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The Vintage Computer Festival 2023 is taking place in Zurich this weekend

8/11/2023

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The Vintage Computer Festival is taking place in Zurich for the seventh time. This weekend you can experience historical technologies, old computers and retro games up close. If you can't find the time, we'll be there for you.

Are you ready to travel back in time? For old computer technologies on sale that you can touch and use? For exciting challenges and iconic racing games? Then you should join us and make the pilgrimage to Zurich this weekend. If you can't find the time, that's completely incomprehensible to me, but it's not too bad. Because video producer Armin and I will be capturing the Vintage Computer Festival 2023 in moving images. So you can be annoyed afterwards about what great things you missed. If there's anything in particular you'd like us to look at, write it in the comments column.

On display at the festival: the most famous historical cipher machine Enigma.
Source: Vintage Computer Festival Zürich

Thanks to over 50 exhibitors, the seventh Vintage Computer Festival will not only feature selected exhibits from Apple, Commodore and the like, but also lectures, workshops and more. This year's exhibition focuses on old websites, 100 years of Enigma (rotor cipher machine), the development of mobile computers, the beginnings of AI, Amiga, racing games and retro gaming in general. If you feel like it, you can even create your own vintage website and put it online. Or you can simply have fun with punched tape.

The Vintage Computer Festival 2023 takes place on Saturday and Sunday, 11 and 12 November from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Kraftwerk Selnau in Zurich (Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zurich). Admission is free for children aged 11 and under.

You can find more information about the festival here.

Cover picture: Vintage Computer Festival Zurich

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