Vintage Computer Festivals???

I brought some friends with me to VCF East this year. It was their first VCF East, and first VCF. Two of them help run "share their collection with the public at large for fun" type events down in Chesapeake Virignia with the public library and also the computer museum at MAGFest. Another friend was blown away that Stewart Cheifet was at VCF east (he agreed to go but never looked at schedule) and was also excited to meet the guy behind the BBS Documentary and Get Lamp. One friend is pretty cheap, penny pincher. He has a pretty large collection of game systems and some classic computers, but started into it before the big run-up in prices. I think I listened to him hem and haw and mentally debate himself over the TI/99 4A PEB thing for sale for 3 hours. The proprietary PC CD-ROM maybe got 30 minutes. Kind of amusing, to a point. He had never really coded in BASIC, and Friday he jumped in and tried to write stuff on the Apple II during the game thing on Friday. We ended up visiting 2 or 3 thrift stores in the general area (and got my picture and bought some snacks at the Quick Stop from the movie "Clerks" which isn't too far from Asbury P!) Silverball pinball museum was another must-do and this year I noticed a bunch of other VCF'ers there. My friends talked me into driving to NJ near NYC on Sunday to visit a retail game store. Friends picked up ~10 Coleco Adam tapes, TI/99 carts, and a few oddities for Oddysey/Intellavision and maybe some other systems. The only thing I would be interested in was boxed Space Quest III and Coleco Vision controllers, the DigitPress store didn't have those. The swap meet aspect is valued with regards to trying to fill in collections. Action packed weekend!