Minicon 30 History

Minicon 30 was held 14–16 April 1995.

At-Con Web Pages

Minicon 30 was held in the very early days of the World Wide Web and featured webpages served from a computer in the convention hotel, which were developed and maintained during the convention.

Photo Gallery

Here is the photo gallery assembled during the convention, plus more photos added after the con.

Selected items from the program book (text-only)

• Guest of Honor: Vernor Vinge
• Science Guest of Honor: Robert L. Forward
• Artist Guest of Honor: Jody Lee
• Fan Guests of Honor: The Bhigg House
• Honored Guest: Glen Cook
• Worldcon bidding
• Chairman's message
• The fanzine room
• "Our Family Album" (a history of Minicons)
• Special Minicon 30 pictorial cancellation from the US Post Office
• The Concom

Scan of the program book

[Added in 2011] We don't currently know of any clean electronic copies of the program book, although page 90 indicates that such a thing must have existed at some point. Anyway, here's a PDF of a scan (100MB) or a lower quality version of the same (3MB).

• Nice page images (typical size 2.5MB): Cover | 1 | 2–3 | 4–5 | 6–7 | 8–9 | 10–11 | 12–13 | 14–15 | 16–17 | 18–19 | 20–21 | 22–23 | 24–25 | 26–27 | 28–29 | 30–31 | 32–33 | 34–35 | 36–37 | 38–39 | 40–41 | 42–43 | 44–45 | 46–47 | 48–49 | 50–51 | 52–53 | 54–55 | 56–57 | 58–59 | 60–61 | 62–63 | 64–65 | 66–67 | 68–69 | 70–71 | 72–73 | 74–75 | 76–77 | 78–79 | 80–81 | 82–83 | 84–85 | 86–87 | 88–89 | 90–91 | 92–93 | 94–95 | 96
• Quality-reduced to make the files as small as possible while keeping the text legible (typical size 60kB): Cover | 1 | 2–3 | 4–5 | 6–7 | 8–9 | 10–11 | 12–13 | 14–15 | 16–17 | 18–19 | 20–21 | 22–23 | 24–25 | 26–27 | 28–29 | 30–31 | 32–33 | 34–35 | 36–37 | 38–39 | 40–41 | 42–43 | 44–45 | 46–47 | 48–49 | 50–51 | 52–53 | 54–55 | 56–57 | 58–59 | 60–61 | 62–63 | 64–65 | 66–67 | 68–69 | 70–71 | 72–73 | 74–75 | 76–77 | 88–89 | 80–81 | 82–83 | 84–85 | 86–87 | 88–89 | 90–91 | 92–93 | 94–95 | 96
• The raw scans, in case you need to see some very small detail (typical size 8MB, cover is extra large: 79MB): Cover | 1 | 2–3 | 4–5 | 6–7 | 8–9 | 10–11 | 12–13 | 14–15 | 16–17 | 18–19 | 20–21 | 22–23 | 24–25 | 26–27 | 28–29 | 30–31 | 32–33 | 34–35 | 36–37 | 38–39 | 40–41 | 42–43 | 44–45 | 46–47 | 48–49 | 50–51 | 52–53 | 54–55 | 56–57 | 58–59 | 60–61 | 62–63 | 64–65 | 66–67 | 68–69 | 70–71 | 72–73 | 74–75 | 76–77 | 88–89 | 80–81 | 82–83 | 84–85 | 86–87 | 88–89 | 90–91 | 92–93 | 94–95 | 96

Masquerade Video

Here is a video of the Minicon 30 Masquerade. For somewhat higher video quality, you can also download all of the files needed to make a copy of the DVD that the above video was extracted from.

Opening Ceremonies and Radio Show Video

Here's a video of the Minicon 30 opening ceremonies and the radio play that was performed afterwards. WARNING: 7 GB. You can also watch the radio show on YouTube, which will probably be easier on your bandwidth.

The Minicon 30 Masquerade Video and The Minicon 30 Opening Ceremonies and Radio Show Video, by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Badges

Here are some volunteer badges.

Here's a video including images of some of the button badges used in this Minicon era.

T-shirt

Front and back, respectively:

And here's the volunteer shirt front (the back is blank):