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Vintage Computer Festival 8.0
Sellam Ismail writes "The 8th annual Vintage Computer Festival is being held on November 5th & 6th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The highlight of this year's event is a Homebrew Computer Club retrospective featuring a panel of original members of the Club including Steve Wozniak, Lee Felsenstein, and others. VCF 8.0 also brings the return of the Nerd Trivia Challenge, a game show style trivia contest for hardcore computer history buffs, and for the first time is hosting the award presentation ceremony for the International Obfuscated C Code Competition."
Other computing luminaries were noticably absent from the gala affair including Drs. J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, designers of the ENIAC machine. The creator of the Antikythera Mechanism was also not in attendence. Conference organizers said that the originator of the ancient greek computer was unknown, so it was understandable that an invitation was not sent. Similar reasons were given for not inviting the designer of the abacus.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I have a 1.6 Ghz WXP box. I would love to have a 19 second boot time...
So it's pretty much a festival for obsolete computers? I guess I can bring my AMD 2400+-pc, too, then.
I heard there was a small seattle based software company that was taking it and making products out of it... wonder what became of them?
Pity I can't send my school's 'Sysadmin' there for retraining. He might actually pick up a few new tips too.....
My UID is prime. Is yours?
Yeah. My Dad bought it from Radio Shack. Over $1000. I didn't even know the brand name for years later, just "Model I."
Put identity in the browser.
Will they take a donation of some of the boxes of stuff that I have in the basement?
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.