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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Slow day visitor-wise, as everyone was back at school/work. A few familes still came through. I spent most of the downtime working on improvements to the infoage.org site. It's not great, but it's a whole lot better vs. a month ago! Been teaching myself how to use the "Divi" theme for WordPress (IA selected that a while back). Big learning curve, but it's fairly powerful when you get the hang of it. I got stuck on a tiny bit of CSS code, which Dave Riley walked me through fixing.

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Happy New Year
by Tony Bogan 01 Jan '19

01 Jan '19

Hope everyone had a happy and safe New Years! I had a lot of fun in 2018 between VCF East, workshops, giving museum tours, festivus etc. Looking forward to an even better 2019! Tony Sent from my iPhone

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Warehouse stuff
by Evan Koblentz 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

Is anyone available to work with me in the museum warehouse this Wednesday?

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Museum report
by Tony Bogan 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

Quiet day at Infoage today. Sounded like most of the traffic came yesterday. I had a handful of visitors come through with mild interest and a father and son that took the full tour and asked lots of questions. I had the time today to test myself on several machines. In addition to the demo on the UNIVAC, I ran the shorter demo on the HP 1000 (lights moving in one direction) and I also had the Altair running “kill the bit” as well. Once Dave shows me how to demo the PDP I’ll move on to learning some basic stuff on the TRS-80 and PET. I have a simple text welcome program I run on the Apple II sometimes in lieu of the slide show disk we often run and I’ve learned enough about the C64 to run the Sid player or a program or two and I usually run a game or deluxe Paint on the Amiga. With Lisa Guide now set up on the Lisa (thanks Jason!) and the Mac 128 running MacPaint, the NeXT Cube running whatever you like (tons of software on it) plus the AT&T PC booted, the 5150 running its Intro software, the other PC running Windows 3.11 and the Osborne running (I usually load either Microsoft Basic or Hitchhikers Guide) we have the micros pretty well covered. Getting to be that time of year again for me so I’ll be able to docent at the museum more often over the next few months. Tony Sent from my iPhone

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OT: tool chest, table saw FS
by Evan Koblentz 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

I'm moving in a few weeks and need to go minimalist. Is anyone interested in a tool chest (red, casters, about waist-height) and/or a table saw? Both of them came from Sears around 10 years ago and do their jobs fine. I no longer need either one, but I do need quick $$$. I * may * be able to deliver these to the museum or anywhere not too far away. Not sure if the toolchest will fit in my car. Possibly if I lay it down. Please reply off-list. Priority goes to whomever can take them soonest. Rather not wait until the Jan. 12-13 workshop.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Straight 8
by Chris Fala 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

What Tony said. :-) On Dec 28, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Tony Bogan <thebogans(a)mac.com> wrote: > On Dec 28, 2018, at 8:07 AM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard > any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it? David, when I’ve been at the museum I have not run it as I am unfamiliar with it. Perhaps if you’re at one of the upcoming workshops you could give me a crash course (pun intended) so I could run a demo for visitors. When Bill Dromgoole was there he both wrote down and walked me through the diagnostic we use to show the machine running. It’s not sexy but for 99% of the people it’s enough blinking lights and whirring to get the “wow it actually works!” Response from them. I also have a video of Bill running the program that I can refer back to. I would never attempt to mess with a machine I am not familiar with, but I should have asked a long time ago for you to show me the basics. I’d love to have yet another machine to demo for visitors. Tony

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Looking for Tandy 2000 board
by Richard Cini 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

All – I just finished fixing a T2K that I was given and I’m looking for the mouse/clock board (26-5144) and mouse (26-1197) so that I can get Windows 1 working on it. If anyone has spares or is looking to thin their herd, please let me know. Thanks! Happy New Year to all! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

