I’m really looking forward to the Vintage Computer Festival 8.0, coming up next weekend (November 5-6, 2005) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. I’m not exhibiting this year, but it should be a lot of fun. I think the Homebrew Computer Club retrospective should be quite interesting, and there are always great exhibits as well as vendors, the Nerd Trivia Challenge, etc.
Since I’m not exhibiting this year, I’ve been asked to be one of the exhibit judges. I didn’t exhibit last year either, but several times I’ve exhibited a DEC GT40 graphics terminal running the famous Lunar Lander game. I hope to exhibit something again next year, but probably not the GT40. However if I am an exhibitor next year, I’ll have to decide between not being a judge, or withdrawing my exhibit from consideration for awards. Oh well, I don’t have to decide for nearly a year.
On Tuesday’s meeting of the PDP-1 Restoration Project team, we will be celebrating the completion of the PDP-1 Restoration Project. Although the restoration is complete (in terms of meeting all of the project goals with regard to the actual hardware), we will be starting a “Maintenance Phase”, and still have some planned tasks for that phase. I expect that at this meeting we’ll discuss the plans and scheduling for maintenace phase.
I’m hoping that team members will be willing to take shifts demonstrating the PDP-1 at the VCF, and letting attendees play Spacewar. The exhibits judging will take all my time on Saturday, but I can probably take an hour shift on Sunday.