3 Aug
2007
3 Aug
'07
1:54 a.m.
Hi
As much as I would like to see something along these lines.
It would be best to sort out the funding first.
Perhaps a small group of interested parties could meet to see if such an
event is feasible in the UK.
Rod Smallwood
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Sent: 02 August 2007 23:16
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Subject: Re: UK VCF?
Roger Holmes <roger.holmes at microspot.co.uk> wrote:> First a simple
question, how many readers of > this list are in the UK?
I am one of (hopefully) many :)
If Bletchley Park might be able to do a VCF in >
two or three years
time, maybe we could do something much simpler in the mean time,
without using the VCF name. Just a get together of anyone in the UK
with an interest in old computers and hopefully > a few who would want
to exhibit theirs. Who would be interested and >
about how much space,
if any would they want?
Not much. Just enough to have a table for my laptop & opened up Amiga. I
could bring a few issues of 80 Microcomputing aswell, which would be the
ones I have duplicates of. The duplicates aren't in particularly good
condition so it doesn't matter too much if they were to get accidentally
damaged :) All the other issues of 80 Microcomputing I have are pretty
much in mint condition and I wouldn't risk bringing to the event (is
that bad? Would anyone else feel the same way?).
I guess we would need to double that up to allow for
aisles etc. Then
we'll know the size of venues to look for. By the way, I was really
thrown by the mention of the planet Venus, it took me a while to work
out it was a typo for venues :-)
Then there's the question of vehicle parking.
How many and are we
talking only cars and small vans or big vans and articulated lorries?
I'd just bring my car.
Roger,
who is planning a 1300 sq ft extension to his computer room, and who
lives on a farm in Kent. Probably too small and > not central enough,
but who knows.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk