Hell, why not jump the gun and go straight to 2004? Feature a Socket 939 Athlon 64 system running Half-life 2. After all, '04 is as far from 2024 as the original Macintosh was from '04. ;) On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 8:54 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Either way, not sure I am ready for 1994 yet. b
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 5:53 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Sorry it went over my head :-)
Themes like mass storage, educational computing, women in tech, etc., are also great!
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 5:11 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
My original reply was a joke, why does it seem like every year there is an anniversary? Get it?
Anyway, product releases have anniversaries, concepts less so. For example a theme called "mass storage", but I am not here to argue. Anniversaries serve as an anchor to be interpreted as each exhibitor sees fit.
B
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 3:52 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
My reply got truncated for reasons unknown.
Anniversaries resonate with people and are a good enough reason to rotate themes
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 3:23 PM Dean Notarnicola < dnotarnicola@gmail.com
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*Why does everything have to be an "anniversary"?*
Anniversaries resonate with people and are a good enough reason to rotate themes with the public and its a good enough mechanism to rotate themes.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 2:43 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Why does everything have to be an "anniversary"?
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 12:53 PM Thomas G via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> One could do a design showing the progression from the Alto to the > Macintosh, as a general "anniversary of the GUI" theme. > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 11:35 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > 1984 Mac 128 > > 1984 IBM PC/AT > > 1964 BASIC > > 1964 IBM System/360 > > > > I do like the Xerox Parc though > > >