Category: Vintage Computer Festival

VCF East 2025 on The Verge!

Posted on by Jeffrey Brace Category: east, Events, Vintage Computer Festival

VCF East was a great success with great speakers, exhibitors, classes, consignment and attendees!

Take a look at the coverage of the show on The Verge:

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this show happen. I couldn’t have done it without you!

Also check out other videos from VCF East: https://vcfed.org/vcf-east-2025-videos/

Jeff Brace

VCF East Showrunner

Amiga Roundtables

Posted on by Jeffrey Brace Category: east, Vintage Computer Festival

VCF East 2025 is April 4-6.
Amiga Roundtables at VCF East Moderated by Dave McMurtrie and Dan Wood.

Saturday Roundtable:
RJ Mical
Dale Luck
Ron Nicholson
Glenn Keller
Andy Finkel
Jeff Porter
Randell Jesup
Peter Cherna

Sunday Roundtable:
RJ Mical
Dave Haynie
David John Pleasance
Robert Miranda
Hedley Davis
Jeff Bruette
Don Gilbreath

Tickets here: https://vcfed.org/2025/03/16/non-member-ticket-pricing-vcf-east/
Info here: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

Brian Kernighan coming to VCF East 2025

Posted on by Jeffrey Brace Category: east, Events, Vintage Computer Festival

Do you know this man? He co-wrote the first book on C programming. He was involved with early development of UNIX including authoring UNIX program ditroff, co-authoring: AWK, AMPL. He will be talking about his 2019 book: UNIX: A History and a Memoir.

Tickets to VCF East: https://events.humanitix.com/vintage-computer-festival-east-2025

Schedule: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-east-schedule/

General info: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

VCF West 2025 – Save the Date!

Posted on by Jeffrey Brace Category: Events, Vintage Computer Festival, West

While VCF East is underway, we’d like to formally announce that VCF West is back for 2025 and we’re planning a bigger, better, and more unique show than we ever have before!

 For starters, we’re partnering with the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club and AmiWest to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Amiga! Please see their announcement here: Amiga 30th Silicon Valley organizers There will be other special guests as well.

 All our other favorites will be back including tons of speakers, consignment, exhibits galore and our Friday Night Social.

In addition to the guests mentioned above we will also be offering a limited number of vendor tables for certain specific types of sales at the event.

 Due to the expanded event, exhibit space will be limited so we are going to be selective and some of the larger exhibits may be asked to scale back to make room for others.

There is still room for talks so if you’re interested or know someone who is, please let us know!

We are also now offering sponsorships for the Vintage Computer Federation. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with the shows and to get access to other sponsorship perks!

 The Venue hasn’t changed. We’re still at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on the first weekend in August. This year the dates are Friday August 1st and Saturday August 2nd.

 Lastly, we need YOUR help, and would like to get some information to help make VCF West the best it can be. So if you have the time, please help us out and complete this quick, 5 minute survey, especially the hotel questions, so we can size and plan the event to maximize the retro goodness: https://forms.gle/R1kSCsVqEyZfgQ4Q8

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!