Why Worcester was chosen for VCF East 1.0

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed Apr 11 15:19:03 2001

> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Driving in along the Northeast corridor (DC - Boston) is a royal pain! It
> is not an enjoyable thing to do

Neil -- the trick is to do it out of hours. The worst thing is to get
caught in one of the city rush hours.

I did the run to DEC training so many times I can do that run and
the ones to DC (a big vacation spot for me and a former site where I did
Unix training) and Baltimore (where I go often) without any problems
other than trying to find good radio stations.

Worcester should be less than 5 hours if all goes well.

--Bill

--Bill
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