January 2019 - vcf-midatlantic

Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

About a dozen visitors today. Tony stopped by and showed me an idea for how we can demo more microcomputers without taking up more space. I did more work on the IA website between visitors. Updated the Linux software on our workshop PC. Jeff Brace is docent tomorrow.

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WTD: daughter board for BocaRAM/AT
by Richard Cini 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

All – I just replaced an old Intel InBoard with a BocaRAM/AT (not the AT PLUS version) in my PC/AT “lab” machine. Would anyone happen to have the mezzanine/daughter card for the BocaRAM/AT, maybe from an otherwise non-working board? If so, please let me know off-list. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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SGI O2s
by Stephen A Edwards 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

I have a handful of SGI O2s and parts that I'd love to sell/trade to a good home (I'm in Manhattan). Feel free to contact me. W.r.t. the Sun 3/60 thread, I managed to set one up running SunOS 4.1 diskless off a modern Linux machine. It's not that difficult (basically configure DHCP, TFTP, and NFS, all of which live on in modern software) and solves the noisy SCSI drive problem.

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Sun 3/60 lives again
by Mike Loewen 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

This has been on my TODO list for years, so it's a good way to start off the new year. I have a Sun 3/60 with 24MB and CG4 video which I've been meaning to set up as a diskless client from my Linux server. Until I get a keyboard adapter cobbled together for a Type 4 keyboard, I'm using a serial console. Diagnostics all check out from the PROM. There's a document floating around which describes one user's efforts to netboot his 3/60: http://sites.inka.de/pcde/help/sunos_network_boot.html I used that as a starting point, but it was written in 2004 so there are additional steps required. For one thing, bootparamd is no longer included in Fedora Linux (since FC25), so I had to make some changes to the FC24 SRPM for bootparamd to get it compiled and repackaged for FC28. Also, FC28 by default has NFS version 2 disabled so you have to change options in /etc/nfs.conf to enable UDP and version 2. Here's the console log of it booting SunOS 4.1.1: Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boot: le(0,0,0) Booting from tftp server at 192.168.202.1 = C0A8CA01 Downloaded 101800 bytes from tftp server. Using IP Address 192.168.202.104 = C0A8CA68 hostname: sun360 domainname: (none) server name '192.168.202.1' root pathname '/export/root/sun360' root on 192.168.202.1:/export/root/sun360 fstype nfs Boot: vmunix Size: 893160+189568+202104 bytes SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Sat Oct 13 06:05:48 PDT 1990 Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc. mem = 24576K (0x1800000) avail mem = 23486464 Ethernet address = 8:0:20:0:56:5 si0 at obio 0x140000 pri 2 st0 at si0 slave 32 st1 at si0 slave 40 st2 at si0 slave 24 st3 at si0 slave 16 sr0 at si0 slave 48 sd0 at si0 slave 0 sd1 at si0 slave 1 sd2 at si0 slave 8 sd3 at si0 slave 9 sd4 at si0 slave 16 sd6 at si0 slave 24 zs0 at obio 0x20000 pri 3 zs1 at obio 0x0 pri 3 le0 at obio 0x120000 pri 3 cgfour0 at obmem 0xff300000 pri 4 bwtwo0 at obmem 0xff000000 pri 4 bwtwo0: resolution 1152 x 900 bwtwo1 at obmem 0xff400000 bwtwo1: resolution 1152 x 900 hostname: sun360 domainname: (none) root on 192.168.202.1:/export/root/sun360 fstype nfs swap on 192.168.202.1:/export/swap/sun360 fstype nfs size 62500K dump on 192.168.202.1:/export/swap/sun360 fstype nfs size 62472K checking filesystems Automatic reboot in progress... Fri Jan 4 03:46:34 GMT 2019 checking quotas: done. starting rpc and net services: portmap keyserv. mount -vat nfs mount: 192.168.202.1:/export/exec/sun3.sunos.4.1.1 already mounted mount: 192.168.202.1:/export/exec/kvm/sun3.sunos.4.1.1 already mounted 192.168.202.1:/export/home mounted on /home starting additional services: biod. starting system logger starting local daemons: auditd sendmail statd lockd. link-editor directory cache preserving editor files clearing /tmp standard daemons: update cron uucp. starting network daemons: inetd printer. Fri Jan 4 03:47:01 GMT 2019 sun360 login: root Jan 4 03:47:11 sun360 login: ROOT LOGIN console Last login: Fri Jan 4 03:31:46 on console SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Sat Oct 13 06:05:48 PDT 1990 sun360# date Thu Jan 3 22:47:22 EST 2019 sun360# ifconfig -a le0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 192.168.202.104 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.202.0 ether 8:0:20:0:56:5 lo0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 sun360#

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Happy New Year
by J. Alexander Jacocks 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Happy new year to everyone! - Alex On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 03:22 Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Hope everyone had a happy and safe New Years! I had a lot of fun in 2018 > between VCF East, workshops, giving museum tours, festivus etc. > > Looking forward to an even better 2019! > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone >

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OT / BBS in the Computer Deconstruction Laboratory
by Martin Flynn 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

I am setting up a demo BBS over in the Computer Deconstruction Laboratory (CDL) Makerspace on the current production Citadel platform. http://www.citadel.org/doku.php Dial-up access will be possible via the existing PBX trunk, however will be limited to two concurrent sessions. Comments, replies, and questions or comments off list please!

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OT: MAGFest 2019 - This Weekend
by Ethan O'Toole 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

While it pales in comparison to the VCF East event MAGFest is coming up this weekend. MAGFest is a 4 day video game music and gaming event in the DC metro area. There is a computer museum room run by friends (and consistent VCF East attendees.) It's mostly plastic micros and early mainstream desktop computers -- so nothing too wild for this audience. They also have some various more rare game consoles in the museum on PVMs. The museum room is around 3000 sqft, and everything is pretty much sit down and play. There is also a 30,000 sqft arcade room (this part of the event is where I'm involved), a 30,000 sqft console gaming room, tabletop and board games, indie game area (10,000sqft+ maybe?) Oh, and stages. A good number of musical acts from nerdcore hip hop to jazz to metal to rock to who knows what. There is also a jam clinic for people who want to bring their musical instrument and I guess improve your improvisational skills, or jam rooms where you can sign up to play with others. And new this year is a demoparty, where people will be working I believe on making new demos. I saw mention of AGA Amiga and C64, and I would assume PC. It's kind of hard to sum up, but some parts run 24x7 (not the museum but the arcade does), and there should be over 15,000 people there. If any VCF'ers are headed there hit me up, I am usually around the arcade but visit the museum and usually catch a concert or two! If there is info for VCF East, I can print some copies out and the museum people would be happy to post them around. Here is a video of the museum in 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_oKdJ_rCU - Ethan

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Slow day visitor-wise, as everyone was back at school/work. A few familes still came through. I spent most of the downtime working on improvements to the infoage.org site. It's not great, but it's a whole lot better vs. a month ago! Been teaching myself how to use the "Divi" theme for WordPress (IA selected that a while back). Big learning curve, but it's fairly powerful when you get the hang of it. I got stuck on a tiny bit of CSS code, which Dave Riley walked me through fixing.

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Happy New Year
by Tony Bogan 01 Jan '19

01 Jan '19

Hope everyone had a happy and safe New Years! I had a lot of fun in 2018 between VCF East, workshops, giving museum tours, festivus etc. Looking forward to an even better 2019! Tony Sent from my iPhone

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