Hello Chris, I'm the showrunner for VCF East. Glad to hear that you are interested in exhibiting! Even better, you are willing to fly across the pond to do it! British computers would be a welcome exhibit for our show. Rules for exhibiting can be found on this page: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-east-exhibits/vc... Jeff Brace On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:02 PM Chris Platts via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I’ve been sat in my spare room over several years fixing, restoring and tinkering with old machines, usually with the likes of Adrian’s Digital Basement or Usagi Electric on the TV to keep me company.
I only really learnt about the VCF recently… but since then, I’ve got the idea in my head of (carefully) throwing a bunch of my British home computers — and maybe an Atari or two — in a suitcase and flying over to the US to exhibit at VCF East 2024.
Does that sound like it’d be of interest? I’d bring all that I could — a selection of BBC Micros, Acorn Archimedes, Amstrad CPCs, etc. Whatever I could fit in 23 kilos! I’d happily let anyone have a play around on them and share whatever I know.
I suppose I’m asking where the ‘bar’ is for exhibiting. I’m certainly no Adrian or David — just a guy with a soldering iron and an oscilloscope and too much time on his hands. But I do love these old machines and it’d be nice to share.
If it’s not quite what the festival needs, I’m still planning on flying over in April to attend even if I don’t exhibit!
Any thoughts appreciated!
Cheers, Chris