Re: SOCAL VCF - cctalk

20 Feb 2024

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  Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:12:15 -0800
 From: "Ali" &lt;cctalk(a)ibm51xx.net&gt;
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 So did anyone go? How was it? I never heard back from the organizers regarding the
ticketing situation despite my, and Sellam's, best efforts so I skipped it. Hopefully,
the event went better then the organization and the next one will have the bugs ironed
out.

 -Ali

I have been to around 10 VCFs, but not since VCF West XI in 2016.  I drove down on Sunday
morning and enjoyed it.  There were some very interesting exhibits, many of which were
video game/console or adjacent (e.g., Commodore SX-64) oriented.  There was some great
emulation work on display as well.  Of note was what was not there.  No IBM, no HP, no
S-100, almost no big iron (a static Data General machine was the exception), and almost
nothing pre-1980.  The facility was quite nice, including the presentation room.  The
consignment table looked pretty picked over by the time I got to it. There was a guy in
the consignment area with a small table selling comic books and he also had some Funkos. 
I wish I had actually known about the show prior to two weeks before so I could have at
least thought about putting together an exhibit.  Hopefully the show will continue!

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:03:43 -0800
From: &quot;ShowRunner(a)VCFSoCal.com&quot; &lt;ShowRunner(a)VCFSoCal.com&gt;
Subject: [cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal
To: Sellam Abraham &lt;sellam.ismail(a)gmail.com&gt;
Cc: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
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Thanks Sellam.

Tickets can be purchased at the door. I’m sorry they’re having trouble. We’ve got a
constant stream of ticket purchases coming through. Perhaps try another browser or on
their mobile?

Micki

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  On Feb 16, 2024, at 2:26 PM, Sellam Abraham
&lt;sellam.ismail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

 Hi Micki.

 I'm passing along this message from Ali. Can you please help him?

 I checked the website and verified that there is no obvious way to contact anyone in the
organization for regular communication. Forgive me if I overlooked something.

 Thank you.

 Sellam

 On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 1:25 PM Ali via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
> > > One last question:
> > >
> > > Do kids get in free? If so what is the age cutoff? It looks like 
> > > tickets are needed for everyone but figure I would check just in
> > case.
> > >
> > 
> > Never mind... Important to read all the WAY to the END. LOL. Kids 
> > 12 and under are free!
> 
> 
> Anybody successfully buy tickets? I tried and I get an error that check out isn't
working and to contact them. Of course like all good sites they provide absolutely no way
to contact them. If anyone has contact info that would be great or if anyone knows that
tickets can be purchased at the door? Otherwise hard pass here. No way I am driving to the
OC, in possible SoCal rain traffic, without something a bit more solid....
> 
> -Ali
> 

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:26:07 -0600
From: Steve Lewis &lt;lewissa78(a)gmail.com&gt;
Subject: [cctalk] Re: SOCAL VCF
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I was able to make it, and the weather turned out very fair.

Here is my summary review of the two days.    Sorry about the ticket issue
- I was able to get an online ticket the day before the event without issue.

VCF SoCal 2024 — voidstar
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://voidstar.blog/vcf-socal-2024/__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!ih17Z4JrLMpaWkltcvcu_tA_eMQ6a1UuUxea2SdRPJCygK-Hu2eoQG892DBRWj9c1Eze7O_kiDEKHNqzItFleWXipEnwNzIqow$
>

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://voidstar.blog/vcf-socal-2024/__;!!AQdq3…

-SteveL

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM Ali via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
wrote:

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  So did anyone go? How was it? I never heard back from
the organizers 
 regarding the ticketing situation despite my, and Sellam's, best 
 efforts so I skipped it. Hopefully, the event went better then the 
 organization and the next one will have the bugs ironed out.

 -Ali

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:20:02 -0800
From: "Ali" &lt;cctalk(a)ibm51xx.net&gt;
Subject: [cctalk] Re: SOCAL VCF
To: "'Steve Lewis'" &lt;lewissa78(a)gmail.com&gt;om>,      "'General
Discussion:
	On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
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...
 I was able to make it, and the weather turned out very
fair.

Here is my summary review of the two days.    Sorry about the ticket issue - I was able to
get an online ticket the day >before the event without issue. 

Steve,

Thanks for the excellent write up and the great pictures. It looks like it was a fun, and
packed, event. Sorry I missed it. Hopefully I can make it next year. Yeah, I am not sure
what the problem was with the tickets and I didn't know if there was going to be
tickets available at the door so I opted to skip out on the 55 mile drive. I did finally
hear back from Micki. Unfortunately, she didn't reply back to me directly and instead
sent a reply to the list which I did not receive until tonight (Sunday) at 2300. It just
wasn't meant to be this time around. LOL!

-Ali

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