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VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL - VCF 2.0
- Subject: VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL - VCF 2.0
- From: Sam Ismail <dastar@verio.com>
- Date: 1998/08/04
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Verio Northern California's Usenet News Service
- Sender: Sam Ismail <dastar@shell1.ncal.verio.com>
- User-agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u))
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| H | | The Premier Event for Computer Enthusiasts is Back! | \ \__ |
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| H o | V I N T A G E C O M P U T E R F E S T I V A L |__ \ o |
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| H \ - VCF 2.0 - | \ `-o |
| H | |\ `----o |
| H | September 26-27, Santa Clara Convention Center | `-------o |
| H / Santa Clara, California | |
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| H | Speakers, Exhibit and Flea Market | |
| H | | |
| H | O http://www.siconic.com/vcf | |
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| H / | | \ \ \ |_____________________ | |
| H / / | `-o \ \ || |
| H o___________/ / \______ \ \ || |
| H o \_____|____|___________________ || |
| H ____________________________ | | || |
| H | | | The S P E A K E R S | || |
| `=| Why would YOU come to the | __| |___|| |
| _| Vintage Computer Festival? | | | | |
| | |____________________________| | KEYNOTE SPEAKER | | |
| |__________________________________| | | |
| ________________________ ___|-Gordon Bell |__ | |
| | || || || | / | | | |
| .-| To Learn the History |--' | Father of the Mini-computer! | | |
| | |__||_||_||______________| | Mr. Bell will speak about | | |
| o ________________________ ___| his pioneering work on the |____| |
| | || || || | / | DEC PDP-1, PDP-8 and PDP-11 | |
| o-| For the Nostalgia |--' | | |
| |__||_||_||______________| | FEATURED SPEAKER | |
| o ________________________ \______| |___o |
| | | || || || | |-Ray Holt | |
| `-| To Hear the Speakers |-._____| | o |
| |__||_||_||______________| | Who really invented the | / |
| ________________________ ____| first microprocessor? Guess |___/ |
| | || || || |__/ | again. This designer of the | |
| .-|To Buy Vintage Computers|-------| JOLT and Synertek SYM-1 sin- |-----o |
| | |__||_||_||______________| | gle-board computers will re- | |
| o ________________________ ______| veal why computer history |_____ |
| | || || || |/ | may need to be re-written. | | |
| o-|For the Games & Contests|--. | | | |
| |__||_||_||______________| \___|-David Rutland | | |
| ________________________ __| |_____| |
| | || || || | | On the National Bureau of | | |
| o-|To Meet Other Collectors|-o | Standards Western Automatic | | |
| |__||_||_||______________|___ | Computer (SWAC). Mr. Rutland | | |
| ________________________ \___| worked under Harry Huskey to |__o | |
| | || || || | | help build this first com- | | |
| o-| To Meet the Pioneers |---. | puter west of the rockies. | | |
| |__||_||_||______________| \ | ____ O | | |
| ________________________ \ |____________/ \____________| | |
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| .-| For the Prizes! |----. \________________________________o | |
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| o o________ \ | |
| ,=============o \ ______________________________ | | |
| // | o__ \ | | | | |
| H ___________|________ \ \ |-Tom Geller | | | |
| H | | \ \__| |___| | |
| H \ Philosophy of the / \ | Whether you're into game | | |
| H | Vintage Computer |___ \ | consoles, handheld devices, | | |
| H | Festival... | \ \ | arcade machines or personal | | |
| H / \ \ \__| computers, there's a Mac- |_____| |
| H | The main mission | \ | based emulator for you. | |
| H | of the Vintage | \ | | |
| H | Computer Festival | \ |-Jim Willing | |
| H | is to promote the | \__| |____o |
| H | preservation of | | Jim will demonstrate ways in | |
| H | "obsolete" compu- |___ | which you can put computers, | |
| H | ters by allowing | \ | new and old, back to work in | |
| H | attendees to ex- | \_____| the classroom. Also, how to |___ |
| H | perience the tech- | | care for your old computers. | \ |
| H | nologies, people | | | \ |
| H | and stories that | |-Bruce Faust | | |
| H | embody the remark- | ______| |__o | |
| H | able tale of the | / | Bruce will tell you every- | | |
| H | computer revolu- | o' | thing you want to know about | | |
| H | tion. | | the Toshiba T1100, the first | o | |
| H |____________________| ___| "laptop" computer. |__/ | |
| H | / | | | |
| H o o______/ |-Manny Lemas | | |
| H _________________________ | | o | |
| H o__| VCF2 S P O N S O R S |___| Manny will discuss his work |__/ | |
| H | www.haggle.com | | in the early days of the | | |
| H____| Dr. Dobb's Journal | | microcomputer revolution, | | |
| H |_________________________| | including publication of the | | |
| H __| first microcomputer journal |_____| |
| H / | and his involvement with the | | |
| H ________ ________ / | Synertek SYM-1. | | |
| H |o \__/ | / | | | |
| H_____| |_/ __|-Philip Belben |___o | |
| H | Test your computer | o' | | | |
| H | history knowledge! | | Philip will be presenting a | o |
| H __| |__o | workshop on the pre-history | |
| H | Nerd Trivia | __| of the graphics workstation. |_____ |
| H | Challenge | o | | ____ O | H |
| H o___| |_/ | |__________/ \______________| H |
| H | Only at VCF 2.0! | / H |
| H | | / H |
| H _| - Also - |__/ ___________________o H |
| H / | | / H |
| H o' | A screening of | / __ ___ __________________ H |
| H __| vintage computer |____/ | |__| | | H |
| H / | sales and training | | |Someone lucky will|==-----H |
| H | | films from the | | | go home with an | H |
| H | __| 50s, 60s and 70s |__ | _ | | H |
| H | | by San Francisco | /| (_) | IMSAI 8080 |==--o H |
| H | | stock footage | / | | | H |
| H | o_| film archive |____/ | | See the VCF web | H |
| H o | Oddball Film+Video | | __ | site for details |==--o H |
| H |____________________| |__| |___|__________________| H |
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| V2.0 rev 2 http://www.siconic.com/vcf (C) SICONIC 1998 |
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