Marcus Adams
Room: 131 Margaret Anderson
Room: 113 Phillip Allison
Conference-only April Ayres-Griffiths
Room: 107
Paleotronic Melody Ayres-Griffiths
Room: 107
Paleotronic Ian Baronofsky
Room: 200 Melissa Barron
Room: 119 Robert Benton
Conference-only Bill Boswell
Room: 213 Vince Briel
Room: 237
Replica I and many other hardware products Dagen Brock
Member of the KansasFest working committee.
Resident of Kansas City, MO.
Conference-only John Brooks
Room: 223 Stephen Buggie
Room: 105 Vince Cali
Room: 300 Dan Chisarick
Room: 301 Gary Cochran
Room: 335 Mark Collins
Slide 16, Room 127 apparently.
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Love All Things Retro, its still the 80’s right
Works for Netapp (Solidfire Division)
Currently lives in Boulder, CO Craig Cooper
Room: 215 Henry S. Courbis
ReActiveMicro.com - Hardware Designer
Partners/Authorized Distributor: Ultimate-Micro.com ManilaGear.com GlitchWrks.com PhilosophyOfSound.com Briel Computers ///SHH Systeme
Room: 221
NOTE: Things for sale and repair help. Stop by anytime! Mark Decker
Conference-only Tony Diaz
Room: 228 Britt Dodd
Room: 319 Martin Doherty
Room: 321 Ivan Drucker
Room: 231 Quinn Dunki
Conference-only Sean Fahey
KansasFest board member.
Organizer of the Garage Giveaway (and owner of said garage).
Resident of Paola KS.
Room: 238 Taylor Fahey
Room 248 Peter Ferrie
Room: 211 Neil Forsyth
Room: 314 Herb Fung
Room: 203 Ken Gagne
Editor, Juiced.GS
Unboxer & Let's Player, YouTube channel Gamebits
Occasional podcast guest, Retro Computing Roundtable
WordPress enthusiast
Boston, Mass. resident
Room: 118 Jay Graham
Conference-only Michael Guidero
Conference-only Paul Hagstrom
Room: 220 Martin Haye
Maintains this very roster. Member of the KansasFest working committee.
Interests: assembly language; disk/graphics/sound; Apple ///
Much ][ loud! Attending KFest since 2009, and getting louder each year.
Creator of Super-Mon, NakedOS, and Structris. Lead developer of the Apple II versions of the RPGs Lawless Legends and Ancient Legends.
California native, residing ~20 years in Santa Cruz. Married to husband Dan for ~30 years. Job: programmer at the California Digital Library (part of the University of California system)
Room: 231 “Burger” Becky Heineman
Numerous well-known games including Tass Times in Tonetown, and The Bard’s Tale III.
Room: 117 Paul Heller
Room: 204 Andrew Hogan
● High School Freshman (in 1982) ● Apple ][ programmer & enthusiast since 1977 ● Game Port Interface Board architect http://ivanhogan.com/gpib https://youtu.be/_cmCr5RlwFI ● Lawless Legends contributor: proportional font assembly code ● kFest presenter & vendor fair exhibitor ● Hobbies -- kFest, videography, camping https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC79w UtJ_I0bqEP9VGx_GN4A ● Job - full time dad formerly, control systems engineer and IT admin, back when it was fun
Room: 318 Ivan Hogan
● High School Freshman ● Apple //e programmer & enthusiast since 2010 http://ivanhogan.com/ivan/a2e ● regular Hackfest participant http://ivanhogan.com/kfest/hackfest/trig.htm ● kFest presenter http://ivanhogan.com/kfest ● Game Port Interface Board contributor http://ivanhogan.com/gpib https://youtu.be/_cmCr5RlwFI ● CADCAM designer / CnC Mill operator https://youtu.be/jraOfgxBme0 ● Hobbies -- GoPro, Sci.O., Aikido https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvSVU 83sSPFnJe_4qel2KRQ
Room: 318 Ralph Hyre
Room: 212 Alex Jacocks
Vintage Apple/Mac enthusiast, UNIX devotee, and free software evangelist.
Loves to build anything and everything, especially if it requires a soldering iron.
Works for Red Hat, and lives in Middletown, Maryland USA.
Room: 224 Kathy Johnson
Room: 104 Alex Kaltsas
Room: 336 Stavros Karatsoridis
Room: 132 Ashlee Karatsoridis
Room: 132 Michael Kent
Room: 130 Carl Knoblock
Organizes KansasFest’s airport shuttle service which is affectionately known as “Peikop/Endropov”.
Room: 112 Sharon Knoblock
Room: 112 Dennis Kovacich
Room: 321 Daniel “Krue” Kruszyna
Room: 119 Mark LaPlante
Room: 202 Mark Lemmert
Room: 205
Co-founder of 6502 Workshop and lead developer of Nox Archaist. James Littlejohn
Room: 234 Forrest Lowe
Room: 227 Bob Maier
Room: 302 Charles Mangin
Room: 233 Stu Markowitz
Check out our retro computer club open to Floridians and visitors, with meetings held in both Central Florida, as well as South Florida: http://FloridaRetro.com/
On my YouTube Channel, I will be posting vintage computer diagnostics and repair related videos, as well as videos of my concerts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1Kf _dhiJYl6gxg_Bg90UA
Room: 124 Anthony Martino
Room: 221 Rob McMullen
Room: 313 Joel McWilliams
Room: 320 Kirk Millwood
Room: 206 Kirk Mitchell
Member of the KansasFest working committee.
