, Gaming of Yesteryear (Odyssey, Atari 2600)
John Linville, Retro Tinker's CoCo Adventures (Tandy Color Computer)
Ian Primus, Don't Forget about Prime
Curt Vendel, Atari Computers 1979-1993
Jeff Salzman, TI-99/4-A with Expansion Box
Francois Lanciault, The Dawn of the Workstation
Kyle Owen et al, Hello World from Atlanta Historic Computer Society
Jonathan Chapman, Lawrence Livermore Labs MST-80B trainer (8080)
William Dromgoole, Ohio Scientific Computers (OSI)
Ethan Dicks, COSMAC Cosmology (RCA 1802)
Ron Blechner, DEC PDP 11/05 and DEC memorabilia

Sales area

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.

Vince Briel, Briel Computers
VARx (DEC product vendor)
Phosphor Glow (IBM Model M keyboard) Retro Innovations (add-ons to Atari/Commodore etc.)
Eli's Software Encyclopedia (vintage software)
MARCH (books, etc)
and private consigners.Here's some items and Here's a stack of Heath breadboards and a trainer

Presentations and workshops

...were described at vintage.org's VCF-E sessions Web page. I was not able to attend these.

Other photos, descriptions of the event

I'll add links as owners permit, or as they contact me with links. Please return the favor. - Herb

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