VCF 3.0 Preview

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Andrew Davie wrote: Oh cool! Well, since this was posted publicly I'll reply publicly about this year's VCF. Yes, the web site is not very informative at the moment. I've been meaning to do a lot of work on it, such as get the pictures from VCF 2.0 on there, add some more resources, etc. But I've been holding off since my current ISP is charging me up the ass for excessive bandwidth usage, and I haven't gotten around to setting up my own server to take advantage of my cable modem yet. I've also been real busy with life's little issues. So anyway, VCF 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for this September at the same venue as last year (Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California). I will hopefully have dates nailed down by the end of this week or sometime next week for sure. The dates I wanted (Sept 25&26) are already taken up by some other convention so unfortunately it won't be the last weekend in September as I wanted it to be, unless I decide to change the venue. We have a lot of cool stuff planned for this year. It will be bigger and better than last year, and I mean it! More money and more people will be involved to make sure everything goes very smoothly. We already have some funky projects in the works. We'll definitely be doing the Nerd Trivia Challenge again. That was a big hit last year and a whole lot of fun. The scheduling will be different this year. Instead of the exhibition and flea market and speakers going on simultaneously all day, the speakers will be during the first half of the day, maybe with multiple sessions going on at the same time, and the exhibition and flea market will be open hear the speakers they admire (John Titus perhaps) and view the exhibition and shop the flea market without worrying about missing out on something. If anyone has any suggestions for speakers they would like to see at the VCF, please e-mail me with them. If you are planning to exhibit at this year's VCF, stay tuned. In a few weeks I'll have the guidelines for exhibiting. The exhibit this year will be more of an indivudual thing, rather than what it has been which was a dozen or so various collectors exhibiting a bunch of machines. I'd much rather have many different individuals exhibiting one or two of their favorite machines. And this year we plan to give away prizes for the best exhibits, along with a general door prize (last year was an IMSAI 8080, don't know what we'll give away this year). A good example of the exhibits I would like to see are Doug Coward's wooden replica of a DigiComp 1 and Jordan Ruderman's excellent Sol-20 exhibit. I haven't discussed anything with The Computer Museum History Center yet but I hope they will decide to participate again with an exhibit and also a tour to their visible storage warehouse. I'm currently soliciting for sponsorship so if anyone has an employer that wants some cheap visibility amongst hundreds of Silicon Valley types then please pass the word along to them. Also, I will begin renting out flea market booths in a couple weeks. If you plan to sell at VCF 3.0 then let me know. So stay tuned, VCF 3.0 is on the way! Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always hasslin' the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 02/15/99]