Vintage Computer Festival 2002 |
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The most widely known events of the last few years in the Commodore world have been the Vintage Computer Festival in Silicon Valley, the Lansing (MI) Expo and the Chicago Expo. The 2001 festival was cancelled in the aftermath of 911, but VCF 5.0 was held on October 26-27, 2002 at Moffett Field Federal Airbase, Mountain View, California. Attendance was about 300 total for both days. The event featured exhibits, demos, products for sale and early computers large and small on display. Robert Bernardo, who has attended and reported on many of these events, was there and captured the action and the faces on film. |
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Jeri Ellsworth (right) showing off the Rev. 0 CommodoreOne prototype board | (l to r) Jeri Ellsworth, Clarke Murphy and Ed Hart of the Commodore Hayward User Group, Cameron Kaiser looking at the CommodoreOne |
Same, plus Gene Woods of the University Place Commodore Home User Group of Tacoma, Washington, between Hart & Kaiser |
Jeri Ellsworth (left) being interviewed by Justin Beck of Berkeley radio | Dale Luck (left) with Jeri Ellsworth, playing Wings of War at the FCUG table | Todd Elliott, programmer of the geoWrite 128 2.2 patch and others |
Ed Hart (left) letting young on-looker try out a Commodore game | Lots of kids playing games with the Commodores at the FCUG table | Bill Bosari's Amiga exhibit table |
Cameron Kaiser next to his exhibit of micro-computers | Larry Anderson's exhibit table with an interested user | Larry Anderson's vending table (wife, Diane Hare, in the blue jacket) |
Dale Luck's exhibit table with parts of the Amiga Lorraine | The CommodoreOne Rev. 0 prototype board | Jeri Ellsworth and Clarke Murphy of the Commodore Hayward User Group |
The FCUG table (Ed Hart, right) | A close-up of the Commodore ChessMate at Peter Jenning's exhibit table | A wider view of Peter Jenning's exhibit table |
Hans Franke's exhibit table with the Commodore KIM-1 | A closer view of the KIM-1, production no. 1 | Dinner afterwards -- VCF organizer, Sellam "Sam" Ismail in the center |
Wider view of the dinner table | ||
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Robert Bernardo is a middle school teacher in Corcoran CA, and president of the Fresno Commodore User Group. Robert has traveled to many U.S. locations as well as to England, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic; and has written extensively on his contacts with the Commodore people he met on his travels. His articles are archived in the Articles Index at the Commodore Information Center. This page is sponsored by the Fresno Commodore User Group |
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Updated September 22, 2018