January 2022 - vcf-midatlantic

Atari 8bit brown carts might be needed, common titles (VCFE)
by Ethan O'Toole 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Hello, Just curious, does anyone have like 16 of the brown Atari 8bit carts, common titles or bad front labels? Looking to assemble 16 midimaze carts and trying to decide if I recycle old carts or 3d print some kinda shell. I see the XEGS style carts on thingiverse that look usable but not the brown carts. More on this in a bit :-)

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VCF East Related
by Martin Flynn 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

So the usual suspects from both CDL and VCF have been upgrading the network at Camp Evans. As noted by Jeff B, we extended single-mode fiber to 9032 and have the access points and a 48 port PoE switch staged to deploy. Question for the folks that will be exhibiting in or using 9032A for VCF East: Will anyone need telephone lines (analog / ISDN) or wired Internet connections during VCF East in the big room? Knowing ahead of time will let us prioritize the work better Martin Flynn

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Ada’s on the River
by Crawford Griffith 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Blake, Awesome find! D.C. area folks, We *must* meet here and check this out. David G.,Jason, Maki, Alex J., Jonathan(s)? Anyone (including people I missed) email me directly and we can set something up. -Crawford > > Oddly, there is a new restaurant in our town called Ada's on the River, on > the Potomac in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. We had a dinner there very > recently. It's filled with memorabelia, etc. related to Ada Lovelace's > life. https://www.adasontheriver.com >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 6:53 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < >vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> On 1/29/22 6:44 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >> So, >at least under that definition, VCF MA would gladly accept a > >> >donation of an Alpha (I think they may have one... but the more the > > >> > We *do* have one! Would love someone to see if it is working! > > >I can help with that. What model is it, do you know offhand? > > >Alex Jacocks said that it is an ES-40 donated by David Riley. I have three of those. What does it have for disk options? SCSI or was it using a fiber SAN? How many CPUs and how much memory, if anyone knows.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic = ><vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >=20 >=20 > Dean Notarnicola >was nice enough to scan it and Javier Rivera cleaned > it up for >reprinting. Neither Dean, myself, or I (or VCF) receives any > money >from the sale and yeah, we know DEC (now owned, I believe, by > HP) >might copyright strike us so get it while you can. >=20 > >https://www.8bittees.com/product/alpha-two-sided-tee/ > >Just ordered one. Thanks for making this possible. Now I know what to >exhibit and what to wear. :) Are Alpha now *vintage*?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 11:03 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < >vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> So, at least under that definition, VCF MA would gladly accept a > >donation of an Alpha (I think they may have one... but the more the > > >We *do* have one! Would love someone to see if it is working! I have many, very many, from small AlphaStations to ES47s. If you wish, I could drop by and see if whatever Alpha model you are speaking about is functional. I have stacks and stacks of Itanium servers too. I suppose those haven't achieved vintage status quite yet.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Plaintext Emails
by Alexander Pierson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

What's strange is that I'm on yahoo, skogkatt007 is on yahoo, and yet their emails come in as an attachment that I can't read either in my mobile client or desktop browser client. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Z

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PI day (March 14)
by Jeffrey Jonas 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

March 14th is "pi day". Tau Beta Pi is the engineering honor society for all engineering disciplines (unlike HKN: IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of IEEE ... for electrical engineering, computer engineering, and other IEEE fields of interest. https://hkn.ieee.org/ ) TBP celebrates PI day, so should we! https://www.tbp.org/other/PiDay.cfm In conjunction with the annual celebration on March 14 commemorating the mathematical constant, the Association encourages its members to take advantage of this great opportunity to proudly display their membership, participate in engineering-related activities, and wear your Bent, charm, and other TBP apparel. Join us on Monday, March 14, 2022, or celebrate all month!

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Plaintext Emails
by skogkatt007＠yahoo.com 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

I can read your stuff. And yahoo even resists my attempts to specify plain text. Or maybe it's android. Why they default to html or unicode or rich text is beyond me. Thoroughly stupid. It's Chris by the way. On Saturday, January 29, 2022, 05:29:22 PM EST, Alexander Pierson <ajpierson1(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Plaintext Emails
by Alexander Pierson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

>What's strange is that I'm on yahoo, skogkatt007 is on yahoo, and yet their emails come in as an attachment that I can't read either in my mobile client or desktop browser client. > >¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Alright, now yahoo is just messing with me when my own emails come back packaged up in a file. -Z

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