Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th, 2012 InfoAge Science Center Wall, New Jersey The eighth Vintage Computer Festival East will be held on Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th, at the InfoAge Science Center at Wall, New Jersey. The event is sponsored by MARCH and VintageTech. Each day begins at 9:30am with a brief opening session. Lectures and workshops last until 2:00pm. The exhibit hall and marketplace runs from 2:00pm until 7pm Saturday, and 2pm until 5:30pm Sunday. We anticipate 20-30 exhibitors. There will also be vendors, consignment, a book sale, prizes, food, museum tours, and more. Tickets are $10 for one day, $15 for both days, and FREE for ages 17 and younger. Parking is free. Select one of the links on the right for more information and "like" us on Facebook. Details are still being determined for this year's event! Please keep checking back for updates. Thank you. Scroll down to read the latest VCF East 8.0 news and announcements!!! VCF East 8.0 Headline News		General Sessions Workshops Exhibits Tours Vendors Directions Lodging Events Blog Library Gazette Gallery Projects Donate Sponsors Press Mailing List Links FAQ Contact Login

BASIC Inventor Tom Kurtz to Give Saturday Keynote Address

Dr. Thomas Kurtz, who co-invented the BASIC programming language while at Dartmouth University in 1964, will give the VCF East 8.0 keynote lecture at noon on Saturday, May 5th. Details to come ...

Early Apple Engineer Daniel Kottke to Give Sunday Keynote Address

Dan Kottke was Steve Jobs' college buddy, India travel companion, Apple 1 board builder, and Apple employee #12. He helped design the Apple II series, Apple III, and Macintosh. He will lecture at the VCF East 8.0 at 12:30pm on May 6.

Biggest Lecture Agenda Ever for VCF East 8.0

This year's VCF East will have more lectures and classes than ever before! You can learn about Apple, BASIC, Commodore, minicomputers, S-100 computers, vector graphics, and there's still more to be announced. It blew us away, and it'll blow you away too. Check it out here.

Registration for "Build your own vector graphics kit" workshop is open

Build your own vector graphics kit for your favorite vintage computer! This workshop is a separate $109 admission. Click the headline above for details. The class is taught by the kit's designer, Dan Roganti, who also led last year's "Build your own transistor-logic circuit" workshop.

George Beker's Exclusive "VCF Bot" for VCF East 8.0 T-Shirts

George Beker, who famously designed "Beker Bots" for Creative Computing magazine and the BASIC Computer Games books, has contributed an exclusive "VCF Bot" for the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 t-shirts. We are honored to be working with Beker on this project!

Support the Rutgers University Vintage Computer Club at VCF East 8.0

Are you a Rutgers graduate? Have kids who went there? Or just want to support the local State U.? Rutgers now has its very own vintage computer club. They'll exhibit for the first time at VCF East 8.0. Come visit and support a new generation of collectors!