Login
Username:

Password:

Remember me



Lost Password?

Register now!

Sections

Who's Online
33 user(s) are online (7 user(s) are browsing News)

Members: 0
Guests: 33

more...

Support us!

Headlines


Recent Replied Topics
Amiga Events : Vintage Computer Festival 2010
Posted by Chris on 2010/2/8 10:31:02 (1893 reads) News by the same author
Amiga Events

Sponsors and exhibitors welcome


Britain?s largest celebration of vintage computing is to be held at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in Bletchley Park from 19-20 June 2010.



Originating ten years ago in California?s Silicon Valley, to celebrate our computing heritage, Vintage Computing Festivals are now regular events held across the USA and in Germany. The June 2010 event at TNMOC will be the first in the UK and will pay particular tribute to the British contribution to the development of computing.

The festival, which is open to the general public and welcomes private exhibitors, will have exhibition stands, a full lecture programme, machine demonstrations, computer games and challenges, bring-and-buy sale, and performances of electronic music.

Kevin Murrell, VCF co-ordinator and a trustee and director of TNMOC said: ?The enthusiasm for this festival is already remarkable and we have only just started to publicise the event. The historic and spacious setting of Bletchley Park is perfect for the event ? and with The National Museum of Computing on the same site, it will surely draw visitors from overseas as well as from across Britain. With visitor numbers expected to exceed one thousand, the Festival offers a great opportunity for potential sponsors.?

Exhibitions already committed include Acorn, Amiga, Atari, PDP11, Retro Computer Museum, Sinclair, and Sundown Demoparty (PCs). There will be performances by Pixelh8 and a guest appearance by one of the pioneers of British synthpop.

Lots more will be announced soon. To keep up-to-date, see www.tnmoc.org/vcf-gb.aspx.

For general enquiries and to join the mailing list, email vcf@tnmoc.org.

Potential sponsors should contact Kevin Murrell of TNMOC kevin.murrell@tnmoc.org.



About The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, an independent charity, houses the largest collection of functional historic computers in Europe, including a rebuilt Colossus, the world?s first electronic programmable computer.

The Museum complements the Bletchley Park Trust?s story of codebreaking up to the Colossus and allows visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s. New working exhibits are regularly unveiled and the public can already view a rebuilt and fully operational Colossus, the restoration of the Harwell / WITCH computer, and an ICL 2966, one of the workhorse mainframes computers of the 1980s, plus many of the earliest desktops of the 1980s and 1990s.

The Museum is currently open on Thursdays and Saturdays from 1pm, and on Bank Holidays in spring and summer. Groups may visit at other times by arrangement.

For more information, see www.tnmoc.org and follow tnmoc on Twitter.

Media Contacts
Stephen Fleming at Palam Communications
t 01635 299116
e sfleming@palam.co.uk


Sourced from http://tnmoc.org/36/section.aspx/125

Printer friendly page Send this story to a friend
The comments are owned by the author. We aren't responsible for their content.
Author Thread
slcroucher
Published: 2010/2/10 21:26  Updated: 2010/2/10 21:26
Just popping in
Joined: 11/27/2006
From: London
Comments: 38
 Re: Vintage Computer Festival 2010
My old Apple Lisa and Texas Instruments TI/99-4a both live at Bletchley Park.
General
Site sponsors
 
Contact us on discord to advertise here.

Site statistics
Registered members
  1752
Logged in last:
  24 hours, 50
  7 days, 117
  30 days, 174

Random Photo
ikir Classic Tech Theme

New Articles List

New Members
Bifford
Bifford 07/01/2025
MarisaG1967
MarisaG1967 06/28/2025
rubach
rubach 06/25/2025
Shinji344
Shinji344 06/14/2025
emulajavi
emulajavi 06/06/2025
SteffJay
SteffJay 05/31/2025
Cyber-Bob
Cyber-Bob 05/28/2025
snarlferb
snarlferb 05/24/2025
AGABerg
AGABerg 05/18/2025
Da1ek
Da1ek 05/11/2025


Powered by XOOPS 2.0 © 2001-2024 The XOOPS Project