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MOBIDIC article on HACKADAY
by Duane Craps 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/retrotechtacular-military-graphics-in-the-1… -- DuaneCraps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp

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Can't find old VCF Video
by Duane Craps 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

I was looking for an old VCF video of Watts Humphrey's talk on The MOBIDIC. He was the project engineer for Sylvania on the project. I wanted to post it to HACKADAY. I remember thinking that they were ahead of everyone at the time. -- DuaneCraps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp

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Volunteers Wanted for VCF East Consignment
by Alexander Jacocks 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

All, If you would be interested in helping us with consignment, at VCF East, this year, please let me know. We're looking for volunteers of any experience level, for either the entire event, or for a minimum of 2 shifts from Friday to Sunday. We will be setting up starting ar 4pm on Friday, until 10pm, and then consignment will open to the public with the start of VCF on Saturday. Please let me know if you are interested, or have any other questions, please let me know. - Alex

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] social.vcfed.org is down again
by Jonathan Chapman 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

> Yes, HSTS has been disabled. You can reach the site now while we are getting new certs installed. Just accept the expired cert. I don't want to be telling folks how to do their jobs (especially since it's volunteer work), but that's a pretty rough suggestion nowadays. Looks like you're using LetsEncrypt, which is a good choice, but since the certs are short and the process should be automated and should work, I always monitor when I use LetsEncrypt. I've had two occasions where changes to their API broke acme-client on OpenBSD. For that situation, simply giving mail an actual deliverable address to go to will let you know. For more complex situations, like when the deployment of the cert sometimes fails because of (customer) client derps, I set up a CI job to do a HTTPS connection to the page (just a cURL will do it) and bomb if there's any errors or the cert is within X days of expiration. Thanks, Jonathan

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social.vcfed.org is down again
by Dan FitzGerald 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

FYI, appears to have been down for three days. Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger

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Second PDP11/73 video is up!
by Dave Shevett 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

(Mods, please let me know if it's okay to post these. I can't think of a more targeted audience than ya'll at VCF for this sort of stuff, and I'm a VCF-person, so I hope it's relevant? :) At some point i'lls top announcing cuz anyone who wants to follow along can subscribe on YT and I don't need to spam everyone's inbox :) https://youtu.be/8DjrU37lSkM (There's an easter egg in that video referring to another VCF member, a cookie to the first person who spots it :) -- Dave Shevett shevett(a)pobox.com

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Punch card with VCF logo on it?
by Jeffrey Brace 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

I'm trying to recall if there was ever a giveaway with the VCF logo printed on a punch card. I don't recall it, but someone else does. I do recall that someone punched out the words "VCF East" onto some and we had many of them and gave them out. Does anyone recall anything like that? Thanks! ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Retro CRT size question.
by Gary 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

My cousin has a 32 inch Sharp 32C540 with composite and SVideo inputs that has a decent picture on it. However, it is 110lbs. Is there any interest in lugging it to VCF for consignment? I was thinking of putting it on consignment, but don't know if the effort would be worth it to lug it over and in and set it up. Back of the napkin guage of interest for something that large. Gary

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Volunteer Hours for VCF to benefit InfoAge
by Jeffrey Brace 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

Anyone that has volunteered for VCF, please email me your estimated hours that you have done in 2023. This is for all activities: docenting, repairing items, VCF East, phone calls, emails, swap meet volunteering. Any hours that you have done to benefit VCF. InfoAge benefits from these hours by reporting them on their tax form. This is due by next week Wednesday, March 15. Thanks! ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Retro CRT size question.
by Bill Degnan 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

Does it have a DB13W3 video port? Even if not, I'd say, if it works and it's clean you'd have a better chance of selling it at VCFe, if the price is right, than anywhere else I can think of around here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB13W3 On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 12:45 PM Gary via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > My cousin has a 32 inch Sharp 32C540 with composite and SVideo inputs > that has a decent picture on it. However, it is 110lbs. Is there any > interest in lugging it to VCF for consignment? I was thinking of > putting it on consignment, but don't know if the effort would be worth > it to lug it over and in and set it up. Back of the napkin guage of > interest for something that large. > > Gary >

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