BIG 40, TI-99/4A Annual Chicago TI International World Faire

[KB9ZQT]

Hi Everyone, It's that time of the year again for the Chicago Faire! Trying to plan the Big 40 event! 

If your interested in speaking/presenting, please reach out to Hal Shanafield (Hals12@hotmail.com) to get your spot reserved. 

Please add your name to the poll so we can get a count started. 

 

Event Details: 

The 40th Annual Chicago TI International World Faire

Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Ave
Evanston, IL 60201
Saturday, October 29th, 2022

 

http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/

 

Hope to see you all there! 

John

 

[+9640News]

I am planning on attending myself UNLESS, my work requires me to go the opposite direction to Mobile, AL.

 

I will reach out to Hal for a demonstration.

Beery

[+Ksarul]

Turtles and I plan to be there. . .

[+Vorticon]

Looking forward to attending.

[Serafini Lapo]

Un appello a chi parteciperà..

Fate e pubblicate tante foto!😄

[RXB]

Since I live with Girlfriend and bought house together my travel options have really been cut back.

[Tursi]

Work makes it impossible this year, as usual. Hope you all have fun!

[GDMike]

Of course I'd love to go, maybe one day will come, but not yet.

[+arcadeshopper]

also stuck due to to work this year   and a newborn..  maybe next year.. I keep saying that

 

Edited October 3, 2022 by arcadeshopper

[+Ksarul]

On 10/1/2022 at 11:27 AM, Tursi said:

Work makes it impossible this year, as usual. Hope you all have fun!

I will definitely miss talking to you, my friend!

[+Lee Stewart]

Won’t be making it this year. Perhaps, next year.

 

...lee

[GDMike]

9 hours ago, arcadeshopper said:

also stuck due to to work this year   and a newborn..  maybe next year.. I keep saying that

 

Congratulations 🎉

[KB9ZQT]

The 40th annual Chicago TI International World Faire will kick off with the usual Friday night dinner, held this year at the Mt. Everest restaurant, 630 Church Street, Evanston, Illinois, beginning at 6 p.m. on October 28. The restaurant is located just across the street from the main entrance to the Evanston Public Library. Parking is available in the lot to the east of the library.

[+Ksarul]

Turtles and I will probably miss the dinner due to departure scheduling from here, but we'll both be there bright and early on Saturday, assuming no random catastrophes between now and then. 

[+InsaneMultitasker]

Will the event and or presentations be streamed for the big 40 ?

[KB9ZQT]

 

Edited October 28, 2022 by KB9ZQT

[8_is_enuff]

Do festivities kick off at 9:30 am, same as the livestream?

[KB9ZQT]

Doors open to the library at 9am. The live stream will start as soon as I can get the equipment unpacked and running. Presentation will start shortly after that. Should be an action packed day filled with lots of presentation I hear from Hal.

[SteveB]

Looking forward to join online from Germany! 

[+Vorticon]

 

Congratulations to our latest honoree! Very well deserved indeed!

[+DuaneAL]

Thanks for posting the picture, vorticon, and thanks for your great presentation!  Thanks to Vic and 9640news for their presentations as well.  I really enjoyed the faire.  I also snagged a 99/4 ( not 4a) PEB (thanks, Hal!).

[8_is_enuff]

I had a fantastic time at the fair.  The presentations were a lot of fun.  I have to say that 99er's are a generous lot and I want to thank you guys.

 

Vic gave me thumb drive which I believe is a repository of volumes upon volumes of TI newsletters.

 

I got a box full of great TI publications for next to nothing--thanks to the seller. I'm embarrassed to say I missed your name. 

 

I bought a sealed copy of The Chicken from Thomas Perkowitz of Tomputer Software, and he threw in a pile of software manuals for various Tomputer games. 

 

And perhaps most exciting was a great deal I got on a 1 MB SuperAMS card from Jim (ksarul).  Plus, he's generously giving me a disk controller card that I sorely need.  Thanks big time. 

 

This was my first time at the Chicago fair and I'm really looking forward to next year's. 

 

 

[ti99iuc]

10 hours ago, Vorticon said:

Congratulations to our latest honoree! Very well deserved indeed!

wow! this was totally unexpected! 😲 It was a thrill this morning to have learned this news!
I feel really gratified by this award and at the same time honored to have been included in this historic award.
Many thanks! 

[+DuaneAL]

The PEB I picked up at the faire is up and running.  It came with a ti 32k, floppy controller and two internal floppy drives and a corcomp serial card.  The drives and the memory seem to work.  I don't have anything to check the serial with.  Everything is marked with "Knapp".  Hal told me very little about him, just that it was passed on to him from the original owner.   It is a 99/4 box.  The only thing I had to do was work on the power button to get it to turn off.   Seems to work well now.  

 

I guess it's time to get a tipi PEB and a Sam's card..

[+FarmerPotato]

18 hours ago, DuaneAL said:

I guess it's time to get a tipi PEB and a Sam's card..

Terrific!

 

If you get a printer, you can use a Sam's card to buy the tractor-feed paper.