November 2020 - vcf-midatlantic

Swap meet talk
by Ethan O'Toole 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

I should have with me: SGI boards (Challenge S mez, S/Indy Proc module, some others) Sun boards (Just PCI FDDI IIRC) X86 boards (PCI/AGP 3dfx, other misc ISA/PCI cards) A few Apple II/Amiga software titles Maybe some Amiga accessories Maybe HP pen plotter Other goodies from huge box of stuff Would be interested in: Atari 800XL in box or just box ColecoVision box IMSAI compat 48K SBUS RAM board SE/30 or IIci Amiga 600 NTSC Agnus IC

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Swap Meet Reminder 11/7
by svcatitc＠aol.com 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

If you click on Jeff Brace's link, Google thinks you want to be in the Tyrrhenian Sea !! 40°00'00.0"N 11°00'00.0"E At first I thought Jeff is doing a little post Halloween spoof on us with his dry wit, however if you interrogate the link, you will see: 40.1848834,-74.0652735 which Google correctly identifies the coordinates as the Wall Twp municipal lot across from Brookdale Community College, Wall Campus on Monmouth Blvd. So make sure your GPS's are correctly programmed for the above coordinates. AND DON'T END UP IN THE DRINK!! Bill Inderrieden

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Museum Report 2020-11-01
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Despite being a constantly raining day we had a surprisingly number of visitors. About 10 to 20. Spread throughout the day. One high interest 5th grader who loved everything. I liked showing him how to count in binary with the flip counter. I showed him BASIC on the C64 as well as Centipede. And showed him Yoomp! on the Atari 1200XL. Many medium interest people. I updated the firmware to FujiNet, but ran out of time to test it. I tested out our new Professional Grade UPS that will be used with the Xerox Star and PDP-8. Also got Oregon trail for the C64. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Fixes and improvements to VCF website
by Tony Bogan 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

> I don't know why it produced an error, > but you and the unmentioned docent clearly did not understand the purpose of that link. It was for subscribing to the VCFed email newsletter, which I used to send about once a month, to VCFed's list of several thousand subscribers around the world. That's why the link is in the website header. The entirely separate link to the Mid-Atlantic discussion list was/is only on the Mid-Atlantic group page. So what you "fixed" was to kill access to the VCFed newsletter and instead post about the MA group ON THE ENTIRE WEBSITE HEADER not only on the MA group page <insert emoji for rolling eyes>. Evan, as always you’re there with good information. Of course, they couldn’t understand the purpose of the link because it didn’t work and when you left you did not pass any information about anything to anyone nor did you keep any records of consequence on anything. So perhaps a little understanding is called for. Thank you for letting us know what the purpose of the non working link was, that’s helpful information and something we can now deal with. While I’ve got you, in another discussion Jim Scheef asked about a Seattle Gazelle processor board that’s been missing for a couple years. Any thoughts where we should begin looking? Without any records or inventory telling us what’s where and who gave it to us, we’ve had to piece these things together slowly on our own. As I asked when you and I met back in April, Any help you can give would be great in this regard, and specifically for the processor board Jim has recently mentioned. Thanks in advance for your help with this, I hope to be able to tap the wealth of information you have as we continue to get better organized and expand. Tony

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Fixes and improvements to VCF website
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

The link on the head of every page had a link "Get our e-mail newsletter" produced an error when clicking on it. Now it has been updated with "Sign up for our Mid-Atlantic Discussion List" and with the proper link: http://vcfed.org/wp/groups/vcf-mid-atlantic/vcf-mid-atlantic-discussion-lis…. I'm not sure how long this error has been there and it was discovered today by one of our docents trying to signup up for our discussion list. I also added a Contact Us sub menu item under "About". I'm working on adding "Contact Us" info on the footer of the website now. If anyone has any other suggestions or problems with the website, then please let me know. Any minor things I can fix right away. Other stuff will have to wait. Things in the works: Organize the VCF East archives with proper links to videos on YouTube. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783

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Museum Report 2020-10-31
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

A little slow that day, but that is to be expected on Halloween. Shortly after I opened the museum, long time member Don Caselli stopped by to drop off something and catch up. He dropped off a manual for an S/100 system that he donated a while back. The manual says S/10. He also showed me manuals and paper tapes for something called MonRobot. He worked at that company years ago and he mentioned that he did a VCF East talk many years ago on this. I chatted with him for a while. Bill Inderreiden showed up an hour or more late and we all chatted until Don left. Bill was on a work related road trip for the past few weeks and is back home. Bill and I talked about the outdoor signs for the swap meet, then he did some work in the warehouse. I did a number of smaller housekeeping tasks including: Updating the hallway notice board with current VCF event dates. Next project: 1) Update the firmware for FujiNet 2) Get as many computers in the museum as possible running Oregon Trail and other text based games. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783

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Swap Meet Reminder 11/7
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

We are up to 11 vendors with 13 spaces! Keep them coming! Swap Meet is location found at this Google Map link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B011'05.6%22N+74%C2%B003'47.1%22W/@40.1848834,-74.0652735,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.1848793!4d-74.0630848 Vendor setup time: 7AM Buyers: 9AM Vendor Reservation form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftdpkFQo0CBCatGfqt1OICP-_g22n8nAj… Bring your own table if you wish. You can sell out of your vehicle if you wish. Vendors and buyers will be required to wear masks and social distance. Below is a link to the current NJ travel advisories. The full advisory is found here: https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/travel-and-transportation/which-… Any questions or concerns please contact us at swapmeet(a)vcfed.org or 732-722-5015. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783

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