A little late of a reply, but I just wanted to congratulate everyone on a successful VCF East. The exhibits were great as always, and agreed the World of IBM setup was creative impressive ranging from the obvious to the bizarre. The presentations were also engaging and I will also add the extra A/V efforts didn't go unnoticed from those remote and in the room. It was a great celebration of the vintage computing hobby, nice to finally be able to hang out together with old and new friend and also be able to share the history of the computing with the public we've all so passionate about. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone involved. Mike On 10/19/2021 9:37 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Now that I have finished the cleanup and post mortem meetings for East and am mostly rested up and decompressing from the show. I want to thank all of the exhibitors for their great displays. The World of IBM was out of this world. Thanks to Adam and Dean for organizing it! And to all of the co-exhibitors that made a truly unique exhibit space when they took over all of 9032-A.
I want to thank all the speakers (most of them not in this list) who were a fantastic lineup and hard to beat in subsequent years.
All of the volunteers, especially the Sea Cadets who really filled in all the gaps for support. Every year I lack enough volunteers and end up doing a lot of the setup work and breakdown by myself along with a handful of volunteers. There were more volunteers at the setup and breakdown. I want to especially thank Bill Inderrieden, my right hand man who is there with me starting setup on Tuesday through Thursday during the show for immediate needs and the day after the show for breakdown and cleanup. Also Tony Bogan who helped find an electrician to install new quad boxes and helped where he could before, during and after the show even though he was busy with his boating business and could only be there sporadically. Dean and others who stayed afterwards with the cleanup. Everyone gave their best effort until their bodies said "no more!".
The A/V was brought up to a whole new level with Ethan O’Toole, Andy Diller and crew. Such a fantastic upgrade from the amateurish and crude days where we had setup our personal cameras and just left them to record. These guys truly look like professionals with the lighting, OBS setup with multiple camera angles, slide view, etc. They even setup an overflow room in case we got full in the main room.
Alex Jacocks did an awesome job in consignment which is a very tough job. We had expanded space there and sales were very heavy. Thanks so much for doing a great job there. You came days early to setup and really made consignment a great experience for everyone.
Corey ran the front desk and did a great job of training all the new people volunteering there. Lots of changes and improvements there this time. Everyone seemed to notice how efficient and better the front desk was.
I thank Drew for the awesome new program book design. It is a superior upgrade to previous years and people noticed.
I want to thank Jeff Jonas for making the signs and all the last minute signs that I needed.
I love all the stories that I heard and plan to tell them for years to come, especially how I somehow solved multiple emergencies in the days before the show to avoid disaster. I also love the story of how Thomas Cherryholmes solved his #Fujinet for Adam problem. That is a fun story! There are vintage computer angels looking out for us!
And thank all those people who helped out in many ways behind the scenes and in every corner of the show where the volunteers couldn't be. Together we make this a festival where the vintage community comes together in fellowship and fun to make us all the better!
Here's looking forward to VCF East 2022 which will be on April 22, 23, 24!