Sorry for not responding earlier. This is the first chance I had to send a response after a long day of breaking down Sunday (was there until midnight), a followup cleanup on Monday (9 hours) and getting back to work today. I only want to share some of the details to avoid speculation, rumors and to avoid impeding the police investigation. The facts: There was a phone call placed to Wall Township Police Department that had spoofed InfoAge's main phone number. The caller said that there was a bomb in a particular building and that he was going to shoot up the building. He had a particular accent. He seemed to be a former volunteer at a museum (not VCF), but that could be inaccurate. It could be a random person. Swatting seems to happen a lot lately. The police had mentioned recent frequent swatting incidents in the township. I had given them two possible suspects of disgruntled former volunteers, but it is highly unlikely that it is them. I gave them an additional suspect after listening to the conversation. The police used K-9s to search all the buildings to make sure everything was safe. It took a long time because there are many buildings and many areas to cover. The police continue to investigate. I'm grateful that everyone was safe. I'm disappointed that the last talk was interrupted and Lee couldn't talk. I'm proposing a follow-up to the YouTuber roundtable by streaming to VCF's YouTube Channel to allow questions. In addition I will have a follow up livestream of Lee Felsenstein where he can give his talk. There is no proposed time or date yet as everything needs to be settled and I need to finish cleanup and organization of the different areas. Lee *did* sell all of his books and really enjoyed the show. It was a good opportunity for him to meet others in vintage computer history that he had never met like Joysce Weisbecker, Bill Mensch, etc. A few of us volunteers supported him in getting picked up/dropped off the train, and safe during the bomb scare. I'm grateful that I could communicate real-time with most people through Whova and through the VCF Discord channel. I'm grateful that Rick Lewis could help me as I was answering a lot of questions from the police throughout the event. That's all for now. Feel free to ask questions. Jeff Brace On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 10:43 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Too early?