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VCF East 8.0 Is May 5,6 2012

Many of us vintage computer collectors are familiar with the work of George Beker, who famously drew "Beker Bots" for Creative Computing magazine and their BASIC Computer Games book series. A small preview of the "VCF Bot" that George Beker designed exclusively
for the VCF East 8.0 t-shirts is posted on the event web sites at
http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8. The shirts will be a light grey color.

George requested that this design NOT be used anyplace else. Please respect his wishes.

- Evan K.
 
FYI,

Build a Vector Graphics Display kit
http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/session.php#163
Important -- This workshop is a separate $109 admission and is limited to the first 10 people.
Admission includes all parts needed to build the kit, along with personal instruction.
To register, please send PayPal to vcfeastworkshop@gmail.com. Note: There will be a limited
amount of extra kits available for sale at the show, but not extra workshop spaces. The
extra kits will be sold on-site for "show special" price of $89.

In this workshop you'll build a box that lets your vintage computer display vector graphics
on a vector monitor or oscilloscope. The design will have a vintage look and feel by using
common parts, DIP-style chips, and very little memory! The kit will include all of the parts
to build this including a PCB and enclosure. It will have options to connect via a parallel
port or serial port, which most vintage computers can support. It will be flexible enough
to let most systems communicate with this type of display controller. The output will have
connector options for using an Atari vector monitor or an oscilloscope. The design will be
open source and a webpage will be available to share information. Parts include a 6502-based
controller with 32KB Eprom, 32KB RAM, and a pair of 10-bit digital-to-analog converters
providing a resolution of 1024x1024 points. It will include on-board firmware to let it operate
standalone and also contain grahics primitives to let you draw any type of shape and perform
image transformations such as move, rotate, etc. Additional on-board RAM is available for
storing predefined images which you can download from your host system.
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BIG UPDATE - VCF East 8.0

BIG UPDATE - VCF East 8.0

Here's a big update about all the things happening with the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0, May 5-6, at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey.

So far we're up to three "celebrity" lectures: Dr. Thomas Kurtz, who co-invented BASIC; Dan Kottke, of early Apple fame; and Bil Herd, of Commodore 8-bit fame. There's also a lecture by Dr. Kent Lundford, who'll teach us the history of analog computing, and there are two more still to be announced.

This year we have ** SEVEN ** technical workshops: chiptunes music, software restoration, intro to minicomputer care/feeding, intro to Commodore 8-bit maintenance, into to Apple II maintenance, intro to S-100 zen/innerworkings, and Build a Vector Graphics Kit (the latter is a separate ticket.)

So far there are 14 exhibits. We expect around 25 total.

There will be a book sale, consignment, food, museum tours, prizes, vendors, etc.

In addition, for the first time, we're having a few company sponsors (beyond the usual ones: MARCH, VintageTech, InfoAge Science Center.) The new sponsors are:
- Eli's Software Encyclopedia - sponsoring our t-shirts
- Western Design Center - that is MOS 6502 co-creator Bill Mensch's company - they're donating 20 autographed chips, which we'll sell for a modest price
- Trenton Computer Festival - distributing VCF East fliers to all of their attendees
- Vintage Computer Forum - running banner ads for us :)

Bottom line, this is going to be one of the best VCF East shows ever. You'd all be fools to miss it. :)

Tickets, as always, are sold at the door for just $10/day, $15/weekend, and free for kids.

http://www.vintage.org/2012/east and http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8
 
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