Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019 wrap-up

We had a great time last weekend!  Congratulations to our award winners!

  • Max Tonnage Award, Josh Dersch, 40 Years of the Three Rivers PERQ Workstation
  • Youngest Exhibitor, George Amores, Commodore 64 vs. Commodore Plus 4
  • Most Interactive, Joerg Hoppe, BlinkenBone, Program a PDP-11/70 over reanimated front panel
  • Best Display, John Ball, AppleTalk – Apple’s First Generation Network Protocol
  • Most Interesting Presentation, Rick Bensene, Wang Laboratories’ Electronic Calculators
  • Most Complete System, Jason Howe, Atari 800 Productivity
  • Garage Queen, Stephen M. Jones, SDF Public Access UNIX System
  • Best Restoration, Chris Henkel, Early PC based Engineering Workstations
  • What the heck is that?, Kaylin, Hayes, & Papenhoff, PDP-6 emulation with interface to PDP-6 Console and 340 Display
  • Kill-A-Watt, Madeline Autumn-Rose, CompuServe and Their PDP-10 Clones
  • The Overachiever Award, Ian Finder, Only Amiga Makes It Necessary and The GRiD
  • Best in Show, Sergey Kiselev, Retro Brew Computing – Do-it-yourself 8-bit Single Board Computers

It was my first time handing out awards, so I apologize for the flubs and wonderfully awkward moments. 🙂

Links to the presentations can be found on the event page at https://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw/.

If you attended the event please consider adding your pictures to the shared photo album at https://photos.app.goo.gl/e2rzk4iT4aHrQUoy6.  It helps others to see the show from a different perspective, and it helps us who were too busy to take pictures.

And one last request – help us make VCFed events even better!  If you were at VCF PNW 2019 please fill out a short survey for us: https://goo.gl/forms/V3DiyxwkpbIOCKn73

See you in 2020!
Mike, on behalf of VCFed

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