Remember me? I'm the guy that used to write occasional blog entries.
Each time I plan on it, I get sidetracked and put it off. And then put it off again. "I'll do it tomorrow."
So today, let me get back to an entry I intended to write in April. It was after I took my yearly trip to Wall, New Jersey, to check out the annual VCF East Festival, run by the Vintage Computer Federation (formerly MARCH, or Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists)
Before I get there, though, I need to eat.
It's become somewhat a tradition of mine to start the morning there with some Cannoli Pancakes from the Sand Dollar Pancake House. Along with a bottomless coffee. Because breakfast IS the most important meal of the day.
First, the facility. The VCF has a museum that, over the years, has grown into a large section of an abandoned barracks at a decommissioned army base. Camp Evans was a major base in the development of technology such as radar, and as such, the main road it faces was long ago renamed Marconi Road. A collection of smaller museums has been developed there, under the banner of InfoAge, that are mostly science-related. While my visit was primarily to the Computer History Museum run by VCF, I have a soft spot for the Military Technology Museum of New Jersey.
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| Mostly cars and tanks you'd see in M*A*S*H or an Indiana Jones feature, but there's a lot of random, one-off production models to be found also. |
But the main focus of my visit was the museum run by VCF, to see what was new.
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| The VCF museum has many systems that range from the very old... |
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| ...to the more recent. |
And, of course, the show. Some random shots:
And there's always a marketplace for those who wish to buy/sell/trade. For those who know me as a reviewer at the TAG blog, I almost found some new games to play:
Back to the boardwalk at the end of the day, and a visit to another important destination.
How about a museum dedicated to 80 years or so of pinball machines (and a few other notables) which you can play unlimited, by the hour?
And then, the drive home. All this is just about 2 hours from my house, so it's not an imposition. (Anyone in the area, my lunch choice is a Korean-fusion taco place nearby...)
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