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<font size=3>Dear DigiBarn News subscribers here is an abbreviated
newsletter (#21) reminding you of the fabulous Vintage Computer Festival
coming this weekend (Nov 3-4th) at the Computer History Museum in
Mountain View. Details of the VCF 10 can be found below in this
newsletter and from the VCF site:<br>
<a href="http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/</a><br><br>
Join Allan Lundell and me for a special session on the Digibarn at
11:30am on Saturday November 3rd celebrating 20 years of collecting and
the tenth year of the Digibarn Computer Museum.<br>
Then, see the LINC in demonstrations all day on Saturday and Sunday
November 3-4th and the special panel of the original LINC team at 1pm
Sunday November 4th. The LINC is a very important machine in history,
having created the paradigm shift that lead directly to the personal
computer revolution. More on the LINC and everything else below!<br><br>
Find this newsletter in HTML format at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html#021" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html#021<br>
</a>Full text follows...<br><br>
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DIGIBARN FALL 2007 NEWS (VCF Supplement)<br><br>
1. LINC Restoration Project and Project and Special Presentation at VCF
10, Nov 3-4th<br>
2. Full VCF 10 Announcement<br>
3. Open Houses<br>
4. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!<br>
5. Thanks donors! Still looking for...<br>
6. Archive of this and past Newsletters<br>
7. Contacting us or Unsubscribing<br><br>
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1. LINC Restoration Project and Special Presentation at VCF 10, Nov 3-4th
(Mountain View, CA)<br><br>
The LINC was a true paradigm shift in computing, which in the early 1960s
was dominated by large batch processing and the beginnings of the
time-sharing movement. The LINC, developed by a team at MIT's Lincoln
Laboratory, was the first step in the direction to dedicating computing
resources to interact with a single user, and a machine so versatile with
an addressable graphical display, removable tape storage media, and the
ability to operate it on a lab bench or desk on a day to day basis and
shut it down at night (what a concept!).<br><br>
Join a whole team of original LINC designers and operators who have
toiled in the past year to get a LINC up and running (and shipped out to
the event) to hear about what industry luminaries like Gordon Bell and
Allan Kay describe fondly as "the world's first personal
computer". We will have live demos of the working LINC all weekend
followed by Sunday's panel where the history, significance and
restoration challenges of the LINC will be presented.<br><br>
The LINC event and presenters are described at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/index.html<br>
</a>The LINC history and restoration are at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/index.html<br><br>
</a>The Vintage Computer Festival 10.0:<br>
<a href="http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/<br><br>
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2. Full VCF 10 Announcement<br><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br><br>
<br>
COMPUTER HISTORY PIONEERS CONGREGATE ON NOVEMBER 3-4 AT VINTAGE
EVENT<br>
Vintage Computer Festival Celebrates History of Computing
with<br>
live antique computers and living legends from the
computer industry<br><br>
LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) October 26, 2007 -- The Vintage
Computer<br>
Festival, a yearly event that celebrates computers and their history,
is<br>
being held on November 3-4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View,<br>
California.<br><br>
Anticipation is building for what is expected to be the biggest and
most<br>
well-attended event since the Festival's founding ten years ago.
