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I'm so ready to troubleshoot my vintage computers
by Joseph Oprysko 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

With my vintage Heathkit IM1212 Nixie Tube Multi-Meter. -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?

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FS: S100 Tarbell Tape Controller Unassembled Kit
by Systems Glitch 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

All, I've got a complete, unassembled Tarbell Tape Controller for the S100 bus. I don't think I'm ever going to get around to cloning the board. Kit includes the bare PCB, components, calibration tape, and original copy of the manual. It came to me in a large zip-loc bag, no idea if that's the original packing or not. No idea what the unassembled kit is worth, but the assembled boards seem to go for $150+ Contact me off-list with offers. Priority will be given to anyone who's going to make a real effort to clone it. I've already made a high-resolution scan of the board. Thanks, Jonathan

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Test, ignore...
by Evan Koblentz 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

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wide printer to donate if it works/fixed at workshop
by Jeffrey Jonas 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Does anybody have Epson T007 or T009 inkjet cartridges? I will donate an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 model P158A to the museum if we get it running. I think it needs new cartridges, or tricked out to accept them with low/no ink. Centronix and USB interfaces. Prints to 13 inches wide. -- jeff jonas

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Apple M0130 400k Mac Floppy Drive
by Joseph Oprysko 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

I have one of the above I'm considering putting on fleabay, but before I do, I figured I would offer my federation friends a shot at it at a much more reasonable price than the $100 $250ish that they're often seen for online. I recently cleaned and re-lubricated the drive, so it should be trouble free for quite some time barring bad floppy disks. Yes, I know sometimes people put them online for $10, I cant compete with them. I'm asking $75 for it from here. Otherwise on eBay it's going up at $125. It's a nice working 400k floppy drive. I could always take it out of the case and replace the 800k drive in my 128k with the 1mb memory upgrade daughterboard and remove that board to make my 128 stock. (Which is a project I'm working on). Then once I get the original floppies and manuals for the 128k Mac, it'll be a sweet deal. Well, looking forward to seeing the new museum. -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Ways the Federation COULD make money
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

How about making the (Donate) button on the V.C.F.org page function?

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Ways the Federation COULD make money
by Joseph Oprysko 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

I've been thinking about this quite a bit, if anyone has seen the website for the Computer History Museum in California, that place both makes me drool and kind of disgusted at the same time. It's beautiful! Utterly beautiful, the museum reminds me of places like the Franklin Institute, or other science museums. Very high tech displays displaying the history of the vintage tech. The fact that they have one of the Google Robotic Cars I was like WOAH! That's absolutely awesome! We all know that an organization like that must have gotten quite a bit in corporate funding to help setup their displays. And I honestly feel that corporate funding from companies like AT&T, Verizon, IBM, Lockheed, and others would likely be the most viable way to a high volume capable museum to appear on the east coast for the Federation. We could also have other types of fund raisers, from soliciting local businesses, apply for various grants from the government, online auctions of surplus (which personally I despise the idea of doing, I'd rather keep the surplus as property of the federation, if we want something to do with something we have 10 or more of, maybe have classes on working on them, that way we have units for spares/parts/etc), crowdfunding is also a possibility for certain projects. I'm sure there are other ways I haven't mentioned or even considered, these are a few that came off the top of my head. We have to remember, VCF is a Non-Profit CORPORATION, note the 3rd word, yes, it's an organization, but it's a corporation, a business, Which means, any "profit" goes towards furthering the primary goals of the organization, as opposed to lining the pockets of the individuals in a traditional corporation. So, there's nothing wrong with the museum and VCF trying to make money, it's just what they do with the money above the operating expenses that differs from a regular business. And I'm sure Corey can back me up on that. So, we don't have to "live" like we only have enough to rub 2 sticks together (or sit behind some big iron) to keep warm, that's why this internal only fundraiser for the stools confused the living hell out of me. I've talked to Evan about a few "BIG" idea for the future to bring up to the board, dunno if he did or not, but with a few good grants or corporate investments from some companies that we may be able to reel in, we could make this a lot more fun, as well as a lot more popular. Let's teach as many of the students of today about the computers of yesterday!!! Joseph Oprysko -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Class ideas for East XI/11
by Mike Willegal 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

