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DEC PDP-12 at the first VCF East, Marlborough, Massachusetts, (2001) Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019. The Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) is an international event celebrating the history of computing.
Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show – Seattle, Washington in June Norwescon – Seattle, Washington, in March/April (Easter weekend) OrcCon – Los Angeles, California, on Presidents' Day weekend in February
McCormick Place is a convention center in Chicago.It is the largest convention center in North America. [2] It consists of four interconnected buildings and one indoor arena sited on and near the shore of Lake Michigan, about 2 mi (3.2 km) south of the Chicago Loop.
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, acronym AYP or AYPE, was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909 publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. It was originally planned for 1907 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush , but the organizers learned of the Jamestown Exposition being held that same year and rescheduled.
A group of former BC Pavilion employees celebrated the 20th anniversary of the close of Expo 86 at a reunion [27] on October 13, 2006, at the former Expo Centre (now Science World). Celebrating 25 years since its opening of Expo 86, Vancouver is Awesome and Yelp teamed up and threw a party at Science World on May 6, 2011.
Its name is a combination of North Coast Limited and Hiawatha, a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) train whose route it followed east of Minneapolis–St. Paul. Created at the behest of Congress in 1971, the North Coast Hiawatha had an uncertain existence before being discontinued in 1979 amid a wave of Amtrak cuts.
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The vast majority (nearly 75%) of visitors were from the Pacific Northwest, with almost half being local residents. [41] In all 2,554,000 people visited the exposition, with 966,000 getting in for free and 1,588,000 paying visitors. [34] 135,000 visitors were from east of the Mississippi River. [9]