[vcf-midatlantic] Dave McMurtrie stated that Andy Finkel and Al Charpentier will be at VCF East

[Tony Bogan]

To reiterate what Dean said, the C64 in particular was the first home computer for millions of people. 10s of millions. And toys are so popular it makes perfect sense people remember their favorite childhood toy fondly!

;-)

(I duck, then run for cover as Chris Fala and Jeff Brace throw Apple II computers at me)

In all seriousness I have to say that all the years I was involved with VCF East first Evan and Jeff  then Jeff always had an extremely difficult time getting potential speakers to even respond let alone commit to coming. Facts are that our resident Atari and Commodore experts/former employees/etc (and their former colleagues) simply make themselves available more often and are almost always willing to go above and beyond what we even expected from guest speakers.

They just seem, from my perspective, to step up more often. Which has been friggin’ awesome!
The fact that they have often stayed long after their talk(s) and made themselves available to the public, sometimes for the entire length of the Festival, may be why it seems we have had a lot of commodore speakers. Not to mention they often show in groups, not just individual speakers, which has also been friggin’ awesome!

Tony Bogan 

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> On Feb 5, 2024, at 1:00 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> To be fair, a tremendous amount of people started their computing
> experience with Commodore back in the day due too the sheer sales numbers,
> so it resonates with many (I was a TRS-80/Atari guy back then.)
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 12:57 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 11:42 AM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>> <bustin chops mode>
>>> 
>>> GAH can we have something over more Commodore!
>> 
>> 
>> Just for that, next year will be 75% Commodore speakers!
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> </bustin chops mode>
>>> 
>>> Sorry, okay not really. ;-)
>>> 
>>> Actually I'm quite happy, we're having an Atari Classroom this VCF. :-D
>>> 
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