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The Vintage Computer Festival 10.0 (VCFX) will be on November 3-4, 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (San Jose area), California. The information page is at http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/
Computers from the 1950's to the early 1990's will be on exhibit. There is also a planned Commodore 64 "Supercomputer" project.

I wrote:The Vintage Computer Festival 10.0 (VCFX) will be on November 3-4, 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (San Jose area), California.

Today our club just signed up for a vendor's table at VCF X. Not only will we be selling C= goods (like a C64 = $5, 1541 = $5, C128 = $10, 1571 = $10, 40/80-column monitor = $20), but we will also passing out free cookies and punch, and we will be running C= items for you to try out -- the usual PAL and NTSC C64 DTVs, a Jiffy-DOSsed VIC-20, a PET 4032 and/or PET 8032, and C128DCR. Hmm, what games/programs to display on the consoles...?

I wrote:There is also a planned Commodore 64 "Supercomputer" project.

O.K., sixteen of our brown C64's plus eight 1701/1702 monitors were loaned out for the Supercomputer project, and so, we may not have many of those to sell. We'll dig out the remainder of the brown ones and supplant them with C64C's.

Truly,

I wrote:There is also a planned Commodore 64 "Supercomputer" project.

Sellam Ismail, organizer of the Vintage Computer Festival, has postponed the Commodore 64 Supercomputer project. Here is part of his message:

I regret to inform you that the guy who was doing the major hardware and software work on the C64 parallel supercomputer project has either died or has become completely inundated with some other preoccupation as I have not been able to communicate with him despite repeated attempts over the past 6 weeks.

[snip]

However, I will be doing a special event just for this project once it is
back on track. First, I need to find a replacement engineer. If I have
to, I'll do it myself. If you know of any capable C64 hardware or
software hackers that might be interested in working on this project,
please send them my way.

[snip]

So, if you are interested in taking over the C64 Supercomputer project, either on the hardware side or on the software side, let me know, and I'll pass the information to Sellam.

Somewhat disappointed,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/