My brother's video about our recent Vintage Computer Festival/Chicago trip is up! Lots of good times and enjoyable sights in this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l3IXl7h6r4g.html For those in the comments who've asked where to see the photos he took in the city and that whole process with film, look no further.
You know what would be funny instead of some holographic stickers those were cards like, were you just have to get them all lol each card a different computer that is not common or more common but odd in one way or an other or it is full of cigarette lighters lol, called the chain smokers computer. A bunch of funny shit even if the computer is modern... it would be neat. The Apple IIe maxed out open with a speech synthesizer, the computer used by the blind at one point in time in a shitty public school full of A holes, with a decent special ed classroom. All the slots are used up and it has more chips on the motherboard. Later an other card with the very noisy older Braille printer, that worked slower but fine. On the other end you have that laptop I once saw that was from Japan that was made with an older population in mind where their is a round circle below the keyboard to use the mouse and it had a ring around it with buttons so you can click... a smaller touch pad. I saw your stickers with the old pc you showed and it made me think if cards children collect.
I was fortunate enough to meet Clint at the show, and i have to say, he is one of the kindest and most attentive "personalities" I have ever been privileged to meet. He took the time to talk and seemed generally interested in everything that people had to talk to him about, and while the line was long, it was well worth the wait. Seriously - thank you for taking the time to meet and greet everyone. On a side note - I was talking to some of the VCF staff at the show, and they stated this is probably the last year at the Clarion. They are using the size of this, and the revenue pulled in as justification to move to a bigger and better place.
@@ferretyluvChicago isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. Less safe than the suburbs? Sure, but it’s really no worse than most major cities in America.
@@jackmarshall847 Yeah, as far as I remember, crime rates in the US are generally on the decline from 20-40 years ago. The idea that crime is "out of control" is really not supported by evidence, and is usually just rhetoric to push baseless "tough on crime" policies that don't solve anything other than keeping private prisons in business.
Thank you for the shoutout to my OPL Archive exhibit! The show is definitely insane and I hope someday we'll get to talk more at length about that synthy goodness, but at least I was able to sneak an OPL sticker over to you. :)
Wasn't that awesome?! Really brought me back to the eighties. Walking into a Walden Software and seeing 5.25 floppies posted to a cork-board in sandwich baggies. That said, I really miss the artwork and various boxes of PC games. :( I fear that time has gone for good with digital downloading.
I get the impression that they've long outgrown their roots as a hotel con and may need to embrace a larger convention center. I don't think that's a bad thing! It's just the nature of the business.
How do you do this, without charging admission? You’d have to become a much more typical kind of convention; and the organizers would need a very large cash deposit up front; convention centers do not book you on good wishes and promises.
@@MichaelEilers IDK man the way I see it is either you start charging even minimal admission to the event or you cap admission into the current situation because any larger than this in its current set up and it is going to be a fire hazard. I don't have the answers, nor am I an event promoter, just someone who has vended at events for the past decade at this point.
"'Why? Why bother with all this old junk,' as they say. And well, as with so many niche hobbies, one person's trash is another person's weekend project that spiraled out of control and became a years-long obsession." ♥
I think that applies to all hobbies and not just niche ones. Wether it's a video game console, a model railroad, a garden, a farm, or a vintage computer, the normies won't understand... and we happily won't care! 😄
the show was super fun but super packed, but i'm so glad i was able to meet you for a second time! i'm the green haired girl at 16:05 and i cannot believe that face i made 😭
This is great. Imagine yourself reflecting on these "good ol" days in 20 years. I'm sure when this becomes larger and more commercial, you will miss these wild days. Bless the community and how it has grown.
It's the same way us furries feel about how the conventions grew from 100-200 comic book nerds in someone's house and hanging out as a big house party back in the 80s, to the massive multimillion dollar 5-star hotel trip it is now with over 10,000 + and you don't even remember everyone you see. Once a convention grows too big, it loses its personality, and it gets dangerous. Love the madness and embrace the crazy, this footage will become historical pretty rapidly.
