Vintage Computer Festival GB 2.0. Photo by John Robertson

Vintage Computer Festival GB

  

The Vintage Computer Festival is an international event to celebrate the history of computing.

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First held in the US in 1997, the festivals now take place all over America and Europe.

 

In 2010, Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing hosted Britain's first-ever VCF. Organised by Simon Hewitt and backed by a team of volunteers, the inaugural festival was a huge success. The weekend-long event was accompanied by a talk, Q&A and concert by eighties synth legends OMD.

 

Three years on, many of the core team who helped organise he original VCF-GB reunited for a second event to be hosted by Snibston Discovery Museum in Leicestershire. This ran alongside Silicon Dreams 2013.