Vintage Computer Festivals???

It depends on what your goal is. If you're trying to run something fleamarketish for those already at least partly inside the hobby, probably the latter. If you're trying to attract new people to the hobby...well, it strikes me as at least plausible that it's the former. But I don't think our hobby will ever be very mainstream, and indeed I'm not sure it even makes sense, since so much of what makes us distinctive is that we play with non-mainstream or no-longer-mainstream stuff. So it seems to me that trying to attract the mainstream is going to either fail or end up producing something very different. (Not that something different is necessarily bad, of course, but it is, well, _different_, not what we here have.) Most/all of us got here without being wowed in the mainstream sense by a classic computer show, after all. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B