April 2026 - vcf-midatlantic

Cray supercomputer dollar coin, coming soon!
by Jeffrey Jonas 05 Sep '26

05 Sep '26

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/invention-featured-wisconsins-american-… NJ's coin continues Thomas Edison's PR campaign for the light bulb :-( https://www.usmint.gov/american-innovation-2019-1-reverse-proof-coin-new-je…

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Earliest version of MSDOS recovered
by Richard Cini 04 Sep '26

04 Sep '26

All — I haven’t been able to talk about this early MSDOS recovery project since a few of us began working on it in September, but you can see the blog post by Scott Hanselman here. Scott’s post links to both @BrokenPipe’s site and mine where we discuss the process. In short, I was able to get 700-ish pages of original source listings from Tim Paterson which I scanned and then we converted to workable source code. It’s the earliest known version of DOS code to exist in the wild. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-ea… Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ https://github.com/RichCini Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS

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VCF Mid-Atlantic Steering Committee Nominations
by Jeff Salzman 03 Sep '26

03 Sep '26

Members of the VCF MidAtlantic Mailing List, Another year has passed by, and it's time for the VCF-MA annual Steering Committee elections There are currently four seats becoming vacant. Jeff Salzman, Dave McGuire, Doug Crawford, and Ian Litchfield have either reached the end of their appointed terms or have resigned. Nominations to fill those positions are now open. The election will be held according to sections 4 and 5 of our published by-laws, listed at the end of this email and linked below. https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VCFMA-Charter-Jul2022.pdf) Anyone who directly receives this message and has been a member of the VCF Mailing List for at least 30 days is eligible to vote. There is no 30-day restriction to mailing list membership to be nominated as a candidate. Current members of the mailing list in good standing are eligible to submit nominations for Committee member candidates. Nominations can be made by simply communicating the nomination via e-mail to a current Committee member: Thomas Gilinsky - thomas.gilinsky(a)vcfed.org, Dave McGuire - dave.mcguire(a)vcfed.org, Douglas Crawford - douglas.crawford(a)vcfed.org, Ian Litchfield - ian.litchfield(a)vcfed.org, or Jeff Salzman - jeff.salzman(a)vcf.org) Members of the mailing list may also self-nominate. To be eligible for the election, the prospective nominee must then accept the nomination by replying in the affirmative to the nomination email. One nomination per member can be made. Nominations will close on November 23nd at 11:59PM. An updated list of eligible nominees will be published regularly. Nominees are also encouraged to provide a position statement, which will be posted to the VCF-MA website for prospective voters to read. Voting will commence on November 30th, and will close at 11:59pm on December 13. Winners will be announced on December 14 during the Town hall event at our annual VCF Holiday celebration. Thank you, Jeff Salzman Chairman - VCF-MA Steering Committee ---------------------------------------- 4. COMMITTEE ELECTIONS Steering committee membership includes representation of VCF membership, as determined by the VCF governing board and VCF-MA sponsored elections. - The committee membership will be determined by elections to be held on a yearly basis (currently November). - Committee membership is ideally comprised of five people but may vary due to changing circumstances. Any committee vote to determine an increase in committee members shall be held within six months after a new election cycle. - A minimum of one seat will be up for election in every cycle, unless additional vacancies create the need for additional seats to be filled, in which case all vacant seats will be up for election in that cycle. - In the event of a tie, a two-week runoff election will be held. - If a tie still exists after the runoff, the non-running committee members will determine a winner. - In the event of a committee tie, the current chairperson or chair delegate will determine the winner. - Nominations for committee members can be made by current members in good standing simply by communicating the nomination to a committee member. One nomination per member can be made. Said members may also self-nominate. - In the case of off-cycle vacancies, the committee may move, without a public election, to appoint by simple majority vote new committee members to fill the seats until the next scheduled election. - A committee chairperson will be appointed by the committee members within 30 days of each completed election cycle. At that time a recording secretary will be selected. - Prospective committee members should be knowledgeable in some aspect of computing, preferably vintage computers, and show a demonstrated interest in vintage computing, computing history, and museum management and governance. - In order to be sufficiently aware and have proper perspective of museum and warehouse issues, prospective committee members should be able to physically attend VCF events at least quarterly and attend meetings regularly. 5. VCF MEMBERSHIP VCF general membership is open and granted to anyone who joins the mailing list. Voting rights will be granted to active list members who join no less than 30 days before an election.

