*** THIS WEEKEND: VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 5.0 ***

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                    Vintage Computer Festival 5.0
               Saturday, October 26 - Sunday, October 27
                 Moffett Conference & Training Center
                       Moffett Federal Airfield
                      Mountain View, California
                  http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/


The Vintage Computer Festival is an international event that
celebrates the history of computing.

The mission of the Vintage Computer Festival is to promote the
preservation of "obsolete" computers by offering people a chance to
experience the technologies, people and stories that embody thexi
 remarkable tale of the computer revolution.

Through our event and the Vintage Technology Cooperative Resource
Center--our publicly accessible archive of computer hardware, software
and literature--we promote interest in researching and documenting the
history of the computer.  Above all, we promote the fun of playing
with old computers.

The Vintage Computer Festival is back with VCF 5.0 this weekend!
Enjoy talks on computer history and see dozens of old computers that
you've probably never seen before or never knew existed!  Take the
Nerd Trivia Challenge.  Show your stuff at the Retro-Code competition.
Take a tour of the Computer History Museum, or an excursion to the
DigiBarn.

Doors open at 9:30am.  Talks begin at 10:00am and end at 2:00pm each
day.  The Exhibit and Marketplace opens at 2:00pm and ends at 6:00pm
each day.

Admission is $10 per person per day for full access to Speakers, the
Exhibition and the Marketplace, or $4 per person per day for
Exhibition and Marketplace access only.  Kids 17 and under are
admitted free of charge, and parking is free.


SPEAKERS

Year after year, the VCF produces an interesting and ecclectic line-
up of talks geared towards the computer history buff and the old
computer collector.  The speaker schedule including abstracts and
speaker biographies can be found here:

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/speakers.php


EXHIBIT

As always, the exhibit area will be full of dozens of old computers
ranging from the late 1960s to the mid 1990s.  See prototypes, first
machines (i.e. serial #1), early GUIs, old iron, etc.


MARKETPLACE

The VCF Marketplace is the best place to buy, sell or trade those
tired old computers yearning to be turned on again.  It's the easiest
way to unload that garage full of old computers.  Sell them on
consignment and let us do the work for you!  Information on selling
at the VCF Marketplace can be found here:

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/vendor.php


TOURS & EXCURSIONS

We've got lots of tours lined up to the Computer History Museum,
the DigiBarn, and the California Air & Space Center.  Tour information
including times can be found here:

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/tours.php


CONTESTS

Think you know your computer history?  Then take the Nerd Trivia
Challenge!

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/ntc.php

Think you can you write a full-blown video game in under 2 hours?
Strut your stuff at the Retro-Code Programming Challenge!

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/retrocode.php


DIRECTIONS

VCF 5.0 is being held at the Moffett Training & Conference Center
(MTCC) at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California.

Directions to Moffett Field and to the MTCC can be found here:

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/directions.php

Be sure to bring along a valid picture ID (i.e. state driver's
license or ID or a passport) to show to the security guards at the
main gate.


LODGING

For out of town guests, hotel information can be found here:

   http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/lodging.php


SPONSORS

VCF 5.0 is sponsored by the Computer History Museum and the Alameda
County Computer Resource Center.

   Computer History Museum
   http://www.computerhistory.org

   Alameda County Computer Resource Center
   http://www.accrc.org


                    Vintage Computer Festival 5.0
               Saturday, October 26 - Sunday, October 27
                 Moffett Conference & Training Center
                       Moffett Federal Airfield
                      Mountain View, California
                  http://www.vintage.org/2002/main/