November 2023 - vcf-midatlantic

Drone view of the Swap Meet and Wall NJ
by Herbert Johnson 05 Nov '23

05 Nov '23

> The Video is long but I really liked the drone shots of Wall. It's a great video of the VCFed-Mid Swap Meet, but... Given the long shadows and low sun, it only shows the FIRST HOUR of the event, maybe pre-opening forward. I set up just after 9AM and there was *another row* of sellers by then (say another 15% more). So there was more show than this video shows, no complaints of course. And the later hours matter. There were good buyer-deals near the last hours of the event, which (unlike most hamfests) really kept going after 12 noon, past 1PM. The place didn't really empty out, until closing at 2PM. By the end, the VCF "free pile" included some late-model PC's and some tower Macs, other 90's stuff that 10-20 years from now you'll remember when "they couldn't give 'em away". I had a good time, did well enough, and I wasn't aware of anyone who was unhappy. But I was too busy to see, do, and hear everything. It's good there's videos and photos around, I enjoyed spotting things and people in the video. regards Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA https://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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Fiche documentation for all of VM/ESA
by Gregg Levine 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Hello! One of the people on the regular Z/VM list many years ago had a copy of the Fiche behind VM/ESA (I do not know what version), this is the entire source code reduced to Fiche. Would the actual VCF offices in NJ want these? Failing that does anyone on the list want these? Please note that the box is a heavy one. Oh and the wandering dino is currently asleep inside the (new) warehouse area. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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Swap Meet October 2023 Wrap up
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Hello everyone! I was so glad to see all of you there and very happy at the success that it was. So many happy people both the buyers and the sellers. Glad that the swap meet is growing. The food sales by the Fire Museum was really great! They made $600 towards their museum. I appreciated the volunteers from the Sea Cadets. This helped make the event more organized. I'm losing count, but I believe that this was our 6th swap meet and it keeps getting better! Thanks so much to all the volunteers who made my job easier! I look forward to planning the next swap meet which will be in June and making it bigger and better for everyone. I hope to someday fill up that parking lot! Until the next time. Thanks! Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Nice looking Apple Lisa here...
by William Sudbrink 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

https://www.estatesales.net/MA/Wrentham/02093/3796923 -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

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Linux like Unix talk this Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023 at 6:30PM EDT
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Linux like Unix talk by Jim Hall hosted by Jeff Brace of VCF. Livestreamed to YouTube Saturday November 4 at 6:30PM EDT: https://youtube.com/live/FpBnRk8oWLc

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OT - Camp Evans Help Needed on 11/04/2023
by Martin A. Flynn 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

The CDL team will be pulling fiber into the conduit installed on 10/14/2023 to support the new Monmouth County Fire Museum. The basic game plan: * Pull back the fiber to Broadway, and re-route into the conduit * Replacing the backboard in the firehouse and install the new network switch as the existing switch does not support the new 10GB feed. * Mount outdoor access point on gable end of the firehouse (to cover events in the Monmouth Boulevard Parking lot) * Mount camera on front of Firehouse (pointed at Building 9059) If anyone from VCF is available to assist, please contact me off list Martin Flynn

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Glad it's not closer, my wife would kill me...
by Herbert Johnson 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Well, Bill considered that these Intel Multibus boxes are interesting systems to some, as they are to others like us who used them in the 1970's era. It's quite a pile. If they look in sad condition, well, they look well used and they *are* half a century old. I'm old myself but hopefully not so sad looking! These blue-boxes reflect the state of the art, of industrial microcomputing development, going into the late 1970's. Also consider: there's members of this list outside of New Jersey. It's quite an auction, an estate sale, so for some it's an opportunity. Not much notice, as I post this it's the first day of the auction already. Still, it's interesting to see these things "in the wild", and see they pop up for sale decades after most were scrapped. If some people had not rescued yesterday's computers from the scrap pile, like the person who owned this estate, they would not be available to us today. regards Herb Johnson > William Sudbrink [replied] > I guess it depends on how badly you want an Intel MDS system. When I was > younger and perhaps more foolish, I would have taken tomorrow off and > made a day of it. > > On 11/1/2023 6:52 PM, Sentrytv wrote: >> I guess we’re all supposed to just go run out to North Carolina, not. >> >> >>> On Nov 1, 2023, at 5:24 PM, William Sudbrink wrote: >>> >>> https://www.estatesales.net/NC/Concord/28025/3829305 >>> >>> You have to scroll down some, but there's a huge pile of Intel MDS in this estate sale. -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA https://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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Glad it's not closer, my wife would kill me...
by William Sudbrink 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

https://www.estatesales.net/NC/Concord/28025/3829305 You have to scroll down some, but there's a huge pile of Intel MDS in this estate sale. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

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