February 2019 - vcf-midatlantic

Funny
by Evan Koblentz 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Geek vs. nerd: https://youtu.be/LYE3GtXqDV0 -- 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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Workshop Wrap-up - 2/9/19 & 2/10/19
by Jeffrey Brace 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

I counted about 15 to 20 people at the workshop this past weekend at the VCF repair workshop. A very successful workshop. We tried a new diner for the Sunday breakfast: The Americana Diner in Shrewsbury. Even though it is 20 minutes from the museum, everyone loved it and felt it was worth the trip. Next time we will try Mariner's Cove in Brielle. Tony Bogan recommended this one. For the Saturday dinner, we weren't able to go Asbury Biergarten and Festhalle because of reservation restrictions, so I will try again next time now that I know the restrictions. The backup place will be Main Street Grill. We went to Brick House Tap and Tavern in Neptune City instead. Ian won the first to smoke award for a blown capacitor in a monitor. I was very happy that I found the time to work on repairing my C64. Over the years, I have had little time to work on them because of running the workshop, grad school etc. It was nice to be able to finally work on them for a decent amount of time. Thanks to Doug and Chris for helping me diagnose the first one and great thanks to Jeff Salzman for troubleshooting, soldering and desoldering two other boards. He spent a lot of time with me to get two of them working. I tagged all of them as to their condition and will continue working on them next workshop. I have made a list of things that need like thermal paste, heat sinks, ram chips, PLA chips. Everyone else please share what you worked on and did at the workshop and a link to any photos that you took. The next workshop is: March 30 & 31. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Museum/workshop report
by Evan Koblentz 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

I was tour guide in the museum for two or three hours today. There was only two sets of two visitors each, but they were GOOD visitors! First a man and woman in their 20s who wanted a full tour, and then two guys in their 40s/50s who said they work in IT and also wanted a full tour + stuck around for a discussion with Drom about the UNIVAC. Best part: all four of them said they visited IA specifically to see our part. The 20-somethings said they're from Philly and found us by Googling for where to see old computers. Brace and I spent about 30 minutes practicing PDP-8 front panel entry. We each got chase-the-lights working on our own (no tech support calls to Gesswein or anyone else this time) ... first time for that! Felt good to reach that milestone. Next time we'll try to load a program from paper tape, per DG's instructions. Personal comment: if you'd told me a year ago that I would ever feel totally comfortable using the front panel on HP and DEC minicomputers, demoing memory diagnostics on the UNIVAC, and (as of yesterday) starting to feel some kind of comprehension in 6502 assembly ... I might not have believed you. Thank you Mike L, DG, Drom, Adam, etc. for encouraging this former English major that I too could learn such things. Thinking in octal and understanding about opcodes!? What's happening to me??

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Hackfest Tomorrow
by Bob Aviles 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi, I got the message but not in time, maybe next time. ThanksBobby On Saturday, February 9, 2019, 9:43:48 PM EST, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Andy Before I left I forgot to get from you the USB to ethernet adapter. is there anyway you could possibly get it to me at all tomorrow? Do you live in north jersey? Maybe you could give it to someone who lives near me I'm in Edison . Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > On Feb 8, 2019, at 10:19 PM, Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Could use an apple > And c64 > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:37 PM, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >> >> I'll see everyone there early tomorrow. >> >> I'll have with me: >> >> - Mac w/ Booterizer project to install various flavors of IRIX on any SGIs loitering around without an OS >> - Amiga 2000 to copy some disks >> - Some repairs- A pismo trying to get to boot, busted SGI PSU >> >> Some stuff for sale or trade: working C64, 1702 monitor, Atari 600xl, Atari 800, Apple IIe, Mac SE analog boards, plus any other junk I can gather up and sell for super cheap or trade - i"m looking for some oldish (non-digital) Small 13" sized color TVs. >> >>

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WTB: Looking for several Intel manuals
by systems_glitch 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

All, I'm looking for hardcopy of: * Intel MCS-80 System Design Kit User's Guide * Intel MCS-8 Manual (8008) * Intel PROMPT-48 Microcomputer User's Manual I've got PDFs of these, but I like original dead tree format when I can find it. Thanks, Jonathan

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286 troubleshooting BIOS?
by Ethan O'Toole 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

For the Amiga, there is a troubleshooting Kickstart replacement that uses the serial port to spit out diagnostic information. RAM tests and other functions. Does anyone know if something like that exists for PC 286 era computers? Still troubleshooting a Yamaha C1 and there are issues and it's kicking my butt. Seems like the CPU might not be reading the keyboard controller properly or something. The amiga chip will do ram tests and other things and just spit it out serial. - Ethan

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Turbo Pascal 1.5 for windows
by Bob Flanders 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

Is anyone interested in this. About to be trashed. Bob

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Sunday breakfast Americana Diner 9AM
by Jeffrey Brace 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

We, the VCF Repair workshop gatherers will be eating breakfast at 9AM Sunday Morning at The Americana Diner. Let me know if if thou shalt be coming. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Hackfest Tomorrow
by dillera＠gmail.com 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

I'll see everyone there early tomorrow. I'll have with me: - Mac w/ Booterizer project to install various flavors of IRIX on any SGIs loitering around without an OS - Amiga 2000 to copy some disks - Some repairs- A pismo trying to get to boot, busted SGI PSU Some stuff for sale or trade: working C64, 1702 monitor, Atari 600xl, Atari 800, Apple IIe, Mac SE analog boards, plus any other junk I can gather up and sell for super cheap or trade - i"m looking for some oldish (non-digital) Small 13" sized color TVs.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Hackfest Tomorrow
by Jeffrey Brace 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

I believe he is referring to the VCF Repair Workshop happening this weekend Feb 9 & 10 at Infoage in Wall Township. On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 12:04 PM Bob Aviles via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Hi Tony, > I have a Sony 13" TV working, interest in the C64 or Atari 800.Where is > the Hackfest locate at? > Bobby > > On Friday, February 8, 2019, 10:20:10 PM EST, Sentrytv via > vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > Could use an apple > And c64 > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:37 PM, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > I'll see everyone there early tomorrow. > > > > I'll have with me: > > > > - Mac w/ Booterizer project to install various flavors of IRIX on any > SGIs loitering around without an OS > > - Amiga 2000 to copy some disks > > - Some repairs- A pismo trying to get to boot, busted SGI PSU > > > > Some stuff for sale or trade: working C64, 1702 monitor, Atari 600xl, > Atari 800, Apple IIe, Mac SE analog boards, plus any other junk I can > gather up and sell for super cheap or trade - i"m looking for some oldish > (non-digital) Small 13" sized color TVs. > > > > > > > -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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