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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] An idea for trading gear at VCF East (and perhaps wider)
by Dave Shevett 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

Hi Steve, you're absolutely right on this - and after several conversations I'm going to be careful not to push into the consignment space at all, but for things like the swap fests or OOB conversations, maybe it'll be useful. I"m going to work with the Discord admin to hook Claimit up to discord, and we'll give it a try! On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM Steve Lagotte via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > In a vacuum, I absolutely love it, but "stepping on consignment" is a real > concern as commission paid on sales is a not insignificant source of > operating revenue for the Fest. I understand that attendees trade on the > side/sly, friend to friend, and I'll admit I've made a parking lot sale or > three over the years. Deals between friends is fine and normal and cool and > will always happen, but a publicly available organized system that > effectively encourages the diversion of income from the Fest at scale seems > like a capital-B, capital-I, Bad Idea. > > -Steve > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 7:01 AM <vcf-midatlantic-request(a)lists.vcfed.org> > wrote: > > > From: Benjamin Krein <superbenk(a)gmail.com> > > To: shevett(a)pobox.com, vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > > Cc: Dave Shevett <dbelfershevett(a)gmail.com> > > Bcc: > > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:27:54 -0500 > > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] An idea for trading gear at VCF East (and > > perhaps wider). > > I love the idea. My concern would also be "stepping on consignment" but > as > > an attendee & prospective consumer I love it! > > > > Ben > > >

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Re: An idea for trading gear at VCF East (and perhaps wider)
by Steve Lagotte 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

In a vacuum, I absolutely love it, but "stepping on consignment" is a real concern as commission paid on sales is a not insignificant source of operating revenue for the Fest. I understand that attendees trade on the side/sly, friend to friend, and I'll admit I've made a parking lot sale or three over the years. Deals between friends is fine and normal and cool and will always happen, but a publicly available organized system that effectively encourages the diversion of income from the Fest at scale seems like a capital-B, capital-I, Bad Idea. -Steve On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 7:01 AM <vcf-midatlantic-request(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > From: Benjamin Krein <superbenk(a)gmail.com> > To: shevett(a)pobox.com, vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > Cc: Dave Shevett <dbelfershevett(a)gmail.com> > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:27:54 -0500 > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] An idea for trading gear at VCF East (and > perhaps wider). > I love the idea. My concern would also be "stepping on consignment" but as > an attendee & prospective consumer I love it! > > Ben >

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OT / For the vintage telecom collectors on the list:
by Martin A Flynn 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

There is an eBAY seller disposing of Audiocodes Mediapack 532 Analog VoIP Gateways. Hardware supports up to 32 analog connections (DTMF and rotary) Auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156915212708/ Documentation Links: https://www.audiocodes.com/media/jqtp2vqj/mediapack-524-532-hardware-instal… https://www.audiocodes.com/media/5oqem5ch/mediapack-5xx-mp-5xx-series-analo… There are break-out panels at https://www.ebay.com/itm/256608110823 as well.

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ENIAC 80 celebration live! this Sunday (Feb. 15)
by Jeffrey Brace 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

