Vintage Computer Festival 2026 (UK)

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Vintage Computer Festival 2026 (UK)

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Hi everyone,

There's another event taking place from June 19th to 21st, 2026 called Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) for the UK.

It is being held at the Northwest Computer Museum in Leigh, Greater Manchester - and the organisers are looking for exhibitors, so I was wondering whether anyone from this community may be interested.

The website should be online shortly after the Christmas / New Year season.

Cheers,

Rich.
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Re: Vintage Computer Festival 2026 (UK)

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Interesting.

A bit far for me really though.

Maybe a consideration for @JezC , @exxos and @Steve and others 'up north'?
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Yeah. Too far up country for me.
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Re: Vintage Computer Festival 2026 (UK)

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A bit far for me too sadly, despite it being up near where I come from.

Would love to go but perhaps not as an exhibitor.
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I did read the original thread in the Private forum, but I always just seem to have so much going on all the time, its difficult to find time for a lot of things :(

I didn't even take anything to exhibit to the last CL event. Even though most things are WIP, people on the forum know what I am doing, so taking stuff seems a bit like "nothing new" to demo.
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I went to the VCF Midwest show in Chicago, IL this year.

That's almost 500 miles.

But I cheated...I flew. :)
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