Speakers at VCF West XI will include:
Saturday
- 9:30 AM – Evan Koblentz – Welcoming remarks
- 9:45 AM – Len Shustek, Chairman, Computer History Museum
- 10:00 AM – Bob Zeidman – Was Microsoft built from stolen goods? A forensic analysis of DOS and CP/M
- 11:00 AM – IBM 1401 live demonstration
- 12:00 PM – Bruce Damer: Deep digital archaeology
- 1:30 PM – Paul Laughton – Mainframes to micros and beyond
- 2:30 PM – DEC PDP-1 live demonstration
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4:00 PM – Evan Koblentz – Evolution of portable computing
- 5:00 PM – Kevin Savetz — Save our community’s stories
Sunday
- 10:00 AM – Christine Finn – Motherboards and mother lodes: Evolving archaology of the digital age
- 11:00 AM – IBM 1401 live demonstration
- 11:30 AM – Sellam Ismail – Computer history shenanigans!
- 1:00 PM – Al Alcorn, Steve Russell, Don Woods: Early computer gaming
- 2:30 PM – DEC PDP-1 live demonstration
- 3:30 PM – Lee Felsenstein — Why does vintage computing matter?
- 5:00 PM – Awards ceremony
Schedule subject to change