Jeff B. was our docent today. I was at the InfoAge front desk (it was VCF's turn). About 25-30 visitors today with varied levels of interest.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Straight 8
by Jeffrey Brace 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Evan knows how to do it and will be including it in his forthcoming docent manual which will also have a video. @David Let us know what to look for as we run it. On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 9:17 AM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2018, at 8:07 AM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard > > any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it? > > David, when I’ve been at the museum I have not run it as I am unfamiliar > with it. Perhaps if you’re at one of the upcoming workshops you could give > me a crash course (pun intended) so I could run a demo for visitors. > > When Bill Dromgoole was there he both wrote down and walked me through the > diagnostic we use to show the machine running. It’s not sexy but for 99% of > the people it’s enough blinking lights and whirring to get the “wow it > actually works!” Response from them. I also have a video of Bill running > the program that I can refer back to. > > I would never attempt to mess with a machine I am not familiar with, but I > should have asked a long time ago for you to show me the basics. I’d love > to have yet another machine to demo for visitors. > > Tony > -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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PDP 8 documents (ephemera) available
by William Dudley 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Back in the late 70's, when the PDP 8 was already getting long in the tooth, a friend and I built PDP-8 clones using the Intersil 6100 chip. (The museum has my PDP-8 clone in their collection.} We also copied every bit of PDP-8 documentation we could. Because I never throw anything out, but want to make it so my son doesn't have to get the extra large dumpster when I go, I recently discoved a book box full of PDP-8 documentation. Most of it is 8 1/2 x 11, except for the first two items. Some of this stuff is original Digital Equipment Corp publications, some is photocopies; that is noted for each item below. There are multiple copies of a few of the documents, also noted below. Also, there is one (1) pdp-12 document in the collection (a photocopy). All these documents are in excellent shape, especially since they've been in a box in my basement for 30 years, and in the same box in a different basement for 5 years prior to that. The museum (a.k.a, Evan) gets first dibs. After that -- I dunno, depends on how much interest there is. os/8 handbook first printing 1974/4 - 2 copies (official DEC paperback book) ALL of the following are 8 1/2 x 11: os/8 software support manual (version 3 1974/6) - 3 photocopies os/8 software support manual (version 3 1974/6) - 1 original decus program library: Focal photocopy DEC-S8-CFTNA-A-D fortran IV users manual first printing 1973/6 2 photocopies DEC-S8-LFSSA-A-D fortran IV software support manual 1973 photocopy pdp/8 floating point system programming manual photocopy Digital-8-2-U Binary loader (original listing) 1966/3/23 (to be toggled in) DEC-08-PMPA-D Readin-Mode (RIM) Punch (original listing) 1966/11/22 8 DEC-08-COAA-D (L) ODT (mimeograph ? listing) 1967/5/12 DEC-08-COCO-D ODT-8 1968/10/10 photocopy DEC-08-NGCA-D PDP-8 Console Manual 1966 original Maindec 802 Memory Checkerboard Test 1965/9/1 (original listing) Maindec 803 Memory Address Test 1965/5/11 (original listing) Digital-8-6-U-Sym Octal Memory Dump 1965/3/17 (mimeograph ? listing) Digital-8-5-U-Sym Binary Punch 1965/3/1 (original listing) DEC-08-ESAA-D PDP-8 Symbolic Editor Programming Editor 1965 original DEC-08-BA1A-D PDP-8 Program Abstracts 1966/10/11 (original) DEC-08-CMAA-D PDP-8 Macro-8 Programming Manual 1965 (original) DEC-08-ASAA-D PDP-8 PAL III Symbolic Assembler Programming Manual 1965 (original) DIGITAL-8-4-S PDP-8 DDT Programming Manual 1965 (original) DEC-S8-UPTHA-B-D EPIC User's Manual (photocopy) DEC-S8-OSRNA-A-D OS/8 System Release Notes (V03C) (2 photocopies) DEC-S8-OSHBA-A-DN1 OS/8 Handbook Addendum - New Handlers (photocopy) AD-0877G-B1 Digital Software News PDP-8 1977/4 (photocopy) miscellaneous pages of Digital Software News (1976) (photocopy) miscellaneous photocopied DEC errata and correction pages (title unknown) Chapter 4 RX8E Interfacing Programming Information (2 photocopies) DEC-12-UFPAA-A-D pdp12 FPP Assembler User's Guide 1973/7 - (photocopy) Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

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Straight 8
by David Gesswein 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it?

