May 2022 - vcf-midatlantic - lists.vcfed.org

today's shelfware
by Jeffrey Jonas 08 May '22

08 May '22

Is anyone still using the Intel Edison or Galileo modules? I have spares to trade/swap. -- jeff jonas

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on topic and in tune but out of time :-)
by Jeffrey Jonas 07 May '22

07 May '22

I just stumbled upon the BBC archives https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive/videos The first part is the radiophonic studio but then there's a delightful 80s computer with a light pen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuf0LIU-2A Peter Howell gives the DOCTOR WHO THEME an 80s REMIX | The Music Arcade | Making of | BBC Archive Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills in the 1960s - to make it 'brighter and more modern sounding' for the 1980s. He uses modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop. Gent that he is, he then pops over to the Music Arcade studio to demonstrate the extraordinary new Fairlight CMI Series II synthesiser to the some kids from St Mary's Balham Primary School and hosts Tim Whitnall and Lucie Skeaping. This clip is from The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Originally broadcast 2 February, 1982.

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OT: Cool Ham Radio History
by Chris Fala 07 May '22

07 May '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaTm_LUifUI

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FOR SALE: SemiOT: Too many computers
by Bill Degnan 07 May '22

07 May '22

I have a large lot of computers, parts, software, and consumer electronics for sale. See it all here: $100 takes the whole thing, a donation to Kennett Classic. https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/sys/d/kennett-square-vintage-computers/… To me some of this stuff is post-vintage but now is the time to pick up things like CRTs and Pentium 1's while they're still shunned by collectors as too new. That's what I did when 286/386 was considered to new. Time marches on. Bill

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information overload and all that jazz [was Mastodon]
by Jeffrey Jonas 07 May '22

07 May '22

Raymond Scott's 1960 album "The Secret 7: The Unexpected" predicted this: Citing the liner notes: "A Message from Where" is a gentle protest based on Scott's feeling that "we're getting too many messages from too many places". This was DECADES before the Internet, cable-tv, texting and all our wonderful new-and-improved sources of "information overload"! The man saw the future and knew it was ludicrous. samples of the tracks: https://www.raymondscott.net/music/streaming-audio/s7/ An amazon comment finally unmasks the men of mystery: This late-'50s album by the amazing Raymond Scott boasts a truly ALL-STAR jazz supergroup line-up: Elvin Jones Milt Hinton Kenny Burrell Eddie Costa Sam "The Man" Taylor Harry "Sweets" Edison "Wild" Bill Davis Jean "Toots" Thielemans

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KISS goes wrong
by Jeffrey Jonas 07 May '22

07 May '22

No, I'm not talking about Gene Simmons et. al., or https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/DeathTongue?file=DeathTongue.jpg I'm talking about insane engineering, gone insane! The stuff that Rube Goldberg, Heath Robinson, Frederick Roland Emett, and Wallace&Gromit build all the time: https://youtu.be/WN90HYiFpAw Marble Machine X - A Lesson in Dumb Design from Wintergatan Dumb Design requirements are holding the Marble Machine X back from Success, let us see if we can at least try to learn something from my biggest mistakes :) "Back to the drawing board" as we used to say, but more importantly, "THINK". Not "Think different", more like "think CLEARLY", "think AHEAD" but most of all, KEEP IT SIMPLE! Antoine de Saint-Exupery said it best "perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away" [sadly, "value engineering" often takes that to stupid extremes] -- Jeff Jonas

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Wang 2200 in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
by Dave McGuire 06 May '22

06 May '22

On 5/6/22 20:38, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Even if I asked my son to go pick that up > it would be a 2 Hour Dr. from Columbus. 2hrs? At the drop of a hat. I generally want maybe an hour of notice if the drive is to exceed 5-6 hours. I've still not heard back from them; I'm hoping something can be worked out. LSSM doesn't have much of an acquisitions budget, so maybe it won't be all about the dollar signs for them. We'll see. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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Wang 2200 in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
by William Sudbrink 06 May '22

06 May '22

I wish I could go get it. https://www.estatesales.net/OH/Sagamore-Hills/44067/3272274 About 16 pictures down. Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Atari gets a shout out
by W2HX 06 May '22

06 May '22

https://youtu.be/WDrZY2hn5cs?t=480 Trevor Noah. 73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/w2hx-channel/videos

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10 Years ago today
by Christian Liendo 06 May '22

06 May '22

You can love or hate Facebook, but I do like the reminders of what happened in the past 10 Years ago today we had a VCF We mourned the loss of Claude Kagan Dave McGuire brought a rather nice DEC with multiple terminals David Gesswein brought a couple of DECs and had the PDP-8 out Bill Degnan had a IBM PC setup with multiple versions of the PC Bill Dromgoole brought his OSI collection Ian Primus had a large Apple II setup Kids were playing Guitar Hero on a C64 Brian Cirulnick and I were showing off our SGIs. Daniel Kottke was our speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boCSTajHutc It's nice to look back and remember.

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