February 2022 - vcf-midatlantic

Need Amiga 1000 boot disks for VCF museum
by Jeffrey Brace 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

The museum's Amiga 1000 boot disks appear to be not working. I'm not sure if it is the Kickstart or the Workbench disk . We usually used Ver 1.3. Not sure if Ver 1.2 works on that machine too. Can someone bring a copy? Thanks! ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Memotech experts on-list?
by Richard Cini 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

All – While moving things around in the shop, I found a US-badged Memotech MTX512 I bought a few years ago. That got me thinking about playing with and expanding it. The floppy FDX units are pretty rare so I thought about re-making the interface card inside to connect floppy drives or a Gotek to it. However, what I can’t seem to locate on Primrosebank (http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/mtx/mtxmanuals.htm#hardware) is a schematic for the actual guts of the FDX unit. I can find the RS-232/floppy card (really a bus buffer), but not the inner-workings of the FDX itself. There’s a picture or two here (http://www.nyangau.org/memotech/hardware.htm) but no schematics for either the bus interface card or the controller card itself. Looks like it uses a weird kind of expansion bus cage. Maybe the later SDX version is the same, but not sure. Anyway, if there’s someone on-list with Memotech experience and can point me in the right direction, it’d be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://cini.classiccmp.org http://altair32.classiccmp.org

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East Exhibit Planning
by Dave Shevett 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

I reached out to the vcf folks about either bringing my handheld eollection again or doing an exhibit on the OLPC project but never heard back. :(. Not sure what my plans are now. Will be at the swap meet though! On Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 7:51 AM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Howdy everyone, > > VCF East is just over 2 months away, which is weird because it feels like > it just happened like a month ago. I haven't heard much in the way of > chatter of exhibit plans yet, so I'm curious what folks are working on, or > thinking about exhibiting come April. I saw Jason was planning a PBX > exhibit, which I can't recall seeing before at East, so that sounds cool. > > Seeing as this year is the 40th anniversary of the Commodore 64 release, I > imagine someone is intending to do an exhibit focused on it. To that end, > if anyone would like to borrow my early model C64 for the show, let me > know. Silver label, Rev A motherboard, very low serial number, and most > importantly it works: https://commodorez.com/img/silverlabel.jpg > > <https://commodorez.com/img/silverlabel.jpg> > I'm gearing up to exhibit my Nova 1200 now that it's running properly. > RIght now it looks like it will just be demoing Single User BASIC with an > H19 for a terminal. It's not an exact match for the hardware, but it'll do > considering I don't have any other Data General equipment. > > <https://commodorez.com/img/silverlabel.jpg> > -Alexander 'Z' Pierson >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East Exhibit Planning
by David Gesswein 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 07:49:04AM -0500, Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > I haven't heard much in the way of > chatter of exhibit plans yet, so I'm curious what folks are working on, or > thinking about exhibiting come April. > Plan is to bring my 8/I running spacewar. Will have some other demos. Will see about updating a little the signal capture and FFT I did for virtual VCF. Not going to have the prep time I was expecting so won't be able to do major new demos.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East Exhibit Planning
by Mike Loewen 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

> VCF East is just over 2 months away, which is weird because it feels like it > just happened like a month ago. I haven't heard much in the way of chatter > of exhibit plans yet, so I'm curious what folks are working on, or thinking > about exhibiting come April. I saw Jason was planning a PBX exhibit, which > I can't recall seeing before at East, so that sounds cool. I'm doing an S-100 exhibit, with an IMSAI 8080, Vector Graphic Vector 1, and a Sol 20. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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VCF East Exhibit Planning
by Alexander Pierson 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Howdy everyone, VCF East is just over 2 months away, which is weird because it feels like it just happened like a month ago. I haven't heard much in the way of chatter of exhibit plans yet, so I'm curious what folks are working on, or thinking about exhibiting come April. I saw Jason was planning a PBX exhibit, which I can't recall seeing before at East, so that sounds cool. Seeing as this year is the 40th anniversary of the Commodore 64 release, I imagine someone is intending to do an exhibit focused on it. To that end, if anyone would like to borrow my early model C64 for the show, let me know. Silver label, Rev A motherboard, very low serial number, and most importantly it works: https://commodorez.com/img/silverlabel.jpg <https://commodorez.com/img/silverlabel.jpg> I'm gearing up to exhibit my Nova 1200 now that it's running properly. RIght now it looks like it will just be demoing Single User BASIC with an H19 for a terminal. It's not an exact match for the hardware, but it'll do considering I don't have any other Data General equipment. <https://commodorez.com/img/silverlabel.jpg> -Alexander 'Z' Pierson

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Is a TRS-80 Videotex Terminal functionally usable?
by Joseph Giliberti 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Greetings! A friend of mine has a TRS-80 Videotex Terminal, which seems to be a very limited CoCo1, intended solely for use with dial-up services which no longer exist. Other than being a display piece, is there any way of actually using it? Could it dial in to a modem BBS? Thanks! Joe Giliberti

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OT: Source for 35MM Movie projector hardware?
by Ethan O'Toole 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Heya, Not vintage computers but a bit retro. Anyone in the club here know any leads on this kind of stuff in the Mid-Atlantic region? I am looking for some bits for my movie projector project. Dolby CAT701 or CAT702 optical reader and cable 1KW or 1.5KW lamphouse + ballast + lamp Platter system Trailers or 35mm feature films DTS optical reader and processor SDDS optical reader and processor (reader and cable most important)

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Go Fund Me for Commodore Toronto document preservation
by Jeffrey Brace 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Brian Bagnell, author of Commodore on the Edge and Dave McMurtie of the Commodore International Historical Society are doing a Go Fund Me to pay for scanning of Commodore Toronto documents. For me information go to this link: https://gofund.me/d69b1b65 ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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OT: .Net software developer position.
by Bob Flanders 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Hi, My company is looking for a developer. Here are the base skills: - Experience with Full Stack Software development using C#, JavaScript, SQL (or another similar stack) - Experience with (or desire to learn) Agile development methodologies - Familiarity with source code control, code reviews and continuous integration If you or someone you know (or one of your children) are interested in this, please let me know. Thanks! Bob (I checked with Jeff before posting this.)

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