Dude.JediKnight
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Had a great time at VCF East and picked up a few smaller things at Consignment. Got a boxed AirPort Extreme Base station, a PCI FW card, and a couple stray cables I needed. They had at least a dozen early Mac Pros for sale, of varying quality and specs, took a lot of restraint to not buy one and get myself in trouble when I got back home.
So much stuff to see at the show, and got to talk to a good number of YouTube folks at their exhibits. Got to tell Sean from Action Retro that I personally preferred the “Cursed Mac” when it was still in the black shell, and that I liked the black speaker cloth he put on the G4 TAM, and saw both machines in person. Also pestered him and Steve from Mac84 about advice with my liquid cooled G5 PowerMac. Saw The 8-bit Guy there, and his table was quite busy… but still got to shake his hand and tell him that I enjoy his videos. So many weird and interesting exhibits, as well as catching a demo of an old UNIVAC system at the VCF Museum. Didn’t see any talks that day that really piqued my interest, but they are all going to be uploaded online in the next few weeks anyway, so I can always watch them later.
Also, happened to randomly walk down the right hall at the right time to meet Adrian of Adrian’s Difital Basement. Actually got to chat with him for a couple minutes and got a picture with him!
Overall, the show itself was great, certainly worth the price for a whole day of cool vintage computing stuff. Cannot wait for the Swap Meet this June, as well as next years show!
So much stuff to see at the show, and got to talk to a good number of YouTube folks at their exhibits. Got to tell Sean from Action Retro that I personally preferred the “Cursed Mac” when it was still in the black shell, and that I liked the black speaker cloth he put on the G4 TAM, and saw both machines in person. Also pestered him and Steve from Mac84 about advice with my liquid cooled G5 PowerMac. Saw The 8-bit Guy there, and his table was quite busy… but still got to shake his hand and tell him that I enjoy his videos. So many weird and interesting exhibits, as well as catching a demo of an old UNIVAC system at the VCF Museum. Didn’t see any talks that day that really piqued my interest, but they are all going to be uploaded online in the next few weeks anyway, so I can always watch them later.
Also, happened to randomly walk down the right hall at the right time to meet Adrian of Adrian’s Difital Basement. Actually got to chat with him for a couple minutes and got a picture with him!
Overall, the show itself was great, certainly worth the price for a whole day of cool vintage computing stuff. Cannot wait for the Swap Meet this June, as well as next years show!