March 2019 - vcf-midatlantic

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...
by W2HX 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Am I the only one? All emails from Tony (and I think some others) always come in as attachments. Meaning I get a blank email from Tony (through the list) with no content, only an attachment. That attachment is an email message itself (like an .eml or whatever) containing his content. Am I seeing things (again)? 73 Eugene W2HX From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org] On Behalf Of Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 1:44 PM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Tony Bogan Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15
by Evan Koblentz 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

> I’d like to see such a course be a yearly thing at VCF as it literally will never go out of style The thing is, that could be said about many topics. Only 15 slots to play with ... we could easily come up with 30-40 topics, if there were enough teachers. :) I would TOTALLY DO THAT if we knew that enough people would attend VCF East as a four or five-day event.

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Re: vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15
by Jeff G 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

What about my idea of having a panel session where people could ask questions on any computer repair topic and a panel of peeps would answer? Also, any possibility of Bill Herd doing his soldering class again? I really want to take that as I missed the last one. Jeff aka Bags

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Urgent! Lots more instructors needed for VCF East
by Evan Koblentz 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

VCF East classes are Friday, May 3, and we still need many more instructors. There are 15 slots. So far we have: - Unusual Unix(es) ... Alex Jacocks - Unix networking ... Andy Diller - Unix headless booting ... Stephen Edwards - SimH ... David Gesswein (We need one more Unix-y topic.) We also have people committed to teach: - Atari 400/800 ... Bill Lange - 8-Bit Computer Basic Repair ... Chris Fala - TRS-80 101 ... Dean Notarnicola - Hard Drive Repair ... Jason Perkins - Apple II 101 ... Tony Bogan That's only nine classes so far. Here are some ideas: - What's NeXT - VMS/OpenVMS - How to be a good PET owner - Commodore 64 repair (it'll never go out of style) - Early IBM PC repair (yes it's vintage now...) - Ian's CRT Magic (people can't get enough!) - "Don't be scared of front panels", a.k.a. "If Evan use one then so can you!" (but no I'm not qualified to teach this) - The role of microcontrollers in the hobby today

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...
by Chris Fala 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

When I read on the web interface (Gmail) it is fine, but when I view on my iPhone, I get them as attachments. For a few other users as well. On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:29 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Eugene, sometime a few months back (perhaps it was late last year) > something changed with the list and even my own emails come back to be as a > .mime attachment. It did not used to be that way, and I did not change > anything on my end. Perhaps my .mac/iCloud service changed something, I do > not know. > > There are a handful of people on the list whose emails come through as you > describe. > > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Blake Patterson via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Hah, this is great. I hope it does bring the spotlight on BBS of past > (and > > present!). I am active on several boards daily, right now. The one I hit > > the most frequently is The Level 29 BBS ( bbs.foxxtexx.com ) which is > the > > official BBS of the r/Retrobattlestations subreddit. Stop in (telnet or > > dial-up)! > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < > > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is > >> crazy..." > >> > >> It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has > >> been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of > >> cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that > used > >> to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this > >> knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went > >> public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out. > >> > >> A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking > >> social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear > >> about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a > lot > >> of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all. > >> > >> - Ethan > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Heisenberg may have slept here. > >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...
by Peter Cetinski 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Might be a Mac/iOS issue as my messages seem to have the same behavior. > On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > From: Tony Bogan <thebogans(a)mac.com> > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes... > Date: March 15, 2019 at 2:28:39 PM EDT > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > > > Eugene, sometime a few months back (perhaps it was late last year) something changed with the list and even my own emails come back to be as a .mime attachment. It did not used to be that way, and I did not change anything on my end. Perhaps my .mac/iCloud service changed something, I do not know. > > There are a handful of people on the list whose emails come through as you describe. > > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Blake Patterson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >> >> Hah, this is great. I hope it does bring the spotlight on BBS of past (and >> present!). I am active on several boards daily, right now. The one I hit >> the most frequently is The Level 29 BBS ( bbs.foxxtexx.com ) which is the >> official BBS of the r/Retrobattlestations subreddit. Stop in (telnet or >> dial-up)! >> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < >> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is >>> crazy..." >>> >>> It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has >>> been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of >>> cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used >>> to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this >>> knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went >>> public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out. >>> >>> A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking >>> social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear >>> about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot >>> of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all. >>> >>> - Ethan >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Heisenberg may have slept here. > > >

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Speaking of BBSes...
by Ethan O'Toole 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..." It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out. A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all. - Ethan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Urgent! Lots more instructors needed for VCF East
by evan 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

>> Thought I was doing an early Mac basic cleaning and restoration class in addition to an Apple II basic cleaning and restoration.Did that change?No change. I neglected to mention that one. Will update the thread.Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S10. null

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Good day! There were two groups of 15-20 middle/high school students about an hour apart. They all got full tours, were polite/well-behaved, and asked smart questions. Also a third group of three older men. I used the in-between time to install a wall-mounted arm with a 27" touchscreen monitor. It's in the 1950s/1960s aisle. Installing the arm was very easy and only took about 15 minutes. -- 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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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] New Bare-Metal VICE for the RPi2+
by Blatboy 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Oooooh. This is cool. I may have to give it a try. Thanks for the hot tip Alex! ++++++++++++++++++++++ https://jwalterhawkes.com like to know where/when I'm playing? Click here <https://jwalterhawkes.com/contact> to sign up for my list, and let the babble begin. All, > For any Commodore enthusiasts not following the discussion on Lemon64 ( > https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=70498&start=0) there is a > new bare-metal implementation of VICE for the Raspberry Pi 2+, This > project is called BMC 64 (http://accentual.com/bmc64/) and is hosted on > GitHub (https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64) > Even though the project is only a month or so old, it is already quite > usable. I haven't had a chance to play with it, myself, but the > development of bare-metal emulation is pretty exciting, to me, as it means > that a lot of cycle-exact timing that was quite challenging, under > Raspbian/Linux can be implemented. > Has anyone else tired BMC64? > - Alex

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