August 2016 - vcf-midatlantic

oldest email address in the club
by william degnan 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hey, Anyone still operating actively an email address from before 1995 that one can send a message and receive a reply without turning on an old server, etc. In short, something more or less continuously in production daily with the same FQDN, etc? b

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club
by Jeffrey Jonas 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Loewen: > Here's my entry from the NIXPUB list in 1992: > 04/92 814-353-0566 cpumagic Bellefonte PA 12/24/96/14 24 What a small world: friends still live in Bellefonte. The closest I have to that was my photo & entry in "Face Saver" at the 1989 Usenix conference. http://www.metron.com/FaceSaver/ From: Neil Cherry > If you were on bitnet you were probably using all sorts of symbols. > I recall mixing !, %, @, {}. Lots of fun with routing email. I donated my O'Reilly Nutshell book of manual e-mail routing to the VCF library. It documented all known email gateways and things like the "at-hack". The title looked like a cartoon character cursing: @!#%*-something.

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Painting
by Evan Koblentz 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Painting the top few feet of our walls (top of the door frame to the ceiling) would be easy, but painting the ceiling itself would be difficult detail-wise. Rollers on sticks wouldn't get the all the edges. There are many edges because the ceiling is WW2 style. I asked Tony for his opinion because he seems to know a lot about painting. He recommended getting professional estimates. He said if the cost is exorbitant then he can probably get some of his worker to come help, but he emphasized that the tall, large ceiling really should he done by pros to look halfway decent. I will get a few estimates.

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Vintage computing art project
by Evan Koblentz 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

I'd like to try an experiment with painting an on-topic design onto a sheet of clear plexi and having light shine through it. Anyone done something like this? What kind of paint should we use?

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disk duplicating machines
by william degnan 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Anyone into vintage disk duplicating machines? Me? I have two; one for 5 1/4 and one for 3.5 disks but I don't use them. Have not powered them on or tested in 10 years. I have never seen anyone demo these at a VCF or elsewhere, but I bet there was a time when these were in use in many businesses before easy software download. A lost piece of tech. Bill

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Fwd: Daily Tech News Show: DTNS 2846 – Vintage Computing Never Gets Old
by murphnj 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

The podcast that Evan was on has been posted. I have not yet had a chance to listen. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Blogtrottr <busybee(a)blogtrottr.com> Date: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:35 PM Subject: Daily Tech News Show: DTNS 2846 – Vintage Computing Never Gets Old Daily Tech News Show Keep up to date with independent, authoritative and trustworthy discussion of the tech news of the day. Tom Merritt and co-host's home for daily tech news. [image: thumbnail] DTNS 2846 – Vintage Computing Never Gets Old <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DailyTechNewsShow/~3/pPcs0vpMRJA/> Aug 31st 2016, 17:25, by tommerritt(a)tommerritt.com (Tom Merritt), Tom Merritt [image: Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com] <http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DTNS_CoverArt14…> Evan Koblentz from the Vintage Computer Federation joins Scott Johnson to discuss the allure of vintage computer technology and its role in shaping modern trends. MP3 <http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/280806555-dtns-dtns-vintage-computing.mp3> Using a Screen Reader? Click here <https://youtu.be/jmAB85gRU5Y> Please SUBSCRIBE HERE <http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyTechNewsShow>. Follow us on Soundcloud <https://soundcloud.com/dtns>. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you are willing to support the show <http://dailytechnewsshow.com/support/> or give as little as 5 cents a day on Patreon <http://www.patreon.com/dtns>. Thank you! Big thanks to Dan Lueders <http://danlueders.com/> for the headlines music and Martin Bell <http://twitter.com/martinbellmusic> for the opening theme! Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo! Thanks to our mods, Kylde, TomGehrke, sebgonz and scottierowland on the subreddit <http://dailytechnewsshow.reddit.com/> *Show Notes* To read the show notes in a separate page click here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oY2XMRtMlaBEujRfmD2cy7x1F-amg-OXQSq…> ! Media files: 280806555-dtns-dtns-vintage-computing.mp3 <http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/280806555-dtns-dtns-vintage-computing.mp3> (audio/mpeg)

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vintage computer streaming video
by Jeffrey Jonas 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

I finally repaired the power supply to my Roku box (Internet television). My guilty pleasure is over - the StarLost channel is gone! It was all StarLost all the time. I liked the urban exploring feel of the show as the clueless-3 wandered the Space Ship Arc's corridors of abandoned consoles, kinda like NASA mission control of the 60s, or an old military base. Gee, just like Camp Evans :-) Anyway, I found something wonderful: Joe Screwdriver's Retro Tech https://www.rokuchannels.tv/retrotechtimemachine/ https://channelstore.roku.com/details/39210/retro-tech-time-machine Joe Screwdriver presents the Retro Tech Time Machine curated collection of retroactive technology. Old-style motion pictures of high tech gizmos from the previous century are transmitted directly from Joe's collection to your Roku player. Plenty of old-time knobs, switches, rollers, gears, computers, telephones, tubes, spacecraft, blinky lights, and machines of all sizes to satisfy your retro tech urges. I wish I had YouTube links for all the wonderful videos showing - an analog computer with plugboard-o-wires running an early Apollo simulator - early computers, including a quick tutorial of the 026 and 029 keypunch - all sorts of pre-computer office machines such as Addressograph's variety of machines for printing labels and form letters. An early form of word processing: the typewriter punched holes in a wide paper tape similar to a piano roll, which was played back on "player piano" like typewriters so everyone could get an original document. Before the IBM Selectric was Varityper's typewriter with an interchangeable DRUM of various fonts and type sizes! - publicity films from IBM and Western Union, showing how early systems used MILES of paper tape every day! - lotsa NASA films from Gemini, Apollo, letting me relive the space race days. -- jeffj

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Live interview @ 4:30 ET today
by Evan Koblentz 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

I'm being interviewed by someone at the Daily Tech News Show this afternoon. http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/about/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Live interview @ 4:30 ET today
by Evan Koblentz 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

>> Cool! Any specific topic >From their email: "the lifespan and obsolesce of computers and computer related technology including smartphones and tablets".

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club
by Jeffrey Jonas 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

replying to william degnan > Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club > Anyone still operating actively an email address from before 1995 I have been jeffj/at/panix/dot/com since 1991. I know the fellow with a slightly lower UID but he's not a VCF member. Before that, my emails were via my employer, but as a consultant I quickly realized the merit of an email that I could keep independent of my employer or client. I had email via Genie, Delphi, Prodigy but never Compuserve or AOL. Before it was PANIX, there was Big Electric Cat. A friend used that to access USENET before the Internet, back when most systems were "walled gardens". -- jeffj

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