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
Educational technology in the 70’s and 80’s.
Streaming Saturday, September 16 at 6:30PM EDT on VCF’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@vcfederation. 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.
Planning for VCF West 2023 is moving along nicely! This is a good thing since there is less than a month left!
The show will take place on FRIDAY AUGUST 4th and SATURDAY August 5th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Please note that this year’s show is Friday and Saturday. There is no event on Sunday for 2023.
The Exhibitor list has been posted and registration is now closed. Amazingly, we have more exhibits than we’ve ever had before!
If you missed the deadline please contact us via the link on the Exhibitor page and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
For those already registered, look for an email containing our standard set of Exhibitor instructions in the coming days.
Our cast of Speakers is absolutely outstanding this year! This will be finalized along with a schedule in the very near future. Thanks to Bil Herd and others we have a packed speaker schedule with tons of exciting talks!
We have a new space for Consignment this year! We’ll have lots more room and a more streamlined system. This will, however, require some extra help from those participating in consignment. The instructions on our page will be updated very soon.
Thank you all for the encouragement and support. This show can’t happen without you all.
Hello everyone,
After careful consideration, looking at the weather forecasts and Air Quality Index, we have chosen to go ahead with our swap meet as planned. We still recommend that everyone wear a high quality mask as a precaution. On the bright side, the temperature is expected to be about 76 degrees with 25% chance of rain. New this year is food for sale in the parking lot by a non-profit firehouse museum.
Vendor setup starts at 7AM and buyers can come starting at 8AM.
We are expecting 50 vendors with 75 spaces and 250 buyers. There was a huge demand for consignment at VCF East 2023 this year, therefore we are expecting a record number of buyers and sellers. Lots of people coming from near and far!
Information is on this webpage: https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/
There is still plenty of spaces available for vendors, who can sign up here: https://forms.gle/aKopy6fQJk9K2PBp7
Thank you everyone for your patience as we evaluated our decision.
See you there on Saturday, June 10, 2023!
VCF will be having another Swap Meet this coming June 10 from 8AM to 2PM for the general public and 7AM for vendors.
Signup here to reserve a spot.
Same place as the previous swap meets in the big parking lot on Monmouth Boulevard in Wall, NJ.
A change for this year is that we will have some food being sold by the South Monmouth Fire Museum. This will be a fundraiser for them and a welcome service for our attendees.
All the information that you need is here: https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/
It has been a long time coming, but we’ve finally made arrangements to have a 2023 VCF West.
I’ll share some of the boring details later, but, for now, I want to encourage everyone interested in this year’s show to get ready for a great event, but one with a very short runway. So get those exhibits prepared and registered, get those talks planned and free up your time for FRIDAY AUGUST 4th and SATURDAY August 5th.
Yes, you read that right. One of the big hang-ups with getting 2023 off of the ground was that our traditional, and preferred, venue, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, is not available for Sunday on our normal show weekend.
So this year’s event will be Friday and Saturday with setup on Thursday.
While this scheduling issue was the main holdup to getting the show off of the ground – It took a while to come to terms with the CHM for the rental, dates, etc. and that’s on me – the good news is that the CHM are very excited to have us back and they will help us promote the show, hopefully increasing our attendance even with the awkward days.
That said I do apologize profusely for the delays and inconvenience this will cause. I also apologize for “ignoring” most of the emails from folks asking about our progress. I really wasn’t sure until just today that the show would even go on and I didn’t want to spur a rumor mill in advance of an announcement.
Thankfully the announcement is a positive one!
Exhibitor registration is now open. Because of the short timelines I’m encouraging everyone to sign up ASAP.
The same goes for speakers. If you’d like to speak at the show please let me know soon.
Thank you all for the encouragement and support. This show can’t happen without you all. Once again I apologize for compressing all of the planning. This won’t happen again.
VCF East 2023 will be again at The InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall, NJ.
The dates are April 14, 15, & 16. Updated information can be found here: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/
We will have a great lineup of speakers and exhibitors!
Click here for the VCF East main page: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/
Exhibitor Registration: https://forms.
Vendor Registration: https://forms.
Volunteer Registration: https://forms.gle/
Speaker Registration: https://forms.
VCF’s Annual Technology Swap Meet
Vintage Computers & Electronics, Radios, TVs, Amateur Radio, Other Tech
October 8
8AM to 2PM (General Public)
7AM (Setup for Vendor)
VENDOR REGISTRATION HERE
$5 GENERAL ADMISSION per person!
This time it is an outdoor swap meet. Bring your own table! Table isn’t required, but recommended.
We are open from 12PM to 5PM: https://vcfed.org/vcf-museum
The Vintage Computer Federation Museum is located near the swap meet and is part of InfoAge Science and History museums.
InfoAge and VCF Museums are open every Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday from 12PM to 5PM
InfoAge museums: infoage.org.
VCF West is breaking records for VCFs with more exhibits and more speakers than ever! We won’t have 12 original Apple 1s, as in this photo, but there will be several there for you to see, including the first ever! There will be lots of other great exhibits with the current list here. Speakers are selected and can be found here. Lee Felsenstein will be there to give a talk about his Pennywhistle along with almost a dozen other speakers. Consignment, as always, will be very active with more space than ever with lots of sellers bringing lots of awesome stuff. If you are interested in consignment, look here.
The show will be August 6 & 7, 2022 at The Computer History Museum. Show information can be found here. Tickets can be pre-bought on Eventbrite. The first 100 Two day ticket buyers get a unique custom badge for this event.
Other VIPs who will be at the show include Liza Loop and Dan Kottke.
The Vintage Computer Festival started in on October 25, 1997 at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California. Founded by Sellam Abraham after posting to cctalk (Classic Computing) Discussion List. By 2006 it found it’s home at the Computer History Museum. Stopping in 2007 and rebooted in 2016.
VCF West 2022 is fast approaching!
Held again at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California on August 6 & 7.