Exhibits

Vintage Computer Festival East 1.0

July 28th through July 29th, 2001
10:00am to 5:00pm daily
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center
Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA

The Vintage Computer Festival has been a yearly event that has taken place over the last 4 years mostly out on the West Coast in California with new shows started in Europe. This year marked the first ever VCF 1.0 "East" held in Massachusetts for all the East Coast fans.
While the show was smaller then the others due its first year and the rush to assemble the show while Sellam (the Shows founder and producer) still managed to maintain his bandwidth for taking care of the arrangements for the upcoming VCF 5.0 out on the West Coast as well as his intense efforts with salvage operations and rescues of Vintage computer systems (everything from rare micro's to huge Mainframes), so the show turned out a nice showing of about 100 people, some rather interesting and at times rather eyebrow raising speakers and a lot of fun all around.

Atari Historical Society Exhbit. Detailing the Atari 800, its design, expandability
and several key peripherals and devices designed for the system.

Close up of the Commodore 116

Close up of the Commodore 1551 (Note the Commodore Calculator to the side)

Crowds checking out the vendor tables.

Other Vendor tables...

People walking around and looking at the various exhibits....

Other exhibits, Sellam running around by the vendor consignment table
taking payments from buyers....

Retro-Computer Society of RI showing the various systems now
setup and running....

One of the prizes for "Best of Show" awarded to Ray of the Uncommon Commodore
exhibit who received the most votes. He won the rare Mindset M1001 Computer
System donated by Curt Vendel of the Atari Historical Society.

Also awarded to one luck attendee from a random drawing with a door prize, a complete
NeXT Cube system with Monitor, Printer, tons of accessories and software.
Prize donated by Curt Vendel of the Atari Historical Society.