VCF 9 (Jay West) & (Jules Richardson)

airport) Wall is 90 minutes by car from Manhattan, 60 minutes from Newark Airport (at least if you drive like I do ... treat your sports car like it's stolen!), and 90 minutes to Philadelphia. There are several non-stop flights from Heathrow to both Newark and Philadelphia, but anyone flying to us should go through Newark. Our venue itself is historic. It was built in 1912 as the U.S. R&D headquarters for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., and then because a U.S. military R&D base in World War I. The military left after that but returned during World War II. They left for good in 1998, after which local historians started campaigning to have the base turned into a science museum. Others fought to have the 30-something acres of waterfront property turned into housing, malls, offices, etc., but lucky for us the historians won. Today the site is protected on the National Register of Historic Places. Volunteers started restoring the buildings, very slowly, about five years ago. Our local vintage computer user group got involved in spring 2005 by committing to build a computer museum, and one year later (this past May) we hosted VCF East 3.0 there. (The previous two VCF East shows were in the Boston area, organized remotely by Sellam.) The facility also hosts two different antique radio clubs, a military technology group, a group which explores historic shipwrecks, a model trains group, an exhibition of a NASA Apollo computer, an exhibit of mankind's first signal bounced off the moon (happened here!), and much more. Lots more information about our facility's history is posted at http://infoage.org/history.html and http://infoage.org/vtour.html. You don't have to wait until VCF to visit --- I'd be glad to lead a personal tour of our museum for anyone on classiccmp --- just ping me off-list. - Evan