Hello everyone, VCF East 2022 was a great success! Initial reports indicate that financially we recouped our large expenses this year. Everyone that I ran into seemed very pleased with all aspects of the show and thanked me for all my hardwork and dedication for making this show great. The talks were diverse and top notch, the consignment was very profitable and great treasures to be found, the food on site was appreciated, the exhibits were incredibly exciting, lots of cool VCF Swag to be bought and the comradery was fun. I want to thank everyone who volunteered and helped me with the planning, setup and breakdown of the show. I spent countless hours planning for this show over the weeks and months before the show. Despite the huge amount of time and dedication that I put into this show by myself, I would not be able to make this show happen without the volunteers. The quality of the show has been improved due to the volunteers such as the Sea Cadets and all the individuals who made my job easier and improved the quality of the show overall. For me, this is a part time job in the months leading up to this show and a full time job the week before the show. I want to thank Bill and Rick who helped me plan for hours every week ahead of the show. Bill is my right hand man who helps set up the signs, docenting at the museum and with anything that I need, before, during and after the show. Rick helped with the planning and the survey as well as setup, docent duty and breakdown after the show. The Sea Cadets were incredibly helpful with crowd management and helping in all areas of the show. I want to thank Alex for organizing the volunteers and running the consignment. They brought consignment up to a new level with a Point of Sale System, setting up storage carts for a less crowded room, labeling for items, spreadsheet inventory and many other tweaks. Thanks to Corey for running the front desk, helping with setup and breakdown of it. I felt relaxed to know that he would have everything running there smoothly. Jason was great in setting up the tables, managing the exhibitors and for making the campus map as well as Lawson for making the exhibitor map. Ethan O and crew for bringing the A/V to an even higher level of professionalism. They were so good last year, but were even better this year! Thanks to Adam and Tony for setup and teaching and all the instructors for doing the Apple 2 classroom. It was very successful. Glitch had another incredible workshop and adjusted nicely due to lack of kits by making it an S-100 repair workshop. Chris L for helping where I needed at the front gate, breakdown, etc. Chris F for being the speaker coordinator and all the other people who helped with the day before, during and after the show. I was very glad to be able to go home "early" on Sunday by 10PM due to help with breakdown. I'm usually there until 2AM and come back Monday for several hours to clean up. Thanks to all the great speakers for such diverse, interesting and enjoyable talks. Thanks especially to Bil Herd for wrangling 12 Commodore speakers together in one spot. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see so many of them in one spot. Thanks to all the Commodorians who came. You will never see this happen again. Thanks to Burger Becky for such incredible talks. Thanks to Kathy Kleiman for a fun interactive talk. Thanks to Stephen Edwards for moderating the technical talks with the Commodore folks. Thanks to all the in-person and virtual speakers who had diverse and fun talks. All the steamed talks were made private so that we have a chance to clean up the videos and release them as separate talks. We need some time to edit and process them before releasing them. Our next year's show will be April 14, 15 and 16, 2023 back at InfoAge. There will be two themes for this show. The first is: Computing in Education. The second theme will be announced shortly. I hope to see everyone again next year for an incredibly fantastic show! Jeff Brace Showrunner for Vintage Computer Festival East
On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:51 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF East 2022 was a great success! I
Thank you to everyone at the VCF for putting on a great show. I was glad to be back as an exhibitor after a number of years not being able to make it. Special shout out to Dean for rescuing my exhibit by letting me borrow an expansion interface cable as mine came apart when setting up. I will be back next year! Pete
I know there's a survey, but I will share that I very much appreciated vendors being interspersed with the exhibits. Stepping away from the table is always hard to do, but it's much easier when you can watch your table while enjoying the exhibits in the same room as you. I know at least one attendee wondered why the organizers didn't put all the vendors in one room, but I could not seem to explain the benefits (I suspect he was a "reds go in one pile, whites in another" type of person.) I enjoyed many of the InfoAge exhibits before I left, though the multiple exhibit rooms was a bit tedious to navigate at times. (It doesn't look like a larger combined exhibit space is available at the venue). The trip was almost cut short as a no-show, with the little Smart ForTwo developing a nasty habit of drinking oil midway enroute to NJ, to the tune of 1 qt per 200 miles, and the little 3 cyl engine only holds 3.5qt. It turns out that 5W40 (or pretty much any 40 weight oil) seems to not be in wide usage in the East :-) and is thus hard to source enroute. Luckily Advance Auto in Neptune, NJ (cute city name...) had it in both 1 and 5 quart containers, so we stocked up for the drive home, hoping the little engine that could would make it 1000 more miles back to Iowa. Though I now probably sport the only Midwestern Smart car that sounds like it's powered by a 2 cycle chainsaw engine, it delivered me back here. Now, it's off to Mr. Service Tech to determine the extent of damages. Hopefully not too bad, as making the trip in the other option (F350 DRW diesel getting 13-15MPG @5.XX/gallon of diesel) makes the trip significantly less economical. Jim
Wow, that is a tough break. My wife had a 2008 impala SS that used to drink oil at 95,000 miles but you could never tell unless you check the oil level, didn’t smoke, didn’t smell. Used to foul up the spark plugs number 1 and 7. During an oil change I ran some “engine restore” cleaner into it and it worked well for a while until the next oil change. Had to do that all over again Needless to say I got rid of the car. I hope you didn’t have a major problem but I’m pretty sure it is. Good luck Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Apr 26, 2022, at 5:42 PM, RETRO Innovations via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I know there's a survey, but I will share that I very much appreciated vendors being interspersed with the exhibits. Stepping away from the table is always hard to do, but it's much easier when you can watch your table while enjoying the exhibits in the same room as you. I know at least one attendee wondered why the organizers didn't put all the vendors in one room, but I could not seem to explain the benefits (I suspect he was a "reds go in one pile, whites in another" type of person.) I enjoyed many of the InfoAge exhibits before I left, though the multiple exhibit rooms was a bit tedious to navigate at times. (It doesn't look like a larger combined exhibit space is available at the venue).
The trip was almost cut short as a no-show, with the little Smart ForTwo developing a nasty habit of drinking oil midway enroute to NJ, to the tune of 1 qt per 200 miles, and the little 3 cyl engine only holds 3.5qt. It turns out that 5W40 (or pretty much any 40 weight oil) seems to not be in wide usage in the East :-) and is thus hard to source enroute. Luckily Advance Auto in Neptune, NJ (cute city name...) had it in both 1 and 5 quart containers, so we stocked up for the drive home, hoping the little engine that could would make it 1000 more miles back to Iowa.
Though I now probably sport the only Midwestern Smart car that sounds like it's powered by a 2 cycle chainsaw engine, it delivered me back here. Now, it's off to Mr. Service Tech to determine the extent of damages. Hopefully not too bad, as making the trip in the other option (F350 DRW diesel getting 13-15MPG @5.XX/gallon of diesel) makes the trip significantly less economical.
Jim
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