VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 8.0 NOV 5-6 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Sep 2005

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  Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
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 On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

  On Wednesday 07 September 2005 09:18, Jules
Richardson wrote:
 > Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
 > >  \__/|     * VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 8.0 *     |
 > >
 > >      |            NOVEMBER 5-6, 2005             |
 > >      |          COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM          |
 > >      |         MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA         |
 >
 > Hmm, how far is California from deepest Minnesota? I'll   still be in 
  > the right country then at least ;-) Could
well be road   trip time...

 Google says 2300mi from Hibbing, MN to Mountain View.    Plane tickets 
  would be a 'better idea'.  At 30mpg and
$3/gal, that's $230   each way 
  for gas alone.  
 I don't want to discourage Jules from trying, but any plane 
 trip out of MN is going to cost at least as much as driving 
 (jet fuel prices are going through the roof).  The trade-off 
 is (if by plane) you get there faster or, (if by car) you get 
 to see a lot of America.

 I wish the airline industry in the States would finally just 
 collapse and then rebuild itself into something more viable.  
 I'm trying to get a flight to Vienna and prices are all over 
 the place...above $2,000! Ridiculous.  I had an opportunity 
 to get a flight for under $750 yesterday and got distratcted. 
  When I came back to do it again today it's now under $800 
 but with a 14 hour stopover in Madrid.  It would be fine if 
 it was during the day but it would be at night, I'd have to 
 get a hotel, the Euro kills the dollar (Hans, I am drinking 
 heartily from the Euro mug), and I just don't have time (as 
 much as I'd love to walk around Madrid for the 8 hours or so 
 I would be afforded after sleep).

 Sorry for the rant.

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 Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage 
 Computer Festival 
According to Expedia, Minneapolis to SF is $255 round trip (leaving on
11/4 returning on 11/6) and Minneapolis to SJ is $332.  Second tier
airlines (then again, these days what's the difference), but pretty
cheap considering the payoff once you get to VCF.  Of course you have to
drive from Hibbing (childhood home of Bob [Zimmerman] Dylan, by the way)
to the big city first, which is a bit of a trek, but there's always Camp
Snoopy at Mall of America to even further justify the trip.