I don’t know if it has been done, but I was thinking that cassette tape digital recording technology for personal computers would make a nice session and would be willing to do it. Another option would be PCB board design for the vintage computer enthusiast. regards, Mike Willegal

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Fundraiser update
by Evan Koblentz 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Everyone, In addition to the $1,000 already budgeted, we raised $1,730 from club members. We're still hoping to see the remaining $270 soon. :) Donations can go to newmuseum(a)vintagecomputerfederation.org or checks can be sent to us at PO Box 417, Eatontown, NJ, 07724. Please let me, Corey, and/or Jeff Brace know if you're sending a check, because we don't visit the post office very often. If anyone has friends, family, or coworkers who are interesting in helping, then please remind them we're a non-profit and gifts are tax-deductible. I find that the best way to get people interested is to bring them for a visit!

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WTB: Altair 8800B flat bat toggle switches
by Systems Glitch 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

All, I've got several broken flat bat switches on my 8800B and a new system I got in this week. Does anyone have spares they would like to sell? I need several each of both the toggle and momentary variety. Thanks, Jonathan

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FS: Vector S100 Extender New in Bag
by Systems Glitch 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/272104992436 "Full height" card extender, so you can't put the cover on with it installed unless your S100 box has a really deep card cage. This one will get Alpha Micro cards up to a workable height. Brand new in the bag, gold plated edge connector and socket, high quality Vector product. Thanks, Jonathan

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Class ideas for East XI/11
by Evan Koblentz 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Haven't decided yet whether to call our next show XI or 11.0. Leaning toward the first one. :) Anyway, we need some ** new ** class ideas AND PEOPLE TO TEACH THEM for the Friday sessions. (We're not using vintage.org anymore, but you can see the last two years' classes at http://www.vintage.org/2015/east/session.php and http://www.vintage.org/2014/east/session.php -- focus only on the Friday parts.) Fire away.

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Updated January Workshop who's coming?
by Jeffrey Brace 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

This is what I have so far. Anyone I missed? Ian? Mouse? 1) Jeff Brace 2) Evan Koblentz 3) Dean 4) Drew 5) Steven Toth 6) Joseph Oprysko 7) Jeff Galinat 8) David Gesswein 9) Todd G. 10) Doug Crawford 11) Chris Fala 12) Herb Johnson 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18)

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OT: Virtualbox problems
by Evan Koblentz 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Certainly not vintage, asking here because you guys are smart! I had Windows 7 Pro 32-bit installed on VirtualBox under Ubuntu. It worked fine, albeit very slow. Last week I bought a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. What I had was about 8 years old and only 2GB RAM. The new specs include a 64-bit processor and 16GB RAM (expandable to 64). I didn't have to reinstall anything -- plugged in my SSD and the OS and all programs worked fine, just a whole lot faster! The only thing that broke is Windows under Virtualbox. It kept saying "aborted" upon booting. I uninstalled it and replaced it with the 64-bit version. Same problem -- it aborts during boot, can't even install it. Googling wasn't particularly helpful. Any ideas?

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March Workshop
by Jeffrey Brace 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

How is March 12 & 13 for everyone?

