February 2018 - vcf-midatlantic

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] semi OT: need help with terminal server
by Jeffrey Jonas 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Many thanks to Neil Cherry for the prompt reply of notes and manuals!

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Museum Report - Sunday 2/18/2018
by Douglas Crawford 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

We had two sets of interested visitors that both enjoyed the exhibits. Chris Fala was co-docent for the day. We car pooled on the way. Its way more fun to docent in pairs, folks! Also- a bonus for us- Tony Bogan dropped by in the afternoon for continuing MAC restoration work and stayed with us till closing, and also helped docent while our two sets of guests had a period of overlap. Tony also told us about the changes that had been made to the Apple II and showed us how to start the disk slide show from the integer ROM prompt. He also showed us how to get the NeXT started and properly shut it down without logging out. (So no login is needed on the next power up, which is nicer) The first visitors were a couple that had been in the industry and had operated punched card equipment. They didn't stay really long but were very appreciative of what we had to offer. They mentioned they might have a photograph of the two of them back in the day, at their job with the computer equipment, that they may share with us. The second visitors were a father/son who spent a long time The boy was about 12 years old and was captivated by the 80s micros. It was clear he had been exposed to a lot of vintage tech on the web and knew that the C= 1541 was an intelligent device that could (his words) "handle the work of the drive management itself compared to the 'UNintellegent' Apple drive that tied up the computer while disk reading and writing" :O I think Tony was out of earshot for that unfortunately :) Impressive. In all fairness though, I told him how Commodore had botched the communication to and from the drive making the accesses still slow. And HE asked a great question- if there was a fix- and told him there were products from other companies that replaced the ROM code and greatly sped up the transfers. He got to write a little bit of BASIC on the C64. The day went smoothly and we had a nice time working together. Docenting is rewarding. You never know who will walk through the door and what they have done. Its not unusual for folks in the industry drop in and tell you interesting things they have done. If you live within a few hours of Wall Township consider doing it once a quarter. And keep in mind, if you don't docent, its really nice to have club members drop by and visit. Its yet another opportunity to meet face to face with your vintage computer colleagues.

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FS: Reproduction Solid State Music IO-2 Boards
by systems_glitch 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

All, I've finally got my reproduction SSM IO-2 board squared away! Pictures of the dev process and the final result: https://imgur.com/a/MbmWO These boards are reproductions from Gerber files scanned at 4000 DPI from my oldest original IO-2 board. I simulated the original blue FR4 that SSM used by doing a solder mask relief for all of the copper on the board, so all of the traces and pads are 100% exposed like the original, and the blue solder mask is just over what would've been bare FR4 in the originals. The edge connectors appear a little short as the fab had to extend the HASL and solder mask a little to get good results with the hard gold edge connector plating. Price is $30/board plus shipping. Shipping in the US is $5 for one (padded envelope), $12 for two or more (box). Overseas shipping is $16 for one or $25 for two or more. Contact me off-list with interest. Thanks, Jonathan

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HOPE Ticket Avail (low price)
by Bill Degnan 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

My plans have changed and I can't make it to HOPE this year. I bought one of the early bird tickets for $100, they'll be $200 (?) a the door. So, if you're planning on going might as well buy my ticket for $100. ... contact me through: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm first person to contact me via my web site wins. Cash or "Instant payment as friends/family via paypal" required. Bill

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Docent schedule
by Jeffrey Brace 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Doug made a great suggestion about letting everyone know ahead of time who will be docenting. Let me try this out. Wednesday = Evan Sunday = Evan, Pete, Adam Saturday = TBD = Still trying to find someone ... Lately Tony has dropped by to fix VCF compact Macs

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Anyone in the DC Area Interested in Helping to Restore an ASR-33?
by J. Alexander Jacocks 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

All, If anyone in the DC area is willing to help a non-VCF member to restore an ASR-33, a guy in another club (DC Machinists' club called CAMS) is looking for help. Thanks! - Alex

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Warehouse work Wednesday
by Evan Koblentz 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

I didn't go today. I know this is a long shot but is anyone available Wednesday? I have a meeting at Infoage at 6:30pm, so I'd like to put in a full day of warehouse work. Please let me know by tomorrow night or sooner.

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semi OT: need help with terminal server
by Jeffrey Jonas 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

I have a Bay Networks "micro Annex xl" 8 port terminal server. Model AXM-D-8-S-173 AUI and 10-base-t interfaces. Xylogics became Bay Networks became Nortel Networks. Is anyone familiar with setting up and administering it? thanks -- Jeff Jonas

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OT: ThinkPad for trade
by Jeffrey Jonas 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

I vaguely remember some folks <3 ThinkPads. I salvaged an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad R60 9462-95U laptop. No power supply, TAB key is missing. I just want a laptop hard drive in exchange for it, else I'll yank the 60 gig hard drive and save just the "good parts". Oh teh horrorz :-0 -- Jeff Jonas

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Signup for the March 3/4 workshop
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

Looks like we will have another good turnout for the next workshop March 3/4. Signup up here if you are interested: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/123vqgOH6iteYwHwLiANXmdSUvZOTE MTArZRvSk2RR3Q/edit?usp=sharing>

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