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Last summer we brought back Vintage Computer Festival West from the bit bucket. Now it’s almost time to do it again! The show is August 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Click here to learn all about exhibit registration and to reserve your spot.

Friends-of-the-Federation are hosting Vintage Computer Festival events in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) and Munich, Germany this weekend. VCF Southeast has Macintosh legend Andy Hertzfeld, TRS-80 mover-and-shaker Don French, and MOS 6502 pioneer Chuck Peddle (video of his 2007 talk). Of course, VCF Europa has much better beer. 🙂

Vintage Computer Festival Southeast is produced by our friends at the Atlanta Historical Computing Society. The show is April 29-30 in Roswell, Georgia. This year’s keynote speakers are Andy Hertzfeld of Apple Macintosh fame and Don French of TRS-80 renown. You’ll find two dozen exhibitors, vendors, a consignment sale, the Apple pop-up museum, and much more. This show gets bigger and better every year, so check it out if you’re anywhere in the southeast! New this year: the Vintage Computer Federation booth featuring eight-bit Lego robotics.

Vintage Computer Festival East XII was held last weekend in New Jersey. Five hundred people attended over three days! Click here for the picture thread. We are processing many hours of video and will post it as soon as possible.

Vintage Computer Festival East XII is imminent! In just 10 days from now there will be a three-day weekend featuring a dozen technical talks, three keynotes, two sold-out exhibit halls, a consignment / vendors room, learn-to-solder classes, and of course the year-round VCF museum will be open (Saturday/Sunday; not Friday). Online ticketing stays open until this coming Sunday; after that you’ll have to buy tickets at the door.

There three special team exhibits at VCF East this year, each as large as five standard exhibits, plus there are 26 standard exhibits — which means we’ve got 41 exhibits! That is a VCF East record and, as far as we can tell, a record for ANY edition of the Vintage Computer Festival. Check out the list and remember to save time at the show by getting tickets online.

VCF East is only six weeks away, but we’re already planning VCF West! The show will be August 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Visit the show web site.

Last year’s VCF West was our resurrection of the original VCF which ran from 1997-2007. This year, Vintage Computer Festival West XII will be even bigger! We have two additional rooms to use at the museum for speakers, which means we can fit more exhibits, more consignment tables, more lunch tables, and who knows what else we may do!

Exhibitor registration for VCF West is already open. Will you be the first to sign up? Can you out-do last year’s incredible lineup?

If you’re interested in speaking at the show or being a sponsor, then please contact us. VCF West is produced by Vintage Computer Federation, a national user group devoted to enabling hobbyists and spreading awareness of computer history. The Federation is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

If you have questions or comments, then please feel free to VCF West producer Erik Klein (erik@vcfed.org).

The nice people at EEWeb honored us with their “Engineering Site of the Day” award. Thank you, EEWeb!

Several people inquired about archive pages for past Vintage Computer Festival events. Much of the information was lost during a rebuild of the former Festival owner’s web site, however, much of the same information was also available at Archive.org. Tonight we posted about 50% of the basic data from past Festivals — when, where, who. (It would be a HUGE amount of work to post the exact web sites from past Festivals, and there’s not much point to saving the logistical information about what time of day people will speak, etc., so what we are posting seems like a good balance.) We hope to get the remaining 50% onto the page soon.

We joined Amazon Smile. If you shop via this link, then they’ll donate .5% of your purchase price to Vintage Computer Federation. It’s easy for  you and helpful for us! You can also make a direct contribution to our cause.