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February Workshop
by Jeffrey Brace 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hey all! I know the January workshop hasn't happened yet, but I wanted to schedule the February one so that I'm guaranteed the room. Any problem with February 20&21 for a workshop? Jeff Brace

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TTL components in Philly?
by eric F 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

> > Any chance someone knows of a businesses that I’m not aware of in Philly that would stock TTL components like the 7430 8-input NAND? I have a SLOW order coming with one, but feel impatient, especially with time to burn and projects lined up in the retro pipeline. > > > Try Selectronics > http://selectro.com <http://selectro.com/> > > Just please don't buy out all their stock :) > > David I stopped by Selectronics today, but the nice gentleman at the counter said they really weren’t interested in selling small numbers of parts to individuals. From what I could gather, it looks like they recover ICs through e-waste processing, then sell them on the wholesale market. The guy was polite (and checked availability of the parts I was looking for), but clearly wanted me moving along. I guess it’s Jameco / Digikey / Unicorn and PATIENCE for now! But thanks to Bill W for sending me the 7430. Eric

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Fwd: TDL 8K Z80 Basic..
by Herb Johnson 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

> Holm Tiffe [via cctech email list c/o Bill Degnan] wrote: > >> >> Currently I'm fiddeling around with the old 8 Kbyte Z80 Basic Interpreter >> from TDL, found an Paper Tape Image here: >> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/p/tdlsoft.zip >> on Dave Dunfields pages. >> >> Has someone still a computer with that 8K TDL Basic in use? Bill Degnan adds: -- > Forwarding this from CCTECH...Herb or someone on this list might --> have a working system available to assist? www.google.com search box: "tdl basic site:retrotechnology.com" About several results... www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/d_tdl.html www.retrotechnology.com/restore/TDLmonitor.html http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/digital_crompton.txt note: I reference Dave Dunfield's TDL paper tape collection and show work with it. Bill, you can forward this information back to Holm Tiffe if you wish. Herb Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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January Workshop Who's Coming?
by Herb Johnson 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

[previous list noted] 8a. Herb Johnson, weather permitting -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TTL components in Philly?
by tom.hornberger＠verizon.net 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

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FS: CCS Model 2016 16K Static RAM S100 Board Tested/Working in Box
by Systems Glitch 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Just finished testing it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/272102935924 Tested and repaired by me, including bank select functionality. Programmable bank select feature so you should be able to set it up for either Cromemco or North Star bank select, or your own thing. Tested on my IMSAI 8080, so it works with front panels. Uses common 2114 static RAMs. Includes what looks like the original box, warranty card, some parts identification sheets, and a large ziploc bag. The box says, "Meets IEEE proposed S-100 signal standards," but I'm pretty sure that's only for 8-bit operation. I don't think it's compatible with 16-bit data buses. One of the address switches has a broken paddle, but is 100% functional. I'll replace it for free if desired. Thanks, Jonathan

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Fwd: TDL 8K Z80 Basic..
by william degnan 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Holm Tiffe <holm(a)freibergnet.de> wrote: > > Currently I'm fiddeling around with the old 8 Kbyte Z80 Basic Interpreter > from TDL, found an Paper Tape Image here: > http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/p/tdlsoft.zip > on Dave Dunfields pages. > > I've used the 12K Version from TDL many years before on my home computer > and now we have a project on robotrontechnik.de with an SBC and I've > ported > the P112 Tiny Basic already to this SBC, now I want to try the 8K TDL > Version. > > ... > > Has someone still a computer with that 8K TDL Basic in use? > > In the moment I'm writing a loader that can "autopatch" the relocation > Bytes in the TDL HEX file format from the Paper Tapes. Someone used that > before? > > Regards, > > Holm > > Forwarding this from CCTECH...Herb or someone on this list might have a working system available to assist? -- -Bill-

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$1,595...
by Evan Koblentz 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

We are getting close! Need another $400 and change....

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Recording of Kurtz/BASIC keynote @ East 8?
by Evan Koblentz 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

I'm embarrassed to ask this, but, does anyone have a recording of Dr. Kurtz's keynote from VCF East 8.0? Let me know off-list....

