VCF MIDWEST 2024 ...Anyone going?

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Title says it all. Just wondering if i’m the only one here planning to go to Vintage Computer fest round here.

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It’s on my radar this year… I’ve never been, but I live in Chicagoland, so it’s actually pretty close to home.

Any one else?

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It’s Sept 7-8 at the Schaumburg Convention Center.

https://vcfmw.org/

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Are you gonna go ?

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Yes, sorry for being vague. My plan is to show up early-ish on Saturday and stay for the YouTuber discussion panel.

I don’t need any vintage computers and might try to offload some some old servers to freegeek.

If that overlaps with your plans, we could meet up or get lunch on-site.

Anyone else?

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Yeah that could work. What kind of old servers are you offloading?

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I have 2 old Dell 1U servers… I’ll have to check the model #s, but they are pretty old. They might be OK for some one wanting to play around, but the power usage is probably off the charts. They are back from the 4 core intel era, so probably a raspberry pi is more powerful and much more power efficient.

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I have a ton of really abandoned monitors in my garage. Would I be able to those to donate? I don’t want to. They are going to be in terrible shaped. Condemned tear. Probably better just going to an ewaste recycler.

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Free Geek Chicago will be there- they might be able to take the working ones, but might be good to contact them ahead of time to see what they will accept and where.

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I’m heading out there in a few hours. I’ve never been, so I don’t know how busy it gets. Should we pick a place and meet at 11:30 or something like that? Do we need a passphrase or code word?

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I am so sorry i got sucked into the convention. I am sure i walked past you a billion times but yeah…I was there. I am about to make a video in my huge threadripper post about everything. You should see it soon.

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No worries. It was quite the convention!! I walked around, bought a few t-shirts, had lunch, then attended the you-tuber panel. I wish I could have stayed for the auction and live music, but I had dinner plans.

It was very cool to be around people with such a high level of enthusiasm and knowledge.

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