We are Back! This Saturday and Sunday (May 2nd and May 3rd!)
After taking too long of a break, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest returns in 2026!
Quick links and notes:
Notes:
- We have a food truck! Isidro's Authentic Mexican Food will be with us on Saturday for lunch, and Sunday too if there is enough demand.
- The Tukwila Community Center is next to the Duwamish River and has outdoor spaces and trail access for when the smell of exploding RIFA capacitors gets to be too much.
- There will not be a consignment area or a free pile, but some of our exhibitors will be selling items related to their exhibits.
What is a Vintage Computer Festival?
A Vintage Computer Festival is an event where people show off their vintage computer projects for others to enjoy. Besides the vintage computers there will be new accessories and peripherals for them, replicas, new software projects, and talks. This isn't a typical "bring out your old" stuff type of event - these machines will be here for you to touch and interact with! No matter what your level of interest or technical proficiency is, you'll find somethign to marvel at and enjoy.
The best part is the people. If you are interested in computing history, preservation, collecting, or anything related there will be plenty of like minded people to trade notes with.
Presentations
All presentations will be on Saturday, May 2nd.
- 12:15 Stephen Jones, Greetings from the Interim Computer Museum!
- 13:15 Joe Decuir, IEEE Fellow, Atari Stories
- 14:30 Alan Perry, The Burroughs A Series Stack Machine Architecture
- 15:45 Thalia Archibald, UNIX V4: History and Recovery
Exhibits
See the online event program at https://vcfpnw.org/program.html for
more details about each exhibit.
- Josh Dersch, Desktop Computing: Hewlett Packard's First Calculators
- Adrian Black, Adrian's Digital Basement: From Field Found to Function
- Mike Brixius, Role Playing Game development with RavenWolf Retro Tech
- David Turnbull, The Picocomputer 6502
- Eric Neustadter, Exotic Japanese Computers of the 1980s
- Em Trahms, CirleMUD on a MicroVAX
- Reza Fouladian, Everything Macintosh Portable
- Aaron Middleton, One Maybe Two Retro
- Dan Sanderson, The MEGA65 Personal Computer
- Mike Debreceni, Amateur Radio and Vintage Computing - Slow Scan Television (SSTV)
- Gregory McGill, Everything TI-99/4A
- Thomas Cronin, AA-powered portables
- Mark David Overholser, Networked 8-bit Computers for Gaming, Collaboration and Socializing
- Steve Stroh, Demonstration of Ham Radio Packet Radio TNCs
- Jason Howe, VAX-Nation!
- Jason Perkins, Apple Lisa vs. Xerox Star: Not just a copy
- Chad Essley, Amiga for Artists
- Cursed Silicon, Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega_net
- Bill Buzbee, Magic-1 Homebrew CPU
- Katarina Melki, Project IVY - Celebrating Portable Computing
- Cris Jansson, British Computers from the 80's
- Bob Dalquest, Puter's Retro World: The Nabu Experience
- Joe Burks, OtterX, a new 6502 with vintage bones
- Sergey and Michael Kiselev, Keeping Old PC Computers Up and Running
- Gordon Steemson, Seattle Retro-Computing Society - We exist!
- Hayden Neumeyer, When tools became computers
- Alex Perez, ZuluSCSI & ZuluIDE
- Troy Staley, PCjr Evolution
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