April 2018 - vcf-midatlantic

headcount for Landenberg. PA workshop
by Bill Degnan 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Hi - Please RSVP if you're planning to attend Saturday. We'll meet at my house any time after 9AM. Around 1PM well caravan to the Computer Church computer museum (under construction) for a visit that afternoon. We can go to the nearby Victory Brew Pub afterwards. If your arrival is after 1PM, meet us at the museum, no hassles. There is an Amtrak train station kind of nearby the museum if you need public transportation, close but someone would have to pick you up..Parkesville, PA. Come by any time before 1PM if you want to set up a workspace for the morning and/or after we get back for those who want to return to continue working that evening. Feel free to reply to this thread with questions, I will send my address and contact info privately. The loose theme is DEC Vaxen, but it's wide open. I can change gears easily. See vintagecomputer.net for the computers I have here, should one need inspiration. I have computers, peripherals and parts available for sale/trade/donation depending on what they are. I have held a number of workshops at my house and nearby for this group, it has been a while! Bill

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Adam and I got to the museum at 11 today and stayed to 7. We took delivery of an IBM System/36 and its printer from member John H. and his father. We also took delivery of a few micros, most notably a Compaq Portable III with the add-on "backpack" for installing expansion cards. I'm happy about that so we don't have to keep bugging Mouse to loan us his for various demos. :) I was docent today; steady flow of families all day. About 25 people total. Adam was in the warehouse sorting more Commodore items (software this time) ... and in the process found 10 more Commodore-branded cassette drives and several nice modems. Bill Drom. and Duane were there all day working on the UNIVAC. Laura came over to paint more of the new UNIVAC backdrop and the third pallet. Tony stopped by to do more Apple II/Apple III evaluation/repair. It's fun when there is so much activity! ________________________________ 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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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum report
by Duane Craps 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Except ours still has all the original guts. The one on the Midway was smashed to demilitarize the unit before turning the ship over as a museum. I contacted them when we were looking for technical manuals. The dosent is a ex navy tech and adapred some comercial motors for the reels and built a simulator to drive the reels and the indicators. Every national stock numbered item has a DEMIL code assoicated with it and determines how it is to be desposed of. Most of the computer equipment calls for it to be made unusable. I think ours were savved because they were bought directly from UNIVAC and belonged to Johns Hopkins rather than the NAVY. When they get the USS Adams (DDG 2) Museum in Jacksonville it will be inteeresting to see how the 1219s in missile plot survived. They might be the only others left. On 4/7/2018 3:34 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > That's the exact same tape drive as with our system! -- DuaneCraps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Jeff Galinat and I were at the museum from 9am to midnight today. Adam was there from about 11 to 6. Adam worked most of the day in the warehouse. He tackled our Amiga collection -- now it's vastly better organized and uses less space! Jeff and I built a freestanding L-shaped wall behind the UNIVAC I/O console / desk / motor generator. The long side of the L is a backdrop for all of those items, while the short side (to the right of the desk/MG set) separates the exhibit from the minicomputers. I have to say: I briefly considered building this wall by myself, which would have been a huge mistake. :) Lost track of how many tips/tricks/tools that JG knew about and I didn't! The wall looks great and is even stronger and sturdier than I planned. It is 95% finished. I have to paint a couple of the edges and also paint the rear support braces. I also have to finish installing the bookshelf. That'll take 30 minutes, tops. Here are some pictures: Cool gadget for drilling screw holes at a sharp angle: https://tinyurl.com/yayknq4f Starting to see a back wall shape form: https://tinyurl.com/yc8co3w8 Look ma! We can frame! https://tinyurl.com/ycgyk2zu Almost finished: https://tinyurl.com/y7k8jsf2 In that last picture you can see I have to finish the bookshelf, painting the edge of the "L", etc. You'll also see a large gap between the end of the wall/console and the next component (to the left out of camera view). That gap is going away late next week when we re-pallet the whole UNIVAC system. Jeff B. is docent tomorrow. Adam and I will be back there Sunday.

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Museum Report 2018-04-07 April 7, 2018
by Jeffrey Brace 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Today we had a few mild interest people and a few highly interested. The highly interested asked as soon as he came in, "Do you have any analog computers?". Showed him and his two friends. He seemed to know how many of the machines operated. Some were familiar, some not as much. They really enjoyed it. Took a longer tour. I spent the rest of my time looking for various programs that could be used to demo on the Commodore 64. One of them I may do is Little Computer People. The other is a simple guess the number game. I added some color to it, and maybe some sound later. == Jeff Brace

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Comcast
by Mike Loewen 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

My ISP is Comcast, and I'm unable to reach Ian Mavrick's TRS-80 site in Australia (http://members.iinet.net.au/~ianmav/) Traceroute hangs up as follows: traceroute to members.iinet.net.au (203.0.178.90), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 gateway (192.168.202.38) 0.434 ms 0.721 ms 0.913 ms 2 96.120.x.xxx (96.120.x.xxx) 10.537 ms 16.796 ms 18.177 ms 3 68.85.46.1 (68.85.46.1) 17.772 ms 18.027 ms 17.762 ms 4 be-45-ar01.lancaster.pa.pitt.comcast.net (96.108.4.89) 24.188 ms 23.207 ms 24.317 ms 5 * * * Can any other Comcast users reach his site? This has been going on for at least a week. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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does anyone have the media for iomega clik!
by Jeffrey Jonas 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

I have a lovely new sealed iomega clik! pc-card drive in the carrying case. but the disk is missing :-( Does anyone have the Iomega Clik! / PocketZip disk? -- jeff jonas

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OT: Printing an e-mail to a wireless printer via Android
by Jeffrey Brace 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

iPhone is much easier to use than Android. Here is what I found when trying to figure out for a friend how to print an e-mail to her wireless printer: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/quick-tip-print-… on iPhone it is much simpler. Anyone know an easier way? There is no "send to" icon on Android like the iPhone. I figured it out on the iPhone in like 10 seconds. I have spent two hours trying figure it out on Android and hope to try it tomorrow and get it to work.

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Comcast
by Herb Johnson 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/categories/email-and-hosting I can reach the iinet.net.au site, from Comcast home services. Apparently it's a problem with user Web pages. The link above is to "Web hosting help". In any event, this is some problem between USA Comcast and this offshore hosting/email service and their private Web pages. Hard to know how hard this Australian company will work, to help one of their home customers get through a USA service provider. Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Museum Report 2018-04-04 April 4, 2018
by Jeffrey Brace 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Another super busy day at the museum. Very similar to yesterday where I got no visitors until 3 or 3:30pm, then literally dozens of people at a time. One group was like 40 people at a time filling up half the room. So a total of about 150 visitors today. I was giving tours non-stop until 5pm. Lots of polite and very interested visitors. I love the museum being so busy. I've gotten to be an expert at giving the 10 to 15 minute tour.

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