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Event: Warpstock OS/2 Museum to be exhibited at the Vintage Computer Festival East 3.0 -- Saturday, May 13
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Dodel)
Thu Apr 20 12:55:45 2006
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 18 Apr 2006 14:57:07 GMT
From: "Mark Dodel" <madodelNOSPAM@ptd.net>
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Evan Koblentz <evanDESPAM@DESPAMsnarc.net>
The Warpstock OS/2 Museum to be exhibited at the Vintage Computer
Festival East 3.0 -- Saturday, May 13
*** Vintage Computer Festival East 3.0 -- Saturday, May 13 -- Wall
Township, N.J. ***
April 17, 2005 -- Wall Township, N.J. -- The Vintage Computer Festival
is coming! For those who fondly remember the charisma of computers
from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, this is a must-attend event!!
"VCF" as it's known in computer circles is an annual public convention
devoted to the enjoyment and restoration of antique computers. The
show began in Silicon Valley in 1997 and the current edition is VCF
East 3.0. At this year's VCF you will find 17 exhibits of
functioning antique computers, six high-profile guest speakers,
exciting prizes, and kinship with hundreds of fellow early adopters.
Spend a few hours at this event and you'll be in nerd heaven! There
will be dozens of antique computers on display from the glory days of
blinkenlights, tape drives, greenbar paper, punched cards, homebrew
kits, text-adventure games, and much, much more -- and no Windows in
sight. Like we said, it's nerd heaven! Use the day to learn, play,
or just reminisce with us.
So mark Saturday, May 13 on your calendar. VCF East 3.0 will be held
at the (new!) Information Age Science and History Education Center,
a.k.a. "InfoAge," which was formerly the Camp Evans U.S. Army base and
was originally built for the Marconi corporation in the early 1900s.
The show's hours are 9:30AM - 6:30PM. Tickets are $10 per person ($7
for children 13 and younger) and parking is free. The address is 2201
Marconi Rd., Wall (Belmar), N.J. and driving directions are posted at
http://www.vintage.org/2006/east/directions.php
VCF East 3.0's sponsor is the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists
Inc., which is a non-profit user group devoted to antique computing.
MARCH is also building a computer museum at the InfoAge facility,
where there are also museums dedicated to antique radio, model trains,
historic shipwrecks, antique military vehicles, and much more. The
museums opened this month in a preview facility and the full museums
will debut gradually throughout 2006-2007.
*** The exhibits ***
There are 17 registered exhibits for VCF East 3.0. The exhibitors
are:
-- Mark Dodel, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Mark will bring the
Warpstock collection of IBM OS/2 computers including some very rare
models. This includes an IBM Power Series system with OS/2 Power PC
edition as well as a PS/2 Model 50z running OS/2 1.0.
-- Vince Briel, North Ridgeville, Ohio. Vince will show his newest
replica
kit, called the AltairPC, based on the famous MITS Altair computers of
the
mid-1970s. This kit follows his hugely successful Apple 1 replica.
-- Rich Cini, Syosset, New York. Rich will show his own Altair
replica,
called the Altair32, which blends an emulator project and front panel
kit.
-- Bill Degnan, Landenberg, Pennsylvani. Bill will highlight his
exclusive
collection of Commodore B Series computer which were never produced.
-- David Gesswein, Bethesda, Maryland. David will bring his
impressive
demonstration of a DEC PDP-8 minicomputer system.
-- Jeffrey Katz, West Hartford, Connecticut. Jeff will also bring a
DEC
PDP-8 minicomputer system.
-- Evan Koblentz, Springfield, New Jersey. Evan will exhibit a
variety of
portable computers from the 1970s and 1980s. The focus will be on the
earliest laptops, luggables, and handhelds.
-- Kelly Leavitt, Wantage, New Jersey. Kelly will show his
comprehensive
timeline of Tandy TRS-80 computers.
-- Mike Loewen, State College, Pennsylvania. Mike will demonstrate
how
vintage computers can communicate with moden computers, by showing an
Apple
IIGS and Apple IIe and also a TRS-80 connected to a Linux server.
-- Andy Meyer, Clark, New Jersey. Andy will show Atari 8-bit and
16-bit
computers from the 1980s.
-- Andrew Mollow, Syracuse, New York. Andy will exhibit a Canon Cat,
which
is the computer developed by Apple Macintosh innovator Jef Raskin.
-- Frank O'Brien, West Windsor, New Jersey. Frank will demonstrate
the very
unique NASA Apollo Guidance Computer from the 1960s.
-- Jim O'Brien, Quaktertown, Pennsylvania. Jim will show a timeline
of
nearly every Apple Computer model.
-- Michael Pearson, West Chester, Pennsylvania. Michael will
demonstrate
early educational computers from 1960s and 1970s.
-- Mike Ross, Mamaroneck, New York. Mike will demonstrate his
collection of
IBM minicomputers from the 1970s, including the System/32, /34, /36,
and
/38, and others.
-- Jack Rubin, Wilmette, Illinois. Jack will show off his KIM-1
single-board computers and various accessories.
-- Carlson Stevens, Silver Spring, Maryland. Carlson will demonstrate
Japanese computer games and videogame consoles from the 1980s.
*** The guest speakers ***
There are six guest speakers for VCF East 3.0. They are:
-- Steve Lukasik, 10:30 AM, "ARPA in the 1970s"
-- Ray Borrill, 12:00 PM, "50 years in computers"
-- Sol Libes, 1:45 PM, "The Origins of Personal Computers"
-- David Ahl, 3:30 PM, "The total idiocy of starting a magazine..."
-- Ray Holt, 5:00 PM, "A microprocesser before Intel"
-- Sellam Ismail, 6:00 PM, "Vintage computer replicas and research"
*** What else should you know? ***
-- Visit http://www.vintage.org for more information about the Vintage
Computer Festival.
-- Visit http://www.midatlanticretro.org for more information about
the
MARCH organization.
-- Visit http://www.infoage.org for more information about the
Informaton
Age Science and History Education Center.
The primary spokesperson for VCF East 3.0 is MARCH president Evan
Koblentz.
Evan can be reached at evandDESPAM@DESPAMsnarc.net or by telephone at
646-546-9999 in the
afternoons or evenings, EST. Please do not call in the morning. :)
--
Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th,
http://www.warpstock.org
Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net
