July 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] BeBox for the Museum
by Michael Kato 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

> > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:09:22 -0500 > From: Evan Koblentz <evan(a)vcfed.org> > To: Christian Liendo <cliendo(a)gmail.com> > Cc: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] NeXT(s) f/s in Maryland > Message-ID: > < > CADAdoY7HSnf9efqXOmPrpf7K6OQVafFPer0ytzg+adA8c3hCyw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Someone please get it for us!! We don't have one. :( > Evan, Let's talk. I have one in working order, and I might be ready to donate. ....maki....

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Repair Workshops Jul, Aug, Sep?
by Jeffrey Brace 21 Aug '19

21 Aug '19

The next workshop is July 20 & 21. July 20 & 21 workshop signup: link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WC20hnriY5alKGteeWoWq5jXT3ZOjzA6h-u… August 24 & 25 workshop signup: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Gmvr2ZEtEXouN0oB7Y_UtCRabbwhLTi4E_… We were thinking about doing another workshop in September. What do you think about September 28? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Unix demo @ Bell Labs - June 5
by Evan Koblentz 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

This is tentative / not yet 100%: Bell Labs (at the historic Murray Hill, NJ location) is planning a Unix event on Wednesday, May 5. They invited us to do a mini-version of Unix Town that afternoon. Important details: - We'd probably have five or six tables. - This is NOT a public event; it's invitation-only by BL. - Our goal is to do demos for important people. So I'm gauging initial interest: who is able to take a day off from work that afternoon and come to NJ for this?

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Elderly engineer?
by Jack Rubin 03 Aug '19

03 Aug '19

Mid-70’s is the new mid-50’s! Dang ankle- biters. # Sent from my mobile phone #

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Z180 questions
by Neil Cherry 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

Yes this is vintage. I have a large number of Z180 (HCS II boards) from Steve Ciarcia they were designed to be used for the HCS II home automation system. I think they might make decent CP/M boards (up to 33MHz perhaps) with a little hackery. Heck I might even figure out how to use the full 1M of memory space. But I'm not sure how to interface slower components (like a PIO) to the faster processor. Any pointers? BTW, I have the source to the HCS II asm so I will be looking there and I do have the z180 sheets. -- 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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Linux orphans the floppy driver.
by Herb Johnson 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

I second Glitch's motion. He's got it exactly right. http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html a popular-enough Web page on floppy drive tech, now headlines this situation. http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/linux_floppy.txt has a few links and brief discussion. The original posting event on the subject seems to be at the kernel.org GIT site: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?…"> ...but did not make the news until GitHub(Torvalds) and reddit and hackaday weighed in recently. It's now a "trending" subject, whaddever that means. I don't have the chops for that work. Someone reading this, does. Don't post about "I remember"s, or "about time they killed it"s. Just. get. it. done. Regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info

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Volunteer needed near Columbia, Maryland
by Evan Koblentz 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

We need someone to visit an elderly engineer (mid-70s) in Columbia MD and report back to me (privately; not on the list) with an inventory of what he's got. Then I can tell him what we'd like for the museum vs. what he can re-home with list members. The guy said his collection involves several S-100 systems and 8-bit appliance computers.

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Hello World (VCF Members)
by Douglas Perry 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

As a new member to the group I was told I should take a minute and introduce myself. My name is Doug and although my heart will always be with New Jersey I currently reside in Fairless Hills, PA. I found this group while researching parts for a Compaq Portable 1. It was the first computer I ever saw code on (at 8 years old) and I honestly had thought it had been sold in a yard sale many years ago. I quickly read about VCF and was disappointed to see that I missed this years amazing lecture with Ken Thompson (which I immediately watched online). My background in computers is a bit scattered but my education is in Software Engineering. Currently, I help maintain and develop a rather extensive Filemaker database. I look forward to getting down to visit the museum and I'm very interested in signing up for the next repair workshop. Pleased to meet you all, Doug P.

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IBM PCjr Keyboard and Joystick Combo
by W2HX 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

in case anyone is interested, I saw this come through my email... https://www.bgmicro.com/COM1237.aspx? no affiliation yada yada yada

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