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Thank you - end-of-year donations - still time! :)
by Evan Koblentz 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Thank you to everyone who made year-end contributions to VCF this month. I know there are lots of procrastinators here. :) Good news, it's only December 28 and you have three more days to make calendar year 2018 donations to your favorite cause! We need your help for things such as putting on awesome events, rescuing exotic computers, purchasing insurance, getting the warehouse organized, buying all kinds of museum/event supplies, and improving the museum displays, to name just a few of our expenses. Remember, every dollar counts and is appreciated equally. Whether you can donate $1, $10, $100, or any other amount, it all helps! Please go to http://vcfed.org/wp/contribute/ for details. Thanks very much, -Evan ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, executive director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation

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WTD: PDP-11 tape drive?
by Herb Johnson 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

On 12/26/18 9:04 PM, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > I am building my first PDP-11. It is a 11/23+ I would really like to get a real-to-real 9-track tape drive, the manual loading kind. > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/192745726868 > and > https://www.ebay.com/itm/264099860161 > > I am in NY, willing to drive a few hours or pay for shipping. > > 73 Eugene W2HX Note those eBay drives are in California, about as far to ship to NY as anything you've find in the USA. Dave McGuire, could you comment on the challenge of some 3rd party shipping these cross-country? They are suggesting $300/$400 shipping, probably a CYA price I'm guessing. As an aside, seems to me there's likely some east-coast tape drives at lower shipping cost, if one is patient. This comes to my attention because I have a few of those less-desired auto-load or tabletop "real" tapedrives. Likely they won't run 6250 as these two eBay'ed drives will. (shrug) 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 retrotechnology DOT info

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Looking for Info discs(drivers) and software for Microchannel boards
by Matt Patoray 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

Hi all, I am looking for the info discs (drivers and reference disc files for setup) as well as the software for the IBM Microchannel 3270 communications card. The software can be the DOS version, but I would prefer the OS/2 version. Thank you, Sent from my iPhone

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Jeri Ellsworth's C64 keytar!
by Jeffrey Jonas 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

https://youtu.be/_kDhpFaf4EY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDhpFaf4EY Jeri Ellsworth Published on Jul 8, 2012 Jeri shows a bass guitar she build from an old C64. It uses the original sound chip (SID 6581) for keytar and string sounds.

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who has the Cauzon reader?
by Jeffrey Jonas 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

Someone had a Cauzon reader at Festivus. Here's a relatively recent request for one comp.sys.apple2.marketplace NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:22:22 -0600 From: coderipper <coderipper(a)gmail.com> [1] Re: WTB: Cauzin Sofstrip System Reader for Apple II Date: Tue Nov 13 12:22:23 EST 2018 Bump. On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 22:22:02 -0400, coderipper wrote: > I am looking for a Cauzin Softstrip System Reader for Apple II. This > was a system for encoding and decoding software in a barcode format for > storage on paper. > > Please contact me with a price if you have one that you are willing to > sell.

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

Busy today! Lots of families visited. We accepted a donation of a rare DEC (Memorex) RP-04A drive.

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OT - spare Tesla Model 3 rear mat
by John Heritage 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

Hey I remember we had a few Tesla Model 3's at Festivus.. I have a spare rear Tuxmat floormat. If your name is Lawson or Jonathan and you want it, just let me know where to ship it.. (priv msg) :) John

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Museum Report 2018-12-23
by Jeffrey Brace 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

Now that the holiday train show has ended, there were less visitors. About a dozen or so. Ranging from mild to moderate interest. Tony stopped by to pick up a VCF Apple 2 to repair. I spent much of my time with VCF e-mails to catch up on all the planning for the local and national group. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation <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…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Belated Saturday museum report
by Evan Koblentz 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

