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VCF East 6.0 announcement

Consignment @ VCF East

Consignment @ VCF East

There will be a consignment booth at VCF East this year.

Here is how it works:
- Bring your on-topic things to sell (no generic x86 / PC crap.)
- Fill out form w/ description, asking price, and lowest accepted price.
- VCF keeps 15% of the final sale price (to the nearest whole dollar.)
- Retrieve any unsold items things at the end of the day (or end of show, your choice.)

No pre-registration for consignment sales, just show up.

VCF East is Sept. 12-13 in Wall, New Jersey.

Details (with more speakers and exhibitors to come) are at http://www.vintage.org/2009/east/
 
VCF East 6.0 Keybote Speaker Announced

VCF East 6.0 Keybote Speaker Announced

This year's VCF East (6.0) keynote speaker is Ted Hurewitz.

Unlike some of our past keynoters -- Bill Mauchly, Chuck Peddle, David Ahl, etc. -- most collectors probably never heard of Mr. Hurewitz.

But he's quite awesome. He was in the engineering group for RCA's Bizmac tube computer, and he worked on the design for the RCA 501. This all went down in Camden, N.J. in the 1950s. Amusing sidebar: one of his employees was Arnold Spielberg -- father of Steven.

Some info about Bizmac is here: http://www.cedmagic.com/history/rca-bizmac-computer.html and also here: http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/RCA-Bizmac-1951.htm ...... some info about the 501 is here: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/RCA/RCA.501.1958.102646273.pdf (and in many other places, according to Google.)

Hurewitz will give his lecture on the morning of Sat., Sept. 12 (exact time to be determined) followed by audience Q&A.
 
To all: yes, we are aware that the VCF site (vintage.org) is has been up-and-down recently. VintageTech, which owns the VCF, recently moved to a new building and is having DSL problems. They are working on this right now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
David Ahl's triumphant return to VCF East

David Ahl's triumphant return to VCF East

Dave Ahl was a big hit at VCF East 3.0 (2006), so we're bringing him back this year. He will lecture on the second day (Sunday, Sept. 13) at 1 p.m. on the subject of "Blunders in Personal Computing."

http://www.vintage.org/2009/east/
 
VCF East 6.0 updates

VCF East 6.0 updates

Hi everyone.

Some updates re: VCF East 6.0:

Sellam is working on the vintage.org site; he says the problem is his AT&T high-speed connection. A tech is coming to look at it tomorrow morning PST. If it's not fixed then Sellam will temporarily host the site elsewhere. He and I both apologize for the inconvenience.

We're up to 18 exhibitors so far, and I've heard that people are coming from California, Florida, New Hampshire, and Ohio. So, the rest of you cctalkers have no more excuses. :)

Looking for lodging nearby the VCF East? Our venue is at 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, N.J., 07719. There are several mainstream motel/hotel chains nearby. Anyone who arrives Friday night (Sept. 11) to help us set up gets a free VCF t-shirt. This year's shirts are black with a very cool (and funny) server room design in bright green.

Vince Briel is still taking registrations for his PockeTerm workshop. It's only $60. While the VCF site is down you can directly access Vince's site at http://www.brielcomputers.com/workshop.html .... the workshop is Sept. 12 at 10am.

David Ahl, of the former Creative Computing magazine, will lecture on famous blunders in microcomputer history, Sunday at 1pm. His lecture was an audience favorite at VCF East 4.0 in 2006.

Saturday at noon is the first-ever VCF music concert! The warm-up act is MARCH's own Bill Degnan who will perform "Fool on the Hill" on his Altair 8800, exactly as done by Steve Dompier at the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975.

The BASIC Programming Challenge. Go wild.

Live restoration of an IBM 026 keypunch on our exhibit floor.

Bring your kids!! Tickets are FREE for ages 17 and younger.

- Evan
 
Sellam is working on the vintage.org site; he says the problem is his AT&T high-speed connection. A tech is coming to look at it tomorrow morning PST. If it's not fixed then Sellam will temporarily host the site elsewhere. He and I both apologize for the inconvenience.

Vintage.org is FINALLY back up, but Sellam isn't sure about how long it will STAY working. He said the problem was because of a company called DSL Extreme (or something like that).
 
Lodging . . .

Lodging . . .

Looking for lodging nearby the VCF East? Our venue is at 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, N.J., 07719. There are several mainstream motel/hotel chains nearby.

I'm coming from the Atlanta, GA area, and I have purchased a very reasonable room in the area, at the Extended Stay America, Red Bank. I got a great rate through priceline.com - $69 a night. I'm happy to save a little more money though, and save someone else some by sharing the room. I'm sure I can request two full size beds, any takers?

Thanks, David
 
I'm coming from the Atlanta, GA area

Excellent! Make sure you find me and say hello.

Also: yesterday we posted a list of other things to do at (and also close to) the VCF. The list is at http://www.vintage.org/2009/east/tours.php .... meanwhile here's a quick video montage of last year's VCF, in case you missed it in the other thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mNXrKjiD78.

I've heard from people coming from Florida, California, and even Italy!

You might want to also post on the cctalk list re: a roommate.
 
Got home very late, and now very tired!!!

VCF East 6.0 this weekend was, by far, the largest and most successful of all the east-coast editions. We out-did ourselves for the number of exhibitors (23), number of attendees, amount of income for our club and museum, all sorts of good press attention (ars technica, AOL, etc.), very busy computer consignment and book sale, and special events (8-bit concert, guided museum tours, etc.)

We also took lots of video and photos, hopefully to be posted soon.

Best-of-show winner: Mike Lee (Chicago); exhibit: "Fail" (computers that were duds)
Best rookie VCF East exhibitor: Robert Bernardo (Visalia, Calif.); exhibit: Guitar Hero on a C-64

I'm off to hibernate for a while. :)

- Evan
 
I uploaded one VCF East video so far

I uploaded one VCF East video so far

I uploaded one VCF East video so far
This one is the music video from 8static with Animal Style playing.
It's on my homepage at the moment as I'm having problems trying to upload it to YouTube.
I was getting too many timeouts, I barely managed to upload to my homepage.
http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/video/vcf/VCF_east_6.0-1.mov

I'll have more online soon.

=Dan
 
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