I'm driving to this event. Is anyone else going? Info (Copied from the ENIACtion Newsletter): *80th Anniversary Celebration of ENIACAmerican Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PAFebruary 15th, 2026 (Sunday) * Starting at museum open at 1PM (EST). Video Presentation runs two hours from 2PM-4PM (EST) in the museum Auditorium, Afterwards is 1 hour duration meet and greet. Museum closes at 5PM (EST). This is also a virtual/online/hybrid event on the Zoom Platform. Invitations via Helicopter Museum and Compuseum Sign Up Here: https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration $20 per person for Museum Entry. Zoom attendees no charge, Registration Required. *Event Title: ENIAC Founders, Families and Futures - 80 Years OnPresentation on Zoom and in AuditoriumKickoff By:* Paul Kahan (CEO- Helicopter Museum) 2 minutes Jim Scherrer (CEO- Compuseum) 2 minutes Keynote - Kathy Kleiman - "The Incredible People of the ENIAC Team: Why We Still Celebrate Them 80 Years Later." A Deep Dive Into Proving Ground People by Author- "Proving Grounds; The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer." Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/0eu2p78z (Confirmed - In person) Brian Stuart - "The ENIAC in Context" A deep technical dive into how the master programmer makes the ENIAC satisfy the criteria necessary for universality in the Turing sense and to clarify the relationship between Turing's work and that of Mauchly and Eckert. (Confirmed - In Person) Paul Ceruzzi - "Perspective on ENIAC, 80 years On" Author "A New History of Modern Computing" book along with Tom Haigh. (Confirmed Virtual) Tom Burick - "How Today's High School Students built a full sized replica of ENIAC, from scratch!" IT Instructor, PS Academy, Arizona. (Confirmed, Virtual) Bill Mauchly - "Giant Brain Takes Over the World" the story we can never let go of. Bill is from First Family of Computing - Son of John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Chris Eckert - "Recollections of My Dad" First Family of Computing - Son of J. Presper Eckert (Confirmed, Virtual) Gini Mauchly - "What Kay McNulty would Tell you about How to Be Successful." First Family of Computing - Daughter of John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Naomi Most - "Did my IT career result from my DNA" Granddaughter of Kay McNulty (Confirmed, Virtual) Dr. Tim Bartik - "Recollections of My Mother". Son of Jean Jennings Bartik, 1st ENIAC Programmer (Confirmed, Virtual) Jeffrey Yost - "The ENIAC's Unveiling: Shaping Metaphors and Meanings in Computing" Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Confirmed, In Person) Paul Shaffer - "How the ENIAC made Quadrotor Drones Possible; From Vacuum Tubes to Vertical Flight" ENIAC Historian at PENN- (Confirmed, In Person) Ken Chaney - "See PENN's Supercomputer" with Associate Director of AI and Technology for PARCC at the Betty Holberton Data Center - Visitors will see the Betty Holberton supercomputer at PENN (named after Betty Holberton, ENIAC programmer) https://parcc.upenn.edu/systems/betty/ (Confirmed, On Site) Show & Tell - "Audience Participation" Q&A session where audience members can show off their ENIAC equipment or memorabilia using the screen share option. If you have ENIAC equipment or memorabilia you'd like to "show off", please let us know in advance. Wrap Up Thank you from - Jim Scherrer (Compuseum); Paul Kahan (Helicopter Museum) 1 hour cake party at museum (4-5PM) then after-party. *SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH* Kathy Kleiman, Senior Fellow, Programs on Tech, Law & Security and Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law, Author of "Proving Ground," and Founder of the ENIAC Programmers Project. Twenty years of work at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to research the structure and balance of private Internet governance systems, privacy & Internet technologies. If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Kleimans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the computer age--written out of history, until now. Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/0eu2p78z Brian Stuart, PhD is a professor of Computer Science at Drexel University. He hold a BS from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD from Purdue University. His primary research for the past ten years has been uncovering the details of the design, operation, and programming of the ENIAC. Bill Mauchly is the son of John W. Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty, two pioneers whose work on ENIAC, UNIVAC, and early programming helped define the very foundations of modern computing. As part of the “first family of computers,” Bill has carried forward that legacy through a career that bridges advanced technology, digital creativity, and the preservation of computing history. Tim Bartik, PhD is a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a non-profit and non-partisan research organization in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His research focuses on state and local economic development policies and local labor markets. At the Upjohn Institute, Dr. Bartik co-directs the Institute’s research initiative on place-based policies. Tom Burick - Teacher at PS Academy in Gilbert, Arizona. PS Academy is a private high school for students with autism and other exceptionalities. which offers customized programs, clubs and electives, and ability-based learning with a focus on social skills improvement. Thomas Burick is a technology educator and lifelong builder who led a student team in reconstructing ENIAC at full scale, using the world’s first electronic computer as a hands-on lesson in precision, repetition, and large-scale engineering. Paul Ceruzzi is Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. He has published extensively on topics in the history of computing and aerospace. His most recent publications include "GPS: a Concise History," "Computing: A Concise History"--both part of MIT Press's Essential Knowledge Series, And, with Tom Haigh, "A New History of Modern Computing." Jeffrey R. Yost is Director, Charles Babbage Institute and Research Professor, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota. He has published nine books. His four most recent books are Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (co-edited with G. Con Diaz, JHU Press); Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press); Computer: A History of the Information Machine 4th ed. (co-authored, Routledge); and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World (co-authored with Tom Misa, JHU Press). He co-edits Studies in Computing Culture book series for Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press. Paul Shaffer is the ENIAC Historian at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as a steward and interpreter of the world’s first general-purpose electronic digital computer. He has spent more than three decades championing the ENIAC artifact - researching its history, preserving its story, and translating its technical significance. A helicopter pilot, Paul brings an aviator’s perspective on systems, risk, and disciplined procedure to his work in technology and public history. He is also a commercial UAS (drone) instructor. Paul is known for making ENIAC both legible and vivid: not only as a landmark machine, but as a human achievement shaped by ingenuity, constraint, and collaboration. As ENIAC approaches its 80th anniversary in 2026, he continues to help ensure the machine’s technical and cultural impact remains accurately understood, widely shared, and meaningfully remembered. *REFERENCES & SUGGESTED READING* A New History of Modern Computing: Co-Author Dr. Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi Purchase book here: https://a.co/d/0ighKnFX Proving Grounds; Author: Kathy Kleiman - Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/01pSFoIG Computer: A History of the Information Machine. Link to Amazon: https://z.umn.edu/Computer_A_History How Students Built a Replica of ENIAC. PC Magazine 2026 https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-80-autistic-students-built-an-amazing-recrea… If you have a new LOGO, and want it on the web site and to be a supporter, send it now. Please make your Sponsor Donations on the "Donate Now" button on the web site. If you come in person you can meet people, watch 3D animation of the ENIAC, meet book authors, purchase special books, see special exhibits and eat ENIAC CAKE! Special Note: This event is Coincident with Americas Semiquincentennial! (250th) Watch Here: https://www.britannica.com/video/how-to-pronounce-semiquincentennial-and-wh…

