--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
>
> I've gotten some griping about my selection for the location of the first
> VCF East.
I haven't been griping, but I probably won't go, either. My loss.
> I received over 150 responses to the VCF East survey. Here is a summary
> of the results:
> State Count
> ----- -----
> OH 5
Woohoo! We are number six! We are number six! (Sorry...) I just read in
the paper that as of the latest census, Columbus is the 15th largest city
in the U.S. (city only, metro areas don't count in the census).
> There was also a strong desire to keep the event close to the Rhodes
> Island Computer Museum and the Retro-Computing Society of Rhodes Island so
> that tours to those facilities could be organized.
That's a sound reason. I've always wanted to see the RCS/RI (ob. nit
pick: Rhode Island is singular. The island of Rhodes is in the Mediterranean)
> Worcester is still within only a few hours of where most of the potential
> attendees will be coming from. I don't know how you east coast folks
> perceive distance, but I've lived in California all my life and a 6-hour
> drive from the San Francisco bay area to the Los Angeles area is no big
> deal to me. I made the round-trip in one day a couple weekends ago to
> pick up an old computer. Driving a couple to three hundred miles should
> not be a major ordeal for most folks.
Most folks around here won't go two hours to Cleveland (jokes about Cleveland
unnecessary here). In six hours, I can almost get to D.C. (it's under seven).
St. Louis is just a little farther than that. Massachusetts is way too far to
drive for a weekend. Flying would be required, as for VCF-West.
As to East Coast distance perception, think of England - it's a country
smaller than most U.S. states. They think 100 miles is the ends of the
Earth. My experience is the smaller the state, the greater the distance
perception. Lotsa small states once you get East of the Mississippi.
Feel free to disagree as you wish.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Apr 10 2001 - 16:54:35 BST