"John Lewczyk" <jlewczyk(a)his.com> wrote: Hi John It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures another fellow took: http://www.atari-history.com/vcf4/vcf4_intro.html I had the NIC-80 that is in the bottom row of pictures. I didn't get to spend as much time as I'd have liked talking to others about their machines but it was still a lot of fun. I also had three pinball machines as CA Extreme so I was real tired after the weekend. Everything had to be moved in Saturday morning and taken out Sunday night. I only had my Cherokee to make round trips with pins and computer. I gave a talk but I only had a few people show for my talk. I guess I don't have the name recognition. Those that did come were vary interested and had a lot of questions. One of the other talks by Jim Willing was showing the opening of a box containing a NOS Poly 8813. Jim brought it up in stages and it was great fun. I had to miss the best part because my talk started. It seems a tantalum or two popped and flamed. I heard it and smelled it but I sure would have loved to have seen it. What fun! My Nicolet received three ribbons. I was hoping for at least one but didn't expect three. Dwight

Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote: Hi These are computers as well. As I mentioned about VCF, I had three at CA Extreme. Most all of mine are about 20 years old. I like collecting the early computerized ones. Most of these used 6800's but I also have one with 6502 based. My machines: Gottlieb Genie Gottlieb The Games Bally Super Sonic Bally Night Rider Bally Baby PacMan ( combo vid/pin ) Stern Stars Atari Middle Earth Most of the skills one learns working on other classic computers relate vary well to these machines. There is also the mechanical parts to deal with and hundreds of light bulbs. I'll have to admit that I enjoy fixing them more than playing but playing is fun as well. Dwight

Well lemme see... It was my first attendance and I just loved the talks and meeting some of the people I've been talking for over 4 years on this list. I missed some of you but I had a limited time budget and had to get out at 5pm.Cold not make it on sunday. I wished we had a "hello my name is" meeting for the classiccmp people just so that we can put a face on the names. I was a little bit disappointed with the prices on some of the stuff in the flea market and one seller's unwillingness to bargain for price. I am also kinda mad at the guy who got the HP-71 from under my nose (I'm the one who asked for it after all) I guess I'm too used to Midwestern prices and Hamfest bargaining. I still bagged a few interesting pieces though: most notably a ti 99/4A thermal solid state printer that attaches to the side of the computer like the speech synth or the memory expansion. An Apricot F10 fairly complete. A very complete Atari Portfolio (I'm going to load VTLISP and use it for my AI class). A Timex Sinclair 1500 in OK shape. A few miscs. All in all it was a positive experience. I just wised I could have spent more time getting to know some of you. Maybe next time. Francois to