19 May
2010
19 May
'10
12:49 p.m.
You said you couldn't afford to attend.
No, I said I wouldn't be attending for several reasons, mainly financial.
That is not the same thing at all. I do not consider it to be a sensible
use of my (very limited) money to attend an event that I am not going to
enjoy.
Seriously, if you have spare money, give it to a charity., Me attending
VCF-UK is not essential to anyones life. Having clean water (for example)
is, and there are far too many people in the world without that.
You've been offered a lift and a whip-round to pay membership and so
on, but that is apparently not enough. You said that you see no point
in attending in person if you can't bring along a machine or machines
to exhibit.
So, as a thought experiment at this point in time, what would you wish
to bring along? What space would you want or need to properly display
it? And how much space would you need to transport it?
It is far too late now both (I guess) for booking space at VCF and for me
to prepare anything. I would have to select a machine (prefereably one
that few others were goign to demonstrate) check it over, sort out some
fun demonstrations, make sure I understood it totally (just in case
somebody asks an awkward question, etc). That takes a lot of time.
As foir what machines? Well, maybe a selection of early HP desktop
calculators. Maybe a PERQ or 2. I susepct others will have PDPs and all
the common micros...
-tony