Conventions

We opened exhibitor registration for VCF East and VCF West. This year we’re doing it through Google Forms. Click here to sign up for a VCF East exhibit or click here to sign up for a VCF West exhibit. Exhibit tables for both events will sell out, so don’t procrastinate! If

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Ken Thompson, who invented the UNIX operating system with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the 1960s and 1970s, will be a star at Vintage Computer Festival East this year! It’s the 50th anniversary of when their work began. Thompson also the programming language B, which preceded Ritchie’s world-changing language C.

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If you were thinking of joining us for VCF Pacific Northwest 2019 in Seattle then now is the time to let me know!

The event is March 23-24th (Saturday and Sunday) with setup the day before. We still have room for some more exhibits if you are interested in joining

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You keep asking, and now we have answers! For 2019 the Vintage Computer Festival series schedule is:

VCF Pacific-Northwest — March 23-24, Seattle VCF East — May 3-5, Jersey shore VCF West — August 3-4, Silicon Valley

All three events are awesome! We promise you will have a great time

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Happy holidays from Vintage Computer Federation!

If you’re looking for an end-of-year charity contribution, Vintage Computer Federation is an excellent choice. We’re a 501(c)(3) devoted to preserving computer history, enabling hobbyists, and informing the public. Please click here for more information.

Thank you,
-Evan Koblentz, executive director, VCF

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Just some quick updates on VCF PNW 2019

So far we have 11 registered exhibitors plus a few more who have expressed interest.  We are looking for 20 to 25 exhibits and probably have room for up to 30 so don’t be shy.  (We would like to have exhibitor registration …

(Mike re-posting for Oscar)

Just a heads-up: there will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year!

Like the last two years, it’ll be in Zurich’s Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. November 24 & 25…

Here’s an impression of last year’s event.

There’s a

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Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community for his 1970s-1980s work at Godbout Electronics and CompuPro, perished November 8 due to the Camp wildfire in Concow, California. He was 79.

There is a family-led GoFundMe campaign to support their needs in this difficult time.

Godbout was an important advocate for the

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VCF board member Bill Degnan has resigned from his post but will remain an active member of the Vintage Computer Forum, an exhibitor at Vintage Computer Festival East, and a participant in the VCF Mid-Atlantic chapter.

We thank Bill for his many years of service to VCF and also to

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passed away Monday. He will be missed by all in the vintage computing community.

Allen and childhood friend Bill Gates started using computers in high school.

“Microsoft would never have happened without Paul,” Gates wrote today. “In December 1974, he and I were both living in

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