28 Aug
2008
28 Aug
'08
8:29 p.m.
Now that the list is running again, I want to invite everyone to VCF East
5.0, Sept. 13-14, at the InfoAge Science Center, in Wall, New Jersey.
As usual we'll have awesome exhibitors. This year we also have two special
events: Vince Briel's replica creation workshop, where you can build a
replica of the Apple 1 or the KIM under Vince's guidance, and we'll have a
ceremony and tours for the "beta" opening of our computer museum. (We've
been in "alpha" for the past two years.)
Sign up for Vince's workshop at
http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select
<http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=104>
&id=104.
We'll also have some cool guest speakers. Most notably, on Sunday, we have
Bill Mauchly. Bill is the son of ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly. We also
have a lesser-known engineer named Watts Humphrey, who wrote the proposal
for the military's "MOBIDIC" computer in the 1950s; it was an early example
of client-server architecture. And we've got Claude Kagan, who spent 30
years at Western Electric and Bell Labs and who worked to get our museum a
first-generation PDP-8.
Tickets for one day are $10, both days combined are $15, and anyone younger
than 18 is free. Parking's free too.
- Evan
28 Aug
28 Aug
8:33 p.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
We'll also have some cool guest speakers. Most
notably, on Sunday, we have
Bill Mauchly. Bill is the son of ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly. We also
have a lesser-known engineer named Watts Humphrey, who wrote the proposal
for the military's "MOBIDIC" computer in the 1950s; it was an early
example
of client-server architecture. And we've got Claude Kagan, who spent 30
years at Western Electric and Bell Labs and who worked to get our museum a
first-generation PDP-8.
Tickets for one day are $10, both days combined are $15, and anyone younger
than 18 is free. Parking's free too.
- Evan
Any chance that a DVD could be made of the speakers talk for all
the people that can't make it? $25 sounds like a fair price to me.
8:45 p.m.
>> Any chance that a DVD could be made of the
speakers talk for all the
people that can't make it? $25 sounds like a fair
price to me.
I asked our resident museum videographer to be there and do some recording.
He said he'll try, but wasn't able to promise -- and we're not able (or
really looking) to pay anyone. Usually a few attendees record on their own
and we're fine with that, as long as it's not for commercial purposes. On
the other hand, getting to hear the lectures and participate in Q&A is one
of the great reasons to be there in person!! :)
31 Aug
31 Aug
5:03 p.m.
An update: at the end of Claude Kagan's talk on Saturday, he will display
(for the first time ever) J. Presper Eckert's 1942 engineering notebook.
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Subject: VCF East 5.0 just two weeks away!
Now that the list is running again, I want to invite everyone to VCF East
5.0, Sept. 13-14, at the InfoAge Science Center, in Wall, New Jersey.
As usual we'll have awesome exhibitors. This year we also have two special
events: Vince Briel's replica creation workshop, where you can build a
replica of the Apple 1 or the KIM under Vince's guidance, and we'll have a
ceremony and tours for the "beta" opening of our computer museum. (We've
been in "alpha" for the past two years.)
Sign up for Vince's workshop at
http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select
<http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=104>
&id=104.
We'll also have some cool guest speakers. Most notably, on Sunday, we have
Bill Mauchly. Bill is the son of ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly. We also
have a lesser-known engineer named Watts Humphrey, who wrote the proposal
for the military's "MOBIDIC" computer in the 1950s; it was an early example
of client-server architecture. And we've got Claude Kagan, who spent 30
years at Western Electric and Bell Labs and who worked to get our museum a
first-generation PDP-8.
Tickets for one day are $10, both days combined are $15, and anyone younger
than 18 is free. Parking's free too.
- Evan
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