[Acm] Event: Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0

[Evan Koblentz]

Hello ACM members!
 
The Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 5.0 will be held September 13-14,
2008 at the InfoAge Science Center located in Wall, New Jersey.  VCF is not
like any other computer show!!  It is a * celebration * of computer history
from the 1940s to 1980s.  The event includes hands-on exhibits and
demonstrations of vintage computers, from punch-card machines to
minicomputers to Altairs to .... well, anything EXCEPT those boring modern
beige boxes.  There are also computer history lectures (on Sunday one of the
speakers will be Bill Mauchly, son of ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly) and
this year there's a workshop about how to build a working replica of
legendary Apple 1 (sign up in advance for that).  Tickets to the event are
only $10 per day or $15 for both days; parking is free.  Please see our
event flyer at  <http://www.midatlanticretro.org/vcfe5flyer.pdf>
http://www.midatlanticretro.org/vcfe5flyer.pdf.  Above all, please share the
news of this event with your computer science students!!  Nothing can make
undergrad comp-sci students code better or create better architectures or
UIs than gaining a solid understanding of the past.  Imagine an antique car
show where all the owners let you test drive their cars!  That is what the
VCF is like .... so please help spread the news of this not-for-profit
event.  The event's primary sponsor is a local user group called MARCH --
"Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists".
 
If you have questions or prefer not to recieve any further announcements,
then please contact Evan Koblentz at  <mailto:evank at midatlanticretro.org>
evank at midatlanticretro.org.
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