We are Back!
After taking too long of a break, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest returns in 2026!
| What |
25+ vintage computing related exhibits, a few talks, and hopefully some great conversations! |
| When |
May 2nd and 3rd, 2026
10am to 6pm both days |
| Where |
Tukwila Community Center
12424 42nd Avenue South
Tukwila, WA 98168 |
| How |
Just show up at the appointed time! (Suggested donation: $10 - a bargain!) |
| Questions? |
Contact us at brutman@icm.museum |
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
- Josh Dersch, General Automation and the SPC-12
- Adrian Black, Adrian's Digital Basement: From Field Found to Function
- Mike Brixius, RPG 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, 8-bit Computer Networking
- Steve Stroh, Amateur Radio Packet Radio circa 1985
- 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 Kiselev, Keeping Old PC Computers Up and Running
- Hayden Neumeyer, When tools became computers
- Alex Perez, ZuluSCSI & ZuluIDE
- Troy Staley, PCjr Evolution
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