Lee Hart reports on Vintage Computer Festival - Midwest for 2016. He attended, and with Chuck Yakym
and Dave Ruske and others from the cosmacelf Yahoo group they produced a 40th anniversary hand-wired
ELF based on the Weisbecker design. - edited by Herb Johnson Sept 14 2016

The 1802 coverage at VCF-MW continues to grow. There were at least half a dozen people with 1802 
systems. There were literally 30-40 different ones, many of which I've never seen before! 
A few I remember:

- an RCA ICE-box for the 1802. Big complicated board, full of RCA 18xx chips, probably for their
 development system.

- several COMX European 1802 systems. Pretty advanced, with big memory, floppy drives, full
 ASCII keyboards, 40x24 character color displays, sound, graphics, floppy drives, etc. The games
 running on them were as good as Atari 800's. 

- RCA VIP-II. This is a computer that was announced and shown at computer shows, but never 
released so very few survive. Basically a VIP with more of everything.

- A second earlier-model Quest ELF. It was a naked board, with on-board power supply (and with
 120vac power exposed right on the board)!

- At least 3 different Altair 8800-like 1802 systems, with full front panels, motherboards and
 expansion cards.

- A guy was selling Elf2k kits; leftovers or copies of Bob Armstrong's Spare Time Gizmo 
Elf2k from a few years ago.

- A guy was running the Infocom ZMachine on an 1802, so it was playing Zork, Planetfall, etc.
 adventure games. The games were stored on a CF-card, interfaced to the 1802.

- At least a half dozen different Elfs, built from the original PE articles.

Our built at the show Elf only got about half wired. They decided to raffle it off Saturday
 around 6pm, so there was only one day (instead of two) to work on it. But we got a pretty
 good amount of interest. About 40 people worked on it [and so were part of the raffle]. 
It was won by a guy that seemed  overjoyed to get it.

We auctioned off a second unbuilt "kit". It went for $160, which was the highest price of
 anything that was auctioned.

Chuck Yakym got the 3rd VCF-ELF, and the 4th one will be auctioned on eBay (with
 proceeds going to Dave Ruske to support the cosmacelf site).

- Lee Hart, Sept 13 2016