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VCF East Pics?
by William Sudbrink 01 May '26

01 May '26

Wish I could have been there but just couldn't. Does anyone have pictures/video of the whole thing up yet? I'd love to see some of the Ohio Scientific exhibits. Thanks, Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

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VCF West 2026 Registration is open!
by Jeffrey Brace 25 Apr '26

25 Apr '26

VCF West 2026 will be held on August 1st and 2nd at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. We have opened registration for exhibits, vendors, speakers, and volunteers. Please visit our event application at https://em.vcfed.org/events/vcf-west-2026 to register. Also, please note that this software is new, so there may be a bug or two. Please report any issues, or send any questions or comments to vcfwest(a)vcfed.org. Thank you!

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VCF East 2026 Post Event Survey
by Jeffrey Brace 23 Apr '26

23 Apr '26

VCF East was quite successful in many ways. Please take a few minutes by answering this anonymous survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3QG6YFV Take care! Jeff Brace VCF East Showrunner

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First Day of Consignment
by Christian Liendo 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

https://youtu.be/HQ2oNDdv2mg

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bcf east pics
by Bill Degnan 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

I did not take a lot of pics this year like I usually do...sorry. Mostly I got the OSI exhibit tables because that's where I was most if the time. I included some pics of the museum, too. https://www.vintagecomputer.net/vcf2026/ and if youre interested in Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P computer hacking I took a lot of new pics of the more modified of the two 1Ps I exhibited: https://www.vintagecomputer.net/osi/Challenger_1P/ (click the File Date column header to see the new files by date) if you see any errors in the photos' names let me know Bill

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Re: VCF swap meet May 2026
by Andrew Mattera 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

....... what??????? You do know, this is listserv is archived and viewable to the public, this isn't IRC..... Thanks, Andrew Mattera > On Apr 21, 2026, at 19:47, Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Hello! > I see. Yes it is indeed across the street, more like in back of the > original Swap Meet location. And Dave? Please insist that the Yeti > with the blue hat allow you to hold the device you are using to read > and reply to these. He has enough work to do, what with networking > fifty PDP-11s and 100 Vaxes together. > ---- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com > "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the > Moscow subway." > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic > <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >> >> >> Go get some sleep, Jeff. You've certainly earned it. >> >> -Dave >> >> On 4/21/26 18:25, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >>> I see. Yes. Freudian slip. Too tired. Focusing on answering emails and >>> getting the survey prepared. >>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < >>> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >>>> He was commenting on the typo swat for swap. I suspect your way too tired >>>> to notice typos. Arrows didn't point to correct spot on phone. >>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 06:13:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Brace via >>>> vcf-midatlantic wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < >>>>> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >>>>>> On 4/21/26 17:26, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >>>>>>> It is across the street from where the swat meet used to be. >>>>>> ^^^^ >>>>>> Freudian slip? ;) >>>>> I don't believe so. So the swap meet used to be in a large parking lot on >>>>> Monmouth Boulevard with no exact address. Now it is across the street >>>> from >>>>> there at 800 Monmouth Boulevard (Brookdale Wall Campus). So it is is >>>> across >>>>> the street (Brookdale parking lot) from where it was last time (Big >>>> parking >>>>> lot on Monmouth Boulevard). >>>>> It will be here: 40°11'02.6"N 74°03'47.9"W >>>>> Not here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bjJxzkqXhcKqh29B7 >>>>> Here: >>>> https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/VCF_East_Swap_Meet_Parking.png >>>>> NOT here: >>>> https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/VCF_East_Swap_Meet_Parking.png >>>>>> -Dave >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ >>>>>> New Kensington, PA >> >> >> -- >> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ >> New Kensington, PA

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VCF swap meet May 2026
by Sentrytv 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

Good afternoon to all: I have a couple of questions about the swap meet parking. Are the attendees/buyers supposed to park in the small lot which has about 30 spaces? I see the large lot has about 130 spaces and I assume that that is for vendors? Or is parking for attendees/buyers across the street? Please let me know. Thank you. Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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