April 2021 - vcf-midatlantic

Need 8 matching keyboards and mice
by Jeffrey Brace 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

This is for a show that is taking place in 2008. So they only need to be matching, but not necessarily in working condition, only good cosmetic condition. Please send me an e-mail privately if you have them. Thanks! ========================================= 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

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great!
by Bruce 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

I'm a lurker here, but stopped by the swap meet because it's 3 miles from my home. Picked up a few little things -- total expenditure a big $16! But maybe I'll have stuff to sell by next year. The swap meet was very well organized. I appreciated how spread-out it was, as I'm not sure of my immunity to COVID-19 yet. (I actually had to leave the swap meet early to get my second shot today.) Bruce NJ On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 7:03 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > I agree with Bob, it was a wonderful day, > even though I came home sunburned. > > I too found things that I didn’t think I needed but I was happy to pick up > fairly cheaply. > > I sold quite a few large and heavy items and a lot a little things also, > so I am happy! > > I did tell Jeff Brace that he did a great job organizing this and to > everybody else who is involved the same. > > Surprisingly there were a few Ham Radio guys actually selling ham radio > equipment which was a nice addition! > I would love for someone to poll them and find out how well they did. > > Overall it was a very good day, I hope we can do it again in a couple of > months. > > Mike R. > > Fyi > I cannot make it to tomorrow’s workshop > Need a day to recuperate. > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Apr 24, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in > person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had > not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so > I came home quite happy. > > > > The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the > buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple > vendors that they were happy with their sales. > > > > An excellent day, indeed! > > > > Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a > success! > > > > Bob > > > >

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Looking for "Commodore Guy" from the swap meet
by Jeffrey Brace 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Anyone know the name of this guy? A buyer is looking for him to buy some of his stuff. [image: Commodore Guy.jpg] ========================================= 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

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Next Repair workshop May 15 & 16
by Jeffrey Brace 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

The next scheduled repair workshop is May 15 & 16. I know that this is just 3 weeks away, but it couldn't be helped with scheduling. In any case the signup sheet is here: *May 15 & 16* *— Repair Workshop* — Signup <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17n7rQol7xt3f0dnAwA8zrMHy4vHw163xjXQ…> Future Repair workshops: *June 12 & 13 **— Repair Workshop* — Signup <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11iQyGDYyrFsAFQp73YwYnL-3soQIVDGOLid…> *July 10 & 11* *— Repair Workshop @ System Source <https://museum.syssrc.com/> *— Info — Signup <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KROoCNqTiTWgsXvijGBqvNblZa8weS6a8hE…> *August 14 & 15* *— Repair Workshop* — Signup <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J028DlSdvSUlh3BsrGfmalHQ9qbFfPSUQa9…> ========================================= 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

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Great weather at the Swap Meet!
by Jeffrey Brace 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

The current prediction is for 63 degrees and cloudy. Sunday is lots of rain, so that works out well for both the swap meet and the repair workshop. It will be nice to see so many of you there. Haven't seen some of you in a while. I haven't seen some of you for 2 years or more! It looks to be a super successful swap meet and will be great to see all of you there. I hope that someone is selling a soldering iron. One of my friends will be coming to buy a good one. The Steering Committee and myself will be setting up starting at 6AM. Vendors please come at 7AM. Buyers come at 8AM. ========================================= 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

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My swap meet recap and much thanks!
by Ethan O'Toole 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Whoooo what a weekend. I am sore! But what fun! Thanks to all that made it happen! It looked like the number of vendors doubled since last time! I went with the expectation of not needing anything. Came back with some more projects! I love projects! Time to start my digikey order :-) Weather was nice! It got warm during the day, and I had sunscreen but didn't use it. Feeling it now. But that is okay, Vitamin D is good and great. Nivea cream preventing any peeling. Sold things! It's always interesting to see what people are into. I had the pickup with the various Sun/SGI/PC/Amiga/AppleII oddities. Picked up the Amiga 1200 motherboard, ordering caps for it today. The sweet Apple IIci that is getting recapped very soon as well (and retrobright.) I love the form factor of the IIci and will run some midi sequencer stuff on it and maybe some games. Hopefully it will go out on a table during the next MAGFest Museum for the public to dawdle with. Bought a C128 that has issues from the box of broken C128s. I think it might be a project. It might kick my butt, we will see. I forgot to buy a power supply. Didn't dawn on me that it's different than C64, and the Amiga 500/600 PSUs are not to be plugged into it. I've fixed a C64 before so this will be fun getting to know the 128 a bit. Reel to reel tapes, will go on the machine soon. Intellivision.. have some games, it's a missing spot in my collection so that is awesome. Will clean it up. Beeee Seventeeeen Bomberrrrrr. A serial mouse for my luggable Pentium. I can finally try playing Secret of Monkey Island! My friend who came along scored an Apple montor, IBM PC floppy, AWE-32 sound card and some other odds and ends. He is mostly early IBM PC and Mac, was fun seeing him find goodies and he enjoyed it. I had like 3 friends bail and one who would only come if he could ride with me and the wagon was full. They missed out. I think the one was really just looking for some kind of ruby imac to complete his imac rainbow to match the sales poster, didn't see one. He should of told me in advance though. I think the event will continue to grow. I think the people that are into building older PC computers missed out -- there definitly was a lot for them there. Being my 2nd time, stuff I brought the first time that didn't sell sold this time. Don't get discouraged, and don't forget that the buyer audience will grow! Sunday I bought a part from a 35mm movie projector. It is soooo heavy. In real life it is way bigger than it looked on facebook marketplace. I need to clean some rust off of it and make some cables, and learn more about how to get it cleaned up and oil in it and see what kind of light source I can hack up. Leads on a 700 watt/1000 watt lamp + switchmode power supply would be good :-) Then Sunday night... I went to a friend's place. Him and his partner are moving back to Florida, away from the NoVA area. He wanted to give me first shot at buying his older video game stuff. Wasn't expecting what he had, no way I can give him anything less than in the thousands on it. Pretty crazy. Wasn't expecting it. On top of that rocket launch at work last night, so been supporting that. What a weekend. I need a weekend... for the weekend. Looking forward to System Source workshop!!!

