Vintage Computer Festival MidWest (VCFMW) 6.0 was held on September 24-25 in Lombard, IL, USA (just outside Chicago). Like last year, it was held in conjunction with ECCC. There was plenty to see for the connoisseur of old machines.

The hotel welcomed us in style and provided excellent service.	My Macintosh SE, all unpacked and set up. I was able to telnet to my laptop running Linux, but couldn't get outside the VCFMW network we set up. Oh, well...
As is traditional, the after-unpacking dinner on Friday night was held at Aurelio's in Addison, home of the best pizza you will ever eat.	The pre-show party in the lobby, complete with alcohol diagnostic equipment.
This home-made computer (video) was a big hit at the show. Built using old telephone equipment, it could add numbers... and that was about it. But it was really cool!	This one's a real rarity: an x86 machine made by Canon (the object.station 41) to run NeXT.
Jason showed off a couple of Bulgarian Apple II clones, complete with Cyrillic character ROMs...	...and keyboards.
Another rare machine: an Amiga 3000 UX, running AT&T SVR4 Unix.	Richard brought the smallest computer to the show: an HP-01 wristwatch calculator, complete with tiny stylus that slides out of the watchband.
Dan Werner showed several varieties of the N8VEM homebrew computer.	Mike Lee had a display of 6502 technology, including an original KIM.
Eric showed how he got a flash drive to run in a Macintosh SE.	Bill Madden presides over a collection of acoustic-coupler modems. The one in the wooden box was his first, and was later proved to be still in working order.
Very very spicy Thai spicy extra spicy hot. Saturday dinner at Mama Thai, where I had some of the best paneng ever.	"Doctor Dan", Commodore hacker extraordinaire.
Six shows off his tricked-out 64C.	This C64 had a bit of a surprise in it.
How would you like to pay for that, sir?	A Rockwell AIM-65 undergoes hardware debugging.
Eric and Bill work to get a Macintosh SE talking through an acoustic-coupler modem (at 300 bps)...	...and get the win.
Jim tries the same trick on a Commodore 128 running GEOS.	More win. The signal went out through a wireless bridge and a VOIP line to a BBS on the other end.