March 2017 - vcf-midatlantic

Non-vintage PC Question
by W2HX 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hi friends, Sorry for the bandwidth. I have an oscilloscope that I am upgrading (LeCroy WaveRunner 6100) which has a PC within it and runs window 2000. I have not played with the inside of a PC since the days of the 486 so I am quite rusty here, guys! First step is to upgrade the ram. It currently has 1 RAM module with 512MB. I would like to put as much ram into this baby as possible. Probably the max would be 2G as two 1G modules. Here is a picture of the label on the one module... http://w2hx.com/x/LeCroy/WR6K/0304171610.jpg I've been reading up as much as I could on this. It appears to be DDR RAM (PC-2100) Probably DDR-266. I read the following on Wikipedia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM Size of the chip is measured in megabits<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabits>. Most motherboards recognize only 1 GB modules if they contain 64M×8 chips (low density). If 128M×4 (high density) 1 GB modules are used, they most likely will not work. The JEDEC<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEDEC> standard allows 128M×4 only for slower buffered/registered modules designed specifically for some servers, but some generic manufacturers do not comply.[7]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM#cite_note-7>[verification needed<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability>] It seems 2GB might be achievable as long as I use 64MB x 8 low density? So friends, can someone help me find a product on newegg, or amazon for two modules that might work for me? The next steps for this scope will be to replace the slow IDE hard drive with a PATA SSD hard drive and then upgrade the CPU (1.70 MHz Celeron) with whatever I can upgrade it to. Much appreciated! Eugene W2HX

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Museum Report 20170305 March 5, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Had a guy named Russ Balliet drop off a sales training tape for AT&T PC as well as a selling guide for AT&T PC 6300. There was also an operations manual for Inspector IV MPC and a little card for RCA Spectra 70. He told me a story how he helped Johnson and Johnson help recover some data from an "old" Vax that helped with a cure for a particular type of cancer. He didn't have any deals, he was just some guy who had experience with Vax who helped the programmer there retrieve "old" data. Had a family come by with a kid who gave them his own version of the tour. This 12 year old kid took Evan's sign at the front of the museum literally "Attention children! The stuff in this room is veeeeeeeery fragile. So we've got a special assignment just for kids: Make sure your parents don't touch any of it!" So this kid said to his parents, "You can't touch anything, but I can touch everything!". I guess the message backfired ;) Anyway the parents and kid were highly interested and I helped the kid do some simple BASIC programs on the C64 and helped him with a few other computers. They really enjoyed it. I hope that they come for VCF East. Another group came escorted by Fred with a guy who used to be in the Civil Air Patrol. I highlighted different machines that he was interested such as Gorge, MOBIDIC etc. It was a quicker tour because of time, but they were very interested. Jonas printed out the signs for exhibitors and I tested his Vic-20. It will need repairs at the next workshop. -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64

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Disk notcher
by Evan Koblentz 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Anyone got a spare handheld disk notcher? Needed one today (for the first time in 30 years!) and had to use a hole puncher. Not ideal... ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation

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disk notcher
by Evan Koblentz 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Anyone got a spare handheld disk notcher? Needed one today (for the first time in 30 years!) and had to use a hole puncher. Not ideal...

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Fwd: Cromemco on Craigslist in Vermont
by Evan Koblentz 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

See below. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Cromemco on Craigslist in Vermont Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 00:06:56 -0800 From: Steven Stengel via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Reply-To: Steven Stengel <tosteve(a)yahoo.com>, General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> To: Cc <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Cromemco on Craigslist on Vermont/ https://vermont.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=cromemco&sort=rel Victor 9000 in New Hampshire: https://nh.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=victor%209000&sort=rel Atari Mega ST in RI: https://providence.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=atari%20mega&sort=rel

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Floppy Days #70 - Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Vic-20 Commando Team
by Randall Kindig 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

For this episode, I interviewed Michael Tomczyk. Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team. He was happy to talk about his time at Commodore and turned out to be a very interesting interview and a great guy with which to talk. http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-70-michael-tomczyk-vic-20 Randy Kindig host Floppy Days Podcast - http://www.floppydays.com, http://floppydays.libsyn.com/rss available for download or streaming from iTunes, the Web site, Google Play, Stitcher.com

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VCF East on Trash Talk
by Evan Koblentz 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

List member Pete C., who's on the Tandy team for VCF East, included a several other groups members in a team discussion on his TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast: http://www.trs80trashtalk.com. The discussion starts at 53:25 and goes to about 1:30:00 in the show. It's got Pete, Dean, and Kelly, all from the Tandy team, along with Todd/Tony representing Commodore/Apple respectively. Make some popcorn and enjoy their banter. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation

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Museum Report - 20170304 -March 4, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Three couples stopped by one with high interest and the other two with medium interest. It was quite busy for a time. Worked on VCF prep stuff the remainder of the time. Roddy the artist installed tint to the workshop windows. It definitely helps when the sunlight is shining directly in the workshop. I will be back there tomorrow even though I'm fighting some cold like symptoms. -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64

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Challenge: VCFed logo as ASCII art, but....
by Evan Koblentz 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

I want to put an ASCII version of our logo on the opening screen of the Lego robot program. Apple text screen is 40x40. I lack the artistic skills to pick the right characters and such. Can someone do this for us? ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation

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Looking for four 16mb 30 pin non-parity SIMMs
by corey cohen 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Anyone have any to spare/sell. These would be ones compatible with a macintosh or music sampler. I can't use PC or Sun ones they use parity. Thanks, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ

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