10 Apr
2001
10 Apr
'01
3:15 p.m.
It's a bit further north than I would have preferred, but I
can't fault your reasoning...
And besides, I'm an old WPI alumnus (class of 77), so it'll
be a real nostalgia trip for me :-)
BTW, anyone else on the list an old WPI hacker (and when
I say "hacker", I'm referring to it's archaic meaning,
rather than it's current derogatory meaning...)
-----Original Message-----
From: Claude.W [mailto:claudew@videotron.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:21 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Why Worcester was chosen for VCF East 1.0
Hi all...
Well...VCF east hey at Worcester,MA hey....hmmmm......
Hey, it's even only a 6 hour drive from Montreal...!
Ill be easy to spot : 6'4 with a tuque...
Claude
Canuk Computer Collector
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: Classic Computers Mailing List <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:07 AM
Subject: Why Worcester was chosen for VCF East 1.0
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I've gotten some griping about my selection for the
location of the first
VCF East.
No doubt, a good majority of folks will be quite happy with
the selection.
This is no accident. The site was chosen based
on the
demographics I
collected. Most of the attendees will be coming
from
Massachusetts and
surrounding areas.
As with any sensible business decision, it was based on what will
hopefully bring as many attendees to the event, which in
turn means I will
be able to recoup expenses and will therefore
want to continue to do
Festivals on the east coast.
I received over 150 responses to the VCF East survey. Here
is a summary
of the results:
This chart shows the number of responses received from each
state, sorted
by number of attendees in descending order.
State Count
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MA 27
NY 15
PA 12
NH 8
MD 7
OH 5
NJ 4
FL 4
CT 3
VT 3
GA 3
RI 2
VA 2
NC 2
IN 2
IL 2
MN 2
ME 1
WV 1
MI 1
WI 1
IA 1
MO 1
TX 1
- Nearly 25% of potential attendees will be coming from MA alone
- 40% of potential attendees will be coming from the New
England area
- If you include NY, PA and NJ with New England,
nearly 70%
will be coming
from this combined northeast region
There was also a strong desire to keep the event close to the Rhodes
Island Computer Museum and the Retro-Computing Society of
Rhodes Island so
that tours to those facilities could be
organized.
Providence is only
about 45 minutes from Worcester. There are also
several
other museums
that I hope to get involved with the event,
including the MIT and
Harvard museums and the Computer Museum in Boston.
Worcester is still within only a few hours of where most of
the potential
attendees will be coming from. I don't know
how you east
coast folks
perceive distance, but I've lived in
California all my life
and a 6-hour
drive from the San Francisco bay area to the Los
Angeles
area is no big
deal to me. I made the round-trip in one day a
couple
weekends ago to
pick up an old computer. Driving a couple to
three hundred
miles should
not be a major ordeal for most folks.
So there you have it, the reasoning behind the selection of
the location
for VCF East 1.0. I know it won't please
everyone, but the
unhappy folks
need to realize it has to be held where it makes
the most sense.
I really look forward to VCF East, and I hope you easterly
folks do too :)
Sellam Ismail
Vintage Computer
Festival
International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org