Speaker Sessions
(Saturday)
Mike Stulir of Back in Time Internet News
Radio digitally recorded all of the
speaker sessions and will be posting them
sometime later this year on his website
www.backntime.net
Before the show starts, Mike Stulir and
Sellam Ismail (VCF Founder) take
some time to talk about the work Sellam
has done to help preserve Vintage
Computer Systems, how the VCF got started
and a little bit about what to
expect from the first VCF 1.0 East.
The "Father" of the Apollo Guidance Computer,
Eldon Hall discussed the development
of the computer that brought the first men to the moon.
Wayne Green and Sellam Ismail.
Wayne is responsible for 73' Magazine,
Byte Magazine, 80 Micro and many other
publications which helped to inform,
review and introduce the public to the
world of microcomputing.
The Retro-Computing Society of Rode Island
gave a
quick speech about some of the trendmendously
large and
heavy mini and mainframe hardware they
had on display.
Speaker Sessions
(Sunday)
Megan Gentry, a former DEC (Digital Equipment
Corp) employee gave
a speech on the PDP 11 architecture.
The speech tended to be more
technical on the PDP 11 and not much on
the history behind the machines.
Michael Nadeau talked on the subject of
determining the value of old computers for
buying, selling and trading. He's
also writing a book on the topic.
Curt Vendel talked about the history of Atari, how it touched on companies
such as TI and Apple. The speech focused on the Atari 800
and its
line of peripherals and Atari's approach to the world first consumer
oriented
Home Computer System designed for the non-technical user.
Christine Finn is bringing the discipline of an archaeologist to the
study of computer
history. She discussed her upcoming book "Artifacts: An Archaeologist's
Year in Silicon Valley".
She discussed how people thousands of years from now would look back
at peoples
collections, how the skills of archaeology apply to researching computer
history.