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VCF WEST 2026 CALL FOR EXHIBITS!

VCF West 2026 has put out the call for exhibitors for this years event. According to the message received from them: We have a new exhibit registration system: https://em.vcfed.org/events/vcf-west-2026/exhibitor-signup. DATES: Aug 1st and 2nd at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. For further information about VCF and the 2026 VCF west event, check out the event page at::https://vcfed.org/vcf-west

VCFEast Tickets Now Available

Get VCF East 2025 Tickets now! Early bird prices end 4/3! Prices are higher at the door! https://events.humanitix.com/vintage-computer-festival-east-2025The show is April 4-6 in Wall, NJ

Vintage Computer Festival SoCal 2025

The Vintage Computer Festival SoCal 2025 is scheduled for February 15 to 16, 2025 from 9AM to 6pm each day of the event. This years event is scheduled to be held at the Hotel Fera Event Center in Orange, CA. Tickets are now available for attendees of the event. VCF SoCal is also still seeking Vendors, Speakers and Sponsors for the event. More information concerning these items are available at the VCF SoCal event page at:https://www.vcfsocal.com

VCF East Exhibitor Registration Opens

VCF East 2025 Exhibitor Registration is open: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSedyn…/viewform… The show will be April 4-6 in Wall, NJ @ InfoAge Science and History Museums Check the web page for updates over the next few weeks https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

VCF – Former NABU Employee Livestream

A group of former NABU employees will be telling stories about their time building the ingenious Canadian made NABU computer from the 80’s. Join the VCF folks for the stream later today. DATE: Saturday, December 16 at 6:30PM EST on VCF’s YouTube channel. This livestream will be a moderated discussion by Jeffrey Brace. Discord discussion: (https://discord.gg/32maJ6gddU) Forum Discussion Stream URL: https://youtube.com/live/QoZTBNz47co Confirmed speakers:

New Dates for VCF East 2024: April 12, 13, 14

From Jeff Brace at VCF East: We have decided to move VCF East to April 12, 13 & 14. There was a significant number of people that were traveling to see the solar eclipse, which takes place on April 8 in the United States. If we didn’t move the date, then attendance would have been impacted significantly. Those dates are available at InfoAge and are now reserved. More details will be coming soon: The themes this year: Thanks!Jeff Brace VCF…

VCF East 2023 Announced

The 2023 rendition of the Vintage Computer Festival East has been announced. It will be held in Wall, New Jersey in the USA. VCF East will take place in the spring of 2023 – April 14th, 15th, and 16th. Tickets are available now to purchase: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vcf-east-2023-vintage-computer-festival-east-2023-tickets-555834224127 Event Schedule and latest info: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-east-schedule/

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest will be held September 10-11, 2000 at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, Illinois. The show will open at 9am with Sellam Ismail giving the keynote at 10:00am. As this is the 25th anniversary of the Vintage Computer Festival, his keynote will highlight some of the history of the VCF events. Also highlighting the event will be David Greelish (The Apple Lisa Documentary), Ron McAdams (Collecting Classic Macintosh Computers Is for EVERYONE!), Frank Palazzolo (Demon Debugger), Bill Degnan…

VCF 9.0 to be Held July 15-17

From the VCF SE Folks : It’s (4) days until our annual Vintage Computer Festival Southeast, version 9.0. Marc Tessier will present Tiny Replicas (and some bigger ones too!)! Come see Marc’s 3D printed tiny replicas of micro computers and game consoles along with working replicas of the Enigma machine and Apollo Guidance Computer! Marc will also be speaking on the creation on the Enigma and AGC replicas. VCF SE 9.0 will be July 15-17, 2022 at the Renaissance Atlanta…

VCF PNW 2020 Cancelled

Urgent – VCF PNW 2020 has been cancelled. March 5th, 2020 Most of you are aware that the Seattle area is considered to be the epicenter of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak in the US. Yesterday King County health officials issued new guidelines and requests, one of which was asking for large events to be postponed or cancelled. Living Computers:Museum+Labs (our host) is complying with those guidelines and requests and they closed their doors today until further notice. I found out…

VCF Pacific Northwest Announced

The dates for the 2020 rendition of the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest have been announced. When: Saturday, March 21st and Sunday, March 22nd 2020 (Load-in on Friday, March 20th, 2020)Where: Living Computers:Museum in Seattle, Washington If you would like to attend or to be a vendor or exhibitor at the event, check out the VCF PNW webpage at:http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest/

VCF Southeast, East, and West Dates and Locations Announced

The Vintage Computing Federation has announced the dates and the locations of three more of the VCF events.  According to the VCF website, Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 6.0 (produced by our friends at the Atlanta Historical Computing Society) is April 21-22 in the Atlanta area (Roswell, Georgia). Vintage Computer Festival East XIII is May 18-20 at the Vintage Computer Federation museum in Wall, New Jersey. Vintage Computer Festival West XIII is August 4-5 at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley…

Vintage Computer Federation Announces VCF West XII

From the VCF: VCF West XII: August 5-6, 2017 VCF East is only six weeks away, but we’re already planning VCF West! The show will be August 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Visit the show web site. Last year’s VCF West was our resurrection of the original VCF which ran from 1997-2007. This year, Vintage Computer Festival West XII will be even bigger! We have two additional rooms to use at the museum for speakers,…

Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0 Announced

Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0 has been announce.  The festival will run the 17th  to the 19th of April and will be held in Wall, New Jersey. According to their website: Vintage Computer Festival East is a hands-on, family-friendly celebration of computer history. It offers a book sale, classes, consignment sale, exhibit hall, food, lectures, museum tours, prizes, vendors, workshops, and more. The event is produced by Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists (MARCH) and is hosted at the InfoAge Science Center….

Keynote Speakers for Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 Announced

Vintage Computer festival East (VCF East) keynote speakers have been announced on the VCF website. VCF East is scheduled to happen May 5th and May 6th at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall New Jersey.  Considered the smorgasbord of vintage computing, VCF covers the gamut of vintage computing platforms. It also is the only remaining event of the VCF Festivals after the downturn in the economy. The Saturday session will be headlined by the creator of the BASIC programming language,…