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Apology
by Joseph Giliberti 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Everyone, I just wanted to say I am sorry for my comments and how I acted on Sunday. I was running on little sleep after being at IA setting up for Festivus from 0400 on Saturday. I was under the impression that Sunday would be an easy going continuation of the and was kinda blindsided to find out that everyone had gone home and we had to clean up everything ourselves. It won't happen again. Regards, Joe Giliberti

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2026 Exhibit Registration
by David Gesswein 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

https://vcfed.org/2025/05/09/vcf-east-2026-mark-your-calendars/ On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 07:12:18AM -0500, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:12:18 -0500 > From: Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > Cc: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org>, Jeffrey Brace > <jeffrey(a)vcfed.org> > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2026 Exhibit Registration > X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (22H124) > > Just curious, what is the “theme “for VCF East 2026? > > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Dec 17, 2025, at 12:02 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Fill out this form to register an exhibit at VCF East: > > https://forms.gle/cghQMPuh366pkdfD8 > > > > Take care! > > > > 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: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2026 Exhibit Registration
by Benjamin Krein 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

It's on the registration page & the https://vcfed.org events page: *THEME:* The theme for VCF East 2026 is: *Dawn of the PC* Go here for an explanation of the theme: https://vcfed.org/2025/05/09/vcf-east-2026-mark-your-calendars/ On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Just curious, what is the “theme “for VCF East 2026? > > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Dec 17, 2025, at 12:02 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Fill out this form to register an exhibit at VCF East: > > https://forms.gle/cghQMPuh366pkdfD8 > > > > Take care! > > > > 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/> > > -- - Benjamin Krein

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VCF East 2026 Exhibit Registration
by Jeffrey Brace 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Fill out this form to register an exhibit at VCF East: https://forms.gle/cghQMPuh366pkdfD8 Take care! 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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Vendor Registration VCF East 2026
by Jeffrey Brace 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

https://forms.gle/yZzi1FyVJV58ci7h6 Take care! 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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VCF Montréal 2026 Tickets on sale
by Jeffrey Brace 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

VCF Montreal tickets on sale now! https://events.humanitix.com/vcfmontreal2026?c=marchlist More info: https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/ Jeff Brace

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BBS the documentary is free to download
by Jeffrey Jonas 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

BBS the documentary is free to download! The Wikipedia overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary the web page: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/order/ the 3 image files: https://archive.org/download/BBS_Documentary_DVD_Set/BBS%20Documentary%20Di… https://archive.org/download/BBS_Documentary_DVD_Set/BBS%20Documentary%20Di… https://archive.org/download/BBS_Documentary_DVD_Set/BBS%20Documentary%20Di…

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OT: Anyone working/playing with AI professionally?
by Herbert Johnson 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

> Code and enjoy the actual results of what you want and need, not the arcane creation of it. If you say "i enjoy the creation of it" then stop reading here and go fuzt around and enjoy your own thing. I want the results of the programming, i.e. the program! - Andrew Diller No criticism, but my understanding of what you are saying, is that these AI tools are turning "craft" into "production". That's not a bad thing for those consuming the production, or profiting from it. Not so good a thing for the crafters, except for those who go into production, or those who do very-custom work. If I'm correct, the more fitting analogy would not be "printing press" - that automated printing, scaled up production of texts. AI coding is about automating content (re)creation. Consider textiles. Automated cloth production changed clothing into a commodity and also made patterns easy to produce and change; and yet crafted clothing is still valued. So in a way, cheaper/better cloth supported more tailoring and design jobs, sales support, etc. So we'll see how far up the food-chain that AI coding will eat jobs, careers. Will the AI's "pull up the ladder" of learning to code, by eliminating what amounted to on-the-job training? An ironic comparison might be with shoemaking, as in the history of "saboteurs". People already mess with AI training to confuse and misdirect the models. But sometimes the models misdirect us, "we become the product" as suggested before. Just to add some vintage computing relevance. Consider how vintage computing advanced as various parts of computer production were automated, or made standard/regularized. Standard logic chips (RTL, DTL, TTL, CMOS), common microprocessor brands/models. Certainly building blocks like memory chips and modules. "the IBM PC" became a templates computer design down to bus and modules in the X86 architecture. S-100 worked across platforms. all these, made it easier to design products, and brought prices down to increase the customer base. Applications followed. Arduino (the IDE, the library, the flavor of C used) allowed fairly ordinary techies to build embedded applications just for fun, on ever-cheaper little ARM boards (discarded cell-phone system-on-chips). Further back: regularized high-level languages versus assembly language. Those were technical achievements in their time, to have computers run programs that could process "conversational" logic statements and produce machine codes based on standardized and tested libraries of functions, interfaces, calls to operating systems. another vintage thought. some of this AI stuff will (maybe has) become "vintage" computing, things people remember using, designing, producing, selling. Might be fun to come up with example vintage AI technologies, as things and codes to save, restore, display. I'll stop with that suggestion, that seems the most productive idea I've mentioned. 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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VCF East Vendor Registration Starts Wed. Dec. 17
by Jeffrey Brace 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Look here for the link on Wednesday! Take care! 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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VCF East Exhibit Registration starts Wed. Dec. 17
by Jeffrey Brace 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Sorry for the delay. I wanted to make sure all the changes were correct and accurate. Look for it here and around the interwebs! Take care! 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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