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FS: Official MITS Altair S100 Extender
by Systems Glitch 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Going through more S100 stuff: http://www.ebay.com/itm/272101989743 This one is like every other S100 extender, except made by MITS. It's one of the shorter ones, so you can leave it in and still put the top on the case. The connector is still very tight, from the edge connector it looks like this board was used very little (huh? no constant debugging with MITS stuff?!) Thanks, Jonathan

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New museum furniture / special fundraiser
by Evan Koblentz 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Everyone, In the new museum, we're going to need about $3,000 for exhibit furniture, more electrical power, converting the single door into a double-wide door, and all sorts of small things. Can you (or your company) please help? We set up newmuseum(a)vintagecomputerfederation.org. Funds into that account will only be used for building the new museum display. We already have $1,000 budgeted for this purpose. This list has 162 members. To get the remaining $2,000, that works out to about $13/person -- one nice lunch. Thank you!

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Cheapest way to buy nice stools?
by tom.hornberger＠verizon.net 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

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List downtime / Domain transfer happening soon
by Evan Koblentz 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Guys, We are transferring our domain(s) to a different hoster. This has to do with our technical merger regarding the VC Forum. (We decided it's simpler for the Federation stuff to move to Erik's hoster than for Erik to move the forum stuff to our hoster.) I am going to transfer our domains tomorrow at noon ET. After that, I'll transfer the subdomain that connects to this mailing list (we're NOT changing list companies again). It should go smoothly. There may be a little bit of downtime.

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Cheapest way to buy nice stools?
by Evan Koblentz 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

We're considering putting a nice metal stool at each computer in the new museum. However, they seem to be pricey. Even very simple ones (like this: http://tinyurl.com/jhpp6ds) are $40 each, and I'd like to have 30 of them .... but that would be $1,200 which is way too much for us to spend on this. Harbor Freight has them for less than $30 each -- I have one at home and it's great -- but the tops are bright red. :) Not appropriate for our museum. Does anyone know where to get such things cheaper? (We're not looking to collect donations of mismatched stuff.)

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TTL components in Philly?
by eric F 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

Any chance someone knows of a businesses that I’m not aware of in Philly that would stock TTL components like the 7430 8-input NAND? I have a SLOW order coming with one, but feel impatient, especially with time to burn and projects lined up in the retro pipeline. Eric

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TTL components in Philly?
by mark＠markesystems.com 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

From: David Ryskalczyk <david.rysk(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TTL components in Philly? >> Any chance someone knows of a businesses that I’m not aware of in Philly >> that would stock TTL components like the 7430 8-input NAND? I have a SLOW >> order coming with one, but feel impatient, especially with time to burn >> and projects lined up in the retro pipeline. > Try Selectronics > http://selectro.com My, their web site is certainly annoying! And the "Chippy off" link doesn't work, either... ~~ Mark Moulding

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Blit Express Lives!
by Kenneth Seefried 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

From: Systems Glitch <systems.glitch(a)gmail.com> > >The Blit Express is a high resolution (1664 x 1200 mono, forget the color res) >workstation graphics card from Bell Technologies. Thats the one based on the Intel i82786, right? Awful chip. It sold as a way to turn a 386 system into an alternative to something like a Sun 3/160. As we say in the South, bless their hearts. > I'm guessing there were sort of specific system requirements for it, since it > doesn't seem to like MFM/RLL drives, which of course would've been very > common then. If it's the i82786 based one, it's kinda picky about hardware configs (I seem to recall it required an unusually big memory region) but I ran it in a bunch of different systems (Intel and Compaq PCs at least). I'd go through the normal ISA bus IRQ/mem window/IO addy/etc diagnostic dance. I don't recall if I ran them with MFM/RLL disks, but I definitely ran them with ESDI disks. > There's almost no information on the Internet about these. Apparently mine is a > beta unit (don't know if they ever made it into production). Yours might be a beta, but the Bell Tech Blit certainly went into production and was reasonably successful. I have the X10 (yes, 10 not 11 and not the home control protocol) source around here *someplace* but will probably never find it. There's some stuff out there if you look hard enough. As I recall, at least the early X11 tapes came with the support source. Nosing around whatever is left of the Interactive and SCO Unix in the i386 era history will certainly turn up something. Tangent: anyone remember the Bell Tech HUB-6? ISA bus 6-port serial cards. Sold tons of them back in the day when SCO shipped product instead of failing to profit through litigation. Good times. KJ

