Jeff Brace hosts a chat with Liza Loop, Margaret Morabito, Jim Hall, Byron Stout and talks about teaching children with vintage computers.
Author: Jeffrey Brace
VCF East 2024 is coming! April 12, 13, 14 @ InfoAge
Happy New Year everyone!
Streaming live: VCF East updates on Saturday, January 13 at 6:30PM EST
VCF East 2024 planning is into motion! We will still be at InfoAge. Dates are April 12, 13, 14.
Some important links:
Consignment registration is coming soon. We are redoing the consignment process and it will be even better than last year! Also we have a new location for consignment that is twice as large!
More updates to come!
Upcoming Repair Workshops
January 6 & 7 @ InfoAge Signup Here
January 27 & 28 @ System Source Signup Here
February 17 @ Kennett Classic RSVP here
Friday night 2/16 (load in and set up). Repair Workshop = All day Saturday, Feb 17th.
Address: 115 S Union St, Kennett Square, PA 19348 (Across the street from Kennett Classic museum).
Additional details as we get closer to the event.
Vintage Computer Festival 6 talks recovered!
It’s been 20 years now since VCF 6.
VCF 6 took place October 11-12th, 2003 at the Computer History Museum
The web page for that event is: https://vcfed.org/events/
Due to the extraordinary efforts of Kay Savetz, Clay Cowgill, and Josh Malone over the past two years, some of the talks from Vintage Computer Festival 6 have been recovered!
The recordings were in very poor condition and took extreme measures to recover. The audio is often not good. Sometimes it is very bad. But this is the best that they could do from very bad recordings.
C. H. Ting, Jef Raskin, John Ellenby, and Gary Starkweather are dead now, so these are voices from those who passed.
They have the audio of the five recoverable sessions from VCF 2003 up at Internet Archive.
Len Shustek – Computer History Museum
Bruce Damer – The Joys and Trials of Computer Collecting
David Jaffe / C. H. Ting / Kevin Appert / Dwight Elvey – Forth
Jef Raskin – Apple and the Humane Environment
John Ellenby / Gary Starkweather / Dave Robson / Peter Deutsch / Charles Simonyi – Xerox Alto panel
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Jeff Brace
VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President
Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner
VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
Livestream NABU employees reunion – Sat. Dec. 16, 2023
Former NABU employees tell stories about this ingenious Canadian made computer from the 80’s.
Streaming Saturday, December 16 at 6:30PM EST on VCF’s YouTube channel. This will be a moderated discussion by Jeffrey Brace.
Discord discussion: #nabu (https://discord.gg/32maJ6gddU
Forum Discussion
Stream URL: https://youtube.com/live/QoZTBNz47co
Confirmed speakers:
- Leo Binkowski – NABU Developer
- DJ Sures – Executive and son of the founder of NABU
- John Shortt – Director of Content Development, formerly Games Development Manager, author of Flashcards and one of the major developers for Dig Dug, as well as Manager’s Baseball)
- Donna Shortt – Education software Developer, responsible for Seasonal Gardening and NABU Basic
- Tim Ranger, author of Laser Attack and Leo and he also made Q*Bert
- Eric Mesdag, Engineering Developer, author of MACBETH and one of the main NABU Cable IOS developers
- MK Marsden – NABU marketing
- Ed Myers – NABU Educational Marketing
- Bob McNally – former NABU sales and later Director of Operations of NABU
- Warren Belkin, developer of the original NABU Main Menu, and my inspiration for buying a motorcycle
- Bill Bourne – NABU Engineering. Was involved in so many details about the hardware
- Mike Slinn – one of the two people that designed and built the NABU prototype boards that were used inside the NABU 1100 before they had a NABU PC
- And more!
Livestream Nov. 11, 2023 – Liza Loop, Cynthia Solomon, Brian Silverman, Margaret Morabito
Educational technology in the 70’s and 80’s.
Streaming Saturday, November 11 at 6:30PM EST on VCF’s YouTube channel. This will be a moderated discussion by Jeffrey Brace who will ask them questions about how they used early computers to teach students. Questions will be taken from the public.
Discord discussion: ed-tech (https://discord.gg/32maJ6gddU
Stream URL: https://youtube.com/live/WfsWVtey5Vk
Introducing VCF SoCal!
Introducing VCF SoCal!
We’re pleased to announce the newest addition to the Vintage Computer Festival lineup – VCF SoCal in Orange, California on Presidents’ Day weekend, February 17-18, 2024.
Tickets will be on sale shortly, but hotel rooms are available to be booked now. Visit VCFSoCal.com for more details.
The city of Orange is in the heart of Orange County, minutes from Disneyland, beaches and skiing – with easy access to John Wayne airport.
Reserve your spot at the retro-filled, inaugural weekend in SoCal!
Swap Meet this Saturday, October 28, 2023
The weather will be perfect at our swap meet this coming Saturday October 28, 2023. It’s time to buy and sell your vintage computers, tech, TVs, radios, etc. This event keeps getting bigger!
GPS coordinates: 40°11’05.5″N 74°03’47.9″W
All the info that you need is here: https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/
Livestream talk 10/21 – Liza Loop, Jim Hall, Wil Lindsay & Byron Stout – on VCF’s YouTube channel
This Saturday at 6:30PM EDT, I’m going to livestream to VCF’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@
We will be talking about Educating today’s children with vintage computers.
We will take questions from the chat part of YouTube.
Future livestreams:
11/4 – Jim Hall – Linux like Unix
11/11 – Liza Loop, Cynthia Solomon, Brian Silverman & Margaret Morabito – Educating students with vintage computers over the decades.
I hope to see you there!
VCF Swap Meet – Wall, NJ – Oct. 28, 2023
Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. Same place as last time: in the big parking lot across from Brookdale. There will be food and drinks sold by the Southern Monmouth County Firehouse museum. This is a joint fundraiser by their museum and the Vintage Computer Federation Museum which are both under the umbrella of InfoAge Science and History Museums.
GPS Coordinates: 40°11’05.5″N 74°03’47.9″W