Vintage Computer Society

[Charles <spammeister12345@aol.com>]

I put forth the following idea:

There are a bunch of middle-aged and older people who, like me, are 
beginning to want to relive an exciting time (computer-wise) in their 
lives: the conception and birth of the information age.  Now is the time 
to develop a national user group for these older systems so we can get 
together and discuss these great, old computers (kind of like antique 
car clubs) and the fun that we HAD and ARE HAVING using them.  

The thing that makes these old computers so much fun, is that like 
antique cars, you don't need a EE degree to work on them and keep them 
going.

Such a user group could include promotion of both the actual hardware 
and the emulators for them.  I can also see it as being a conduit to 
take old computers and recycle them out to people who can still use 
these old machines (the poor, schools, etc). Does anyone have any 
experience in something like that?  Any interest?

I can be involved in running the East Coast variant (I live in the DC 
metro area).

Charles