Mactoberfest Meetup is back for 2026! Saturday November 7, Belmont California

For everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mactoberfest Meetup is back by popular demand! After a successful event in 2023, we took a few years off, and now we’re returning on November 7 to the same historic church venue in Belmont where we held the previous meetup. You’re invited to join us for a day of fun and the opportunity to show off your Mac and Apple gear. Come relive the glory days of Hypercard, desk accessories, and flying toasters! If you don’t live in California, steal a car and drive here. If you’re in jail, break out! You don’t want to miss this.

Here’s a photo from the 2023 meetup to give you a sense of the event:

What to expect at Mactoberfest Meetup:

• Rooms full of vintage Macintosh fanatics and crusty old computers
• Flea market – Items can be offered for sale at display tables or in the “marketplace corner”.
• Freebies table – Got anything you can give away for free? Put your donations of extra disk drives, cables, adapters, and peripheral cards here. See something you like? Take it!
• Workshop table – Stocked with soldering irons, tools, a multimeter, and maybe an oscilloscope or logic analyzer. Troubleshoot your broken computers here, or build something new.
• LAN game competition – How about Spaceward Ho at 3:00 PM? Start practicing now!
• Spontaneous ideas – System 6 trivia quiz? 2400 baud modem demos?

How you can help:

Can you take a turn for an hour at the workshop table, helping somebody to troubleshoot a Sad Mac error code or recap a motherboard? How about organizing the LAN tournament? Or if you have another idea for a fun activity, great! Your willingness to help is the critical ingredient for the meetup’s success.

What you should bring:

• Vintage computer hardware, media, and collectibles.
• Extension cords and power strips for your computers – We definitely won’t have enough for everybody.
• Items to sell in the flea market.
• Soldering irons and tools like tweezers, cutters, and magnifiers. Multimeters and test equipment. Capacitors and components for common repairs.
• Odds-and-ends to donate for the Freebies Table – How many old SCSI drives and spare motherboards do you really need, anyway? Stop hoarding them.
• Kits and DIY stuff – Can you donate anything that ‘just needs assembly’, like a microcontroller kit or a set of replacement floppy drive gears?
• Cool stuff you can donate as prizes or give-aways.
• Snacks, water, or drinks – Donations will be very appreciated.

For more details and to register for the event, please visit mactoberfestmeetup.org

MACTOBERFEST
Bay Area Classic Macintosh Meetup / Demo / Workshop / Swap-Meet / Tournament / Whatever
Saturday 7 November 2026, 11:00am to 5:00pm
Belmont, California
(event address is on the registration form)

Please don’t forget to RSVP if you’re if you’re maybe, probably, or definitely planning to attend. This will help us keep track of who’s bringing what items, and the likely overall attendance level.

Questions, comments, suggestions? Hit me! This is a meetup, not a VCF clone, and its success depends on everyone’s participation and involvement. If you’ve got an idea for something that you’d like to see, come join us and make it happen!

mactoberfestmeetup.org