October 2019 - vcf-midatlantic

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum report - 12/16/18
by Douglas Crawford 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Again? This isn't getting through. On 12/17/2018 12:28 PM, Douglas Crawford wrote: > Great day at the museum. Visitor flow was non stop in the afternoon. > I am grateful for the assistance of Chris and Tony, with their help we > cycled > through the visitors and gave everyone good attention. > Its fun to docent in teams! > > The museum looked sharp and with Tony's help we had most everything > running that is > demo-able.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] much ado about chording keyboards
by Eric Rangell 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Thanks Jeff. To give context to this discussion, I built a chording keyboard for my Replica 1 and Apple 2+ by interfacing an Arduino to the keyboard socket and using 5 arcade momentary switches from Micro Center. I coded it so that my fingers chord a hex nibble and the thumb strobes it into the Arduino, and the LED shows whether you are chording the high nibble or low nibble. It is possible to recode it for other chording mechanisms and add switches to choose a mode. Eric

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Museum 3B1 & PDP-8
by David Gesswein 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

I'm looking fixing the 3B1 at the next workshop. From the last workshop it seems like the hard drive has died. Since I likely will need do do a new installation Was there anything in particular on it that people liked for demos? Is their anything people like on Unix machines to use for demos? If not I'll go with standard OS & software that was on the machines and see what interesting stuff I see in the archives. For the straight 8 has anyone tried to operarate it since the last workshop I was at (the one previous to the last workshop). If so was their any problems? If not would anyone doing the tours like to learn how to use it?

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Bell Labs
by Evan Koblentz 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Our demo at Bell Labs today was great! I'll write more about it and post pictures later this week.

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Unix Tell All Book From Kernighan Hits The Shelves
by Christian Liendo 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

https://hackaday.com/2019/10/29/unix-tell-all-book-from-kernighan-hits-the-… Can we get him to come back and sell / sign books?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum 3B1 & PDP-8
by Dave McGuire 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

On 10/31/19 12:22 PM, Brian L. Stuart via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > I used to use the 3b1 quite heavily in the early '90s, and > I'm pretty sure I remember running a build of rogue on > it, though I usually ran without the windowing system to > get a full 80 columns. Now that you mention it, I believe nethack could be built on the 3B1 as well. > As Dave mentiones, yes there are many other editors for > it. But there's only one TRUE editor, as you know: emacs! [dave ducks] -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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Transparent Apple II/II+ Case Kickstarter
by J. Alexander Jacocks 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

All, I met the MacEffects team at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, a few of weeks ago, and saw the prototype for their truly amazing clear Apple II/II+ case: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maceffects/injection-molded-clear-case… The pictures truly do not do it justice. My wallet was duly robbed. They are down to the last few hours, and the kickstarter is close, but not quite there. Help out, if you can! - Alex

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possibly useful for bbs-simulator
by Jeffrey Jonas 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

I have a Castelle FaxPress model 2000 4 phone lines to ethernet (thin-net or AUI, no RJ45). It is intended to be a fax server but I wonder if it could be used as a modem server to ethernet. If anyone knows if that's possible, please speak up. I'll gladly donate it for the project.

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Exposed pins on vintage computers in storage
by Ethan O'Toole 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

I have a system in climate controlled storage. I currently leave all the CPU and memory boards installed. It has large connectors that are male pins on side of computer and female on side of the CPU and memory boards. Would it be a big deal to leave the boards removed from the system? The boards weigh a lot and I plan to move it upstairs in the storage unit -- reset the rent counter and lower the size of the unit. I could potentially get some desicant and wrap up the boards if needed but the cabinet not so much (it's a Cray.) Any thoughts? - Ethan

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Good news -- archiving the old Yahoo group
by Evan Koblentz 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Many of you probably heard the recent news that Yahoo is about to delete all their old groups. Many of you also know that from 2004-2015, this very group operated on Yahoo. I filled out Archive Team's request to have our old group preserved and they accepted it. Apparently our activity was deemed historically important. :) I'll post a link to the archive location when they provide it. -- Evan Koblentz, executive director Vintage Computer Federation www.vcfed.org evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 VCF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

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