March 2019 - vcf-midatlantic

Ok I give up
by Jeffrey Golas 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

I vendored there for a few years starting at the Mercer County location, and loved every minute of it. I would have gone today to keep supporting it, but had a scheduling conflict. I still have my registration sheet and flyer from the 1996 one (at least). I loved dumpster diving at the end of it all too, and I wasn't alone! The good ol days! Jeff aka Bags

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RE: I Give Up!
by svcatitc＠aol.com 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

Us core members forget that we are talking to a wider audience than just us when we throw acronyms around. lest we forget there are new members joining in all the time that may not be familiar with Trenton Computer Fest, as TCF. They may also not be familiar with many of the technical acronyms we throw around, so to all, there are no dumb questions and to the rest of us, let us have patience. To all in Trenton, have a blast. Sorry I won't be there. Bill Inderrieden Are you kidding, really? Trenton computer festival @ TCNJ I'll be there tomorrow at the fleamarket area formally known as the Hamfest. Mike R. Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > On Mar 22, 2019, at 5:43 PM, Andy Diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > What is TCF? > > > - andy diller

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Ok I give up
by Andy Diller 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

What is TCF? - andy diller

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Someone is looking to get files off a DLT
by Christian Liendo 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Long story short. There is a company that I had gotten some SGIs from contacted me asking if I or someone else could do the following We need a cost to hook up our film scanner and our DLT tape to a stand alone Dell R710 server (our old server). The tapes were archived with the basic unix tar command. The scanner also had been connected up to our R710 server which uses the windows 98 software. We would like to extract the data, when needed, from the DLT tapes and transfer that to the new server via usb drives This company is in NYC. Is anyone interested? Let me know and I will forward you the info

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VCF East classes update
by Evan Koblentz 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Fifteen classes: http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/classes/ I'll work on getting a backup or two. Schedule TBD.

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Tandy 6000HD lives!
by Mike Loewen 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

Another Tandy 6000HD lives again! The hard drive had a bad head, and was replaced with a Seagate ST-251 (thank you, David Gesswein). The foil-and-foam Keytronics keyboard required a complete rebuild (disintegrating foam), and a Sun Type 4 keyboard was sacrificed to provide replacement pads. The Sun pads will no doubt eventually go as well, but they're from 1991 and in really good shape. The upper case was severely cracked in multiple places, and I did my best to stick it back together with MEK. Finally, I formatted the drive and installed Xenix 3.2 and the full development system from 8" diskettes. This system is going to the LSSM (Large Scale Systems Museum), for their new Unix workstation section. http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Soltoff6000HD.jpg This particular machine was once owned by Roy Soltoff of MISOSYS. When I emailed him about it, he replied: "It probably was not used for anything much. Back in the late 80s, I had accumulated a few 16s and 6000 - but never did much with them. Most of the old equipment was sold off to someone in NJ for a computer museum." Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TCF on Saturday
by jaj＠totallyamused.com 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:08 PM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey(a)vcfed.org> wrote: > Enjoy guys! > I'm glad that you guys could step in for Evan and myself. > I'm at VCF Seattle volunteering. > Evan is busy preparing for VCF East and has stuff to do at the museum. > It's nice to see others involved with representing VCF! > Thanks so much! > I will be at TCF in the Flea Market area, I may have a few vintage items for sale, but mainly modernish projects for others — laptops, power supplies, digital signage players, cabling — and all priced to move from my house to yours. Be sure to mention you are a VCF supporter! -Justin

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TCF on Saturday
by Neil Cherry 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

I won't be presenting this year. Good thing I recognized I was overloaded in December it's gotten worse since then. I will have my board and it should be up and running. I'll start it up again. I'll be sitting with Dean at the VCF table. I'll represent both CDL and VCF. :-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Anyone have full tower ATX case?
by William Dudley 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

I have a Gateway 2000 "full tower". It's 23 inches high. It has 4 5" bays on the front, plus one 3" floppy hole. I didn't open it up to see what other space it has. I put a sticker on it (a long time ago) that says "K7-2400", so that gives you an idea of when last used. I'm in Jackson, NJ. I may be going to TCF on Saturday. Before I give it away, I'd want to fire it up (if possible) and see if there's anything interesting/personal on there. I have no idea if it even has a hard disk at this point. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:10 PM Jeff G via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Just curious if anyone has a spare full-tower ATX case with many (5+) 5.25" > drive bays available? Its sort of vintage-computing related as I want to > update and fix up my shop mule. Case can be beat up even missing sides for > all I care. > > I'm in the Philly area and would be willing to drive to the surrounding > areas, etc to meet up. >

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Slow day visitor-wise. Only a few people stopped by today. Steve A. came over at 5:00 and we spent two hours sorting books in the warehouse. The slow-but-steady project continues! We constantly put aside unneeded books (to sell) and we re-box the books the books that we're keeping (to eliminate boxes that are odd-sized or falling apart). Each time, we're left with more floor space. Eventually we will finish separating the keeps from the sells, and then we can embark on phase two which is organizing the kept stuff. Making floor space is a satisfying experience, but it will feel GREAT when the books/magazines are as well-organized as the hardware!

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