2nd-annual Kennett Classic Wrap Up
Marcos demonstrates his classic computers to visitors from the Kennett Square community
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Now with the 2nd anniversary event ("version 1.9") in the history books I thought I'd send a quick wrap up of the day's highlights and to acknowledge the people who helped make the event a success, and some of the people who have been supporting the Kennett Classic museum space this past year.
First, I'd like to thank Brendan Becker who managed the chiptunes show by coordinating logistics and communications with the bands and myself. To my knowledge this was the first post-COVID live wavebending performance in our area. We were extremely fortunate to have three talented performers available and Brendan helped make it all possible. Brendan's project, Inverse Phase, led off the show, followed by Steve Lackawitz (aP0C) and finally Dino Lionetti (representing Cheap Dinosaurs). I am working with Lloyd to put together a video of the performances. Equally impressive was the light show engineered by by Stephen "Inspired Chaos" Whittam who volunteered his homebrew light panel system. Stay tuned for a separate announcement when the video becomes available.
Steve Lackawitz (aP0C) on stage performing his amazing set.
I wanted also to thank Eric Rangell who has been coming to Kennett Classic for months to contribute many hours of personal time to help organize the new library room. He started a photo database of mainframe and minicomputer product brochures, user guides, and other technical documents we have one site. Eric came by Friday night to lend a hand to help set up the event space and to arrange tables before the show, as well as helping out all day Saturday. He also contributed a nice exhibit of Apple II-c computers.
Michael Tomczyk
My friend, Michael Tomczyk, has been a consistent supporter of our museum and his appearance at our anniversary event was the highlight of the daytime show. He stayed to talk to each and every fan who stopped by his table to ask questions about the Commodore days and to learn what he has been up to lately. A lot of Commodore fans took selfies with Michael, and others brought their VIC-20 computers to be autographed. We were honored to have him visit our event and it was the highlight of the day for sure. Michael donated a framed picture and an Apple external hard drive to the museum for a future fundraiser.
This event would not have been possible without the help of great volunteers and supporters including (but not limited to) Alex Bodnar and Dave Degnan who helped move the PDP 11/40 rack, Lloyd Degnan, Marcos Meconi, John Massari, Michael Evangelista, Andrew Diller, Evan Koblentz, Alex Jassocks, Howie Zwick, Mouse, The Garage Community Center staff, the Avon Grove Highschool Computer Science Honor Society student team, the Kennett Square merchant community, the chiptunes show videographer (name?), everyone who visited from the Vintage Computer Federation, and all of the persons who donated computers to Kennett Classic for use in exhibits at the show and in the museum.
Last but not least I want to extend a huge thank you to my partner and better half, Karen Doneker. Without her great ideas and endless energy this whole Kennett Classic project would still only be a dream. You are the best, Karen! Thank you a 1Mb and save me a dance for next year :-)
The end result? A successful live show attended by a steady flow of curious visitors from the local community who were treated to a fun day full of computing history.
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