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Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 5.0

WHAT: A free and open exposition of classic computing hardware, software and memorabilia. Presented this year in conjunction with the fifth annual Chicagoland Commodore Expo. Two great shows, one great non-price!

WHEN: September 18, 2010 from 8am Saturday to 1am Sunday!

WHERE: Heron Point Building, next to Fairfield Inn and Suites (Marriott)
665 West North Ave
Lombard, Illinois 60148 USA
1-630-629-1500
Mention "Fall Commodore Expo" for special $64/night room rate!

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    Speakers

    Please email if you are interested in speaking or presenting a workshop at VCF-MW.

    [All Day] Vince Briel: An Altair 8800 Workshop - kits available for purchase at the show!

    [10:30] Nate Lawson - ZoomFloppy (xum1541)

    [11:00] Payton Bird - CBM-Command/cc65 xdev

    [13:30] Glenn Holmer - Kipper BASIC for ip65 Networking

    [14:00] Dustin Chambers - Spiragraph/Crimson Twilight

    [14:30] Leif Bloomquist - STEREOinSID

    Exhibits

    Please email if you are interested in exhibiting at VCF-MW and would like to be listed here. If you would like to exhibit something and don't care about being listed here, just show up and we'll find some space for you.

    * * * Early setup will be offered Friday the 17th from 6 - 6:45 PM (Note updated time). The meeting room will be open during that time so that vendors and other exhibitors may, at their discretion, unload and begin setup before the event begins on Saturday. The room and building will be locked for the evening but the convention organizers offer no extra security or insurance against theft of items left in the building overnight--or at any time, for that matter! * * *

    Jason Timmons: A 1980s computing lab/big pile of terminals: My ambitious plan is to create a lab of various "human interface" hardware all attached to a common system. Failing that, I'll show off a lot of interesting terminals plus some HP computers, a DECmate and a few Commodore relics over in the ECCC area.

    Mike Lee/geekmuseum.com: A sampling of the early era of personal computing

    James L. Mazurek: IBM AS/400 9402-4XX: The IBM Application System/400 platform extended the System/38 architecture of an object-based system with an integrated DB2 relational database. Equally important were the virtual machine and single-level storage concepts which established the platform as an advanced business computer.

    X Terminals: An X terminal is a display/input terminal for X Window System client applications. X terminals enjoyed a period of popularity in the early 1990s when they offered a lower total cost of ownership alternative to a full Unix workstation.

    SWRAP Commodore Users Group: Commodore 16: The C16 was a home computer made by Commodore with a 6502-compatible 8501 CPU, released in 1984. It was intended to be an entry-level computer to replace the VIC-20 and it often sold for 99 USD.

    Chicago Classic Computing: Commodore SuperPET: The last in the PET series was known as the SuperPET. This machine was designed at the University of Waterloo for teaching programming. In addition to the basic CBM 8000 hardware, the SuperPET added a second CPU in the form of the Motorola 6809, more RAM memory and included a number of programming languages including BASIC in ROM for the 6502 and APL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal and a 6809 assembler on floppies for the 6809.

    Todd Friedman: The Atari 800 System

    Jack Rubin: Two computer series: HP 8x and Digital DECmate

    Nick Allen: Xerox Alto II XM, Micro 440, NeXTStation 50mhz, Sharp X68000, Sinclair QL

    John Buell: Atari 8-bit home computers and handheld games

    Jeff Narcisi: Expanded Apple //gs demo

    Suburban Chicago ATarians: A Selection of Atari 8-bit and ST computers

    Glenside Computer Club: A Variety of TRS-80 Color Computers and the OSes they can run

    Dan Werner: N8VEM Homebrew computer setup

    Bill Degnen: History of the SIG, the computer hobbyist Special Interest Group, focusing on the Timex Sinclair 1000/ZX-81

    ...and many more to come!

    Vendors

    Yes! There will be vendor areas in both the VCF and ECCC rooms. Feel free to bring your old (or new-retro) gear to sell or trade.

    Free area: while we certainly encourage gifting, donating and otherwise giving away unwanted materials, please do not treat our host hotel as a dumping ground! They do not like this at all and we would like to be invited back next year! Please be prepared to haul away everything you bring.

    Graphics

    A Picasa Gallery of the Officially Tightened-Up VCFMW5.0 Graphics

    A PDF of a flyer you can pass out. (Print it in color on standard 8.5"x11" and cut it into two!)

    Past Events

    ChiClassicComp's VCF Midwest 4.0 gallery

    ChiClassicComp's VCF Midwest 3.0 gallery

    Lots of ECCC galleries (bottom of page)

    Live Cam!

    Go here to watch it or watch it embedded below:

    Free TV : Ustream
    Back to the ChiClassicComp page.

    Last update: 09/06/10 15:05