This one's easy: Saturday was the last day of the annual model train show at InfoAge, so it was very busy all day. Tons of families came through. I wish it was always like that! Jeff B. was there today. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, executive director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation

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Looking for CP/M Basic for Commodore & Kaypro
by C.J. Slade 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

Can anyone help me track down CP/M Basic on 5.25” floppy for Kaypro 2 and Commodore 128? This is top of the wishlist for Connor S. (Age 11), VCF Member and I’m trying to track down before Christmas if at all possible. Any leads or tips would be welcomed. Thank you, Jennifer (Connor S’s Mom) :)

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OT: Master Tracks Pro (MIDI for Mac SE/30?)
by Ethan O'Toole 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Heya, Anyone happen to have Master Tracks Pro 4.0 for the classic Mac? I have a SE/30 and the serial midi interface cable. Would like to see if I can get it driving some of my midi equipment. I looked to see if there were any copies for sale on eBay, none. Also would be interested in a Cubase or Notator dongle for the Atari ST. Would be cool even to just borrow could return at next vcf. I did find the copy of Master Tracks for the IIGS, and am going to see how that does as well. As an Atari 8bit and PC guy, I love the asthetics of the IIGS series a lot. - Ethan

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Dear Santa...
by Evan Koblentz 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Hello friends, If you're looking for an end-of-year charity donation, then please consider Vintage Computer Federation. Follow the link: https://t.co/SgPyXuvdLR ... We rely on your help to do awesome things. :) Thank you and happy holidays. Evan Koblentz Executive Director, Vintage Computer Federation evan(a)vcfed.org / (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org @vcfederation

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January Workshop Dinner Place
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

So let’s try a new schedule place for the Saturday workshop dinner. Here are three ideas: Patrick's Pub (Neptune City) Boathouse Bar and Grill (Belmar) Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten (Asbury Park) Those who show up at the workshop can vote. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Looking for DEC port covers
by Richard Cini 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

All – I just finished putting together a PDP-11 LSI11 system (with the help of Jonathan) and I’m looking for two spare port blanks/covers for the BA11-NE case that I have. If so, contact me off-list so we can arrange something. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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OT: Looking for Server memory
by Martin Flynn 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

I am working on the VMware ESXi box for the CDL makerspace. I have the box up to 512GB of RAM, however more would be good! Specifically, I am looking for HP branded / 16GB sticks of 4RX4 PC3-8500R memory. HP part numbers: 500666-B21 or 500207-071 or 501538-001. This is one of those situations where the factory part is needed to match what's already there!

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FS: Last of the VCF East XIII Special Edition SBC Kits
by systems_glitch 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

