April 2023 - vcf-midatlantic

Rescue?
by Dean Notarnicola 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Any one in central Jersey care to rescue this? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/228205343229436/?mibextid=6ojiHh

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Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
by Christian Liendo 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

Someone posted this and I started to read it and I'm not a fan I think there are a lot of things missing, I figured I would share as it may be of interest to others. https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/ This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s. The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.

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Looking for a diskette for a book
by Richard Cini 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

All – Would anyone have a copy of the diskette for the book “PC System Programming” by Michael Tischer (Abacus Books)? There are a few programs in there I’d like to use, so I’m just trying to avoid the typing/OCR effort. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://cini.classiccmp.org

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Thank you VCF-East
by Jeffrey Brace 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

Ryan, Glad to hear that you had a great time! It was a lot of hard work by me personally as well as the many volunteers who made it all possible. Our community is really the best! Jeff On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 9:04 PM Ryan Stapleton via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > My friend and I had a great time at our first VCF East this past weekend. > He flew into NVA and we drove up and were just blown away by the awesome > community. > > Thank you for the organizers and all those that helped make this a great > experience for us and others. > > Thank you > -Ryan

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My magical moments
by Jeffrey Jonas 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

I met up with folks I know from so many other groups/associations/groups - David from Unigroup (NYC's oldest Unix/Linux user group) http://unigroup.org/ - Murph from NJ Linux https://www.meetup.com/NJLinux/ - Chris Liendo, Brian Cirulnick, Saul Trabal from the NY anime club https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Cartoon/Fantasy_Organization - many members of the anthropomorphic community I'm VCF's unofficial tummler ( https://www.wordnik.com/words/tummler ), schmoozing with everybody ( https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/schmooze ). I did my best to be a catalyst to great conversations among folks and direct them to things they'd enjoy. I had lotsa one-on-one quality time with everyone, particularly those I helped load their cars. Everyone saw me delivering heavy items all around. It's hard to be serious when using a genuine Radio Flyer little red wagon https://www.radioflyer.com/shop/all-terrain-wagons.html Believing that few things are truly "off topic", I had toys for kids in the free pile (and saw very happy kids playing with them), and sold a lot of the Playable Metal toys (Tinkertoy for big kids). This is my 10th year of printing the exhibitor/vendor signs (since 2014). I hope they made all the exhibitors & vendors feel welcome and appreciated. -- jeff jonas

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Fw: re-animating IBM front panels
by David Keith 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

To: Jeff Jonas <jeffj(a)panix.com>Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 12:51:17 AM EDTSubject: Re: re-animating IBM front panels Thank You Jeff, Sorry I missed the VCF East 2023 event. I have transportation issues, and a bad back. I am currently using, for each front panel, an esp8266 driving individual ws2811 LEDs, NOT the light strings; with a refresh rate of over 100 cycles per second. The plan is to drive the IBM 370 / 145 front panel using a Raspberry with Hercules VM/370 emulation. I also have a 3270 display console, that is internally trash, looking to replace the guts with an old VGA monitor connected to another Raspberry PI running 3270 emulation. These front panels weigh a ton, and are made of big IBM iron. I will have a difficult time hauling them to the New Jersey shore from Northern Virginia. Thanks David duBose On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 11:48:39 PM EDT, Jeff Jonas <jeffj(a)panix.com> wrote: > I am in the process of reanimating my IBM front panel collection. I wish I could have a hand in the process but my project backlog is too much :-( 1) I heard that the "Living Computer Museum" was mostly modern controllers (Raspberry Pi, etc) emulating the real systems. If they ran the real incandescent lamps, find out how! 2) Carl Claunch has a FPGA clone of the IBM 1130, complete with LED retrofit for the front panel. I believe he even has firmware for the LEDs to faithfully emulate incandescent lamps/bulbs. I'm of the opinion that using the proper color LEDs is cheaper and probably faster / more responsive than retrofitting with "Neopixel" controller-color-LEDs. Please keep everyone "in the loop". forever watching das blinkenlights, Jeff Jonas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 07:07:04 PM EDT, David Keith <beloved_wind(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Since I have now retired, I am in the process of reanimating my IBM front panel collection. With this challenge, you may have given me a deadline to get them completely animated again. I have the following in my collection: IBM System 370 Model 145 Mainframe CPU Operators Console Panel w/ header IBM 3705 Communications Controller front panel IBM 3803 Tape Control Unit Control panel Let me know, if there is any interest, transportation will be a issue, these items are made of big iron. Thanks David duBose

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Cleanup of new warehouse space May 6, 2023
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

I need help cleaning up the space that will become our new warehouse space. I can't do it by myself. Now that VCF East is over, I have a little more time. So I'm proposing May 6 at 10AM to throw out into a big dumpster behind the space on that date. Who can come help? ========================================= 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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Nice Blog of VCF East
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

Found this on cc-talk: https://voidstar.blog/vcf-east-2023/ ========================================= 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 2023 Post Event Survey
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

Please fill this out to help with planning the event for next year: https://bit.ly/vcfe2023post

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Hackaday article about VCF 2023
by Christopher Gioconda 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

This came up on my newsfeed before and wasn’t sure if others had seen it: https://hackaday.com/2023/04/19/vintage-computer-festival-east-was-a-retro-… Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend this year, but I’m curious whether others felt the same way as the author (Tom Nardi).

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