On Mon, 29 May 2000, Wayne M. Smith wrote:
> I looked, but no details.
>
> Do you have a tentative date? For us out-of-towners it
> would help for planning purposes.
I must apologize for the lack of any activity on the VCF website. I've
been working on updated pages for the past week and they are almost done.
But instead of making you wait until the new pages are up, here's the
scoop as it stands today:
VCF 4.0 is tentatively planned for late September/early October. My only
options at the Santa Clara Convention Center (where it's been held for the
past two years) are on October 7-8. All other weekends in those months
are booked. There's a good chance I will not get the 7-8. I am probably
going to have to find some place to hold the event this year. Stay tuned
on that.
I am thinking (just thinking, nothing even remotely decided yet) to have
an east coast event sometime in the late summer if I can get the ball
rolling in time. I'm talking to some fellow list members about it (sorry
I've been slow to respond!)
An east coast event will only happen if I get my current situation under
control, which is to move my collection to a new location, all 1,200sqft
of it (I'm losing the lease on the space I am at now). That is of
greatest concern to me right now, because with SV real estate being as
high as it is, finding a new home for everything will be difficult.
Being that I haven't even begun planning in earnest for VCF 4.0, an east
coast event would be a major feat, but I'm still considering it.
As far as the exhibition, I would now like to formally invite people to
begin thinking about what they would like to exhibit at this year's VCF.
Unofficially, I am wanting to include a special theme in this year's
exhibit, which will be homebrew computing or calculating devices. I was
inspired by the models of the mechanical calculator mechanisms I saw at
the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Germany and thought it would be great if
people could research and create their own adder or counter mechanisms.
The exhibit will still feature your favorite computers, and of course
awards and prizes will be given out. The prizes haven't been decided yet
but they will of course be very cool (last year we gave away Cardiacs,
Nixdorf handhelds, bubble memories, t-shirts and money :)
There will again be a tour to The Computer Museum History Center, the Nerd
Trivia Challenge, and probably some new features.
The new web pages will be up within a matter of days. I'll make an
announcement to the list when they do go up. The pages will start to
fulfill some of the promises I made a while back, which is to become more
of a resource for computing history and collectors. As I get more time
and high bandwidth, we'll start to provide archives of different sorts,
helpful articles for the vintage computer hobbyist, and possibly even host
other vintage computing sites. (If you'd like to become a contributor of
articles and such, get in touch with me.)
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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Looking for a six in a pile of nines...
Coming soon: VCF 4.0!
VCF East: Planning in Progress
See
http://www.vintage.org for details!
Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 00:33:24 BST