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The Swap Meet was great!
by Herb Johnson 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

I also attended. It was the first event I've been to, since March 2020. Of course, my last hamfest was the end of the 2019 season. I was pleased that everyone wore masks and mostly kept distance. A lot of people were glad to see me. I'm surprised sometimes, at who remembers me. Of course I was glad to see my VCFed friends there. Most of the tech was vintage computing from about 1980 forward, not much earlier. On older comp tech: one person showed me a DEC PDP-11 with an RX02 (8 inch floppy drive) they 'scored' that day, for a price too low to mention. A *single* S-100 card, a UVPROM burner, for too much money. Otherwise a mix of C64, Atari, Apple (II and Mac), and that class of stuff; a lot of ISA (Pentium and earlier PC compatible) and some PCI stuff. A little Sun SGI stuff. And a good amount of 10-25 year old PC stuff; plus IBM PC XT boxes. There's usually older stuff of my interests, buried amongst the PC stuff. a good number of CRT monitors from the Apple/Mac world. VCFed had a bunch of stuff to offer, excess vintage and some modern-donated items. I grabbed some Mac and Apple II class items. One TI 99/4A called to me, for its keyboard. Not very much test equipment, there were a few vendors. Usually at a hamfest, one can grab some older but useful and cheap test equipment. I grabbed a little modern stuff, a several year old AMD mobo with RAM and proc. Actually had trouble, finding a medium tower case for it. About embedded computers. Someone obtained an ISA-class industrial computer, a rack-mount box with passive backplane, about the size of a small air conditioner. *That* was industrial computing in 1995. There were a good number of book-sized embedded PC's, with flash-drive OS's, mostly to run some kind of service delivered by the Internet. Some micro ITX thingies. I grabbed a few of them to mess with. So I had a good morning there. I didn't linger to chat at length. That will come later. I'll make a Web page of the experience, with some photos. 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 comcast DOT net

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Floppy drives
by Kelly Leavitt 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Does anyone need PC HD 3.5" floppy drives? I still have several spare white/beige ones. If I have to ship them, you have to at cover postage and the annoyance of having to drive to the post office. If you come up to Wantage or Sparta I can hand you a couple personally. Kelly

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great!
by Bob Aviles 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Hi All, The Swap meet was great! I pick up 6 Commodore 64, 10 C64 & 128 games, and 5 CIB games.I forgot the person's name but I saw him before at the East VCF 3 years ago, can not wait for this year's East VCF in Oct. Bobby On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 11:09:39 AM EDT, laurakid via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Great! Hope my stuff isn’t in anyone’s way. Get there as soon as I can. If anyone has interest in the Mitsubishi CRT let me know. As long as my computer will work on another display. It is way too large for me to deal with (cost/benefit analysis) Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 11:06 AM, Martin Flynn <maflynn(a)theflynn.org> wrote: VCF guys are still in the makerspace! On 4/25/2021 11:04 AM, laurakid wrote: Are u guys still working there? I just woke up. Couldn’t find my phone last night. woke up and looked on the window to see it on top of my car! But it works!? I should be there by 1. Maybe earlier but need to chill a minute. That was scary 😝 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 10:04 AM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: CDL is running into similar issues with the track lighting and LED fixtures in the studio. * The LED light bars are daylight @ 5000K – 6500K. * The track lighting (formerly fitted with MR16 halogen lamps) were replaced with GE 4.5-Watt LED warm white @ 3000k The track lighting is closer to the color temperature of a tungsten lamp, and a bit easier on the eyes. Martin On 4/25/2021 9:42 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > I also try to avoid the cheaper bulbs as they tend to overdrive the LEDs > leading to shortened life span. They dim a little bit at a time. I also > tend not to like the color quality. I have notes on that as my wife > really > didn't like most of the bulbs as the tended to be too 'blue' (

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great!
by laurakid 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Also... thanks again to Demetri for bringing my girl back to life! Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 11:09 AM, laurakid via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Great! Hope my stuff isn’t in anyone’s way. Get there as soon as I can. If anyone has interest in the Mitsubishi CRT let me know. As long as my computer will work on another display. It is way too large for me to deal with (cost/benefit analysis) Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 11:06 AM, Martin Flynn <maflynn(a)theflynn.org> wrote: VCF guys are still in the makerspace! On 4/25/2021 11:04 AM, laurakid wrote: Are u guys still working there? I just woke up. Couldn’t find my phone last night. woke up and looked on the window to see it on top of my car! But it works!? I should be there by 1. Maybe earlier but need to chill a minute. That was scary 😝 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 10:04 AM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: CDL is running into similar issues with the track lighting and LED fixtures in the studio. * The LED light bars are daylight @ 5000K – 6500K. * The track lighting (formerly fitted with MR16 halogen lamps) were replaced with GE 4.5-Watt LED warm white @ 3000k The track lighting is closer to the color temperature of a tungsten lamp, and a bit easier on the eyes. Martin On 4/25/2021 9:42 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > I also try to avoid the cheaper bulbs as they tend to overdrive the LEDs > leading to shortened life span. They dim a little bit at a time. I also > tend not to like the color quality. I have notes on that as my wife > really > didn't like most of the bulbs as the tended to be too 'blue' (

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