UK VCF?

To which the answers (so far) are (including someone else's very valid question of where they are) : Rob <robert at irrelevant.com> Manchester Ian <silvercreekvalley at yahoo.com> Yorkshire At a push I would be happy to demo a few interesting machines Peter Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> York interested in exhibiting, and *maybe* assisting with organisation Julian <julian at jnt.me.uk> Manchester Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> West Yorkshire interested in visiting the show, and possibly exhibiting Andrew Burton <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> south-east, a few miles from Cambridge. enough to have a table for my laptop & opened up Amiga I'd just bring my car Pete Edwards <stimpy.u.idiot at gmail.com> Rod Smallwood <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk> 50 miles west of London near the (in)famous Greenham Common Austin Pass <austin at ozpass.co.uk> Manchester some of my SGI machines transit van and could offer load space to other local exhibitors too Adrian Burgess <classiccmp at discordance.org.uk> Half way between Nottingham and Lincoln Andy Piercy <andy.piercy at gmail.com> Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> half-way up Scotland, West side Stan Barr <stanb at dial.pipex.com> John Honniball <coredump at gifford.co.uk> North Bristol Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> south-west London, near Richmond I'd want to bring at least one interesting toy along Pete (Ensor?) <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> Birmingham James <james at machineroom.info> Southampton possibly showing my 340 node Transputer system Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> Mitcham, SW London motor-tricycle Commented but didn't actually say was in UK: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> Tim Walls <tim.walls at snowgoons.com> Leeds, Yorkshire but prefers London Mike Hatch <mike at brickfieldspark.org> Aldershot, Hampshire James Carter <james at jfc.org.uk> York Plus me, Roger Holmes <roger.holmes at microspot.co.uk> Weald of Kent,70 miles south-east of London. Maybe a Lisa 2, my 1301 takes 3 months to assemble/debug and weighs 5 tons. Car So we have 23 people interested, very few exhibitors and a large geographic spread but with clusters in Yorkshire(5), Manchester(3) and London(2 plus 2 nearby). Thank you all very much for responding. For my t'pennyworth (and saying it as a southerner) it seems like an event within a few miles of the M62 would be feasible, but its too far away for me to get involved in organising. An event down south does not seem feasible to me, though any of you are welcome to see my 1301 (plus 'The Darling Buds of May' farm) if you're in the area, though please check I'll be home that day. Whilst I agree that the social aspect is important, I must say I'm also interested in Rod's idea of a virtual meeting of some sort. There's no way I could show you all my 1301 in person, but this would be a way to do it, but does it need to be interactive? If it was, it could still be recorded and put on a web site somewhere for all to see. Maybe this could in some way be interactive through this list. Could we do an introductory video to our machines (via U-Tube maybe if the list server itself doesn't have enough storage/bandwidth), then other listers could ask questions and ask for other things to be shown, and that way listers throughout the world could be involved. It also creates an archive which can maybe be preserved long after the machines themselves have become fatally non functional or even scrapped, or even just temporarily non functional for that matter. Roger Holmes.