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		 The Trenton Computer Festival

	The Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) is the oldest personal
computing show in the world. First held in May, 1976, TCF was held at
Trenton State College for the first fourteen years before moving across
town to Mercer County Community College in 1990.

	Trenton Computer Festival 1993 will be held on Saturday and
Sunday, the 17th and 18th of April, 1993, at Mercer County Community
College, West Windsor, New Jersey. This is about two miles east of U.S.
1, and about 5 miles north of Trenton, New Jersey.  (Directions can be
found below.)

	One of the areas that make the Trenton Computer Festival unique
is a full speaker program which continues all weekend long and provides
exposure for many kinds of computer related topics. Talks begin shortly
after the festival opens each day and continue until shortly before the
festival closes.

	The Trenton Computer Festival has a long history as a buyer's
festival. Over the years festival attendees were known to save their
money and come to Trenton with long lists of stuff they were looking
for, ready to snap up any bargains that they spotted. Computer hardware
and software sales takes place in two traditional areas: the Commercial
Vendor area and the Flea Market.

	The Commercial Vendor area evolved with the personal computer
industry. At first, the fledgling computer industry pioneers had booths
inside. Early vendors were often little more than electronics junk
dealers. They very quickly evolved to national hardware and software
vendors. With the rise of the IBM PC and the computer dealer, national
vendors quickly disappeared to trade shows like Comdex and dealers took
their places. Currently, the Commercial Vendor area contains dozens of
small computer dealers, typically hawking various PC clones, books,
supplies, parts and software. Pricing is extremely competitive with
razorthin margins.

	The Flea Market at TCF, on the other hand, is a unique event.
Here parking spaces are sold at a fraction of the price of indoor
booths. Many vendors buy space both inside and outside, shuffling
product back and forth as the need appears. Since TCF is traditionally
held just at the close of the rainy season, it typically rains for a
(short) period of time during the festival. Many vendors put up tents
and tarps to keep the rain out. Others just sell stuff out of vans and
close the van doors during the rains.

	Additional information is available from the /pub/TCF/tcf
directory of pilot.njin.net. Access it via anonymous ftp.

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			DIRECTIONS

Here's how to get to a parking space at TCF!

Guaranteed parking is available at Mercer County Park, which surrounds
the MCCC campus on three sides.  MCP has two entrances, one on Rt 535
(Edinburg Rd. or Old Trenton Rd., depending on whether you're north or
south of MCCC) and one on Hughes Drive.  My advice is to turn off at a
park entrance.  HOWEVER, if you're early or if you're daring, continue
past the park entrance to the College entrance.  If you're lucky, the
gendarmes will let you on campus to look for a parking space.  IF THEY
REFUSE YOU ACCESS, continue to the traffic light and turn (either LEFT
onto Old Trenton Rd. or RIGHT onto Hughes Drive.) and proceed to the 
Park entrance.

FROM THE NORTH:

1) VIA U.S. 1: Go south on US 1 and take the Rt 533 South (Quakerbridge
Rd.) overpass.  After about two miles, turn left onto Hughes Dr.  The
Park entrance will be on your left in about a mile. The main entrance to
the college is reached by continuing on Hughes Drive to the intersection
of Old Trenton Rd. Turn left and follow the signs around the jughandle
turn into the campus.

2) VIA N.J. TURNPIKE: Go south to Exit 8 (Hightstown) and get on Rt 33
WEST.  In downtown Hightstown, turn right onto Rt 571 and follow.  Near
GE Astro, turn left onto Rt 535.  The Park entrance is about 4 miles down
the road on the right, with the College entrance about a mile further.

FROM THE SOUTH:

1) VIA U.S. 1: Go north on Rt. 1 and turn right onto Quakerbridge Rd (Rt
533 South). Then follow the instructions in (1) above.

2) VIA I-95: I-95 NORTH becomes I-295 SOUTH (don't ask!).  Take Exit 65A,
Sloan Rd and follow to the end (Sloan Rd. becomes Flock Rd. at the light -
also don't ask!!).  Go left onto Old Trenton Rd.  The Campus entrance is
by a jughandle turn, about a mile up Old Trenton Rd.  The Park entrance
is on the left about a mile further up.

3) VIA I-295: Follow I-295 NORTH to Exit 65A, and then follow the
directions in (2) just above.

4) VIA N.J. TURNPIKE:  Take Exit 7A to I-195 WEST.  This becomes I-295
North. Take exit 65A and follow the directions in (2) just above.


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	General Information

Show times: Saturday - 0900-1800; Sunday 1000-1600.

Tickets are sold ONLY at the door, on Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, 
April 18th.  Each ticket has a stub that can be entered into the door
prize drawing.  Usually, a prize is awarded each hour the festival is
open.

A ticket purchased on Saturday costs $8.00 and entitles the purchaser 
to admission on both Saturday and Sunday.  A ticket purchased on Sunday
is available at a reduced price.  Also, senior citizens and students
are entitled to purchase reduced price tickets on Saturday.

There is no advanced ticket sale.

Banquet tickets cost $20 each. The banquet speaker is scheduled to be
Gordon Eubank of Symantec.

Exhibiting their latest wares will be companies like Adobe, Aldus, AST, 
Borland, Hewlett Packard, Lotus, Micrografx, Microsoft, Symantec, 
Software Publishing, Toshiba and Word Perfect.

If you would like to rent a flea market spot, please call the number 
below for more information.

General information: The Concordia Group
			(609) 655-4999
			(609) 655-4989

Pete Holsberg,
Steering Committee
-- 
Prof. Peter J. Holsberg      Mercer County Community College
Voice: 609-586-4800          Engineering Technology, Computers and Math
UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh  1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690
Internet: pjh@mccc.edu	     Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/17-18/93