Anyone off to VCF-UK?

How odes the Computer Conservation Society fit into this? One of my moans was that there were/are too many organisations involved and you could never find out who was responsible for what. When I joined the CCS, I fileld in a form which asked me to list up to 4 (why only 4)?) computers that I had expeirence of either as a designer, a service engineer, or a user. They didn't seem to realise that I could have experience of machines from being a hardware ethusiast, (which is distinct from a 'user'). They also didn't appreciate that such knowledge could change with time (when I joined, I'd never seen an HP9800 series calculator, now, even if I say so myself I suyspect there are few people outside HP who have worked on them to the level I have). Anyway, I listed my 4 machines. Some yeras later I discovered they were having problems with one of the machines I'd listed, but they didn't seem to have bothered to contact me. No they did not refuse help, and were happy to get information (and the odd spare part) from em. But it does point to a somewhat clueless organisation. I am not sure what the solution to this is. I (and others) are not going to rite in every month with a list of hte machines, new and old, that we've worked on. Perhaps they need an active mailing list... I have, but it wasn;t my help. My parents offered to help sort and catalouge docuemntation (both were research chemists, neither had any particuar knowldge of computing, but could read titles, etc). This wa refused. Mind you, one thing that put me off volunterring at BP was that I couldn't access their documenation. I had to work from my own manuals and printsets if I had them, otherwise I was working blind. -tony