VCF 6.0 is this weekend!

Vintage Computer Festival Saturday, October 11 through Sunday, October 12 10am until 6pm Daily Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California http://www.vintage.org/2003/main/ This is the last VCF 6.0 update. Be sure to come out to the Vintage Computer Festival this weekend or you will miss the best VCF ever! We've had some last minute schedule changes and additions to the speaker schedule. The schedule is as follows: Saturday, October 11 Time Speaker Topic -------- ------------------- -------------------------------------- 10:00 AM Evan Koblentz History of the PDA 11:00 AM Zbigniew Stachniak Microcomputing in Canada 1973-1983 11:30 AM Christine Finn Collecting the Collectors 12:00 PM Len Shustek Keynote Speech 12:30 PM Lynne & Bill Jolitz The Symmetric 375 and Berkeley Unix 1:00 PM Xerox Alto Panel Xerox Alto 30th Birthday Bash! Sunday, October 12 Time Speaker Topic -------- ------------------- -------------------------------------- 10:00 AM Joey Tuttle A Personal History of the IBM 5100 11:00 AM Forth Panel Using Forth with Vintage Computers 11:30 AM Todd Fischer IMSAI History & the New IMSAI Series 2 12:00 PM Jef Raskin The Humane Interface 12:30 PM Sellam Ismail VCF Shenanigans 1:00 PM Bruce Damer Joys and Trials of Computer Collecting The Xerox Alto panel has expanded, with Charles Simonyi, Peter Deutsch, and Dave Robson being added to the panel. This is going to be an incredible reunion of Xerox PARC luminaries, not to mention the amazing showing of numerous Xerox Alto and D-machines that are on display in the "Groove Lounge". Come help celebrate the 30th birthday of the Xerox Alto with cake and maybe even a deliciously nerdy birthday cheer. Also, be sure to make it to the Computer History Museum book sale on Saturday at 2:00pm. Museum members will be allowed advanced admission to the booksale before the rest of the public. More information about the book sale can be found here: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/vcf6/ Please check out the carpool message board in the VCF 6.0 BBS to see if there are folks in need of a ride that you may be able to accomodate. http://www.vintage.org/2003/main/bbs.php?directive=index:VCF60:CARPOOL:0 Here are directions to the Computer History Museum: http://www.vintage.org/2003/main/directions.php I'll see you at VCF 6.0! Best regards, Sellam Ismail Producer Vintage Computer Festival -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]