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VCF 6.0 Exhibit and Marketplace
A wider view of the VCF 6.0 Exhibit and Marketplace in the Hahn Auditorium of the Computer History Museum.
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VCF 6.0 Exhibit Area
More of the VCF 6.0 exhibit area.
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VCF 6.0 "Groove Lounge"
The VCF 6.0 "Groove Lounge". A complete line-up of Apple ][ systems was available for attendees to enjoy.
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VCF 6.0 "Groove Lounge"
There was also a line-up of early Macs in the Groove Lounge, including an original Lisa (far left).
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Don Woodward Xerox Exhibit
Don Woodward put together yet another excellent display of Xerox D-Machines running different operating environments.
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Don Woodward Xerox Exhibit
More of Don Woodward's Xerox display.
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Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones' SDF Public Access UNIX System exhibit.
Awards:
1st Place - Class D: Mini-computer or Larger System - Any Vintage
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Bryan Blackburn
Bryan Blackburn's exhibit, featuring a Mark-8 and a computer system from the digital group.
Awards:
1st Place - Class A: Homebrew, Kit or Educational Computer - Any Vintage (Mark-8)
1st Place - Class B: Manufactured Personal Computer - Pre-1981 (the digital group)
Special Awards:
Best Presentation: Display (Mark-8)
Best Preservation: Restoration (Mark-8)
Best of Show (Mark-8)
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Pavl Zachary
Pavl Zachary hauled in an entire PDP 11/70 system, powered it up, and let VCF attendees hack on the system.
Awards:
3rd Place - Class D: Mini-computer or Larger System - Any Vintage
Special Awards:
People's Choice Award
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Larry Pezzolo
Larry Pezzolo brought along a very lovely Altair 680 to demonstrate.
Special Awards:
3rd Place - Class A: Homebrew, Kit or Educational Computer - Any Vintage
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Larry Anderson
Larry Anderson exhibited a gaggle of vintage 8-bit Commodore machines, including a VIC-20, Commodore 16, and Commodore 64, plus the rare Commodore B128 and P500 models. He also had on display a nice multimedia video reminiscing over these great old systems.
Special Awards:
Best Presentation: Research
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Bill Borsari
Bill demonstrated a complete line-up of Amiga Machines from the Amiga 500 through the Amiga 4000.
Special Awards:
Best Presentation: Creative Integration with Contemporary Technology (Amiga 4000)
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Hans Franke
Pictured is Hans (back) working with Eric Smith (foreground) on their Retro-Code Video Game Programming Challenge masterpiece (they took second place in the competition).
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Curtis Jones
Curtis Jones demonstrated APL on an IBM 1130 simulator.
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Rob Borsari
Rob Borsari and his rather complete collection of GRiD portable and laptop computers.
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Boris Debic
Boris exhibited a nice collection of logic elements from the vacuum tube era through the transistor age.
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William Kendrick
William exhibited an Atari 800XL running modern day demo programs.
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Vince Briel
Vince Briel's Replica I - a functional Apple-1 replica.
Awards:
1st Place - Class E: Open
Special Awards:
Best Preservation: Recreation
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Replica I
A close-up of Vince Briel's Replica I (replete with award ribbons).
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Guy Sotomayor
Guy exhibited a PDP 11/45 running UNIX V7. Multiple terminals were setup to allow VCF attendees to log in and hack away.
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Wayne Smith
Wayne exhibited his pre-IBM PC computers, including an IBM 5100, IBM System/23, and IBM DisplayWriter.
Awards:
2nd Place - Class C: Manufactured Personal Computer - Post-1981
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Erik Klein
Erik exhibited an Altair 8800 and two of the earliest mass-consumer market home computers: the Commodore PET and the Radio Shack TRS-80.
Awards:
2nd Place - Class A: Homebrew, Kit or Educational Computer - Any Vintage (Altair 8800)
2nd Place - Class B: Manufactured Personal Computer - Pre-1981 (Commodore PET)
3rd Place - Class B: Manufactured Personal Computer - Pre-1981 (TRS-80 Model 1)
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Robert Harker
Robert brought along some early Sun workstations, including the original Sun 100U (Sun's first product).
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Evan Koblentz
Evan exhibited the PDA collection that he amassed during his research into early PDAs. Evan gave the opening talk of VCF 6.0 in which he discussed the history of the Personal Digital Assistant.
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Liza Loop
Liza Loop of the LO*OP Center put together a terrific autobiographical exhibit of the various early computers she used in her classrooms as teaching aids, including the first Apple-1 and Apple ][, both given to her personally by Steve Wozniak.
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Tim Lindner
Tim demonstrated contemporary games developed for the venerable Mattel Intellivision by classic video game console enthusiasts.
Awards:
2nd Place - Class E: Open
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Cole Erskine
Cole exhibited the HP 110 Portable Computer.
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Jim Battle
Jim demonstrated a Wang 2200 minicomputer running alongside his Wang 2200 simulator on his laptop.
Awards:
2nd Place - Class D: Mini-computer or Larger System - Any Vintage (Wang 2200)
Special Awards:
Best Preservation: Simulation (Wang 2200 Emulator)
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Chuck McManis
Chuck exhibited a very rare PDP-5.
Special Awards:
Best Preservation: Obscurity
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Tom Stall
Tom exhibited a Mark-8 computer (based on the Intel 8008 microprocessor) built from plans in the July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics.
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Bill Gosper
Legendary hacker Bill Gosper demonstrated his fantastic fractal-based programs running on a Symbolics XL1201.
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Alto's 30th Birthday Cake
The delicious 30th birthday cake for the Xerox Alto (it didn't last long).
(Photo courtesy of Bruce Damer of the DigiBarn)
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Bruce & Galen Having Their Cake
Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt of the DigiBarn (John Ellenby is to the left of them), who organized the Xerox Alto panel and provided many of the Xerox Alto and Dolphin machines on exhibit in the Groove Lounge, try to get some cake before it disappears.
See more pictures of VCF 6.0 and the Alto Birthday Bash in the DigiBarn VCF 6.0 Report.
(Photo courtesy of Bruce Damer)
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