JB Freeware Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 The Chicago Ti User Group will have representatives at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest passing out faire flyers, doing some demos and passing out some other goodies (first come first serve LOL) Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel 1551 Thoreau Dr N, Schaumburg, IL 60173 September 7-8 http://vcfmw.org/index.html 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuxi Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 On 8/6/2024 at 11:56 PM, JB Freeware said: The Chicago Ti User Group will have representatives at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest passing out faire flyers, doing some demos and passing out some other goodies (first come first serve LOL) Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel 1551 Thoreau Dr N, Schaumburg, IL 60173 September 7-8 http://vcfmw.org/index.html There's historically been little-to-no TI presence there, so despite having barely dipped my toes into the community (I mostly lurk here, and have yet to go to a Faire), I went ahead and grabbed a table this year. Go ahead and PM me if you want to coordinate ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Agree about the sporadic TI-99/4A presence, but… I started going around 2007 when it was ECCC. The Commodore folks from MGC invited me to bring a 4A. Then VCFMW joined up. I was there last in 2012 I think. Maybe 2013. The usual suspects would write foul-mouthed speaking programs in BASIC with TE2. Which would return on the CF7+ the next year… Michael Lee was also showing TI-99/4A at multiple shows. But he collects everything! Many other Commodore-centric regulars developed TI collections during that time. Jim Brain got interested in TI hardware. I cancelled my plans for 2020 and haven’t been able to go again. VCFMW was a relaxing show. Just fun and hanging out with friends. It was a nice change between the annual effort of running tables at MGC. Good times at VCFMW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 I would consider if it was not so expensive to exhibit: airfare, hotel, and shipping my exhibit. At least it is several days, which helps with making it considerable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuxi Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 2 hours ago, FarmerPotato said: Agree about the sporadic TI-99/4A presence, but… I started going around 2007 when it was ECCC. The Commodore folks from MGC invited me to bring a 4A. Then VCFMW joined up. I was there last in 2012 I think. Maybe 2013. The usual suspects would write foul-mouthed speaking programs in BASIC with TE2. Which would return on the CF7+ the next year… Michael Lee was also showing TI-99/4A at multiple shows. But he collects everything! Many other Commodore-centric regulars developed TI collections during that time. Jim Brain got interested in TI hardware. I cancelled my plans for 2020 and haven’t been able to go again. VCFMW was a relaxing show. Just fun and hanging out with friends. It was a nice change between the annual effort of running tables at MGC. Good times at VCFMW. Yeah. Still fun, still chill, and a lot of the same people. But you wouldn't recognize it anymore -- like everything else retro, it blew up post-covid. So it would be nice to have stronger 99er representation, which it sounds like there will be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Freeware Posted August 9 Author Share Posted August 9 On 8/8/2024 at 11:46 AM, nuxi said: There's historically been little-to-no TI presence there, so despite having barely dipped my toes into the community (I mostly lurk here, and have yet to go to a Faire), I went ahead and grabbed a table this year. Go ahead and PM me if you want to coordinate ... Jim, our hardware guy, has a table for his business and we are kind of sharing a corner for TI stuff. So glad you are going to be there. A few of us are going to take turns manning the TI section and I have made a box of flyers to advertise this years faire in October along with some buttons and key chains. So it's gonna be a small presence for us. It would be great if our tables were close but nice that the TI will at least be represented this year. This was a small afterthought for us as you can prob understand that we are going 150% for the faire this year. This will be my first faire in many years. I was supposed to be at the last one but I got Covid (may the creators of this foul beast rot in hell!) I hope you can get a table for this years faire. I'll talk to Jim and let him know that there is a full TI table this year at the vintage computer fest. I'll prob stop for a few hours on Saturday. I have some medical issues that can sideline me so it's hard to promise anything but my hopes are to be there on Saturday. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbdigriz Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) Quite encouraging to see there will be a TI presence at VCFMW. Good opportunity to boost interest and let newcomers know about the Faire as well, I'd think. Edited August 10 by jbdigriz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 I've had My TI-99 setup there for the last 2 years, sadly not this year as I need the space to display some other items. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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