{"id":1604,"date":"2009-09-03T04:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T10:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2009-09-03T04:46:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T10:46:45","slug":"more-randomness-and-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/09\/03\/more-randomness-and-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"More randomness and shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was e-mailed to me tonight via theLogBook.com Media’s contact form (hey, it works!), and while it’s just a little bit on the late side for me to even round up some DVDs to send there (what with the 10 days until the event and all…) I thought I’d pass it along for any retro-computing folks in New Jersey:<\/p>\n

This year’s Vintage Computer Festival East will be held September 12-13 at the InfoAge Science Center located in Wall, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

VCF is a public event celebrating the history of computers from the 1940s – 1980s. The morning schedule is for lectures and workshops; the afternoons are an open exhibit hall where everything is turned on and working.<\/p>\n

Among this year’s highlights are the keynote address about RCA computers in the 1950s, an 8-bit musical concert, BASIC programming challenge, and the build-your-own terminal workshop.<\/p>\n

Details are posted at https:\/\/www.vintage.org\/2009\/east\/<\/a> where you’ll also find the latest VCF news. A 2-minute video montage of last year’s show is on YouTube<\/a>. Or refer to the simple event brochure<\/a>. Tickets are $10 for one day or $15 for both days; 17 and younger get in free.<\/p>\n

The event benefits the InfoAge Science Center, which is a 501c3 non-profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

RCA computers from the ’50s? Does that include the Studio II<\/a>? Oh…wait. Studio II was the ’70s. Not that you could tell by looking.<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

I also wanted to draw everyone’s attention to the August edition of Le Geek<\/a> – Ben may not get his site updated as often as he’d like, but it’s always worth the read. I also like the fact that the site is now in gamma<\/em> – screw being in beta<\/em>, we’re going straight to gamma!<\/em> I look forward to the delta and epsilon editions.<\/p>\n

With a not-even-remotely-heavy heart, I’ve decided to close my long-dormant MySpace account. I think tonight was the first time I’d logged into it in 2-3 months. Since almost everyone in my friend list over there is in my Facebook friends, I doubt anyone will be too disappointed (in fact, I’ll be surprised if anyone even noticed without me mentioning it here).<\/p>\n

Still. No. Kittens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was e-mailed to me tonight via theLogBook.com Media’s contact form (hey, it works!), and while it’s just a little bit on the late side for me to even round up some DVDs to send there (what with the 10 days until the event and all…) I thought I’d pass it along for any retro-computing folks in New Jersey: This year’s Vintage Computer Festival East will be held September 12-13 at the InfoAge Science Center located in Wall, New Jersey. VCF is a public event celebrating the history of computers from the 1940s – 1980s. The morning schedule is for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetology","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}