August 2016 - vcf-midatlantic

pics from vintage computer festival West 2016
by william degnan 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

If you're eager to see something before I edit the file's names (I still need to confirm what each thing actually was), create thumbnails and a post a thread on my site, feel free to take a look at the raw footage from VCF West and the CHM http://vintagecomputer.net/VCFWest_2016 http://vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2016/CHM_California/ -- @ 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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Off-topic - Items gone..
by David Hoelzer 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

FYI, there’s already a deal cooking with a list member, so I think it’s safe to say that the items are gone. Thanks! ———————————————————————————— David Hoelzer Principal Analyst, Chief Research Officer Enclave Forensics / Cyber Defense

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Off-topic - Items available - You guys are first
by David Hoelzer 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hello all! I’ve got to make room in the rack for some modern blade servers, so I’ve got some stuff that has to go. I thought I’d give you guys first dibs. I’d really love to see everything go together (to make it easy to make a single trip.. I’m at the far eastern tip of Long Island), but I’ll part out if necessary. I’m not posting prices because, frankly, I don’t have the time to do any research here, though there is some value to some of this. Reasonable offers won’t be declined. :) What’s available: VaxStation 4000 VLC - Don’t recall if it has a 50 pin drive in it or not but I’m sure I have a 50 pin drive that can go with it. Includes AUI connector. MicroVax 3100-40 - At least one drive in it.. possibly 2? I don’t recall. Was running a cluster for 10 years up until I yanked it out of the rack this morning. Also has one of those weird lobster claw CD drives for which I could never find a carrier. Tape drive as well, no tapes. Includes AUI connector. Another MicroVax 3100. I don’t recall which model this is. Also working, also has a 50 pin SCSI drive in it and an AUI connector. Dec VT320 with keyboard, working wonderfully, very clean with good screen. Wyse terminal.. I forget the model on this. Works fine, but is finicky. My diagnosis is that the capacitors in it are borderline.. May not power up first time… but if you power off and on it will come up just fine. Again, likely the caps. Keyboard included, of course. The big prize: A Decserver 300! Works great. The software for it is actually installed on the 3100-40 so that it can MOP boot. It’s had a bit of surgery done… The original power supply was toast and it was impossible to find any documentation for. Replacing caps left it still dead, so I replaced it with a modern power supply and figured out the wiring internally. Has 16 MMJ ports and comes with an AUI adapter as well. Again, reasonable offers are welcome but I’d prefer to have it all go together for simplicity. If there are no interested offers in the next few days it all heads to eBay. Thanks! ———————————————————————————— David Hoelzer Principal Analyst, Chief Research Officer Enclave Forensics / Cyber Defense

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Pdp 11/15 ebay ending soon
by william degnan 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

http://m.ebay.com/itm/191933305000?_mwBanner=1 Located near nyc in new jersey. Pickup only Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net

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IBM PS/2 Floppy Blues
by Stephen A Edwards 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

Found an IBM PS/2 Model 60 (huge tower) a while ago. It powers on, displays video, complains about the CMOS memory, and refuses to boot further. I spent a day fighting with the 3.5" 1.44MB floppy: I recapped it, cleaned the heads, cleaned the track 0 sensor, and it's now happier than it used to be, but it still won't boot disks (it seeks to track 0 on reset, and spins the disk for a bit when it's trying to read track 0 for boot, but then gives up shortly after that). It's a strange floppy: a 40-pin edge card connector instead of the usual 34-pin. It has a 5.25 MFM (?) drive in it (90X8643 MCA controller card) that spins up and seems to move heads around, but it doesn't seem to want to boot off of that either, perhaps because the CMOS information is gone. Anybody familiar with how that needs to work. So I'm looking for advice, or reason to get rid of it. Anybody have a spare 3.5" floppy drive FOR AN IBM PS/2 kicking around (i.e., 40-pin edge card connector)? Is there any way to fix up the CMOS memory without booting a floppy? (It doesn't seem to have BASIC) Anybody have a MCA SCSI controller? Or does anybody want to take this boat anchor off my hands? -Stephen

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] FYI: VCF West is streaming Live
by Ray Sills 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

> On Aug 6, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Alexander via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > <snip> > Cool! Thank you for posting this. > > Just be aware of your frame and what's in it. Nobody wants to watch footage of the bottom of the stage, or of the camera man moving stuff in and out of the frame. > Yup. Doing live TV isn’t easy. You don’t get any “take 2s”. And the audio part is often the most difficult to deal with. 73 de Ray (CBS-TV retired)

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] FYI: VCF West is streaming Live
by Alexander 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Cool! Thank you for posting this. Just be aware of your frame and what's in it. Nobody wants to watch footage of the bottom of the stage, or of the camera man moving stuff in and out of the frame. Y'all have fun. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson Sent from my pocket telephone. Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: >FYI: >VCF West is streaming Live >http://livestream.com/accounts/20674917/events/6079382

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FYI: VCF West is streaming Live
by Dan Roganti 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

FYI: VCF West is streaming Live http://livestream.com/accounts/20674917/events/6079382

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Trackstar 128 disk
by Richard Cini 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

All – Someone contacted me about locating an image for the Diamond Trackstar 128 add-in board. Apparently it’s got some sort of copy protection and doesn’t exist on-line anywhere. Does anyone have this disk – and the hardware – to make a copy of it? Let me know and maybe I can connect you with the seeker. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Testing new ip for my mail server
by Jim Scheef 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Ben, Send yourself an email at a web-based account like Yahoo or mail. See if the problem shows up. I doubt the list is the source of the problem. Jim Sent from Surface From: 'vcf-midatlantic'<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Sent: ?Friday?, ?August? ?5?, ?2016 ?11?:?44? ?AM To: 'vcf-midatlantic'<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Ben Greenfield<mailto:ben@cogs.com>

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