All, I've got the last of the special edition 8085 SBC rev 3 kits picked, wanting to clear out the last of the boards before moving on to the next thing. You can read about it here: http://www.glitchwrks.com/2018/06/30/8085-sbc-rev3 Price on the kit is $75 shipped in the US. The EEPROM comes pre-programmed with my ROM monitor, GWMON-80, and IMSAI 8K BASIC. Kit includes all SBC parts, you'll need a 5V power supply (0.5A is sufficient, most phone chargers put out at least this much) and something to use as a serial console (real terminal, PC with a serial port and terminal emulator, etc.). Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report 2018-11-16
by Michael Pohl 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Yes, My sons Brain (12) and Nate (10) spent about 3 hours with Chris, Tony, and Doug on Sunday. Thanks gents, we had a great time as always. At your suggestion, we downloaded Forever 64 Sunday night and Brian has been splitting his two hour daily screen time allotment between that and "The Eight Bit Guy" on youtube ever since. I signed up to bring our non-working Commodore 64 to the workshop on 12 JAN. The power light comes on, but there is no video from either the RF modulator or the 8 pin video jack. We ran some basic daignotics - power supply produces the correct voltages, voltage is present at specific places on the motherboard, fuse is good - but now we are stuck. Mike Pohl On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:11 AM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2018, at 7:44 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Doug was docent with Chris Fala and Tony Bogan. According to Doug lots of > > visitors due to the holiday train show. Maybe he can fill in the details > > here. > > -- > > ========================================= > > Jeff Brace > > Vice President > > Vintage Computer Federation > > Apologies for not updating everyone about Sunday. > > Busy day at the museum, quite a fair number of families as a result of the > train show as should be expected. While I was in the museum (had a friend > arrive at one point so I was absent for a little while as I showed him > around) the visitors ranged from quick walk throughs to very interested and > everywhere in between. I personally had two different sets of visitors that > had worked with systems similar to some of our big iron in their lives and > several that had close ties with some of the micros, so their interest was > high and they spent significant amounts of time in the museum. > > There were three gentlemen (father and two sons) that were extremely > interested in the Commodore 64 as well as the micros in general. I > apologize for not remembering their names (I do recall Brian was one of the > younger men!) but Doug and Chris spent a significant amount of time with > them. They are also part of this list so will chime in on their own I’m > sure, and we should be seeing them at the January workshop!! > > The heavy rain, especially during the first part of the day, kept he > traffic down a bit. Quite a few people never made it out of the main > building as the wind and rain made the walk down the road unpleasant. > > Still it was a busy day for both the museum and Infoage as a whole. > > It is also fortuitous that one of the most popular attractions at Infoage > (the military vehicles) requires going past our museum to get to, so we get > traffic that might not otherwise come down the street. > > Tony >

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Epic warehouse day!
by Evan Koblentz 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off! - There are five sets of lights on the ceiling. We finished putting LED bulbs in all but one set. - We finished the project to create an extra aisle on the organized side for "D" (DEC overflow; Data General), "E" (Epson), and "H" (Heathkit, HP) items. Nothing exciting starts with F other than Franklin which is in with the Apple II stuff because it's clones. - We moved the Epson, Heathkit, and HP shelving units into the new aisle. We built an additional shelving unit for Heathkit items. (Data General items will be moved some other day.) - We built another shelving unit for keypunch parts, small punch card readers, and small punch card holders. We moved that unit along the other existing punch card shelving units into the "K" area. We also allocated one individual shelf (no need for a whole unit) to our two NEC APC systems. - That in turn made more space for portables, Prime, and Perkin-Elmer. - We created a space for word processing items. I'm not very high on collecting those (no, we don't want a collection of generic 1990s word processors), but we have some interesting IBM/Xerox items so now those have a place in the warehouse to call home.) All of that "shelving Tetris" resulted in a bunch of things being in more logical places, and we cleared some things out of the unorganized side. We also cleared off one pallet from the unorganized side and we made a plan for how to continue next time, when we'll hopefully get the Sun collection off its pallet and onto proper shelves.

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VCF Repair Workshop Jan 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Speaking of the repair workshop mentioned in the museum report thread, here is the link to signup: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vhb9sEi7ZjuQ6h_OK0EwCw-rR2xS0yO4N99… > -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum report - 12/16/18
by Dean Notarnicola 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Got it On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 2:27 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Yes it did, saw the first email from this morning and then this one, just > not the original you sent after Sunday at the museum. > > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 19, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > > > Again? > > This isn't getting through. > > > >> On 12/17/2018 12:28 PM, Douglas Crawford wrote: > >> Great day at the museum. Visitor flow was non stop in the afternoon. > >> I am grateful for the assistance of Chris and Tony, with their help we > cycled > >> through the visitors and gave everyone good attention. > >> Its fun to docent in teams! > >> > >> The museum looked sharp and with Tony's help we had most everything > running that is > >> demo-able. > > > >

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Museum Report 2018-11-16
by Jeffrey Brace 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Doug was docent with Chris Fala and Tony Bogan. According to Doug lots of visitors due to the holiday train show. Maybe he can fill in the details here. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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FS: Tektronix TDS 320 Oscilloscope
by systems_glitch 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

