{"id":221,"date":"2006-11-03T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2006-11-02T18:41:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T23:41:55","slug":"im-off-to-the-vintage-computer-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/221\/im-off-to-the-vintage-computer-festival","title":{"rendered":"Going to California &#8212; and the Vintage Computer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.org\/2006\/main\/\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/vcf9\/vcf_guy_small.jpg\" alt=\"VCF Guy\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m leaving for California today to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.org\/2006\/main\/\" target=\"new\">VCF 9.0<\/a>, or more properly, the ninth iteration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.org\" target=\"new\">Vintage Computer Festival<\/a>.  It&#8217;s taking place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/\" target=\"new\">Computer History Museum<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mountain_View%2C_California\" target=\"new\">Mountain View<\/a>, California (home of Google and other cool tech companies).  As a result of my trip, regular posts will be thin in the coming week or so, but I hope to be reporting on the going-ons at the festival if I get a chance.  If nothing else, I should be able to post a full write-up of my Silicon Valley adventure when I get back.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll see you there.  If you spot a weird, squirrelly-looking guy with a handlebar mustache, neon-pink jumpsuit, and a gigantic sombrero swaggering around, you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving for California today to attend VCF 9.0, or more properly, the ninth iteration of the Vintage Computer Festival. It&#8217;s taking place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (home of Google and other cool tech companies). As a result of my trip, regular posts will be thin in the coming week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}