August 2017 - vcf-midatlantic

August 2017 Workshoppe Importante Info-mation
by Jeffrey Brace 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

We are going to have the workshop in 9032-A which is the bigger room near the main building, since we have people working on a decent amount of stuff. As a reminder the workshop is $10 per person, *per* day now. Sorry this InfoAge's rule and not our decision. If you have signed up, then you are guaranteed a table, otherwise you will always be downwind from Evan as he farts silently and deadly from eating too many pretzels. DATE: August 12 & 13, 2017 LOCATION: InfoAge Building 9032A - (2201 Marconi Road, Wall Township, NJ) TIME: Start about 10 A.M. on Saturday and ends whenever we go to sleep. End about 5 P.M. on Sunday. (Starts around 10 A.M. Sunday morning) SIGNUP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16G0w7Z5y15B2uWh-NKIt mVnoJF-f3NIIFQDoEnUHx5A/edit?usp=sharing COST: - $10 per person, PER day. This is required by InfoAge for us to pay them. - $25 for those wanting to stay overnight. Please pay me when you get there so that I don't forget. Otherwise I will send my attack cat to find you. OVERNIGHT: Bring your own pillow, blankets, soap etc. We provide a bed frame and an uncovered mattress. There are showers and a kitchen for your use. - We will have PayPal credit card swipes available. Let me know ahead of time if you want to use this and I will set it up. EQUIPMENT: - VCF will provide a table and you can use any available electrical outlet. - Bring your own tools, power strips, power cords, and supplies etc. - Please bring an extra one or two power cords as these are often forgotten by people. DRINKS: You should bring your own. I would recommend bringing a cooler of some type. FOOD: You provide your own. We usually order pizza, subs or go out to a dinner and everyone pays their own way. Usually, we make a decision when everyone gets hungry. GATE: During the hours from 1 pm to 5 pm close the front gate behind you. We want museum visitors to go to the front lobby and not wander through the middle of the campus. Outside of those times, you can feel free to leave the gate open. PARKING: Park across from 9032 or 9010A on any blacktop area. InfoAge doesn't like us parking on the lawn anymore. QUESTIONS? Please ask me (Jeff Brace) or Evan. My cell is 732-759-1783 and Evan’s is 646-546-9999 in case you need to contact us. See everyone there! And have fun! -- ======================================================== Jeff Brace ========================================================

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Video of my Kfest lecture
by Evan Koblentz 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Forgot if I posted this. Video taken by Jason Scott. https://archive.org/details/2017_Kfest_Lego_Programming_for_the_Apple_II_Ev… ________________________________ 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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OT: New York World Maker Faire Bus Trip
by Chris Fala 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

If you are interested in attending World Maker Faire but don’t want to drive into New York, here is an opportunity for you. My Makerspace, Make Lehigh Valley in Allentown, PA, is once again sponsoring a bus trip to World Maker Faire in New York on Saturday, September 23, 2017. It will be one day only, departing Allentown at 8:00am and returning that evening. We have chartered a full-size, commercial, air-conditioned bus (not a van or school bus!), so your comfort is assured. :-) Even if you don’t live in the Allentown area, it is worth a relaxing drive there to save the trouble of an aggravating drive into the city. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-maker-faire-2017-with-make-lehigh-valley… and share with all your friends. You can bundle your travel and admission, or select transportation only. Faire website: http://makerfaire.com/new-york/ Hope to see you there! Chris

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original adm3a box
by william degnan 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

I have the orig box for the Lear Siegler adm3a terminal...Will bring to next workshop if there is interest. Very large with padding inside, cannot be easily broken down. If you want to pick up, come and get it.. first come first served b

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TRS-80 Model IV on Long Island for decent $
by Douglas Crawford 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

https://longisland.craigslist.org/sys/d/radio-shack-trs-80-computer/6214426…

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semi OT: tiny Lego vintage computers
by Jeffrey Jonas 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

http://boingboing.net/2017/08/01/obsolete-technology-lego-kits.html Obsolete technology LEGO kits Chris McVeigh of Halifax, Nova Scotia builds all kinds of cool things with LEGO. Recently, he's been creating kits that showcase obsolete office technology. This particular kit, which he calls "My Old Desktop: DOS Edition 2.0," features a few reminders of the 1980s office, including a rotary-dial desk phone and a beige desk computer that can be partially fed one of the miniature 5.25" floppy disk replicas.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] assembler is tedious (was WooHoo!) (Jeffrey Jonas)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic writes: >There's some irony in discussing the tedium of assembly language >programming, by using (excuse me) the tedium of emails as a learning and >describing tool. It's my bias, but the hardest way to learn something, >is by having several people explain it, post streams of details, argue >amongst each other in the process, get sidetracked, etc. I understand, >that's the 21st century way; no insult, it's just not my 20th century >way (or my textbook way, I was formally educated in computing). There was learning amidst all of misguided biases in this thread? I guess I missed it. :P

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Museum Report 2017-08-02 August 2, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

About 3 dozen visitors today. Lots of families both big and small. From near (Lakewood) and far (California) as well as varying levels of interest. Definitely an uptick lately on the number of visitors. -- ======================================================== Jeff Brace ========================================================

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] assembler is tedious (was WooHoo!) (Jeffrey Jonas)
by Mike Willegal 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Programming in any language can be tedious, depending upon the task, tools and library of existing routines that you can draw from. Like Jeff says, if you have been coding a certain type of application in assembler, or any other language, for a while, you will eventually build up a library of routines that make life a lot less tedious. Regarding Jeff's comment about the Apple 1 monitor being clever, the most ingenious little monitor I’ve seen is the 256 byte Creed monitor for the 8008 that was published in volume 1, number 7, of the Micro-8 newsletter. Just like the Apple 1 monitor, it can read, write and execute a program in memory, but it also squeezed a boot loader. It did all that with the very difficult to program, 8008. The user interface implemented by the Creed monitor is very, very nice to use. Here is a link to a web page of mine, that has a port of the Creed Monitor to the SCELBI. http://www.willegal.net/scelbi/MCMON.html <http://www.willegal.net/scelbi/MCMON.html> regards, Mike Willegal

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Museum Report 2017-07-27 July 27, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Sorry for the late report. There were about 2 dozen visitors this past Sunday of varying interest. There has been an increase in visitors since InfoAge started a new marketing campaign. It is really working. Many times more than the normal amount of visitors. -- ======================================================== Jeff Brace ========================================================

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