February 2017 - vcf-midatlantic

more retro-computing goodness on hackaday.com
by William Dudley 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

http://hackaday.com/2017/02/21/a-full-speed-portable-apple-e/ http://hackaday.com/2017/02/20/a-6502-retrocomputer-in-a-very-tidy-package/ Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

1 0

Apple Newton MessagePad books free
by Michael Kato 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

I have the following for local pickup in Alexandria/Crystal City VA. I will also ship if you pay for shipping(qualifies for media mail) https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1gmOrHMzhgkS3A2eG5XbVR2d3c Defying Gravity: The making of Newton - Menuez https://www.amazon.com/Defying-Gravity-Making-Markos-Kounalakis/dp/09418319… Apple MessagePad Handbook Newton Programmer's Guide for Newton 2.0 1996 ISBN 0-201-47947-8 Newton Toolkit User's Guide The NewtonScript Programming Language Newton Press User's Guide for Windows Programming for the Newton: Software development with NewtonScript McKeehan/Rhodes ISBN 0-12-484800-1 Programming for the Newton using Windows: Software development with NewtonScript McKeehan/Rhodes ISBN 0-12-484840-3 Newton UserInterface Guidelines ISBN 0-201-28838-8 The Newton PDA Platform: A technology and feature analysys (booklet) PDA Developers - Volume 3.1 - Jan/Feb 1995 Newton Technology Journal - Volume 11, Number 3 - June 1996 ....maki....

1 0

Spring clean purge free items
by Jason Perkins 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

I'm beyond capacity on stuff. Items below are feee! 7x Avaya 5410 digital phones. With handsets. AT keyboard extension cables. 90s and late 80s mac manuals and software. Some in box. 2 moving boxes worth. Items below are as-asked. I'm open to offers. Sinclair zx81, with 16k ram module. Worked when I tried it last year. $20. SGI indego workstation. Has new clock battery. Front plastic has a few cracks. $40 IBM model M keyboard cables. Ps2 ends. $6 Phone Net mac networking adapters. $1 AppleBus cable tester. $5 I can bring items to vcf east! Thanks, Jason -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone

4 8

How many c64s?
by william degnan 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

How many commodore 64's do you own working or no? I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net

14 13

15 videos: Xerox Alto Restoration
by Jeffrey Jonas 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

of possible interest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb58I3ZV67LW3S_JEMFnDrQDj&sp… Xerox Alto Restoration CuriousMarc This video series chronicles the restoration of a seminal Xerox Alto computer. This is the machine that Steve Jobs saw during a visit at the famed Xerox PARC, and would inspire the Macintosh. Although never commercialized, this 1974 design, built entirely out of simple TTL logic before a powerful enough microprocessor even existed, was so far ahead of its time that it is hard to comprehend. It demonstrated many then unheard-of firsts, and astonishingly, they all made it to the present day computer, barely modified: a personal computer booting from a hard disk, with a graphical screen, proportional fonts, a mouse driven GUI, a WYSIWYG text editor, a drawing program, IDE with overlapping windows, Ethernet, Net booting, laser printing, the first optical mouse - and even network games. Follow along as we delve into the depth of this machine while bringing it back to life step by step, while being constantly amazed at its never ending cleverness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhIohWr10kU&list=PL-_93BVApb58I3ZV67LW3S_JE… Xerox Alto Restoration Part 12 - Ethernet pioneers We bring up the Ethernet card and optical mouse, and are visited by Xerox Ethernet inventors and pioneer designers Dave Boggs and Ron Crane.

2 1

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum report
by Michael Thompson 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

> > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:01:32 -0500 > From: Evan Koblentz <evan(a)vcfed.org> > Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum report > > I bought two rolls of black stick-on window tint because Jeff B. noticed > that our workbench area gets very warm and sunlight shines directly where > we installed the bookshelves. Going to need some kind of squeegee thing and > some sort of spray to install the tint. Googling that for advice... > Home Depot sells an installation kit with soapy spray, squeegees, and a special cutter for trimming the film at the edges of the windows. The processes is not difficult, just use plenty of the spray on teh windows and film. Be very careful to get the bubbles out from under the film. If takes a lot of time with the squeegee working from the center to chase the bubbles to the edge of the film. -- Michael Thompson

1 0

Another retro computer simulated with modern hardware
by William Dudley 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

http://hackaday.com/2017/02/18/arduino-altair-8800-simulator/ Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

2 1

Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

We had about 15 visitors today. Mixture of families and adult couples. One group was a grandmother, adult daughter, and 10-year-old boy. The boy was precocious and somehow knew about MS-DOS and binary math. Another visitor was a guy in his mid-20s who said he came to our old museum four years ago. He stayed here today for a couple of hours to hang out and ask tons of questions. Our own Steve A. also visited with a friend of his. I bought two rolls of black stick-on window tint because Jeff B. noticed that our workbench area gets very warm and sunlight shines directly where we installed the bookshelves. Going to need some kind of squeegee thing and some sort of spray to install the tint. Googling that for advice...

1 0

Why {vintage} Basic beats Python
by Douglas Crawford 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

2 3

incompatible plastics :-(
by Jeffrey Jonas 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

I just had to clean plastic printer covers with GooGone because the bubble wrapped slimed it. I've had wires melt into the plastic storage box (polystyrene?). Programming templates crumbled to dust due to the outgassing of other plastic drafting templates. Is anyone aware of the chemistry involved?

2 1