Not to speak for Sellam or Evan, but the East Coast offshoot of the Vintage Computer Festival is scheduled for Saturday, May 13. Unless something has changed since the original announcement email, it is supposed to be held at the InfoAge Learning Center in Wall, N.J. Take a look at http://www.vintage.org. VCF does indeed have a speaker program. I would say that the location of the event in NJ and the "vintageness" of the speaker might make for a nice presentation...but that's just me. Rich -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of James Fogg Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:59 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: VCF questions Sorry for my ignorance - Who runs the VCF events? Do they have guest speakers? I ask because I attended a presentation by Doug McIlroy, an early computer pioneer with Bell Labs, and Thompson/Ritchie's manager. He's made significant contributions to both Unix and Multics, among other things and he has some great stories to tell about the early days and the development of Unix. His presentation was focused on personal experiences and the people he's known, but I believe he can also get very technical (he is currently an adjunct professor at Dartmouth). After the presentation I spoke for a time with Doug. He was amazed that there exists a community interested in the preservation and restoration of old computers and their software. I explained a few things about the community and some of their projects and he was interested in the idea of the VCF. He said he'd consider an opportunity to speak at the VCF or similar venues in the North East and Mid Atlantic regions. Would there be an interest in having Doug present, does the VCF have space in their program for speakers? Some info on Doug - http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_McIlroy http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/ -James