Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2024 Walkthrough

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We visit the VCF Midwest convention again this year for 2024! This venue was massive, it was overwhelming and there is a whole lot of area to cover! So i just did a simple walkthrough of the event

[@68krescue71]

Nice job.... as always!!

[@ianpolpo]

Amazing walkthrough, so in depth. I missed so so so much this year, thanks for uploading this so I can at least get a feeling for what I missed!

[@bryanbrewer4272]

Full nerdgasm! thanks!

[@BigBadBench]

Thanks for doing this so that those of us that couldn't make it get caught up!

[@winstonsmith478]

MINT Atari Stacy 4 at 1:05:04. Incredibly rare. There's a tale online from 10 years ago about a guy and his girlfriend walking their dog at a dog park and they saw an e-recycling truck accepting e-waste in the parking lot. About fell over when he checked out their load and saw a mint Stacy 4 and asked if he could have it. They said OK. For free.

[@alobosk]

I'm weeping, salivating, and excited to attend for te first time ever in my life VCF SoCal. I waited 17'52'' to see anything Amiga related (a box), and 22'19' to see plugged-in Amiga. Are they SO rare?? I am an Amiga fanboy, still after 34 years of being one.I can't believe I sold my A2000HD to A4000T collection 10 years ago. I'm such an idiot... Including Peter Cherna's Amiga 3000 that he gave me in 2008, for free, no strings attached. It was a literal doorstop at the Scala headquarters. And I sold it for $160 along all my other Amigas toan albeit very serious collector in Mexico City. I'm sure it is perfectly kept for posterity by him.

[@oliverw.douglas285]

Good coverage of the show, & it was very exhausting, but still fun. ;)

[@jackrubin]

Good to meet you at the show. Thanks for the extended walk-through. You're right about the swap meet feel - and I love it! That and free admission make this the best of all the shows.

[@Mac84]

Great walk through, it was great seeing you at the show... and what a huge one it was!

[@kpetree10]

Sooo many things I'm seeing on here that I totally missed at the show! It was great finally meeting you in person, Mike!

[@GarthBeagle]

Dang so many things I missed, thanks so much for the walkthru, it was great!

[@winstonsmith478]

That's the way to cover a show! I like the swap meet idea where prices don't look like absolutely insane auction site prices. I'd need a flatbed cart to carry the stuff I'd buy each day from the looks of it. In that huge venue with much greater air volume and, probably, greater outdoor air exchange you avoided that C-word illness this time.

[@THEtechknight]

@@winstonsmith478 fortunately I did. I still got a little bit of con crud though

[@winstonsmith478]

@@THEtechknight LGR caught the C-word crud as did Adrian Black within just this year at various shows. BIG, high ceiling venues like this one are the way to avoid that since it's an airborne thing. The colds and flu are more spread by surfaces. One of the tissue manufacturers came up with dried iodine impregnated tissues to kill viruses in cold snot leakage through tissues, but that may not have panned out as I haven't seen it although I haven't specifically looked for it.

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Great Job Mike Very detailed walk around yes Thomas was working on my SE30 board

[@dvuemedia]

It would be nice to be there.

[@soteful9949]

11:14 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 There's always one in every crowd.

[@sideburn]

Wow! I used to faceplant the tinted glass at the early first Chuck E. Cheese and stared at all those blinking LEDs in the room. What a trip to see those boards at 26:40

[@ajslone4107]

sorry for not showing it wasnt in the card this year i wasnt ready glad you got a dock!

[@Toby_Q]

39:54 We all know what you were looking for...

[@soteful9949]

59:11 That's what she said 1:03:31

[@NoNameMnk]

I also got covid after the 2023 show. Definitely not fun. Luckily I didn't bring that home with me this year.

[@sideburn]

I was gonna say that Hero One looks tiny!

If you're willing to make a 5 hour VCF video I'm willing to watch it.

[@waterup380]

was it a Mac sale or a swap meet

[@thomasandrews9355]

=_- one of the few videos to see my table. im still rocovering physically from the 9 hour drive :(

[@THEtechknight]

@@thomasandrews9355 did you sell anything from your table? You had a lot of good stuff

[@CityXen]

Cool video, good job looking at all the exhibits

[@CityXen]

It was pretty cool seeing you too and catching up

[@pistolpetereal]

Praying the Chuck E. Cheese control system doesn't go to any private collectors in that fan base... If you know you know

[@THEtechknight]

Actually I don't know. 🤷

[@pistolpetereal]

@@THEtechknight consider yourself lucky lol

[@joeventura1]

Do you have dancing rodents in your spare room now? Asking for a friend.