Past Events

This BLOG entry features summaries of past events where ICM has participated as an exhibitor. For archives of Interim Computer Festival please visit https://sdf.org/icf

Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2026 – May 2nd & 3rd, TCC, Tukwila WA

An amazing comeback event for our “missed” 2020 VCF PNW. Total attendance for the weekend was 981 to see 27 exhibitors and 4 guest speakers. While this was our “bigger space” we clearly need even more space which is what we’re planning for in 2027 at the TCC.

VCF PNW 2026 at the Tukwila Community Center

Obsolesence Guaranteed PiDP-11 Workshop – April 18th & 19th, ICM

Our first soldering / kit building workshop has been completed with all 11 successful builds. Thank you to the participants for the feedback which we are taking to improve our next workshop offering later in the year.

Workshop participants are guided through the assembly of their PiDP-11

Norwescon 48 Sci-fi and Fantasy regional Worldcon – April 4th & 5th, SEATAC WA

Special thanks to Jerry Johnson for invited us at last year’s WORLDCON, we found an incredible crossover between the SCI-FI/Fantasy writers and fans and vintage computers.

Our exhibit included:

• PiDP-10 featuring Terry Winograd’s SHRDLU Blocks World on MIT AI ITS
• SBC-6120 Intersil PDP-8/e on a chip running OS/8 featuring CHEKMO-II Chess
• MITS Altair 8800 replica running CP/M and 8K ALTAIR BASIC

Our table at Norwescon 48

University of Washington: Paul G. Allen School of CS & EE – April 3rd, Seattle WA

We were invited to participate in the TGIF with special thanks to Jason Howe and Jason Perkins.

Our exhibit included:

• MITS Altair 8800 running 8K BASIC w/ Zenith Z19 Terminal
• MITS Altair 8800 replica running CP/M w/ a virtual terminal

Students at UW’s Paul G. Allen School trying MITS ALTAIR 8800 BASIC

Portland Retro Gaming Expo – October 17th – 19th, Portland OR

Hans Reutter graciously arranged for us to have 8 tables with a 9th table at the ATM machine with a large display where we could run a photo and video slideshow. The PRGE is a great annual event and merges many retrogaming related hobbies together into a great event.

Our exhibit included:

• SBC-6120 PDP-8/e clone running DEC BASIC “HAX” by Josh Dersch
• Micro KENBAK-1
• IMLAC PDS-1 mostly running Space War!
• PDP-8/m running CHEKMO-II chess
• RCA oscilloscope w/ Tennis for Two modern analog implementation
• Apple ][e featuring Oregon Trail
• NABU featuring NABU Network
• Commodore 64 featuring C64OS and TeensyROM
• Atari 600XL featuring FujiNET
• DECmate ]I[ featuring DEC games
• Televideo TS-1605 PC featuring DOS games
• Two DOS Windows 98 machines featuring deathmatch >DooM<
• Bandai Kousokusen Vectrex w/ VecFLASH
• PiDP-10 featuring Remote Vintage Systems and ITS under KA10 simulation

Setup ran late on Friday night but went fairly easily thanks to Katie and Jason&Son

Vintage Computer Festival MidWest – September 13th – 14th, 2025 Schaumburg ILL

The table featured 3 terminals connected to the remote systems with volunteers Jim Mazurek and Gary Solomon. Gary also brought photos and artifacts concerning the PDP-10 KI10 restoration. Special thanks to both Jim, Gary and ‘cml’ for helping out with the table.

World Science Fiction Society Convention – August 13th – 17th, 2025 Seattle

Our table featured the PiDP-10 running ITS and Remote Systems access along with a PDP-8/m and an LSI ADM3a mostly running CHEKMO-II chess and occasionally Colossal Cave Adventure. 15 formal chess games were played through to the end with only 6 humans beating the computer. There was a good cross over for vintage computing and we met more PDP-10 users at WorldCon than at any other event. Special thanks to Charles Anthony for running the table.

Vintage Computer Festival West – August 1st & 2nd, 2025 Computer History Museum

Our table featured the PiDP-10 running ITS and Remote Systems access with two portable HDMI displays. Just over 130 brochures were handed out and several members stopped by to say hi. There was also a box for drawing Misoroku no Mikoto Omikuji. Notable visitors were Tom Lyon, Fred Wright, Dan Kottke and Larry Masinter.