Apple II convention – July 15–20, 2025
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What happened in 1997? Pat Kern has shared photos, another “Year Book”, and six slideshows. David Kerwood’s keynote address and report are also available. The difficult changes with the GEnie and Delphi online services were popular topics.
What happened in 1996? Pat Kern has shared photos, a wonderful “Year Book”, and four slideshows. The photos and slideshows have been available for awhile, but the “Year Book” has only recently been discovered and shared. The text of Gary Utter’s keynote speech is also available.
What happened in 1995? Pat Kern has shared photos and a wonderful “Year Book”. The “Year Book” includes great stories, biographies, and pictures. This year was known as “DIY KFest” since 1995 was the first event without a corporate organizer. Also, this was the first year with event t-shirts. Steve Disbrow of EGO Systems produced …
Did you see our new cart? James Littlejohn turned a broken golf cart into the “KFest Kart of Awesomeness”. Many folks, especially attendees with mobility challenges, enjoyed rides to the cafeteria and elsewhere around campus.
The talented Dr. Weyhrich brings us another music video. How many computers, new or old, inspire songs?
Here’s our 2016 group photograph. Please thank our photographer, Loren. See past group photos here.
David Pierini with Cult of Mac has published a nice series of articles about KansasFest: Apple II fans find themselves in hog heaven at KansasFest This guy makes badly aged Apple computers sparkle again KansasFest solder session proves there’s fun in melting metal KansasFest is a second-chance childhood for one programmer KansasFest: Final notes from …
We had four excellent HackFest entries. I’ll let the videos speak for themselves. You may also download disk images and source code. Please thank our judges, Quinn, Martin, and Kate, for their work to make this all possible.