Emeritus KFest Kookout chef.
Resident of Morrill, NE.
Room: 337 John Morris
Room: 236 Greg Nelson
Room: 122 Dean Nichols Room: 121 ● Lifelong Silicon Valley resident currently residing in Santa Clara California (2.5 miles from new Apple HQ- 4 miles from Infinite Loop Campus) ● Retired Pharmacist, photography Hobbyist, computer user since 1981 ● Purchased Apple II+ in 1981, Apple IIe in 1983 (used), Apple IIGS ROM 0 (used)-upgraded to ROM1 soon after purchase in 1988. ● Acquired B&H Apple II+, Apple IIc, Apple IIc+ over the years. Member of PIE Inc (Programming and Interfacing Enthusiasts) for many years ● Late Mac Adopter- first Mac was a Quadra 605 in 1994 ● I have rescued multiple Apple II computers and peripherals over the years. They are all stored in my small apartment. ● Still meet with friends (that were originally Apple II users, some worked for Apple) every Saturday for lunch, and on Tuesday mornings for a 2 hour walk. ● Member of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View- attend as many programs as I have time for. ● Attended multiple KansasFests over the years at Avila and Rockhurst. Attending every year the last few events after I retired. ● I am definitely a hobbyist. I can not program my way out of a paper bag, barely know which end of a soldering iron to hold or the difference between a resistor and a capacitor. Chips are a mystery to me. ● I have forgotten more than I remember. James Noyes
Room: 127 Jim O’Reilly
Room: 106 Geoffrey Parsons
Room: 121 Mark Pilgrim
Room: 211 Ian “Sark” Primus
Hardware guts
Room: 125 Jeremy Rand
Apple2BuildPipeline, multiple HackFest winner
Room: 232 Eric Rangell Room: 208
Interests: - Apple ][ music, MIDI, Mockingboard, Phasor, //gs - Hacking with Arduinos, PIs, and vintage Apples. - Peer to peer networking (DAT project) - Ted Nelson’s ideas for Xanadu and Zigzag - Docker architecture for cloud systems - Machine learning, cognitive services, e-Government - Embedded systems, Test-driven development - Educational technologies - remedial music education - Vintage Computers, Software Preservation/Archiving - Books by Douglas Hofstadter and Cory Doctorow - Keeping up with tech: F#, MS VSTS, Kubernates
Current project: - Mockingboard music for Nox Archaist
Current job: - Solution Architect at Incyte Corp, Wilmington DE.
Twitter: @RatifyArticle1 Javier Rivera
Room: 201
Retrobrite Lane Roathe
Room: 207 Dennis Robbins
Conference-only Derek Rosolowsky
East coast transplant currently based in Seattle
Avid videogamer / videogame enthusiast and have an interest in unique / obscure and / or retro hardware.
Pictured at right is (to my knowledge) Apple's only attempt at developing a video game system! ------>
Room: 111 Russ Ross
Room: 209 Eric Rucker
Room: 226 Kevin Savetz
Co-host of ANTIC— The Atari 8-Bit Podcast.
Co-host of Eaten By A Grue podcast with Carrington.
2016 Hackfest winner.
Author of Terrible Nerd.
Conference-only Jason Scott
Room: 133
Internet Archive; textfiles.com; Get Lamp documentary; lots more... Justin Scott
Room: 126 Eric Shepherd
Room: 218
Sweet 16 emulator; Hackfest rules; Juiced.GS staff Kelvin Sherlock
Room: 230 Eden Sherry
Room: 108 Hal Simonds
Room: 210 Michael Sternberg
Room: 235 Kate Szkotnicki
Also called Cat
Resident of Harper’s Ferry WV
Maker of cool things
Gamer
Professional Nerd (actually I’m a Home Ec teacher who has vast, varied interests, mostly nerdy, that endear me to students.)
Room: 111 Dave Taylor
Room 214 Conner Titus
Room 104 Chris Torrence
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTorrence
Assembly Lines: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/1312089407
Room: 229 Michael Trupkin
Room: 128 Charlene Van Walleghen
Room: 109 John Van Walleghen
Room: 109 Carrington Vanston
Interests: Podcaster, programmer, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Achievement: Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2006.
Trivia: Perfect 20-and-0 bullfighting record, but always as the bull. Invented the paperclip. Named the color green. Has a pet named Peeve. Made up all these facts. Just used the word “facts" incorrectly. Is sorry for nothing.
Precept: The plural of Lego is Lego, and that’s a hill I’m willing to die on.
Room: 222 Roger Wagner
Keynote speaker http://rogerwagner.com http://www.hyperduino.com
Room: 225 Vincent Weaver
Room: 315 Geoff Weiss
Room: 228 Steve Weyhrich
KansasFest board member.
Apple II historian.
Resident of Omaha, NE.
Room: 118 Brian Wiser
Apple Historian and Archivist.
Designer, editor and co-producer of Call-APPLE books like The WOZPAK, Cyber Jack, Synergistic Early Games, and What’s Where in the Apple.
Firefly geek and producer of the documentary film “Done The Impossible.”
Room: 131 Evan Wright
Room: 129 Jeffery Yeary
Room: 123 Alan Yee
Room: 334 Alain Zanchetta
Room: 322