Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE 2.0) 2014

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Computers, Georgia Tech, Research, Video Games

October 31, 2023

Georgia Tech Librarians Sherri Brown, Lizzy Rolando, Alison Valk, and Wendy Hagenmaier

For the second Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE 2.0) in 2014, I went with my Georgia Tech Library colleagues Sherri Brown, Lizzy Rolando, Alison Valk, and Wendy Hagenmaier (I wrote about the first VCFSE and shared photos last week here).

For me, it was great to bridge my professional and hobby worlds–one about studying and preserving our software and hardware digital culture and one about geeking out about retrocomputing–fixing it, using it, and playing with it. Sharing this event with my colleagues who were also negotiating these two overlapping worlds made it memorable to me.

Below, I share photos from the Digital Archivists presentation panel and photos of the Apple Pop-Up Museum and other installed exhibits, and many photos from the individual exhibitor hall.

When we first got there, we had a chance to talk with the founder Lonnie Mimms (right) who was wearing a green t-shirt emblazoned with the rebranding for the space as the Computer Museum of America.

Digital Archivists Panel

Wendy Hagenmaier and Jason Ellis after the Digital Archivist panel.

Wendy and I co-presented about “Digital Archives and Vintage Computing at Georgia Tech” during the Digital Archivists panel. Our notes from the event can be found here.