Hello, > http://www.mac30th.com
> Tickets are $100 and up..........web links says "all proceeds donated to > charity" [blinks] I can't speak for anyone else, but I appreciate your assigning a dollar value to the tickets. I'm signed up for the CHM's automated pesterings and all they said was: > You can purchase tickets to the Mac@30 Anniversary Celebration at: . . . . . . .with no mention whatever that ticket prices start at $100 a throw and go up from there. :/ My overweening Scottishness aside (blast those porridge scoffer genes! :) ), anyone vacillating over dropping $100-plus on this deal should be aware that the Flint Center seats 2,300 people. Meaning: if *do* you plan to attend in person, it might be a good idea to buy your ticket(s) sooner rather than later, as this thing has Major Geek Bragging Rights written all over it. :D Speaking of the Flint Center: >Flint Center in San Jose I can only hope that the above isn't a quote from the mac30th website. I say this because anyone headed to San Jose in the hopes of attending this event is likely to find it to be a rather frustrating experience, seeing as how the Flint Center (located on the De Anza College campus) is located ~20 miles driving distance from North San Jose and is, in fact, on the opposite side* of Silicon Valley. :/ Best, James Fraser *A fact of which, at the risk of sounding boastful, I think I can say I'm more aware of than most people. You might agree after you've read the following: In the late 1980's (when the Macintosh was still The New Shiny), I won a bet with one of the guys in charge of one of the then-two Macintosh labs on the De Anza campus (I ended up working in the other one, Ghod help them, which shows you just how hopelessly misguided their hiring practices were). The prize? I got to take home an upgraded Mac 512k for a night, which I did by strapping it to my back with a couple of inner tubes (!), then bicycling from the De Anza campus to my home in San Jose. (If the mind-numbing stupidity of my treating a $1,000 computer (in 1980's dollars) in so cavalier a manner has you shaking your head, believe me, I find myself shaking my own whenever I think about what would have happened had those inner tubes not held.) @_@ -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