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Congrats to Connor!
by Evan Koblentz 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Everyone, Time for some special recognition. One of our youngest members, Connor, recently posted to an IBM mainframe list for some help with the Z890 that he bought from Rutgers University. Someone involved with IBM's SHARE (mainframe user group) read it and invited Connor to speak at their Feb. 28-March 4 conference in San Antonio -- and then HP Enterprise (that's the servers and storage people, not the ink cartridge people) stepped up to pay the cost of his trip! "Ya done good, kid."

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Retro does Vintage
by Douglas Crawford 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

http://imgur.com/a/w3AmK So, a "flower pot" iMac G4 makes a great PDP-8/E platform. My first running of anything PDP. This emulator was pointed out a ways back on the Yahoo board I think. Good fun. Not hard to use and has good "getting started" docs. Maybe you have a good reason to go get a cheap old cool iMac :)

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C64 games
by Bob Flanders 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/340596/7-forgotten-commodore-64-gaming…

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PDP 8i on Ebay...going once,
by william degnan 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Ebay auction 201493504381 PDP 8i, two racks. Worth it? We'll find out soon. 3 hours left, no bidders. Prediction, this will sell. -- -Bill-

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] FS: Motorola 68HC11 Evaluation Kits, Complete in Box
by Systems Glitch 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

> Wow. I wrote a BSP for that board "way back when". "Bell System Practice?" Thanks, Jonathan

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FS: Motorola 68HC11 Evaluation Kits, Complete in Box
by Systems Glitch 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

All, I ended up with a bunch of these 68HC11 eval kits with a lot of lab gear from PSU's Allentown EE department. I'm selling off the last three. List price is $68.11 because that's what Motorola suggested on the front of the box -- make an offer :) Kit includes the 68HC11 single board computer, cross assemblers on 5.25" and 3.5" floppy, all manuals, and some promotional stuff. http://www.ebay.com/itm/272098952794 Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Correction: Semi-OT: printer for new museumsigns
by Duane 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Office Depot/Office Max has a HP 7612 on sale for $149.99. The reviews seem to run about 4 stars out of 5 -----Original Message----- From: Corey Cohen via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 6:48 PM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Corey Cohen Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Correction: Semi-OT: printer for new museumsigns I have a spare network enabled HP laser jet 4plus for VCF which we can use for printing high volume hand outs and stuff. It can print on some pretty heavy paper stock and is dirt cheap to run. I just have to move it to the new space and it even has serial so we can print from vintage machines. The problem Evan is trying to solve is the colour signage for the museum. If someone can recommend a good 11x17 printer, we don't need a scanner, for around $200 or less please post an online link. Thanks, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ > On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic > <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > >> On 01/05/2016 05:45 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> However, a freebie B&W letter-size laser printer will print for FREE, >> and would be a good thing to locate elsewhere. > > I may be able to supply a B&W letter-size laser printer to VCFed. > When everything is shaken out after Autumn and I move our work areas to > the new building I will see what is left. I should have at least one. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Cheapest way to buy nice stools?
by Ben Greenfield 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

I would try a restaurant supply place preferably in Chinatown. Ben

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Timex/Sinclair, C=, IBM stuff in DC area
by Evan Koblentz 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Available for adoption by a good home: - Timex Sinclair 1000 - Timex Sinclair 1016 16K RAM module - Timex Sinclair 2040 printer - Commodore 64 w/ drive - 1984 IBM PC with two 128K drives, Amdex amber monitor, Okidata printer, original boxes/manuals Contact: jakabp(a)si.edu (He's not on this list.)