I loved the show. I had never been to one despite living close and I was shocked at how large of an event this was. I really enjoyed the vendors popping up in the parking lot. So much fun to browse. I'll be back next year for sure. Despite the issues with security, and space, this show is really incredible for being free and the organizers should be extremely proud.
The bear PC was absolutely a highlight for me to see in person. Glad I had a table, got to talk to a LOT of people, it was a blast. Agreed on the checks on setup day. I’d also ask that exhibitors are allowed in earlier than the genpop the day of. I’ve heard one could get in somewhere hidden but never found or heard about it. I think it’s gotten big enough that it needs more formality now. As one that runs a meetup, I get how a pain it is, when it becomes work, it’s work. But… it’s there.
Smashing episode. Dude i totally get you, I went with a friend to the cambridge computer museum in the UK. After 1 hour I had to go for a nap in the toilet due to retro tech brain overload
This year's VCFMW was the best. It was larger than the other VCF shows. To coin Ron's Computer Video channel, this was more like VCF National. I met so many like minded people and got to talk at length with Ben Heck. What a character. See ya'll at VCFMW 2024. Bring money lol.
Sounds like VCFMW topped the clusterspork that was VCF East this year. I'm actually surprised they don't charge for that show. Its A LOT of work and expense to run something like that at that scale.
I checked out VCFMW a few years ago and briefly ran into you in the hallway and said hi. I'd love to attend again, maybe after these growing pains are a bit more worked out! Also glad you enjoyed Chicago of course - I work at Iron Galaxy and the office is right near Federal Plaza where the Calder flamingo sculpture that shows up in your vlog is.
Yes thanks for including me I n your video at the 19:30 mark. I didn’t get a chance to stop by your booth as the line was always too long but loved your displays. I did pick up an Atari XEGS and had a blast at my first VCF. You need to get a disguise so you can wander around as the displays were so much fun to look at. Just wear a covid mask hahah.
Hey Clint, I still have the first 3 Hugo games on 3.5. I remember when the first one asked the riddle about what was Will Rodgers horses name was, I asked my grandma to drive me to the library so I could look it up via dewey decimal system. This was before library internet back in 1990 I think. Then I had to deal with the rubber bung in the game, lol. Nice vid, I listed to your 2:30 hour long vlog at work yesterday at work. Thanks for the vids, I hope to meet you some day.
I live in Chicago and this was the first year I attended only by chance of seeing your video last year after the fact. Very cool and unique show! Hope they are able to expand a bit for next year. I couldn't believe how many people showed up.. and how popular your table was! dang! :)
super popular guy it looks like not sure what I would ask you in person, other than to say thanks but I dont need to waste your time to do that everything I need to know about and from you, are shared in these here video series. thanks for taking us along for the journey JB in Canada
About 10:40 = Real pizza pies! So hard to find those, I remember when Pizza Hut came out with their version ages ago, the "Priazzo", back in 85. I absolutely LOVED those as a kid, sadly they discontinued them, but I never forgot about them & every now & then I would try to find at least something like it here in Atlanta. A few years ago I finally found a place, where I could dine-in or even have it delivered. 😋
Keep looking and asking anyone anywhere if they have an old PC like that. You never know where they will turn up. I found one of Best Buy's personal in-house branded tower PC's (I forget the name) complete in original box with tons of other computer related office junk tossed inside the box at Salvation Army thrift store for just $10. Definitely not new, loaded with dust, but I was amazed someone kept the entire box and all the paperwork and stored it away like that.
Bah! I hate that I missed this, but oh well. I did run past you at Midwest Gaming Classic earlier in the year, but I just nerded out too much with the Leonardo Dicaprio meme just going "It's him!" And still managing to not say hi in all my awkwardness LOL. This looked like a lot of fun for sure.
*Drools* Everything is bigger in the US. Even retro tech conventions. Wish there was a similar festival in Finland. There's Assembly, but that's more about esports and games.
