I think this was my 5th VCF. Still putting faces to names from the list. Had a good time, things went very smoothly. The talks sounded awesome, wich I could have gotten there earlier but work/leave. I had the SGI table. The biggest comment I got especially from the young people that surprised me was their knowledge of the SGI Indy Nintendo 64 development kit. It's rare, I don't have one (yet.) But there is high awareness of it apparently! Now that I have the feel for how things flow, it will be easier next year for me. I also met a good number of people who also said they were from the Northern Virginia area, very cool. Fun time! And as a pinball and arcade guy I mostly got slayed by my friends at the Silerball Museum Sat eve. Talked with the guy that maintains the machines for about an hour Saturday night. I dig that place (was just at the location in Del Ray Beach FL a few weeks ago.) Good times. - Ethan
Jeff Brace got the Galaga high score of "all time" at Silverball, after dinner. He blew through 300,000 and made it to about ~306,000. I had never seen anyone get above 200,000. Well done! Bill On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I think this was my 5th VCF. Still putting faces to names from the list.
Had a good time, things went very smoothly. The talks sounded awesome, wich I could have gotten there earlier but work/leave.
I had the SGI table. The biggest comment I got especially from the young people that surprised me was their knowledge of the SGI Indy Nintendo 64 development kit. It's rare, I don't have one (yet.) But there is high awareness of it apparently!
Now that I have the feel for how things flow, it will be easier next year for me.
I also met a good number of people who also said they were from the Northern Virginia area, very cool.
Fun time!
And as a pinball and arcade guy I mostly got slayed by my friends at the Silerball Museum Sat eve. Talked with the guy that maintains the machines for about an hour Saturday night. I dig that place (was just at the location in Del Ray Beach FL a few weeks ago.)
Good times.
- Ethan
Oh and my son also asked me about the Nintendo dev kit when I showed him my SGI. Future vintage collectors' holy grail. On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Bill Degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:
Jeff Brace got the Galaga high score of "all time" at Silverball, after dinner. He blew through 300,000 and made it to about ~306,000. I had never seen anyone get above 200,000. Well done! Bill
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I think this was my 5th VCF. Still putting faces to names from the list.
Had a good time, things went very smoothly. The talks sounded awesome, wich I could have gotten there earlier but work/leave.
I had the SGI table. The biggest comment I got especially from the young people that surprised me was their knowledge of the SGI Indy Nintendo 64 development kit. It's rare, I don't have one (yet.) But there is high awareness of it apparently!
Now that I have the feel for how things flow, it will be easier next year for me.
I also met a good number of people who also said they were from the Northern Virginia area, very cool.
Fun time!
And as a pinball and arcade guy I mostly got slayed by my friends at the Silerball Museum Sat eve. Talked with the guy that maintains the machines for about an hour Saturday night. I dig that place (was just at the location in Del Ray Beach FL a few weeks ago.)
Good times.
- Ethan
M Talked with the guy that maintains the machines
for about an hour Saturday night. I dig that place (was just at the location in Del Ray Beach FL a few weeks ago.)
Good times.
- Ethan
Guy that repairs and supplies a lot of their machines has a whole hallway in the same storage facility I have my storage units in. Silverball in Asbury and Yestercades in Redbank are two of my favorite places to relax! Glad your exhibit went well! I remember drooling over some of those SGI machines when they were new! Tony
Guy that repairs and supplies a lot of their machines has a whole hallway in the same storage facility I have my storage units in. Silverball in Asbury and Yestercades in Redbank are two of my favorite places to relax!
Very cool! I have repaired a number of pinballs but mostly early 90s digital machines (WMS WPC and WPC95, some Stern SAM.) Though friends are picking up a number of Williams System 4 and 6 games and I've been helping them on them. Pretty much just vintage computers inside (6502, 6509 etc)
Glad your exhibit went well! I remember drooling over some of those SGI machines when they were new!
Same! When I was young I would drool over all the UNIX workstation hardware. Then when it got cheap... I would pick the stuff up at auctions. Then it kind of reached a mountain top. https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/mar21/ https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/canon/13.jpg.JPG https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/May01/IMG_0320.JPG etc etc
On 2018-05-22 12:04, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Oh and my son also asked me about the Nintendo dev kit when I showed him my SGI. Future vintage collectors' holy grail.
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I had the SGI table. The biggest comment I got especially from the young people that surprised me was their knowledge of the SGI Indy Nintendo 64 development kit. It's rare, I don't have one (yet.) But there is high awareness of it apparently!
Yup! I did an SGI Indy exhibit last year, and the N64 devkit came up several times. I had heard of it previously but I've never seen one IRL. Sorry I didn't get a chance to stop by your table and chat with another SGI-afflicted person. ;) -- Jameel Akari
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