March 2021 - vcf-midatlantic

T-shirt Vote update for 2021 VCF
by Jeffrey Brace 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Hello everyone, Just wanted to give you an update that after 3 days we have about 49 votes so far for the 2021 t-shirt design! I'm going to let this run until April 4 to give everyone enough time. So there is still time to vote if you haven't done so already. Go to this link to see the designs and to vote: https://forms.gle/3KVw1RHGwyaQJrPp9

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Museum Report 2021-03-20
by Jeffrey Brace 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

About a dozen visitors stopped by today. Some casual visitors and some high interest. One guy took a short tour, but had high interest and was familiar with a lot of the machines. A teen who builds his own modern PCs had high interest arrived with his mom. He tried out Lunar Lander on the Apple I, Space Invaders on the TI/99A, various demo programs on the Apple //, Textrix on the Unix PC, Minesweeper on the Windows 3.1 machine. I would have had him try some basic programming, but they arrived at 4:30 so they were running out of time before they had to leave shortly before 5. It seems that visitors are increasing at InfoAge. 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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Anyone Have a Spare Apple IIe Keyboard? (DC Area)
by Alexander Jacocks 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

All, I’m looking for an Apple IIe keyboard (black lettering) for my MacEffects clear case IIgs. Does anyone (preferably in the DC area) have a spare that they’d be willing to part with? Thanks! - Alex

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MicroVAX-11 for sale
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

>From comp.os.vms posting: Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=96.230.211.194; posting-account=Ysq9BAoAAACGX1EcMMPkdNg4YcTg0TxG NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.230.211.194 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <28b9ff6a-9ca0-43c1-a1ad-2fde08c549ebn(a)googlegroups.com> Subject: FS: MicroVAX II system From: abrsvc <dansabrservices(a)yahoo.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:21:44 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Desk side system (BA23 box) for sale. System boots up and works as expected with VMS V5.3. 13Mb main memory and single HD looks like RA81 to VMS. 4MM tape drive installed. Adapters to MMJ connected and included. One side of the base is broken off on the right front. Other than that, the unit is in good condition. Too heavy to ship. Located in Milford Ma. area. I'm willing to meet 1/2 way for those farther away. Dan P.S. I have spare parts for this if interested (CPU cards, Memory cards, etc.)

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WTB: Amiga 600 motherboard
by Ethan O'Toole 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

I have an Amiga 600 motherboard that has kicked my butt. It had cap damage. Haven't been able to make good progress in fixing it, and have spent a ton of time. Looking to buy another Amiga 600 motherboard. - Ethan

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New 68k Mac Video Posted
by Alexander Jacocks 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

All, I just posted a video for #MARCHintosh, where I raided my stash and came out with an untested Mac LC II: https://youtu.be/RxH1aafl2hg This is the first video in the series. Please let me know what you think! - Alex

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Games that weren't website
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

When discussing resurrected games such as Joust for the C64, someone mentioned this website: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/ Very interesting stuff there. Jeff Brace ========================================= Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity

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July Repair Workshop @ System Source
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

The July Repair Workshop will be at System Source. The Vintage Computer Federation and the System Source Computer Museum are hosting a vintage computer workshop on Saturday July 10th and Sunday July 11 th 2021 at: System Source Computer Museum 338 Clubhouse Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 A few pictures from our pre-COVID event: Details below! Plenty of free parking, short walk from Baltimore’s light rail (Gilroy Road Stop) We will open at 9:00 AM on Saturday July10th, 2021 and will lock up by 7:30 PM. We will go to dinner afterwards. If you are interested in dinner, then please indicate on the signup form. We will open at 9:00 AM on Sunday July 11th and lock up at 5:00 PM Accommodations: Try https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g41196-Hunt_Valley_Maryland-Hotels.html <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tripadvisor.com_Ho…> Feel free to talk with others about sharing a room. Food: There are plenty of restaurants within a short drive. We will have a catered Indian buffet on Saturday at cost ($12.00?) and catered Barbecue ($12.00?) on Sunday for those who sign up. We will feature tours of the museum throughout both days and several mini-workshops: - Retrobright workshop (bring your yellowed plastics) - Pre-industrial computing class - Learn to use a slide rule, and various types of Abaci - Hot Metal Typesetting (3500 lb word processor - Preview/contribute to new exhibit IBM PC@40 We will have most of the IBM PCs (and predecessors) load up with various operating systems and software If you need a machine to work on, please let me know. We have lots of computers awaiting restoration! Let others know what you are working on. If you have unusual needs, (220 Volts, fork lift, etc please email Bob Roswell at museum(a)syssrc.com Bob Roswell broswell(a)syssrc.com https://museum.syssrc.com 410-771-5544 x 4336

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Vote for 2021 VCF T-shirt Design!
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

There were 5 designs submitted for this year's Vintage Computer Festival t-shirt. Please remember that these are only *concept art* and *not *the final product! Please *vote *for the one that you like the best! The one with the most votes will be selected as the new t-shirt design for 2021! Go to this link to see the designs and to vote < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4PMOBqxmxjykN3TnGT_P6dKraoSjo5lT… > If you don't like that long link, here is a shorter one: https://forms.gle/3KVw1RHGwyaQJrPp9 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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OT: teeny robots re-enact the Oregon Trail
by Jeffrey Jonas 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Students used teeny line-following robots to recreate the Oregon Trail https://ozobot.com/blog/creators-of-the-month-third-graders-bring-back-the-… Here's the video: https://twitter.com/Ozobot/status/991110783294758915 https://twitter.com/i/status/991110783294758915

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