I loved seeing the clip of Cincinnati, I'm originally from just to the east of Cinti. So cool seeing all of the vintage things, like the brick wall maze screen saver, my dad had that put on my son's first computer with photos of my kiddos on some of the walls.
Some guys friends m this organization brought about 16 pc setups & had it running TF2 at the Midwest Gaming Classic. Some of the best fun I had at that show.
thanks clint for the video....man i wanted that atari banner and the atari demo station! i remember that in my local toys by roy toy store in my old mall....man i wish i could go back to enjoy that again!
This was my first time going to VCF and i was just blown away with the amount of stuff there. I played it safe and went on Sunday and it was still super busy. I went with my 11 year old son and we both had a blast! He got to play the bear-a-byte which he loved! I wish i had got a chance to meet you in person but we'll definitely come back next year hopefully with less of a time crunch. We didn't get to see everything, i didn't realize of all the extras like the LAN party and the freebies.
Man, it was a good time. I'm glad I got to swing by and say hi to the guy responsible for my expensive habit. I totally missed the extensive outdoor free pile, hopefully we continue to go on and upwards from here.
23:07 wow, a casio loopy! Hoping to see some sticker printing chaos in a future video. The yearly VCF vlog is always one of my most anticipated videos since the excitement is infectious even just watching a recording.
Man, I wish I could one day visit an event like this. It's hard to find where they organise these kinds of things since the smaller ones are probably through facebook groups.
Hahaha! Going to use an old system, then belatedly realising that the debt has come due on the quick-n-dirty gear swap you pulled a couple months ago for another project - this is peak retro PC. I have done this enough times now, that I eventually evolved into sometimes taping a quickly scrawled paper note inside the case - "Change the multipliers!!!", etc. :)
They've got to start charging! If for no other reason than to limit some of the liabilities and provide those amenities you've mentioned. Heck, just put all the money toward a security contractor or free food!
I couldn't watch anymore of this or my heart would have stopped, it's like a gun show but for (computer) nerds! I also haven't seen a lot of your videos so I just now learned of your brother Cooler Clint! Would love to have gone and seen all those old computers in person but Chicago's reputation for being one of the most dangerous places in America has me too chicken to go combined with a lack of gas money and money in general.
Long live the floppy disk! I for one actually miss those. Had a LS 120 super floppy drive back in the early 90's too, 120mb of ' ABSOLUTE POWER, MUAHAHAHA ' Sorry, couldn't help myself lol.😅
It’s not Comiket level yet. But it needs a bigger venue. Once people start camping outside 24 hours in advance just to get in line, THEN it can be biseasonal.
Line def did not know it was for shirts when I was waiting. Got a lot shorter once someone told us. was a good time, nice greeting you. may have somewhat jacked up some muscles carrying around stuff the whole day, oops. i bought three laptops for under 40 dollars and all of them work and had their power cords, so that's cool. one of them is an odd gateway gaming laptop with what seems to be a custom metal logo for....a company that makes chainsaws? yeah alright, sure.
7:39 hey you came up 75N in Tennesee :) 7:50 hey you were totally in my neck of the woods!! 14:14 as a motorcoach operator i get how ya feel there bud :(
I'm really surprised this many shows in they haven't implemented some form of verification for Friday to vet people. Should have people at the doors requiring ID to match the registered vendor names or something, and no one else.
It’s one of the rare times I regret to live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, because it would have been fun to be there (although my feet would not have liked it ^^)! 😢
This years VCFMW attendance, energy, and passion around everything retro-tech is a statement on modern times. We find more joy in living our past lives than expectations of the future. Sadly, this is the world we currently live in :(
It's tough when you enjoy all this stuff and yet you live in Brazil where there's no community around vintage computers whatsoever, and also can't go attend these events yourself, but still I'm glad RU-vid exists, or none of these would ever be one of interests. Thanks, Clint.
