VCF East 8 2012 pre-announcement

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:35 pm

This May 5-6 the Vintage Computer Festival East returns to the Info Age Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, New Jersey, USA. VCF East 8.0 is brought to you by the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists club -- http://www.marchclub.org

Commodore Business Machines engineer Bil Herd will be running a workshop on the topic of Commodore maintenance and repair. The keynote speaker will be Tom Kurtz who co-developed BASIC while at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

SkydivinGirl · Post by **SkydivinGirl** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:43 am

I really want to go to this this year! It's an 8.5 hour drive so it's not too bad.

Heather

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:44 pm

Further clarification and now a tentative schedule. Bil Herd will speak Saturday from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in what is called at the moment, "Part 2 of the History of CBM", a continuation of Chuck Peddle's video talk given at VCF East a few years ago. Bil will relate CBM stories from 1984 to 1986. Then Bil Herd will watch over (but not necessarily lead) the next session, "Intro to Commodore 8-bit Maintenance", which will run from 11:30-12:30.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:11 am

I wrote:

> The May 5-6 the Vintage Computer Festival East returns to the Info Age Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, New Jersey, USA.
> VCF East 8.0 is brought to you by the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists club -- http://www.marchclub.org

Then I wrote:

> Further clarification and now a tentative schedule. Bil Herd will speak Saturday from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in what is called at the
> moment, "Part 2 of the History of CBM", a continuation of Chuck Peddle's video talk given at VCF East a few years ago. Bil will relate
> CBM stories from 1984 to 1986. Then Bil Herd will watch over (but not necessarily lead) the next session, "Intro to Commodore 8-bit
> Maintenance"...

It is now confirmed; CBM engineer Bil Herd is going to teach the C= repair class at VCF East 2012.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

ajordison · Post by **ajordison** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:46 pm

SkydivinGirl wrote:It's an 8.5 hour drive so it's not too bad.

What's your definition of a long drive??

Witzo · Post by **Witzo** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:34 am

That looks like an awesome event!
But I'm on the other side of the Atlantic...

Bring my regards and thanks to the Commodore engineers over there.

Ian Colquhoun · Post by **Ian Colquhoun** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:36 am

ajordison wrote:What's your definition of a long drive??

I've driven from Toronto, Canada to Phoenix, USA and back on 3 different occasions. 8000km round trip. That's a fairly long drive.

CBR125R · Post by **CBR125R** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:58 am

I've noticed similar comments from other people in Europe. I don't think some folks realize just how vast and empty much of North America is, and how spread out locations are. Just to visit my parents home is a 5-hour drive and a 2-hour ferry ride. If I get in my car and drive east 12 hours a day for three days, I'll only be halfway across my country.

Yeah, an 8-hour drive is not that big of a deal here.

tokra · Post by **tokra** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:03 am

I suppose going 60 miles an hour on an open highway with cruise-control is a lot less demanding than going 120 miles an hour on a crowded german autobahn with some high-powered BMW creeping up on you in the back-mirror since he wants to go 150.