This Saturday, Ars will be attending what you might consider a different kind of computer expo in a different kind of science museum. The event is hosted by MARCH, the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists, and will feature 23 exhibitors with hardware that predates the 1980s, all of it working. But the Vintage Computer Festival East won’t be a show-and-tell type display; MARCH requires that its exhibitors be willing to let the attendees use anything that’s on display.
The event will take place at Info Age in New Jersey, a recently opened museum that’s taking a decidedly different approach to connecting the public with the science and technology behind the communication and computing revolutions.