{"id":10566,"date":"2019-03-20T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2019-03-20T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:31:48","slug":"this-weekend-vcf-living-computers-museum-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-weekend-vcf-living-computers-museum-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"this weekend: VCF @ Living Computers Museum in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/vcfed.org\/wp\/festivals\/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest\/\"> Vintage Computer Festival<\/a> is being held this weekend at the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingcomputers.org\/\">Living Computers Museum<\/a> in Seattle. <a href=\"http:\/\/vcfed.org\/vcfpnw\/VCF_PNW_2019_Event_Program.pdf\">Full program is here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telcomhistory.org\/connections-museum-seattle\/\">Connections Museum<\/a> is also holding special hours for the festival. I highly recommend a visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vcfed.org\/vcfpnw\/VCF_PNW_2019_Flyer_Blue.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-vintage-computer-federation\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/vcfed.org\/wp\/festivals\/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Vintage Computer Festival is being held this weekend at the Living Computers Museum in Seattle. Full program is here. The Connections Museum is also holding special hours for the festival. I highly recommend a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105],"tags":[524,471,523],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-living-computer-museum","tag-seattle","tag-vcf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-2Kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3527,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-goodwill-computer-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":10566,"position":0},"title":"The Goodwill Computer Museum","author":"Jeff","date":"January 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I had a chance to visit the Goodwill Computer Museum, conveniently located (for me)\u00a0here in Austin, Texas. 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