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Re: Pictures of a Timex Sinclair user meeting back in '87

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On 7/10/2018 8:16 PM, markscheck@gmail.com wrote:

> I was just browsing through and saw this. I was at the Washington
> DC. One I believe I was 17 or 18 at the time and I took the train
> there. I'll see if I can remember anymore details.

> On Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:35:08 AM UTC-4, Bruno Florindo wrote:
>> I hope that what I'm doing today will encourage others to upload
>> and share pictures too, even video clips if possible. These
>> pictures were sent to me by a fellow TS user who told me it was ok
>> to share them with all of you, so here they are - Pictures of the
>> computerfest that took place in Indianapolis back in 1987:

>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/10936765@N05/sets/72157624037455996/

>> And for those who want to download all the pictures in one go:

>> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D35KHOAP

>> I've been told there were several TS computer fests but as far as I
>> know there's almost no record of what happened. No pictures, no
>> recollection of events, no video recordings. One was in Washington
>>  D.C. and another one in Oregon and maybe there were more. All this
>>  happened before I came to the U.S. so it's a little bit hard to
>> find out what happened. I ask those who have pictures or anything
>> from back in the day to please come forward and help us remember
>> those who supported the Timex Sinclair community for several
>> years. Let's honor them by remembering who they were and what they
>> did. Let's remember a time when people thought it was ok to travel
>> hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles just to gather and enjoy
>> something they had in common.

I viewed those pics back when they were posted hear. I didn't see me or
Frank Davis.  We used an entire Holidome (Holiday Inn) for the event,
using all the meeting space at that Holidome.
We situated the event at a location that had several other hotels/motels
within walking distance. the place was packed almost all the time we had
the event scheduled. Photo documenting was something we forgot. :-(
I seem to recall almost anyone who was dealers at the time were present.

We heard tell of one attendee who flew in Saturday, got a ride from the
airport via the hotel shuttle, and had to get back to the airport later
that day to pilot an airliner back to where ever he flew from. The Indy 
event even had press coverage reported in the Wall Street Journal.
As part of the Promotions effort for the show we ran a 24/7 BBS on a
Timex 2068 for maybe 8 to 10 months before the show. A REAL working BBS,
even had a messages segment in the program.

As Mechanical Affinity we (frank, his wife and I) participated in events
in Rhode Island, Ohio, Wisconsin, I recall a trip to Canada with a
station wagon full of stuff, and I have faint recollections of a few
other places but can't dredge those up at this time.

Paul Holmgren

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Re: Pictures of a Timex Sinclair user meeting back in '87 markscheck@gmail.com - 2018-07-10 17:16 -0700
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  Re: Pictures of a Timex Sinclair user meeting back in '87 "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-12 21:12 +0000

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