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January Workshop Who's Coming?
by Chris Fala 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

1. Jeff Brace 2. Evan 3. Dean 4. Drew 64738. Steve Toth 65535. Joseph Oprysko 0200000 David Gesswein 0111. Bill Degnan 6. Jeff Galinat (Saturday/ maybe Sunday) 5 N = 9 10 N = N + 1 20 print N;" Doug Crawford" run 10 Doug Crawford FB & 0F Chris Fala

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Blit Express Lives!
by Systems Glitch 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/wDXnt Basically the trick to getting it working is that it hates commodity hardware. I guess being a Bell Labs product, it's above such pedestrian things as MFM/RLL controllers. More to come as it finds a permanent PC to live in. And, the RIFA caps in the ECL monitor released the magic smoke, so like all good projects it has had its "Will it Smoke?" moment. I have the ROMs/PALs for "pretend to be a MDA" mode. As you can see, it's not this unit's strong point. Thanks, Jonathan

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January Workshop Who's Coming?
by Jeffrey Brace 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Happy New Year VCFins! Our January Workshop will be January 23 & 24. I will post more details later, but basically it will start at 10am Sat Jan 23 and end Sun. Jan. 24. The usual $10 per person and and in the big room 9032-A. Who's coming? 1. Jeff Brace 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Flashback Trenton 2005
by william degnan 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

http://www.vintagecomputer.net/tcf_2005/ I was browsing around and found these photos from FKA MARCH's first event. -- -Bill-

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Compuseum
by Mike Loewen 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Does anyone here know about these folks? They have some grandiose plans, including: "The Compuseum's primary gallery is to include a display of sections of the ENIAC, the earliest digital computer created within the University of Pennsylvania and in step-wise fashion, show the march of forward progress." There's no real content on their web site, just a lot of goals. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Jim Scherrer Compuseum Project Technology Center 120 Arrandale Boulevard Exton, PA 19341 484-875-1700 www.TheCompuseum.org info(a)TheCompuseum.org SKYPE = JS.Scherrer The mission of Compuseum is to stimulate the public and the technology industry to share information and to raise the public awareness of the important role the digital age has played and will continue to play in our society. Compuseum will be a springboard into various ways to teach and discuss new and emerging technologies, and their implications, within the context of prior achievement. Thank you for helping the Compuseum bring people together from across America and around the world to learn about, discuss, and celebrate the computer technology revolution. View the History of HP here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYLG_C28L7Y Did you have an HP-35? View the Worlds First PC- Kenbak 1- By John Blankenbaker http://www.retrothing.com/2007/11/kenbak-1---the.html Read about John Blankenbaker on BBC World News Our "Friend of Compuseum" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34639183

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East - Kernighan video online
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic writes: >>> You might be surprised at what a little effort in Audition, Audacity, >= or similar tools can do pressing capture noise print, select all, and >act= ive noise reduction. Much much greater gain than a $300 bump in mic >quali= ty - and cheaper too. > >Thanks, I will try that. The problem is what's been posted is audibly terrible. How it is remedied, whether by better equipment or via post-processing (and note, I have several professional sound packages and equipment, etc.), is the issue and, INMSHO, it should be addressed for the future for such historic, one-time, lectures.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Young Innovators Faire
by Todd George 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Some of the comments in my report duplicated what Doug had said previously. I should have done a better job editing my summary of the day. Sorry for any annoyance there. Additionally, the total attendees number conflicted a bit. I'd personally trust Doug's numbers over mine. Nearly 30,000 is more accurate. :-) Thanks guys.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East - Kernighan video online
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic writes: >Ta-da! > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWt_StXKsY A wonderful demonstration illustrating the difference between a $39.99 and a $399.99 microphone. The audio quality of that video is pretty awful and that's really a shame.

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OT: InfoAge needs a plumber
by Evan Koblentz 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

InfoAge management asked that all of the member groups forward this message: -------------------------- InfoAge has need of some major plumbing work that will include excavation and laying pipes. Before looking without, we might look within. Look through your membership lists and see if there's a plumber or two that may be able to offer us their services and expertise at low or no cost if we supply a little labor.

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