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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: TeamBlackFox on June 24, 2014, 02:01:47 PM
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Since there seem to be a lot of us in the North-East US Atlantic area. Lets organize a meetup! This thread is for members in the area to check in and discuss organization of possible meetups.
I myself am unable to host one - for a variety of reasons. However if someone is willing to host one I can probably drive other members in the VA/DC area ( My car gets 25 MPG - save some petrol since its $4/gallon! and can hold 5 people including myself and several machines in the boot ) to the meet up assuming they're on the way and willing to pay for some fuel.
Anyways lets get something organized!
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$4/gallon! That's less than half price.
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$4/gallon! That's less than half price.
In Virginia its awfully high. I remember when petrol was 50 cents in 1996
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Petrol Prices in the UK are 129.9 p/L which is US$ 2.19/L. US$3.60/US Gallon is US$1.00/L, less than half the UK price...
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Bring it up to New England and I'm in!
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Bring it up to New England and I'm in!
i'd prefer something closer to NYC myself, but i'd happily take the train down to DC for this -- assuming it wasn't friday night or saturday, of course. if i can be there, i will. and if not, well, i hope someone takes pictures.
-- eliyahu
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I can make anything from nj and north in late fall early winter.
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I'm in central Jersey. The last meet up that was had by a few folks on here was in Baltimore area and that has just become too far atm. If there is anything that anyone wants to do in the eastern PA, NJ, lower NY area and on a weekend, I'd be more than interested.
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I'm in New England too, (Cape Cod) and would be willing to bring my X1000 to an event if it wasn't too far away.
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Great seems there's a demand. Will someone who can help organize one agree on a place we can meet that can host all of us? I can drive as far as New York comfortably.
As far as when - I'd say sometime in the fall because I'm not free until after Otakon.
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I'm in New England too, (Cape Cod) and would be willing to bring my X1000 to an event if it wasn't too far away.
I'd love a meet up in MA, and I'd love to check out an X1000.
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as for location the only places i could host would be my home or my offices. the former is in waterbury, CT; the latter in poughkeepsie, NY. it sounds like both would be too far for most folks?
-- eliyahu
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New York is fine with me - I got a friend who's moving up there so I have an excuse.
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It would have to be a major get together for me to drive 2+ hours. Otherwise I'd prefer to fly out to a west coast show. :)
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It would have to be a major get together for me to drive 2+ hours. Otherwise I'd prefer to fly out to a west coast show. :)
I hope you can get enough interest to make an East Coast meeting happen, but also hope you consider doing both, and book a flight to Sacramento in October.:) Edit: 2 hours is nothing, I drive 7 to 8 hours each time I go to an AmiWest Show, but hopefully not this year, as I am looking to move to within 1 to 2 hours drive from Sacramento before the show happens this Oct.
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I may try to make it to AmiWest this year or next... but we'll see. This year is likely a no as MS Azure will be opening a new DC and I'll probably be assigned to it ( Yes, I'm a Microserf, no, I don't like MS at all )
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I hope you can get enough interest to make an East Coast meeting happen, but also hope you consider doing both, and book a flight to Sacramento in October. Edit: 2 hours is nothing, I drive 7 to 8 hours each time I go to an AmiWest Show, but hopefully not this year, as I am looking to move to within 1 to 2 hours drive from Sacramento before the show happens this Oct.
It's not the drive by itself, but in relation to what I get out of it in return. I'd drive 4-5 hours for an overnight or full day if I'm going to get a lot out of it, but driving more than a couple of hours to just hang out for a few hours with a couple of other Amiga enthusiasts probably isn't worth it.
I would love to take a trip out west for a show, but I'm torn between AmiWest and CommVex... and it would be difficult to do one never mind both with my schedule, family, etc.
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The hardest part is always finding a location to meet. Unless someone happens to have a very large house... my crappy rented-off-craigslist-basement is close to my main job and derby practice, but not at all suited for get-togethers. My office has several conference rooms that could work, but it would have to be late at night or on a weekend, to make sure no sales folks get interrupted by Amigan's traipsing through the office. ;) Also the location (Gainesville VA, near Manassas) isn't very centrally located.
@Bigbronc's house in Maryland was good for the few meetings we had last year, but I don't believe he's active anymore?
Location, location, location!
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My office has several conference rooms that could work, but it would have to be late at night or on a weekend, to make sure no sales folks get interrupted by Amigan's traipsing through the office. ;) Also the location (Gainesville VA, near Manassas) isn't very centrally located.
