May 2016 - vcf-midatlantic - lists.vcfed.org

Workshop 6/11 & 6/12 - Who's going so far
by Jeffrey Brace 24 May '16

24 May '16

01 - Jeff Brace - Commodore 64 Robotics Kit for HOPE Exhibit 02 - Evan Koblentz - Lego LOGO robotics kit for HOPE exhibit (Apple II, IBM PC) 03 - Alex Jacocks - PS/2 model 70 and AT&T 6300 testing/repairs (Sunday) 04 - Dean Notarnicola - TRS-80 Model 4, Model 4D, Model I 05 - Jeff Jonas - ??? - (Saturday)

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June 11/12 Workshop - Who's Going? Whatcha working on?
by Jeffrey Brace 24 May '16

24 May '16

01-Jeff Brace-Commodore 64 Robotics Kit for HOPE Exhibit 02-Evan Koblentz- 03- 04- 05- 06- 07- 08- 09- 10- 11-

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Apple II Turtle Logo on Ebay.
by william degnan 24 May '16

24 May '16

Ebay 222124483812 "Logo" Turtle Graphics Programming Software and Manuals I seem to remember Mouse or Ian wanted this program (?), and that it was hard to find. Well here you go. b -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>

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Great article on Connor Krukosky
by Christian Liendo 24 May '16

24 May '16

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Connor-Krukosky/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ADTPro help
by Kelly Leavitt 24 May '16

24 May '16

On May 24, at 2:48 PM David Ryskalcyk wrote: > On May 24, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > > > Win10 x64 and Mint x64 both. This was with a prolific usb to serial adapter on an older i7 machine and the same on an i5 dell laptop running Linux. > It's possible you have a counterfeit Prolific USB-serial adapter. Does it work with the latest Prolific drivers on Windows 10? The older fakes would produce a "Code 10" error; the newer ones may not. > >I've had success with FTDI and Silicon Labs, as well as genuine Prolific adapters, but the fakes are of varying quality and don't always work. It's a real one. This adapter works everywhere, it only seems to have problems with the Java lib. I use this in everything from Windows XP to my Rasperry PI. I purchased a dozen for the local radio club and still have a couple of my own. I used the same adapter several years ago with the same setup and didn't have this problem. This was under Windows 7 back when ADTPro was only verified to work under java32. Kelly

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ADTPro help
by Evan Koblentz 24 May '16

24 May '16

>> I saw a note where ADTPro gets upset if the serial port is missing (you should >> see something from the dmesg command). > > Is your user account a member of the "dialout" group? It not, you will need to use sudo to access serial ports on Linux. > > David I'm not sure how to check, but my account = admin, so it should have full privileges to everything. Anyway I tried running adtpro as sudo from a terminal and got the same error.

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June workshop prize
by Evan Koblentz 24 May '16

24 May '16

My girlfriend handed me a bag today. She said it has a special prize inside for the first-to-smoke winner at the June workshop. Your guess is as good as mine!

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ADTPro help
by Neil Cherry 24 May '16

24 May '16

On 05/24/2016 01:42 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote: >> Chris is correct Java cares about 64 and 32 bit os libraries. >> >> Evan do a" >> uname -a >> java -version > > Output: > > Linux evan-desktop 3.13.0-86-generic #131-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 12 23:32:41 UTC 2016 i686 > athlon i686 GNU/Linux > > Okay Linux is 32 bit, so it wants 32 bit libraries. Still need the java version: java -version What type of serial port are you using the PC's builtin serial, a usb serial or something else ? I saw a note where ADTPro gets upset if the serial port is missing (you should see something from the dmesg command). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] June 11/12 Workshop - Who's Going? Whatcha working on?
by Brian L. Stuart 24 May '16

24 May '16

On Tue, 5/24/16, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > oh hey, I almost forgot, I still have the SVI-2000 robot arm if you want > something else for the HOPE exhibit or the NYC MakerFaire. > http://www.theoldrobots.com/images58/Robotarm-w1.JPG Now there's a blast from the past. Over 20 years ago there was a variant on that unit that had an RS-232 interface in the base. I got a loaner for a summer course I was doing. We drove it with a network of Sun workstations and had it playing Connect-4. Here's a little SIGCSE paper on the project: http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/robotics/p41-stuart.pdf BLS

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Huge favor please :)
by Evan Koblentz 24 May '16

24 May '16

Can anyone buy this for us? http://m.ebay.com/itm/282043737312

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