All, I've got a Tek TDS 320 dual channel digital oscilloscope that needs to find a new home. Before it goes to eBay, I figured I'd check if anyone here needs it. Did a quick check with the function generator and it seems to be working and close to calibration. Contact me off-list if you're interested. Will ship, not looking to hold onto this particular item until VCF East though. Thanks, Jonathan

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

Tons of visitors today from the train show. All families, including a large number of high school kids who were genuinely interested in the subject. Good day! Doug is docent tomorrow. Also: Wall Township installed new sidewalks to our building, the military vehicles building, the woodshop across the street from us, and the future building that'll be used by the shipwreck group also across the street from us. They put in an ADA-compliant ramp, too. I am told that railings will be installed in the next week or two. Some basic landscaping is also being done.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Warehouse days
by Evan Koblentz 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

My post was for everyone not just you. :) On Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 2:28 AM Laura S. Reinhard via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org wrote: > Wednesday might be better than tomorrow. Play it by ear? > On Dec 15, 2018, 2:00 AM -0500, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org>, wrote: > > Does anyone have a day free this month? The more people and the more > days, > > the better! There is gobs of work to be done and we need a lot of help. > > Specifically I need volunteers who are energetic, can follow directions, > > and focus on big-picture VCFed goals. What's in it for you: glory, a > sense > > of accomplishment for your work with the organization, and lunch. >

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Warehouse days
by Evan Koblentz 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

Does anyone have a day free this month? The more people and the more days, the better! There is gobs of work to be done and we need a lot of help. Specifically I need volunteers who are energetic, can follow directions, and focus on big-picture VCFed goals. What's in it for you: glory, a sense of accomplishment for your work with the organization, and lunch.

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Brian Kernighan speaking at Princeton
by Glenn Holmer 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/meetings/mtg1812.pdf -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."

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Surplus books @ Festivus
by Evan Koblentz 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

We have too many books!!! Today I put aside 10 full boxes. There will be many more. I don't think much else will get done before Festivus, but we'll keep putting the pallet of surplus books out for perusal at the winter workshops. Same rules as at VCF East: $1/pound, minimum $1 charge, no fractional increments, and you only get the actual box if you buy a whole box worth. We'll need a postal scale to make this work. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, executive director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation

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OT: freelance web designer needed for project
by Bill Degnan 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

My company has a web site to launch but I'd like to hire a freelancer to finish and modify the template the customer chose for their revised web site. Looking for someone with the combo of WordPress implementation and design chops to assist with the launch. This is for a non-profit. Please contact me through my company web site, degnanco.net. Include recent example links of production WP sites. Include hourly bill rate. Must be available to start immediately despite holiday season, looking for a good 20+ hours min availability in December. If this works out additional opportunities may be also available. Bill

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Museum Report 2018-12-09
by Jeffrey Brace 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Dozens and dozens of visitors due to the holiday model train show at InfoAge. At one point I heard a noise and figured it was a critter. Low and behold it was a bird that was trapped inside. After lots of maneuvering and redirecting the bird, I was able to direct the bird outside. I also worked on getting more MUS files (as opposed to SID files) for the C64 that were of the holiday flavor. Now they can be easily played with SID Player from Compute! Magazine. I also made a disk image of the Commodore 64 robotics software and sent it to someone in the Las Vegas area that will be demoing this hardware/software robotics kit for the Commodore Retro eXpo. I had one lady tried to get me to explain how computers work on the most fundamental levels in a way for someone that is a computer novice. This isn't something easily done in a short conversation nor for the layman to understand. I did my best, but she didn't seem satisfied. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

Spent several hours at the museum with Laura today. In the first hour, we finished cleaning up from Festivus -- moved the tables back where they go, swept the floor, cleaned out the half-full (eww) coffee machine, etc. -- and then we did warehouse stuff for a couple of hours. We sorted several more boxes of books and made some progress on implementing the plan that Adam and I hatched to fit another aisle of shelves.

