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Vintage Computer Festival UK 2010.

SimonDHSimonDH
edited May 2010 in Announcements
Hi all,

Just to make you all aware of the UK's first Vintage Computer Festival. June 18th*-20th 2010.

In and around the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, this is a three day event celebrating the history of computing in the UK. It will cover everything from early machines to retro gaming!

There will be a variety of things to look forward to, including:

Exhibition of private collections
Guest lectures
Machine demonstrations
Bring and buy sale
Vintage challenge
Private collections are welcome and a secure area is planned to allow visitors to see and learn more about the history and restoration of computer systems

All in the beautiful setting of Bletchley Park!

Those who would like to exhibit a private collection, would like to give a demonstration or would simply like to know more are cordially invited to get in touch via the contacts page on our website - please mention that you saw this post on World of Spectrum :)

www.vcf-gb.org

The site has some basic details at the moment and is currently still under construction, so keep watching for further details!

If any of you have an impressive collection of Sinclair/Spectrum kit, then would you be interested in having a display? We're keen to attract enthusiasts who are willing to be both exhibitors and/or speakers.

Regards,
Simon.

*18th June is for setting up and exhibitor BBQ event.
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  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited October 2009
    Must be the best place on earth to organise this. A retro computer event in the proximity of Colossus..! :)
  • NickHNickH
    edited October 2009
    Hmmm, nice twist... keep us updated!
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    Paul van der Laan wrote: »
    Must be the best place on earth to organise this. A retro computer event in the proximity of Colossus..! :)

    Precisely ;) We've also got the Harwell, which is the world's oldest original, complete, and (eventually we hope!) working computer.

    Details will be updated on the website as soon as they're confirmed. In the meantime, anyone interested in being an exhibitor or speaker, please drop me an e-mail :)
  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited October 2009
    Suggestion for you.

    There are a lot of us in here that are big speccy collectors with big speccy collections.
    How about, with Marjin?s blessing of course ( you reading this WOS GOD ? ) we do a ?World of Spectrum? display?

    I?m up for it and I?m sure we could do something really special between us... hell, I?ll even miss the summer solstice for it! now thats commitment!

    SO, there?s the suggestion, anyone else up for it?
  • NickHNickH
    edited October 2009
    I'm keeping an eye on this to see how it develops - if it's big/interesting enough, I might come down with some sort of screen (24" widescreen LCD monitor at the very least) and have the documentary on a loop, together with other things (posters of animation artwork? hmmm...).

    The choice of Bletchly was inspired.
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    Sounds like a good idea to me :)
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    Obviously as I'm co-organising this I need to collate exhibitors in advance. I can't say who I've got lined up so far, but suffice to say it should be big ;)

    It's being run by The National Museum of Computing who are based at Bletchley Park - the world's first data centre, effectively :)
  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2009
    I'd be interested, but I can't commit yet at this stage. I don't have any hardware but I could have something to show development under emulation. I'd do my best to back something if it was WoS-orientated.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited October 2009
    I ( and the Jupiter Ace Archive project ) also would be interested.
  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited October 2009
    Well I got heaps of hardware. I can supply near mint of all speccy's apart from a 16k grey keys one. Also have the usual add on's like the microdrive ect.

    Got two 14" TV's ( from 83 ) nice phillips one :)

    plus heaps of games....

    heh.... Would be great if we could have Miles Mad Mission up and running for people to play
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    There's also an event on Facebook for this. There's a few people on there - feel free to add yourselves and invite others too. :)
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited October 2009
    SimonDH wrote: »
    There's also an event on Facebook for this

    Facebook! no thanks.
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    Steve(spt) wrote: »
    Facebook! no thanks.

    Hey... every little helps. (I'm sure some big food shop has coined that phrase...) ;)
  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2009
    Yes, but they were every little helps.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    Quite ;)

    Anyway...Facebook or email... either way :D
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited October 2009
    Any takers on a forum presence for this? ;)
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited December 2009
    Update - we are hoping to have more details in the New Year with regards to specific exhibitors and "what's on". :)

    Still no official "World of Spectrum" presence signed up though. ;)
  • WinstonWinston
    edited December 2009
    I could stick a "WOS" sticker on the Spectranet bit :-)
  • fogfog
    edited December 2009
    SimonDH wrote: »
    Any takers on a forum presence for this? ;)

    I'll go as it's not too far :) to show my c64 old skool dev setup I'd have to borrow a working c128 though :(

    hopefully all my spectrums will be working by then , and maybe my atari 800xl will be modded by then :) (tape loaders are **** on it)
  • xc8xc8
    edited December 2009
    fog wrote: »
    I'll go as it's not too far :) to show my c64 old skool dev setup I'd have to borrow a working c128 though :(...

    I suppose that the CCC(UK) will be there, but so far we did not discuss anything about .. (maybe on our meeting - next week..)

    Chris
  • fogfog
    edited December 2009
    not that I know much about CCC but I know TMR is involved.. I've known him and the rest of the crew since hhm 88-89 :)

    not seen him in years though, since obviously he lives up t'north. (using that as an excuse is lame as trooper lives quite near and I haven't caught up with him either..hehe)

    and Conrad I know from a demo site :)
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited December 2009
    Winston wrote: »
    I could stick a "WOS" sticker on the Spectranet bit :-)

    Lol...;) A few of our guys are looking forward to seeing that!

    I thought WoS may like to promote their presence at the event though.

    If anyone else would like to be a part of this, please email me at the VCF e-mail address. :)
  • jamorskijamorski
    edited December 2009
    Wow, I've not noticed this thread yet. If anyone organising needs exhibit material, the venues almost on my doorstep.
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited December 2009
    I'm co-organising it.

    Drop me a line at vcf at tnmoc dot org and we can discuss further. :)
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited February 2010
    Further VCF news:

    http://tnmoc.org/36/section.aspx/125
  • SimonDHSimonDH
    edited May 2010
    Last chance for any WoS presence for this event!

    It's going to be big - OMD are headlining the event in the evening.
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