Celebrated<br>
once a year in Silicon Valley, as well as three other locations
worldwide,<br>
the Vintage Computer Festival is the largest and most prestigious event
of<br>
its kind, featuring a lecture series, an exhibition of working vintage
and<br>
antique computers, and a marketplace for traders to buy and sell
vintage<br>
computers. Collectors from around the world attend this event,
which was<br>
founded in 1997. The Festival also recognizes its own history this
year as<br>
it marks its tenth anniversary.<br><br>
This year, attendees will be treated to several historical figures in
the<br>
computer industry, including Lee Felsenstein (designer of the
classic<br>
Osborne 1, one of the first portable computers, and the SOL-20, one of
the<br>
first personal computers), Al Hoagland (designer of the first
commercial<br>
disk drive), legendary MIT proto-hackers Bill Gosper Steve Russell
(author<br>
of the first videogame, Spacewar!), Wesley Clark (not the general, but
the<br>
inventor of the first transistorized computer in the US) and
prolific<br>
computer book author Lance Leventhal, who wrote dozens of computer
self-help<br>
books throughout the 1970s and 1980s.<br><br>
One of the keynote sessions at the Festival this year is a panel
featuring<br>
the engineers who in the early 1960s designed the LINC (Laboratory<br>
INstrumentation Computer), which was a revolutionary computer design
that<br>
some consider to be the first "personal computer".<br><br>
The Festival also features a marketplace for collectors to buy, sell
and<br>
trade vintage computers. There is also a screening of documentaries
and<br>
films on both days of the event that have vintage computing or
vintage<br>
technology themes. Some of the filmmakers will be present to talk
about<br>
their work and give introductions to their films. There will also
be an<br>
abstract artist (Christine Finn) on site throughout the event
constructing<br>
a collaborative artwork based on discarded technology, culminating at a
talk<br>
she will give on the piece at 3:00pm on Sunday.<br><br>
The Computer History Museum is an ideal location for the Festival as
it<br>
allows attendees the opportunity to tour the Museum's collection while
also<br>
attending the lectures and exhibits organized by the VCF. Tours of
the<br>
Museum's collection will be given throughout the afternoon on each day
of<br>
the Festival. Special theme tours during the weekend will include
"A Brief<br>
History of the Internet" and "The History of Video Games",
which are both<br>
guided by Museum docents. There will also be live demonstrations of
ancient<br>
mainframe computers that have been painstakingly restored to working<br>
condition, including an IBM 1401 mainframe circa 1960 and a Digital<br>
Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 minicomputer circa 1961 running
Spacewar!,<br>
the first ever videogame, written in 1962. The game's author,
Steve<br>
Russell, will also be speaking at the Festival.<br><br>
The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 North Shoreline Blvd.
in<br>
Mountain View, California, just off highway 101. The Vintage
Computer<br>
Festival opens at 9:30am each day, with first sessions beginning at
10:00am<br>
and the exhibition and marketplace opening at 2:00pm each day. The
film<br>
festival runs from 11:00am to 6:00pm each day. The Festival
officially ends<br>
at 6:00pm on Sunday.<br><br>
Complete event information including admission, directions to the venue
and<br>
the event schedule can be found on the VCF website:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/<br><br>
</a>
# # #<br>
-- <br>
Sellam
Ismail
Vintage Computer Festival<br><br>
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3. Open Houses<br><br>
The Digibarn had some great open houses this year, we concluded with the
one this past Saturday October 27th, 2007:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/eventsvisiting/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/eventsvisiting/index.html<br><br>
</a>******************<br>
4. Digibarn on CNET (News.com) "Tales of Silicon
Valley"!<br><br>
There have been tons of great stories about the Digibarn in the world
news media over the past few months. Some of the best coverage has been
provided by CNET (news.com). Tom Merritt and his crew visited us last
Friday (Oct 26th) to record several new short story pieces for
"Tales of Silicon Valley". Watch for them on CNET TV. We hope
you will take a look at both (and the other stories) at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/links/media.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/links/media.html<br><br>
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5. Thanks donors! Still looking for...<br><br>
A lot of great donations came in since the summer and we would like to
thank all the many Friends of the Digibarn who contributed:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/friends/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/friends/index.html<br>
</a>See the ever expanding collection at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/index.html<br><br>
</a>We are still looking for a bunch of good stuff and have updated our
"wish list" at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html<br>
</a>so check it out and see if you have anything there we are desperately
seeking (weird prototypes or front bezel for a Lisa 1 anyone?).<br><br>
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6. Archive of this and past Newsletters<br><br>
You can find the archive of this and all past Digibarn Newsletters
at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html<br><br>
</a>******************<br>
7. Contacting Us or Unsubscribing<br><br>
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Thats it for this newsletter, see you in the next one!<br>
Bruce Damer, Curator<br><br>
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