The Vintage Computer Festival West is an annual gathering to celebrate the awesome hardware that ushered in the Information Age. Normally held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, this year VCF West is happening virtually and it all starts on Saturday!
The lineup of talks looks great, covering everything from operating an Apollo DSKY display panel and how to recover magnetic tape to ENIAC technical manual bugs and the genesis of the 6502. That last one is presented by Bill Mensch who was on the team that created the 6502 in the first place. He’ll be joined by Hackaday’s own Bil Herd (himself a celebrated Commodore and MOS alum) and Eric Schlaepfer (you may remember his Monster 6502 project). You may not be able to wander the exhibits and play with the vintage hardware this year, but you can hear from a lot of people who have spent years learning the hacks and quirks that made these systems tick.
Hacakaday is proud to once again sponsor VCF West. You don’t need a ticket, the conference will live stream on their YouTube channel for all who are interested. We’ve embedded the live stream below, as well as the awesome poster at that Joe Kim produced for display at the festival.
I’ll be watching. Did Joe Kim have anything to do with the naming of the 6502 KIM-1 computer?
Steve Silverman
Will these talks be available separately on YouTube after the event? I live in Australia and the time zone is a problem, plus I amhelping my daughter move house tomorrow. She would not be pleased with a late change of plan.😄👍
I thought it was gonna be like.. “Vintage Computer Festival is online this year 800-VINTAGE 300bps/8/N/1 “
For a small donation to one of their socially responsible charities, you can be upgraded to 1200bps/8/N/1
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Please have a CompuServe or Delphi account and an acoustic coupler ready to dial in at 110 baud. 😁
I only got QuantumLink and 300 bps modem. Will that do?
Sorry, I left Compuserve for GEnie.