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An idea for trading gear at VCF East (and perhaps wider).
by Dave Shevett 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

Hey everyone. I was chatting a bit about this on the VCF Discord '#for-sale' channel, and got some good feedback / interest, so I'd like to toss it out here and see if we want to raise up the visibility a bit. I wrote an application called ClaimIt. It's designed for communities that tend to have focused interests, and are more interested in sharing and supporting the community than making a quick buck. The idea is to have a place to search, browse, and, well, CLAIM items that people are giving away or selling. The most important aspect is that you can SEE if someone has claimed an item or not (so this prevents the 'Is this still available???' responses), and if so, you can put yourself down as an alternate, so the seller can say "Well, bob claimed this, but he flaked, so dave, it's yours." https://claimit.stonekeep.com/ There's a VCF community there already (I only have one item there), but in the lead up for VCF East, is this something we'd like to encourage people to use? Now, one of the things I've been avoiding is making it 'yet another site i have to go look at' - to that end, it can email you when things are listed in a community, and will email you when someone claims one of your items. In addition, there's hooks to update Slack (and shortly, Discord) when an item is put up for claim. I didn't want to put this on the VCF Discord without discussing it with people first. The entire app is opensource, with an issue tracker and other information. https://github.com/shevett/claimit-stonekeep/ Is this something the VCF community would be interested in setting up? I don't want to step on the consignment folks' toes, but this may be very handy in the "I'm coming to VCF, I have these 10 items I'd like to sell / consign. If you're interested, claim them here, and we'll hook up at the show." Thanks, happy to hear feedback - people are also encouraged to list / test / post thins on the VCF community there to test or get a feel for it. The Discord hook is NOT active right now, so if you post something and want to see it on discord, just post the link and discord will auto-expand it (like this: https://claimit.stonekeep.com/?page=item&id=20260107161930-5e71 ) -dave (one of the many).

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Wanted: us robotics mp/8 modem pool
by Ethan O'Toole 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Anyone have one of the mp8 modem boxes to sell or lend? Rackmount 8 modems

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Looking for ISA VGA Cards
by Alexander Jacocks 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

All, I’m looking for ISA VGA cards, and I’m not picky about type. I go through them at a reasonable speed because I put them into machines that I fix. Looking for at least 5 of them. Thanks! - Alex

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Wanted: HP 82939A
by Mike Loewen 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Does anyone have a spare HP 82939A Serial Interface for sale? This is for the HP 80-series machines. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Looking for 4MB 30pin SIMMs
by Jonathan Sturges 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

Hi,If anyone coming to System Source this weekend might have extra 4MB 30pin SIMMs to sell, I'm interested in buying some to max out my NeXT cube. I'd like qty. 16 if possible. For reference, these are fetching $10/ea on eBay so that's the ballpark I'm in. thanks,Jonathan

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Found this teletype on Facebook
by Sentrytv 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

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