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Bodnar's Auction today
by Sentrytv 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

I just wanted to put it out there that Bodnars auction today at Raritan Center has a bunch of older gaming consoles, games, cartridges and some computer stuff. the auction for this stuff should start somewhere around 4 o'clock I was told.

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Lonely G5 looking for a home
by Neil Cherry 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

We have a G5 (that works) with no mouse or keyboard. It has the power cord and the machine boots to a desktop. It's looking for a home. It's currently at InfoAge and we're not willing to ship. Is anyone local interested? -- 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

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Godbout Static (RAM) But Not Lost
by Herb Johnson 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Festivus and old computers reminds me: the VCFed collection includes Compupro computers, possibly some Godbout-branded S-100 cards. It may be relevant to display one in the Museum in December (if there isn't one already), and add a note about his recent passing and the events in California. I've had interest from reporters covering the fire, so it's topical. And Compupro owners who visit the Museum might like to know, and have informative things to say. It's possible the family of Bill Godbout would like to hear of such responses; Evan mentioned he had such contacts. Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Repair Workshop Signup - January 12 & 13, 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Signup here for the next repair workshop: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vhb9sEi7ZjuQ6h_OK0EwCw-rR2xS0yO4N99… > -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Epic festivus
by Andrew Diller 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

> On Dec 3, 2018, at 10:55 PM, Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > In regards to 6502 variations in Atari machines, I found the bookmark detailing the specifics of "Sally", the 6502C: https://www.atarimax.com/jindroush.atari.org/achsally.html Yeah, Sally was just a 6502 with the ability to halt the CPU via address line. This is beacuse the 8bit ataris all shared memory with the ANTIC chip and for it to read memory and build it's display lists it needs exclusive use of the bus and ram and needed a way to halt the cpu. The Atari CPU spends 40% of it's time halted as ANTIC does it stuff for the screen... think how much faster the systems would be if they just had non-shared ram. Which is exactly what Jay Miner did with the Amiga... -andyD

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Epic festivus
by Herb Johnson 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

I certainly enjoyed Festivus this year. About 50 people attended, a big number for the two rooms in use. The donations and trading was quite impressive on both days. Numerous items were examined and repaired on-the-fly, which I always enjoy. My personal "laying on of hands" contributed to a few successful repairs. And of course it's always good to be among my friends and correspondents. Food was tasty and available through Saturday and bits for Sunday also. The grill produced hotdogs and burgers into the evening; and there was pasta too. Of course, lots of sweets including homemade. I took time this year, to look at the Military Vehicle collection at InfoAge. The exhibits are professional and well curated (information and artifacts). They have a surprising number of WW II and later vehicles, particularly Jeeps. And for the train/holiday season, they have a N-gauge military rail loop. About trains: InfoAge includes a model train organization, which exhibits two rooms of trains in operation each December. The exhibits are always fun to see. Model trains use digital technology to manage switches and cars. But there's also a steam-powered model locomotive, in current production, based on a early 20th c. train. But the kids just like the movement and the noise! It's a busy campus, and of course there's not enough time during the Festivus to see all of the organizations there. The holiday and train event, the Vehicle and other exhibits by InfoAge paticipants, of course bring visitors to the VCFed Museum. The Museum operated during the weekend, and looked nice. It's fun to see the Naval computer in operation and hear about progress on it. The EAI analog computer is moving along, I'm told. I look forward to those and other developments next year at the VCFed Museum. Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Epic festivus
by Neil Cherry 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

On 12/2/18 5:50 AM, Laura S. Reinhard via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Hi Lausa, did you visit on Saturday. I don't recall meeting you. I did spend a bit of time in the Museum, so I may have missed you. -- 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

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PiDP 11
by Bill Degnan 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Anyone other than Bob Flanders and I with the new PiDP-11 kit? Just got mine today. Bill

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If there are any left over CoCo's
by Neil Cherry 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

If there are any left over Tandy CoCo's let me know and I'll get them working and make use of them. Maybe a repair class in the CDL. I will make a donation for them. -- 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

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