July 2017 - vcf-midatlantic

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum upgrade!
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic writes: >Lol my mistake. The people photo is from here at Kfest. But the other >pho= to is big power!!! Now we have 3-phase to run the big iron and >minicomput= ers. I can't make out the NEMA designation from your photo. Poor resolution.

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Museum upgrade!
by Evan Koblentz 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

This happened inside the VCF computer museum today: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByDGrBUI895VY1VUU094RE5tbDA/view?usp=drive… https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5thK4McllfJbVJ4SDVvbTJ3Ync/view?usp=drive… ________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation A 501(c)(3) educational non-profit Evan(a)vcfed.org +1 (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation

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last call: Modem
by David Hoelzer 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Hello again! I posted last week that I had come across a US Robotics 56k modem. Someone here had been looking for a serial modem. This is your last call before it goes back to the dump.

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OT: Free stuff
by Jim Scheef 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Free stuff if you need it: Epson ink cartridges for Stylus Photo 780/785EPX/825/870/875DC/875DCS/890/900/1270/1280 These are T008 and T007 in unopened boxes. ATEN Console Extender CE-120 This has PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse plus VGA. No cables, but the wall-wart seems to have never been used. Includes the documentation and warrantee card. Both free for shipping from CT. Jim

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Wanted: HP-IB cable
by Mike Loewen 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Does anyone have an extra HP 10833B cable (2meter)? Contact me off-list with your asking price. Thanks! Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] UNIVAC 1219
by Duane 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Bill, Send him a link to my Yahoo! group; https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/UnivacComputers/info Sounds like someone who would like to play with my 1219 emulator and assembler. Did you find out where he lives? Might be able to help, might have some old tapes. May I steal his photo for my group? I see that he was on the USS Midway. That is a museum in San Diego. I wonder if their 1219's are still intact. I was contacting them a few years ago about a video on utube with a 1540 in motion ,only to find they had replaced the reel motors with some commercial ones and had built a simulator to fake the lights. He said that the NAVY had smashed up the insides good before they turned it over. If they did the same to the 1219's , maybe I don’t want know. One of the many dead-ends looking for pubs. Duane -----Original Message----- From: william degnan via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:28 AM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: william degnan Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] UNIVAC 1219 As many of you know we're waiting for delivery of a generator for the UNIVAC 1219 and peripherals restoration project. I have a thread on my web site about the UNIVAC 1219 and from time to time US Navy 1219 support team Alumni send me comments and docs and info to post them to my site. I was recently contacted by a guy named John King, he sent me a photo of him posing in front of the 1219 he supported as well as some PDF scans of docs he had related to the 1219. From this thread I have also added links to the original 2010 thread I created when we rescued the 1219 currently being restored at the museum. http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=692 You can also download a copy of the 1219 brochure and other docs related to the 1219. I have more docs in paper format, plus UNIVAC 418/419/419-II, etc which are similar but I assume these are already on bitsavers Bill

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UNIVAC 1219
by william degnan 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

As many of you know we're waiting for delivery of a generator for the UNIVAC 1219 and peripherals restoration project. I have a thread on my web site about the UNIVAC 1219 and from time to time US Navy 1219 support team Alumni send me comments and docs and info to post them to my site. I was recently contacted by a guy named John King, he sent me a photo of him posing in front of the 1219 he supported as well as some PDF scans of docs he had related to the 1219. From this thread I have also added links to the original 2010 thread I created when we rescued the 1219 currently being restored at the museum. http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=692 You can also download a copy of the 1219 brochure and other docs related to the 1219. I have more docs in paper format, plus UNIVAC 418/419/419-II, etc which are similar but I assume these are already on bitsavers Bill

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Working Cray J90 emulator!
by Ethan 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Check this out: http://cray.modularcircuits.com/ One day I will get mine powered back up and try to figure out why the OS install keeps core dumping.

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Museum Report 2017-07-19 July 19, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Fred gave a super speedy tour to two ladies who seemed to have worked at Fort Monmouth. At least one of them had used a Wang word-processor before. There were two other groups totaling 7 people that came through with moderate interest. One guy stopped by with a picture of his father's company's Univac I from 1963. It was pretty cool. They used it for adding zip codes to mailing labels as well as stock market prediction. The name of his father's company was SysteMetrics - electronics division of Budd Company. He shared with me some photos that he had. The Univac I was bought used from Harvard University. Here are some pictures: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9SJLfGXYiG5alR6U3VZNXRkdVk -- ======================================================== Jeff Brace ========================================================

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Files from NJ's Compu-Data BBS
by william degnan 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

John Heritage sent me a disk containing misc programs and ANSI files, downloaded from a BBS in the later 1980's. For those interested, I uploaded them here: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/temp/HERITAGE 609-232-1245 | $ Compu-Data Compu Data, Compu-Data, Compu-Data 1, | Compu-Data, 17 Nodes, CompuData, CompuData | BBS | Turnersville, NJ (1987-1996) SYSOP | Phil Gordemer, Phil Gordemer SOFTWARE | PCBoard

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