June 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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The Museum's NeXT Cube
by Joseph Giliberti 01 Jul '26

01 Jul '26

Attention all: The museum's NeXT Cube needs the flash card rewritten so that it boots again. Who was the last person who got this done? Can you please do it again? Regards, Joe Giliberti

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Kickstarter for Commodore 64 documentary
by Jeffrey Brace 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

Excited to hear about this fundraiser for a new documentary: Commodore 64: The Birth of a Cultural Icon https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/graciousfilms/the-commodore-64-the-bir… Jeff Brace

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Slightly OT , vintage mini or mid AT case needed
by Sentrytv 29 Jun '26

29 Jun '26

Good afternoon to all. I don’t usually do this, but I am asking to see if anybody in the New Jersey area (Something close to me that I can pick up) Has a mini or mid – AT Tower case that I can use for a 486 set up. Must have all of the slots available for a baby AT motherboard. (Power supply area cannot cover any slots.) AT Power supply is optional, but not necessary. The case must be beige and in nearly very good condition. Nothing roached out or rusted out, please. This will eventually be for a production set up for a TV pilot. Please let me know here privately. Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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SLIGHTLY OT - Mini or Mid- tower AT case needed
by Sentrytv 29 Jun '26

29 Jun '26

Good afternoon to all. I don’t usually do this, but I am asking to see if anybody in the New Jersey area (Something close to me that I can pick up) Has a mini or mid – AT Tower case that I can use for a 486 set up. Must have all of the slots available for a baby AT motherboard. (Power supply area cannot cover any slots.) AT Power supply is optional, but not necessary. The case must be beige and in nearly very good condition. Nothing roached out or rusted out, please. This will eventually be for a production set up for a TV pilot. Please let me know here privately. Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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Pictures of someone running "conversation machine"
by Jeffrey Brace 28 Jun '26

28 Jun '26

A researcher is looking for pictures of someone running Gotlieb, Green and Berkeley's "conversation machine" created at University of Toronto in 1959. She believes that it was run on an IBM 650. I had never heard of this before. It sounds similar to ELIZA. I know that this is a long shot, but does anyone have pictures of this running on this machine? Thanks! Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President VCF East Showrunner VCF Fundraising Manager VCF Evangelist Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>

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Re: NVR system for Camp Evans
by Martin A Flynn 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

Mike, Following up on our conversation: This is the hardware we are proposing to use as the network video recorder as an interim step until the funding is received from the facility hardening grant. On deployment, it will record 16 cameras with a feature set very similar to the existing Wyse cameras. Recommend looking at their website to see if the software is lacking a desired feature. https://felenasoft.com/xeoma/en/ The major differences: * The video stays on site (not in the cloud) * We maintain complete control of the server * InfoAge not have to give away the rights to the images taken by our equipment (seriously, the Wyse terms of service actually require this https://www.wyze.com/pages/cam-supplemental-terms-of-service) Will touch base on additional camera locations, and provide a solid timeline on their deployment (all will be hardwired) Martin On 12/27/2025 5:52 PM, Martin A Flynn wrote: > > Jeff, > > Actually not - that's why I went with a commercial package with vendor > support. > > Martin > > On 12/27/2025 5:42 PM, Jeffrey Brace wrote: >> Great Martin! >> >> Thanks for the update! >> >> Do you have volunteers lined up to assist you in the project? >> >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> >> Virus-free.www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM 'Martin A Flynn' via >> VCF-MA-Steering-Committee <steering_vcfma(a)vcfed.org> wrote: >> >> I have contracted with the folks from Felenasoft.com for sixteen >> (16) camera licenses for their flagship Xeoma product to run on >> the hardware below. >> >> Initial deployment plan is for the cameras on the Diana site, and >> expanding the system as funding allows. >> >> Cheers! >> >> Martin >> >> On 11/14/2025 4:47 PM, Martin A Flynn wrote: >>> >>> As previously noted, IA will be applying for a facility >>> hardening grant next summer, which would include a pair of Axis >>> appliance NVR. >>> >>> As an interim step, CDL was offered an HPE system we could >>> deploy a Linux based NVR on >>> >>> HPE G9 Server, Proliant DL380 G9 >>> Processor as offered: two x E5-2650 V4. 24 cores, 2.20 GHz >>> RAM as offered: 128GB DDR4 >>> Disk as offered: 9 x 1 TB drives >>> RAID Controller: HPE P440ar >>> >>> Stock photo: >>> >>> Anyone interested in taking point on a project of this type? I >>> will take care of the 10GB NIC and the rack & stack >>> >>> Martin >>> >>>

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Looking for CompuPro memory manager docs
by Richard Cini 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

All — I’m looking for the manual for a CompuPro board called the “memory manager”, #151A I think. I’ve seen pictures of it on deramp but no manual or schematic. If anyone has a copy, please let me know. Thanks! 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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