Vintage Computer Festival Announcement

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Tue Aug 4 22:11:08 1998

I noticed that the T1100, was the "first" laptop computer. What year was
it made?
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         -Jason
(roblwill_at_usaor.net)
   ICQ#-1730318

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> From: Vintage Computer Festival <siconic_at_jasmine.psyber.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Vintage Computer Festival Announcement
> Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 12:53 AM
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> | H | | The Premier Event for Computer Enthusiasts is Back! | \
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> | H o | V I N T A G E C O M P U T E R F E S T I V A L |__ \
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> | H \ - VCF 2.0 - | \
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> | H | September 26-27, Santa Clara Convention Center |
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> | H / Santa Clara, California |
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> | H | Speakers, Exhibit and Flea Market |
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> | H | O http://www.siconic.com/vcf |
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> | H | | | The S P E A K E R S |
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> | `=| Why would YOU come to the | __|
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> | _| Vintage Computer Festival? | | |
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> | | |____________________________| | KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
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> | ________________________ ___|-Gordon Bell |__
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> | .-| To Learn the History |--' | Father of the Mini-computer! |
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> | | |__||_||_||______________| | Mr. Bell will speak about |
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> | o ________________________ ___| his pioneering work on the
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> | | || || || | / | DEC PDP-1, PDP-8 and PDP-11 |
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> | o-| For the Nostalgia |--' | |
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> | |__||_||_||______________| | FEATURED SPEAKER |
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> | | | || || || | |-Ray Holt |
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> | `-| To Hear the Speakers |-._____| |
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> | |__||_||_||______________| | Who really invented the |
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> | ________________________ ____| first microprocessor? Guess |___/
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> | | || || || |__/ | again. This designer of the |
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> | .-|To Buy Vintage Computers|-------| JOLT and Synertek SYM-1 sin-
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> | | |__||_||_||______________| | gle-board computers will re- |
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> | o ________________________ ______| veal why computer history
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> | | || || || |/ | may need to be re-written. |
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> | o-|For the Games & Contests|--. | |
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> | |__||_||_||______________| \___|-David Rutland |
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> | | || || || | | On the National Bureau of |
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> | o-|To Meet Other Collectors|-o | Standards Western Automatic |
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> | |__||_||_||______________|___ | Computer (SWAC). Mr. Rutland |
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> | ________________________ \___| worked under Harry Huskey to |__o
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> | | || || || | | help build this first com- |
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> | o-| To Meet the Pioneers |---. | puter west of the rockies. |
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> | H ___________|________ \ \ |-Tom Geller | |
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> | H \ Philosophy of the / \ | Whether you're into game |
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> | H | Vintage Computer |___ \ | consoles, handheld devices, |
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> | H | Festival... | \ \ | arcade machines or personal |
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> | H / \ \ \__| computers, there's a Mac-
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> | H | The main mission | \ | based emulator for you. |
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> | H | of the Vintage | \ | |
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> | H | Computer Festival | \ |-Jim Willing |
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> | H | is to promote the | \__|
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> | H | preservation of | | Jim will demonstrate ways in |
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> | H | "obsolete" compu- |___ | which you can put computers, |
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> | H | ters by allowing | \ | new and old, back to work in |
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> | H | attendees to ex- | \_____| the classroom. Also, how to |___
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> | H | perience the tech- | | care for your old computers. | \
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> | H | nologies, people | | |
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> | H | and stories that | |-Bruce Faust |
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> | H | embody the remark- | ______| |__o
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> | H | able tale of the | / | Bruce will tell you every- |
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> | H | computer revolu- | o' | thing you want to know about |
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> | H | tion. | | the Toshiba T1100, the first | o
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> | H |____________________| ___| "laptop" computer. |__/
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> | H o o______/ |-Manny Lemas |
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> | H o__| VCF2 S P O N S O R S |___| Manny will discuss his work |__/
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> | H | www.haggle.com | | in the early days of the |
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> | H____| Dr. Dobb's Journal | | microcomputer revolution, |
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> | H |_________________________| | including publication of the |
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> | H __| first microcomputer journal
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> | H / | and his involvement with the |
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> | H ________ ________ / | Synertek SYM-1. |
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> | H_____| |_/ __|-Philip Belben |___o
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> | H | Test your computer | o' | |
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> | H | history knowledge! | | Philip will be presenting a |
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> | H __| |__o | workshop on the pre-history |
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> | H | Nerd Trivia | __| of the graphics workstation.
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> | H | Challenge | o | | ____ O |
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> | H | Only at VCF 2.0! | /
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> | H o' | A screening of | / __ ___ __________________
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> | H __| vintage computer |____/ | |__| | |
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> | H / | sales and training | | |Someone lucky
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> | H | | films from the | | | go home with an |
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> | H | __| 50s, 60s and 70s |__ | _ | |
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> | H | | by San Francisco | /| (_) | IMSAI 8080 |==--o
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> | H | | stock footage | / | | |
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> | H | o_| film archive |____/ | | See the VCF web |
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> | H o | Oddball Film+Video | | __ | site for details |==--o
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> | V2.0 rev 2 http://www.siconic.com/vcf (C) SICONIC
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>               September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0!
>                   See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details
>                        [Last web page update: 07/26/98]
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