North-Eastern US Atlantic Amiga Meetup?

[eliyahu]

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

[RobertB]

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

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

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.  

[mbpark]

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.

[RobertB]

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