[Coco] The new CoCoFEST! location

[Frank Pittel]

Just saw this email (issues with threading started this week!)

There is a local Commodore<SP> group in the Chicago area that holds a meeting at the same location that the cocofest was at in 2013.
The midwest VCF joined together with the group and now hold a joint "fest" there each year in the fall. I went with other local members
of the GCCC to represent the Coco for the first time in 2010f and have been going since. It was at that VCF/Commodore<SP> fest that the GCCC
discovered the location and how the fest came to be moved there. I don't know for how long the VCF/Commodore fests have been going on but
there has been a yearly fest every year since 2010 (i know because I've gone to them) and another one is planned for 2013. Once again
there will be members of the GCCC there to represent for the Coco!

For the record there have been members of the vcf/commodore group coming to the cocofest for the last couple of years and this year one not
only rented a vendor table but made a donation to the auction! They're a fun and friendly group of people and I would like to encourage people
to go to their show both here and in Wisconsin as they are able!!

The Other Frank


On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:30:33AM -0500, Allen Huffman wrote:
> Okay, I see my confusion. This is a different event from the one I was thinking. Midwest Gaming Classic is something I am unfamiliar with. I was thinking it was the Vintage Computer Festival. The odd thing about VCF is that their website doesn't list anything past 2010 for the midwest edition, but two Glenside newsletters ago, they had a photo spread from there:
> 
> "The VCFMW was held on September 22-23, 2012 in Lombard, Illinois at the same location that is planned for the 2013 CoCoFEST!." 
> 
> So that is the event I was asking about -- someone else wrote me and said Glenside had a room at that location.
> 
> Now I understand the 7000 attendance. Heck, I'd love to go to somewhere and see all the classic home units again.
> 
> So was this VCF (2012) the same VCF that ran it near Chicago in 2010, but just hasn't updated their website in a few years, or is it a different thing with a different website?
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> Allen Huffman - PO Box 22031 - Clive IA 50325 - 515-999-0227 (vmail/TXT only)
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> 
> On May 1, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's at the Sheraton in Brookfield, WI.  (Milwaukee)
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On May 1, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Several of the VCF Midwest and Commodore guys do the Midwest Gaming
> >> Classic
> >>> every year, which I shamelessly plug on this list because my CoCo goes as
> >>> well.  The show's attendance this year was 7,000+.  We get one whole room
> >>> reserved for classic computers.
> >> 
> >> Where was it held? I thought it was the place the CoCoFEST! used, but the
> >> conference center lists the maximum capacity of those three rooms (A and B
> >> split to one, and C) as 190 when configured for theater mode with no tables?
> >> 
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