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VCFSE 2.0
- Thursday, 23 January 2014 19:47
- Brad Arnold
The Atlanta Historical Computing Society and the
Computer Museum of America are pleased to announce the second annual Vintage Computer Festival Southeast will take place May 3-4, 2014.
The venue will be the same CompUSA store building in Roswell, GA as last year, but this year’s exhibit space will be greatly enlarged, occupying the store’s entire retail space. About 2/3 of the space will be occupied by a museum display of personal computing artifacts from the Kenbak 1 forward. The remaining 1/3 of the retail space will contain hobbyist vintage computing exhibits. For those who missed last year or who would like to see it again, the Apple Pop-Up Museum from last year’s festival will again be available.
The popular retro-gaming area and introduction to soldering activity will be available again. This year, we are also working to bring in a number of vendors, assemble a stellar slate of speakers, and offer workshop experiences. Of course, the kids’ scavenger hunt will be back this year too.
Please visit the
VCFSE 2.0 section of vintage.org website for full details on the event!
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Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 – 2013
- Thursday, 11 April 2013 08:00
- Brad Arnold
When:
- Saturday, 4/20 from 9:30 am – 7:30 pm
- Sunday, 4/21 from 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Where: Kings Market Shopping Center, Roswell, GA (in the former CompUSA), 1425 Market Blvd. #200, Roswell, GA 30076 (
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Admission: One day adult tickets to the VCFSE are $10, with a two day pass for $15. Children ages 17 and younger are admitted free when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Parking is free.
Contact: David Greelish, Director, Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0
david@classiccomputing.com |
about.me/davidgreelish
The VCFSE is presented by the Computer Museum of America and the Atlanta Historical Computing Society. This is a consolidated show, with the exhibit hall and marketplace running all day – plus retro gaming stations! There will also be
speakers,
exhibits and more.
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Session Summary
Visit our sponsor,
VintageTech for more information.
Vintage Computer Festival Southeast – a public celebration of computer history and nostalgia – will be held on
Saturday & Sunday, April 20 & 21. Our mission remains the same as that very first event:
The main mission of the Vintage Computer Festival is to promote the preservation of “obsolete” computers by offering attendees a chance to experience the technologies, people and stories that embody the remarkable tale of the computer revolution.
We will educate and entertain!
The VCFSE is hosted and produced by the Computer Museum of America and the
Atlanta Historical Computing Society, and sponsored online by
VintageTech.
A large premier exhibit will welcome each attendee as they enter the Festival – The Apple Pop-Up Museum – which tells the story of how a small start-up company, founded in a garage by two young friends, became the leading consumer electronics and personal computer company in the world. The exhibit displays an exclusive collection of game-changing Apple personal computers and consumer electronic products while presenting the history of the company since its founding in 1976 to the present. An Apple I, the first disk ][ and controller card prototypes, original apple ][, original Lisa and even a Xerox Alto are among the rare artifacts to be displayed, and much, much more. Within the 6,000 square feet of display space that this premier exhibit occupies will be the following rooms:
Pre-Apple Room,
Apple I Room,
apple ][ Room,
Turmoil Years Room,
No Founders Left Room,
Jobs’ Come Back Room,
Ive’s Colors Room,
iPod/iPhone/iPad Room,
The Timeline Lounge and
Apple’s Present to the Future Room.
Communications
2012 in review
- Thursday, 03 January 2013 15:27
- Brad Arnold
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 6 years to get that many views.
Click here to see the complete report.
Article about David Greelish
- Saturday, 21 April 2012 16:02
- Brad Arnold
by Julie Bort Apr. 21, 2012, 10:11 AM on Business Insider
David Greelish loves
Apple so much that for the past 20 years he’s been collecting its products — including rare items like the Lisa computer.He’s made some money on them, too. A fully functional
NeXT Cube can be worth up to $1,200 these days, he says. He bought three of them for under $500. (NeXT was Steve Job’s computer company after he was ousted from Apple.)Greelish has created a name for himself among fellow computer collectors between his book,
The Complete Historically Brewed, his blog
ClassicComputing.com and his Classic Computing Show podcast, which features famous guests like ex-Apple CEO John Scully.”It started when I got my first Mac in December of 1989. I was taken with this weird machine. I started to dig into its history, the story of Apple, how the two Steves started the company,” he told
Business Insider. From there he got into collecting other PC artifacts.He doesn’t know exactly how many items he has, but it’s enough to fill his garage.
Greelish’s garage is filled old computer hardware and software. Look for the Commodore PET, Mac G4 and iBook.
Read more ...
David’s article on ZDNET
- Friday, 06 April 2012 15:10
- Brad Arnold
By Jason D. O’Grady | April 6, 2012, 12:01am PDT
Summary: Computer historian David Greelish thinks that Apple should build a corporate museum on its new campus. It would be a great way to celebrate the dent that Apple created in the universe.
I thoroughly enjoyed computer historian David Greelish’s post about why Apple should build a corporate museum at its new campus and I agree with his premise.
Apple needs to build a public museum to celebrate its past and present. It also needs to create a dedicated public space at the new campus. A space where visitors can spend a couple of hours learning more about the company they respect, and about the past products and leadership which brought Apple to the here and now. A wonderful place for visitors to relax and learn about Apple’s exciting past, while standing in the exciting present, and future of the company.
If you’ve ever visited The Mother Ship in Cupertino (on anything other than official business, that is) you may have left disappointed. Short of taking some photos of the sign out front and visiting the outmoded Company Store there really isn’t much for a visitor to see or do at 1 Infinite Loop.
Apple’s planned new corporate campus (photo gallery) is the perfect opportunity for it to celebrate the dent that it created in the universe.
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