VCF East 3.0 announcement

Given the comments below, now's a good a time to announce * tentative * plans for VCF East 3.0 next spring. As some cctalk'ers know, we've got a club here in the mid-Atlantic region called MARCH -- Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists. Yes, we know it's dorky name, but it's easy to speak and explain. We are temporarily based in a Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/ and we've got a real site under construction. Our club's first event was a kick-ass exhibit at the Trenton Computer Festival's 30th anniversary show in April. We emerged from TCF with enough confidence to ask Sellam for the right to host VCF East 3.0, and he consented. We're planning it as a one-day show sometime in March 2006. We haven't discussed an exact date, but I imagine we'll aim for the end of the month, to hopefully avoid snowfall. The venue will probably be the InfoAge Learning Center, located in Wall, N.J., by the shore. Wall is located about one hour east of Trenton, one hour north of Atlantic City, and 90 minutes south of Manhattan. By train, you can take the Amtrak from Trenton to AC, and then rent a car, or take NJ Transit from Manhattan directly to Wall. You can also fly into Newark or Philadelphia, or get a smaller plane to Trenton or AC. By car, Wall is right off of two majors highways (I-195 and the Garden State Parkway). It's the red star on the map at http://tinyurl.com/cj8kp Our club is currently forming a computer museum at InfoAge's facility. For details about InfoAge, which is extremely "under construction", see http://www.infoage.org -- we're inheriting their existing computer collection which even includes a small part of the ENIAC. Side events to our edition of VCF could include a tour of Camp Evans (the former Army radio research center which is where InfoAge is based) and a Nerd Trivia Contest. At http://www.visitmonmouth.com/tourism/attractions.asp you can find general tourist information about the region. Comments / suggestions are welcome. Better yet, if you live in the mid-Atlantic region, check out MARCH. - Evan K. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric Chomko Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:35 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Washington Post article on Classic Computers Yeah, the article was great! It was well taken here. Someone who knows me asked about it. I was proud to mention that I sent it to the list, and knew a few folks mentioned. We had a nice walk down memory lane. When is VCF East coming to DC?!?! Eric Michael Nadeau wrote: high prices.