The InfoAge center is also home to a computer museum hosted by the Vintage Computer Federation, which is the nonprofit organization that leads the Festival series. Other exhibitors demonstrated homemade software and modern hacks, such as a Commodore 64 multiplayer Space Command! game. Most of the exhibits focused on 1970s-1980s minicomputers and microcomputers, such as DEC VAXen, S-100 “homebrew” systems such as the famous Altair 8800, and 8-bit home micros from companies like Apple, Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, and many others. One exhibitor, Brian Stuart, showed his homemade simulation of the ENIAC from 1945! The oldest hardware there was a DEC PDP-8/E minicomputer and a Kenbak-1 microcomputer, both from 1970. The festival featured dozens of hands-on exhibitions of historic computers, peripherals, and software. Vintage Computer Festival East XI was held April 15 – 17, 2016 at the InfoAge Science History Museum in Wall, New Jersey.
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