August 2017 - vcf-midatlantic

Saturday museum report
by Evan Koblentz 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Not much happened yesterday. We had an ordinary amount of visitors including a 12-year-old who seemed genuinely interested + wanted the full tour. I'm getting to be good at entering octal code on the HP-1000. Roddy (art guy next door to us) is going to make some new signs for us around the campus. Jeff B. brought over the 30-ft. white Ethernet cord that I ordered. We swapped out the gray cord that we borrowed from IXR and returned it to them. White one fits better (other was 25 ft., too short) and blends in better against our white walls.

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Sunday Museum Report
by Douglas Crawford 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Nice day at the museum. Took 4 families through the museum. One was a father and his 2nd year E.E. son. They got the full extended tour version complete with the 8 and 16 bitter IC history :) There were two families that breezed through without a tour. The Museum looked great. -DC

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Who exhibited ICS 8080 @ VCF East?
by Alexander Pierson 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

I believe that was Bob Roswell, the guy over by the door closest to the consignment area. He had the mechanical logic trainers and toys along with the ICS branded trainer. Rather than Bob himself, I mainly saw the younger pair of folks running the exhibit, but I cannot recall their names. Can anyone confirm? -Alexander 'Z' Pierson On Monday, August 28, 2017 8:13 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: Someone asked me who demo'd an 8080-based trainer from Integrated Computer Systems at VCF East last spring. Does anyone know? ________________________________ 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 instagram.com/vcfederation

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Who exhibited ICS 8080 @ VCF East?
by Evan Koblentz 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Someone asked me who demo'd an 8080-based trainer from Integrated Computer Systems at VCF East last spring. Does anyone know? ________________________________ 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 instagram.com/vcfederation

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Pet 2001 in NJ
by Christian Liendo 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

https://newjersey.craigslist.org/sys/d/vintage-commodore-pet-2001/628062186…

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OT: Ruby programming books available
by William Dudley 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

I have the following titles available for free: The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition, by Hal Fulton Agile Web Development with Rails by Thomas and Hansson Learning Ruby by Fitzgerald Ruby Cookbook by Carlson and Richardson I'll ship if you pay for shipping. Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Monitor needed for museum
by Earl Baugh 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Actually a UPS for a Pi isn't that expensive. I have a couple of these (get the right one for PI/PiZero/Pi 3 -- there are at least 2 different models) (https://www.tindie.com/products/xorbit/lifepo4weredpi/) They work great keeping the PI's running. I've not had any corruption on the SD cards (and two Zero's run 24/7) since I got these. Earl

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Monitor needed for museum
by Evan Koblentz 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

Hey look! http://www.robotshop.com/en/raspberry-pi-vga-adapter.html Ethan Dicks (VCF East frequent PDP-8 exhibitor) turned me on to this. He teaches Pi classes at his local hackerspace. He said that in his experience the Pi usually "just works" to detect the video type, but that it's more reliable when you edit the config file. For 7 bucks I am definitely buying us one. I already have a low-profile widescreen VGA LCD at home that's the perfect size for our application. (VCF's existing supply of VGA LCDs are all square-shaped.) All's well that ends well.

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anyone want a mac plus $50
by william degnan 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

https://delaware.craigslist.org/sys/d/1986-macintosh-plus-computer/62416887… This is down the road from me, near Newark, Delaware over the PA line (rte 896 before rte 1). Bill

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FS: Industrial 486 ISA Computer with 8 GB DOM, Ethernet, MS-DOS 6.22, Utils
by systems_glitch 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

Description + pictures on the VC Forums: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?59315-FS-Industrial-486-ISA-Compu… This little box started life as an 8-port terminal and application server. It came to me with only the CPU board, and a crashed hard disk that looked like it had a plain DOS install on it anyway. I cleaned it up as described in the forum thread, but I'm thinking I'll sell it as my PICMG box is effectively the same thing but more flexible. Thanks, Jonathan

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