June 2022 - vcf-midatlantic

Need help with audio processing from VCF West 6 (2003)
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

Kay Savetz was able to successfully recover most of the talks from VCF 6 2003 with the help of Clay Cowgill. There are still some talks that are troublesome, so we are looking someone who is an expert at magically transforming audio issues. The issue as described to me is as follows: The audio is in WAV format, recorded poorly. Needs filtering, EQ, and magic. Audio levels range from normal to extremely low. Some of the audio levels seem to fade in and out even within the same sentence. Noise includes a 60hZ hum, and sometimes buzzy static — sometimes the static is significantly louder than the voice. Speaker sometimes too far away from the microphone. In summary, the audio ranges from “not bad, but I wish that buzzing would go away” to “what? what did they say?” If you know of someone that can help, then please let me know. Thanks! ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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VCF East 2022 Videos coming soon
by Jeffrey Brace 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

Just keeping everyone updated. It's taking me longer than expected to review all the videos from the show. Ethan O'Toole and crew did a great job of recording it and Kay Savetz has done a great job editing and processing all of them. Life, work and other VCF activities have delayed for me. I'm reviewing the last video, then I will be making an intro that will be appended to each video. Something like 15 seconds long. I hope to have the videos released on YouTube by Independence Day. Take care everyone! ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Fwd: 17" Samsung CRT display (free, local pickup or delivery) Elizabeth, NJ
by Alexander Jacocks 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

Not my listing, just sharing due to likely interest from VCF members nearby: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Herb Goodfriend <bonami(a)mailforce.net> > Subject: FS: 17" Samsung CRT display (free, local pickup or delivery) > Date: June 19, 2022 at 5:26:45 PM EDT > To: lemswap(a)googlegroups.com > Reply-To: bonami(a)mailforce.net > > For Sale: Samsung 793MB 17” display > > Yes, it is a CRT and weighs 30 lbs. That’s why it’s free. > > —Refresh rate 75Hz > —Maximun pixel clock 110MHz > —flat screen > —hard-wired VGA cable > —power cable included > —swivel stand > —working perfectly > —no cosmetic damage, looks like new > > Photo: <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ffhuvfxez39yze8/SamsungMonitor.jpg?dl=0> > > Free for pickup in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. Will deliver in the vicinity if convenient for me. > > Herb Goodfriend > Elizabeth, New Jersey 07202 > USA

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electronics, sewing machines and some computers auction Chadds Ford PA
by Bill Degnan 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

https://ctbids.com/estate-sale/16033 I was hired to appraise the collection of electronics and such, if anyone plans to go to this auction I live nearby, let me know if you're coming. There is a lot of HP test equipment and a few computers. Lots of sewing machines, cameras. Bill

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Old "beige boxes" free to a good home
by William Dudley 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies. These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy. All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill. Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet) I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.) 1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] passing of MIDI developer
by Eric Rangell 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Hello all, I dedicated this episode of my Youtube channel to Dave’s memory:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-mPpnD0K0&list=PLOW4_Hp8_912j1Tzu-… <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-mPpnD0K0&list=PLOW4_Hp8_912j1Tzu-zN40mpz…> Feel free to share the playlist with anyone you think may be interested in the content. I make it primarily for myself, to get ideas out of my head and practice video editing skills. The global chip shortage has made it difficult for retro hardware makers to source working programmable sound generator chips such as the AY series, and continue supplying modern versions of legacy hardware. Modern replacements often do not give 100% functional compatibility with features of the older chips, which were exploited in interesting ways by developers to achieve desired effects. Thanks, Eric

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passing of MIDI developer
by Herb Johnson 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/arts/music/dave-smith-dead.html Tonight I had a taste for some MIDI music. In searching the Web for it, I came across this obituary of Dave Smith, who passed a week ago. Known as a synthesizer designer of the late 70's, turns out he collaborated with Roland to create the MIDI specification. This is a little out of my interests; but MIDI is really familiar to anyone who did personal computing and digital audio instruments in the 80's. Maybe arcade games too, that's how they sounded. MIDI is both a simple cabling and serial interface to connect digital audio instruments to a computer; and a specification for codes to represent instruments, tones and duration. Something between sheet music and a piano roll. The instrument renditions are pretty simple: square and triangular waveforms with envelopes. Not a hard program to write in 8-bit assembler, a simple D/A, even a 1-bit R/C network. It's incredibly data-compact to represent a song by notes and instruments. That mattered with 70's and 80's computers and later with consumer electronic piano keyboards, drumsets, etc. But to this day, a Web browser and most audio playback programs can play a MIDI file. So I thought I'd give a shout-out as I'm listening to a MIDI theme from Duke Nukem. MIDI piano works pretty well too, there's lots of piano-roll to MIDI out there. So a Scott Joplin tune from 1902, realized in MIDI, sounds alright. Or Gershwin! 89K bytes: https://www.midis101.com/free_midi/68230/Gershwin__Medley_From_An_American_… regards, Herb -- 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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Did Classiccmp go down?
by Christian Liendo 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Did Classiccmp go down? I just tried to check the site and I get timeouts

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when you have too much time on your hands
by Jeffrey Jonas 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

https://youtu.be/kCCXRerqaJI The Floppotron 3.0 - Computer Hardware Orchestra Paweł Zadrożniak <https://www.youtube.com/c/Pawe%C5%82Zadro%C5%BCniak> The big upgrade of my PC hardware orchestra. 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners. What do you want to hear next? Write it in comments! Playing: Entrance of the Gladiators (by Julius Fucík). More details on how it works - http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] House for sale at 2004 Marconi rd.
by Jeffrey Brace 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 4:44 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Damn > We’re not THAT old! > Perhaps the golden nerds vs. the silver nerds. In my day we didn't even have a screen or a keyboard! > > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Jun 14, 2022, at 2:57 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > The Golden Nerds > > > >> On 6/14/2022 2:39 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:58 PM Jeff S via vcf-midatlantic < > >> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> > >>> I'd prefer a show more like "The Young Ones", calling it perhaps, "The > Old > >>> Ones" > >>> > >> How about "The Geek Ones", or "The Nerd Ones" ? > >> > >> > >>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 12:01 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < > >>> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 6/14/22 11:42, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >>>> > >>>> BENNY! Done that! (yup, it's worse). > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com > >>>> http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site > >>>> http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog > >>>> Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies > >>>> > > > > -- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > >

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