December 2018 - vcf-midatlantic

Belated Saturday museum report
by Evan Koblentz 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

This one's easy: Saturday was the last day of the annual model train show at InfoAge, so it was very busy all day. Tons of families came through. I wish it was always like that! Jeff B. was there today. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, executive 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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Looking for CP/M Basic for Commodore & Kaypro
by C.J. Slade 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

Can anyone help me track down CP/M Basic on 5.25” floppy for Kaypro 2 and Commodore 128? This is top of the wishlist for Connor S. (Age 11), VCF Member and I’m trying to track down before Christmas if at all possible. Any leads or tips would be welcomed. Thank you, Jennifer (Connor S’s Mom) :)

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OT: Master Tracks Pro (MIDI for Mac SE/30?)
by Ethan O'Toole 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Heya, Anyone happen to have Master Tracks Pro 4.0 for the classic Mac? I have a SE/30 and the serial midi interface cable. Would like to see if I can get it driving some of my midi equipment. I looked to see if there were any copies for sale on eBay, none. Also would be interested in a Cubase or Notator dongle for the Atari ST. Would be cool even to just borrow could return at next vcf. I did find the copy of Master Tracks for the IIGS, and am going to see how that does as well. As an Atari 8bit and PC guy, I love the asthetics of the IIGS series a lot. - Ethan

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Dear Santa...
by Evan Koblentz 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Hello friends, If you're looking for an end-of-year charity donation, then please consider Vintage Computer Federation. Follow the link: https://t.co/SgPyXuvdLR ... We rely on your help to do awesome things. :) Thank you and happy holidays. Evan Koblentz Executive Director, Vintage Computer Federation evan(a)vcfed.org / (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org @vcfederation

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January Workshop Dinner Place
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

So let’s try a new schedule place for the Saturday workshop dinner. Here are three ideas: Patrick's Pub (Neptune City) Boathouse Bar and Grill (Belmar) Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten (Asbury Park) Those who show up at the workshop can vote. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Looking for DEC port covers
by Richard Cini 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

All – I just finished putting together a PDP-11 LSI11 system (with the help of Jonathan) and I’m looking for two spare port blanks/covers for the BA11-NE case that I have. If so, contact me off-list so we can arrange something. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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OT: Looking for Server memory
by Martin Flynn 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

I am working on the VMware ESXi box for the CDL makerspace. I have the box up to 512GB of RAM, however more would be good! Specifically, I am looking for HP branded / 16GB sticks of 4RX4 PC3-8500R memory. HP part numbers: 500666-B21 or 500207-071 or 501538-001. This is one of those situations where the factory part is needed to match what's already there!

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FS: Last of the VCF East XIII Special Edition SBC Kits
by systems_glitch 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

All, I've got the last of the special edition 8085 SBC rev 3 kits picked, wanting to clear out the last of the boards before moving on to the next thing. You can read about it here: http://www.glitchwrks.com/2018/06/30/8085-sbc-rev3 Price on the kit is $75 shipped in the US. The EEPROM comes pre-programmed with my ROM monitor, GWMON-80, and IMSAI 8K BASIC. Kit includes all SBC parts, you'll need a 5V power supply (0.5A is sufficient, most phone chargers put out at least this much) and something to use as a serial console (real terminal, PC with a serial port and terminal emulator, etc.). Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report 2018-11-16
by Michael Pohl 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Yes, My sons Brain (12) and Nate (10) spent about 3 hours with Chris, Tony, and Doug on Sunday. Thanks gents, we had a great time as always. At your suggestion, we downloaded Forever 64 Sunday night and Brian has been splitting his two hour daily screen time allotment between that and "The Eight Bit Guy" on youtube ever since. I signed up to bring our non-working Commodore 64 to the workshop on 12 JAN. The power light comes on, but there is no video from either the RF modulator or the 8 pin video jack. We ran some basic daignotics - power supply produces the correct voltages, voltage is present at specific places on the motherboard, fuse is good - but now we are stuck. Mike Pohl On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:11 AM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2018, at 7:44 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Doug was docent with Chris Fala and Tony Bogan. According to Doug lots of > > visitors due to the holiday train show. Maybe he can fill in the details > > here. > > -- > > ========================================= > > Jeff Brace > > Vice President > > Vintage Computer Federation > > Apologies for not updating everyone about Sunday. > > Busy day at the museum, quite a fair number of families as a result of the > train show as should be expected. While I was in the museum (had a friend > arrive at one point so I was absent for a little while as I showed him > around) the visitors ranged from quick walk throughs to very interested and > everywhere in between. I personally had two different sets of visitors that > had worked with systems similar to some of our big iron in their lives and > several that had close ties with some of the micros, so their interest was > high and they spent significant amounts of time in the museum. > > There were three gentlemen (father and two sons) that were extremely > interested in the Commodore 64 as well as the micros in general. I > apologize for not remembering their names (I do recall Brian was one of the > younger men!) but Doug and Chris spent a significant amount of time with > them. They are also part of this list so will chime in on their own I’m > sure, and we should be seeing them at the January workshop!! > > The heavy rain, especially during the first part of the day, kept he > traffic down a bit. Quite a few people never made it out of the main > building as the wind and rain made the walk down the road unpleasant. > > Still it was a busy day for both the museum and Infoage as a whole. > > It is also fortuitous that one of the most popular attractions at Infoage > (the military vehicles) requires going past our museum to get to, so we get > traffic that might not otherwise come down the street. > > Tony >

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Epic warehouse day!
by Evan Koblentz 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off! - There are five sets of lights on the ceiling. We finished putting LED bulbs in all but one set. - We finished the project to create an extra aisle on the organized side for "D" (DEC overflow; Data General), "E" (Epson), and "H" (Heathkit, HP) items. Nothing exciting starts with F other than Franklin which is in with the Apple II stuff because it's clones. - We moved the Epson, Heathkit, and HP shelving units into the new aisle. We built an additional shelving unit for Heathkit items. (Data General items will be moved some other day.) - We built another shelving unit for keypunch parts, small punch card readers, and small punch card holders. We moved that unit along the other existing punch card shelving units into the "K" area. We also allocated one individual shelf (no need for a whole unit) to our two NEC APC systems. - That in turn made more space for portables, Prime, and Perkin-Elmer. - We created a space for word processing items. I'm not very high on collecting those (no, we don't want a collection of generic 1990s word processors), but we have some interesting IBM/Xerox items so now those have a place in the warehouse to call home.) All of that "shelving Tetris" resulted in a bunch of things being in more logical places, and we cleared some things out of the unorganized side. We also cleared off one pallet from the unorganized side and we made a plan for how to continue next time, when we'll hopefully get the Sun collection off its pallet and onto proper shelves.

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