You're close by me hahaha! Someone will stand up and organize it I bet.
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;) Also the location (Gainesville VA, near Manassas)
Lol, he said Manassas :D
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If you guys want to do it in September (I'm in Philadelphia,Pa,USA)
I can offer my place. Its fairly spacious and will have multiple rooms for gear setups. I'm just like 3 minutes off of the allegheny exit of I-95. (a few minutes from Center City, Philadelphia)
I have some video projectors (Can set up amiga demos playing) and some other fun stuff I suppose (laser displays and so on)
Can have BBQ and beers...
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Philly sounds pretty decent. Still its at least an overnight trip for me, but hey its doable. Of you want to organise an event HaywirePC I'll bring my A3k and also my SGI Fuel and any other systems I have in my possession ( Maybe even some boxen I want to sell )In my opinion, we should use the meet for a few different things:
1. To make professional connections with fellow computer enthusiasts who share a common interest.
2. To swap / consummate any sales of hardware we bring that's not to exhibit/network.
3. To share software and code ( I can make a few floppies with NFS or Samba software and setup a share onsite for swapping to facilitate this )
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Sounds great to me I'd love to play with an sgi machine in person...
I have a couple classics, an aros machine and a morphos machine...
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I can bring my A1200 and show it off a bit...even if it requires some coaxing. Maybe someone could help me with the Indy mk2 and get some big screen WHDLoad going on.
I'd also be interested in possibly purchasing some HW as well. I'm always on the lookout for something fun to play with that is reasonably priced :)
I'm outside of Trenton in Jersey so I could probably be at Haywire's in about an hour or less (depending on traffic). I'd love to see how your tower is coming along!
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i could make philly, sure. could we do this on a sunday? i can bring my pegasos2 setup so folks can play around with MOS or AOS4 if they're interested.
-- eliyahu
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In the NY area (up in Westchester where WAUG, the Westchester Amiga Users Group still meets most months) and definitely interested in something like this even if down in the DC or Philly area and i'm sure we can fill up the car with some people or hit the Acela.
ROAD TRIP!
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Okay then Haywire looks like you have the demand.
I may not be able to come in September though, due to the fact I'll be gone in August for half a week and my employer won't be thrilled about that. I'll try to swing it, but it depends.
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Maybe we could make it earlier in the day and do a lunch meet type of thing and get everyone on the road at a fairly agreeable time if distance is a factor.
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what ever came of this?
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what ever came of this?
AFAIK, nothing. :(
terminills, you're in NY, right? maybe we could see if the westchester guys are still interested in hosting. there seems to be enough in the tri-state area to hold a get-together. i'd still like to try this.
-- eliyahu
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There is always the Vintage Computer Festival East where you would meet fellow Commodore and Amiga users exhibiting their computers. The next VCF East is April 17-19, 2015 at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey. See
http://www.midatlanticretro.org/
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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AFAIK, nothing. :(
I would love an East Coast meetup, but have neither the space to host one nor the time to plan one. Between roller derby and three jobs, yeah, I know, I suck. :( Now if someone else put one on I'd be there with bells and whistles on, though! We were doing those meetups at @bigbronc's house in Maryland for a while last fall but I think he's too busy now, too. :(
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There is always the Vintage Computer Festival East where you would meet fellow Commodore and Amiga users exhibiting their computers. The next VCF East is April 17-19, 2015 at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey. See
http://www.midatlanticretro.org/
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Robert,
I was going to suggest that and you beat me to it :). Dave Haynie spoke there last year, and there is a very large Commodore/Amiga presence and numerous exhibits. There are a number of ex-Commodore engineers still in the area, and they do get them to speak and show off cool things like the Commodore LCD and PET hard drives.
One of my friends exhibited there with a Pegasos II running Debian 6 years ago, and there were a lot of people who knew what that was, too. The fact that it was running an emulated DDial system made it even cooler. That was also the year an ex-Commodore shareholder brought in a 35mm slide deck showing a number of unreleased prototype Amiga cases.
Evan Koblentz and MARCH do a great job with this event. I was considering holding a class there on firewalls and securing retro devices on home networks, but I have another engagement to prep for, unfortunately. I'll have something for VCF XI.
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That was also the year an ex-Commodore shareholder brought in a 35mm slide deck showing a number of unreleased prototype Amiga cases.
Whoa! That sounds interesting. I hope he transferred those slides to digital media. :)
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm