February AHCS Meeting
- Published on Saturday, 01 February 2014 12:00
- Written by Alan Hightower
VCFSE 2.0
- Published on Thursday, 23 January 2014 19:47
- Written by 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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January AHCS Meeting
- Published on Thursday, 02 January 2014 12:00
- Written by Alan Hightower
Annual Holiday Meeting
- Published on Saturday, 14 December 2013 19:25
- Written by Alan Hightower
Meeting Coming Up!
- Published on Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:21
- Written by Brad Arnold
Video Game Day Meeting July 20th
- Published on Saturday, 13 July 2013 14:51
- Written by Brad Arnold
Come and play!
Meetings are held at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church, in Lawrenceville
VCFSE 1.0
- Published on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 08:55
- Written by Brad Arnold
Were you there? Did you miss the fun? Check out what you missed!
Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 – 2013
- Published on Thursday, 11 April 2013 08:00
- Written by Brad Arnold
- Saturday, 4/20 from 9:30 am – 7:30 pm
- Sunday, 4/21 from 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Session Summary
Saturday, April 20th, 2013 |
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| Session | Time | |
| Saturday’s welcome from the creator of the Apple Pop-Up Museum. | 10:00 AM | |
| Saturday’s Introduction to Soldering With Small Kits | 10:30 AM | |
| BYTE magazine’s first editor reflects back. | 12:30 PM | |
| Carl Helmers is joined by Robert Tinney for some memories. | 1:15 PM | |
| Creating the Shrine Of Apple web site. | 2:30 PM | |
| Steve Jobs and Walt Disney were more alike than you think. | 3:30 PM | |
| A talk on the Apple 1 & SCELBI | 4:30 PM | |
Sunday, April 21st, 2013 |
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| Session | Time | |
| Sunday’s welcome from the creator of the Apple Pop-Up Museum. | 10:00 AM | |
| Sunday’s Introduction to Soldering With Small Kits | 10:30 AM | |
| The original art of the covers of BYTEmagazine. | 1:00 PM | |
| A talk by the author of the new book Terrible Nerd. | 2:30 PM | |
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.
The Apple Pop-Up Museum
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
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KansasFest 2020 and COVID-19: The Committee does *not* have any plans to cancel this year’s event, but we are watching this constantly changing situation. Read more at https://www.kansasfest.org/. https://www.kansasfest.org/2020/03/kansasfest-2020-and-covid-19/
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Brand new show, brand new venue and a brand new partner! We are now a part of the Southern Fried Gaming Expo, @SFGamingExpo. They are already a great show, and we can only make it better! July 10-12. Make your plans now for the Atlanta area. http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/
VCF East 2020 will be POSTPONED (not cancelled) until October 10th through 12th, 2020. This is Saturday through Monday, Columbus Day.
http://vcfed.org/wp/2020/03/12/vcf-east-2020-update-postponed-till-october/
In Oct 1984 UNIX/WORLD magazine reviewed Sun-2 workstation with M68010 CPU @ 10 MHz, 4 Mb RAM, running SunOS based on 4.2BSD. The cost of a usable configuration was in excess of $20,000 (>$60,000 in today's money). The full review is reproduced here:
http://web.cuzuco.com/~cuzuco/sun2/
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