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Swap Meet coming up October 8
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

Looks like great weather in the 1 week forecast 65 degrees, sunny and dry. We are up to about 25 vendors with a total of 35 spaces. ========================================= 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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Fwd: Swapmeet confirmation email
by Sentrytv 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. Begin forwarded message: > From: Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> > Date: September 27, 2022 at 11:06:13 AM EDT > To: Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey(a)vcfed.org> > Subject: Swapmeet confirmation email > > Jeff I signed up, paid PayPal , 2spaces $30, but I haven’t received a confirmation in anyway, > can you tell me what I should be looking for? > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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Development of the MOS Technology 6502: A Historical Perspective
by Christian Liendo 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

I figure this would be of interest to some https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1453.php

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Help needed- watchers- at the VCF Museum Oct 12 & 13
by Douglas Crawford 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

There is a mass of people coming both days from the Lakewood community, families that are off for a Orthodox Jewish holiday. Its a Wednesday and Thursday. So this request is for people who have freedom on weekdays. 10am to 5pm. Probably heaviest visitor load after noon. We are having an "open house" of sorts. We will not be giving tours, we will be letting people walk through the museum. In and out. One loop. They come in the door, turn right, go around the room and out again. No touching, nothing powered on. (we will have computers in the hallway that are there for kids, running simple games) Our ideal staffing for this is a person in the four corners of museum to insure the safety of the exhibits. These are the watchers. At most you will point things out of interest and answer questions if you can. We'll compromise on # of watchers if we get less help and work with as few as two. Plus we have a door person and someone helping kids with the game computers in the hall. View/update the document here, and send me a direct email, thanks! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uFK-OA-frIheNkGsGivFB2uQ21b-DEk-fPW… ------------------------------------ (Our plan) Date & Time Wed Oct 12 10am-5pm Thu Oct 13 10am-5pm Eight step plan: 1. All artifacts inside the museum are planned to be kept off. 2. Four Commodore computers will be in the hallway. They will have monitors and game controllers and one cartridge game installed. No game changing. I'll have an 8x10 instruction card for each game on display. I expect contention for the machines. We'll do the best we can. I'll try to leverage games that give a player 3-tries-and-you-are-out" so that no one is hogging the machines. Doug will work on getting the equipment ready and set up. 3. A person greets the people at the door to tell them a bit about the museum, then admit them and throttle the flow as required. Our fire code head-count limit is 25. 4. Watchers are stationed to safeguard the artifacts and be helpful. 5. Visitors walk around the museum to the right and around at their own pace unguided. They just follow one after the other. They look at stuff as they walk & talk and read as they pass by exhibits. They go around the circle and exit. 5a. If we run at full capacity, the door person will keep the next visitors clear of the door until a group exits, then admit the next one. 6. Creature comforts This is a long gig. We will use our stools and chairs at our stations. The guy at the Atari gets to sit at the office chair. Or stand when you want to. We will switch around duties and ideally have one spare staff so we can rotate people out. Otherwise, we'll just drop out and the rest have a little more to cover. I'll arrange food, some extra drinks. Ice, etc. Creature comforts. I think I'll generally be the GAME HOST guy, as I can probably afford to occasionally leave my post and deal to check on things. 7. Remove loose items to prevent children from grabbing them. 8. Coordinate with the model train guys (GSC) down the hall. DETAILS, headcounts, etc. This plan depends on recruiting on quite a few new helpers. No experience required for watchers. Bring a friend? We can tell them a line to say like "these are the 90's micro." "This one started the internet" * I will call for help on the message board. * The ideal configuration is for 6 on floor floor and at least one alternate to fill in for relief for eating and resting. If I can get 14 people to help, we can have two crews. I'm probably dreaming, but it might be possible since 8 don't have to know much. If the headcount is sufficient, and no one but me has to do both days I'll probably be making a staffing chart that is a little different than the docent schedule. Put trash can in the hallway. We have an extra black one that we can use. Ideal staffing: 1. 4 WATCHERS a. A person at each end of the Micros b. A person at each end of the Minis. 2. 1 DOOR PERSON 3. 1 GAME HOST 4. 1 SPARE that can rotate in when someone has to rotate out. Manpower Fallback - if I can't get as many volunteers as I'd like, I'll consider cutting down to 2 watchers. One at each end one looking down the micros one looking down the Minis. Total of 10 staff, 5 people per day. At the end of the first day we'll move the game computer tables into the museum and close up. At the end of the second day, I'll need some folks to stick around and help take stuff back to the warehouse.

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Swapmeet - no friends and family paypal?
by Ethan O'Toole 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Trying to reserve space and paypal -- don't see a friends and family option for sending to vcf? I am assuming paypal took that away? - Ethan

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Swapmeet
by Sentrytv 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Do we know how many people are signed up as vendors so far? Mike Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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Swap Meet sale items
by Mike Loewen 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

I've listed some items which I'll be bringing to the Swap Meet on October 8th: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-uhM1m136qfgO_ad4zE-hd8fl25QuGug8sT… ring Some of the more interesting items: NEC Multisync 3D monitor SD Systems Z80 Starter Kit SBC AsanteTalk localtalk to ethertalk bridge Apple II Workstation Card TRS-80 Model III, 48K, Percom controller w/2 SSDD drives, RS-232 TRS-80 16B, broken case, no floppy drives Contact me off-list to make offers before the meet. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Any Ham Radio operators going to the swap meet?
by Jeffrey Brace 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

In order to get listed on the Ham Radio sites for our VCF Swap Meet, we need someone to monitor the talk-in frequency. Jeff Salzman has done this in the past for us, but he isn't able to attend. Is there someone else that can do this? I have the talk-in frequency and PL from previous years. Please send me a private reply. ========================================= 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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Handheld computers
by Gregg Levine 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

Hello! In the years before I got more involved in the retro computer movement, that is the activities of our group, I spent a month trying out a handheld computer unit. This contraption was originally intended by its designers, people at the printer division of Epson of all companies, to wear a barcode reader, lightpen sized one, like the one for the TRS-80 Model 100, to make use of programs written by using DOS(!) based tools for it. The thing contained MS-DOS6.22 in ROM, It got sent back at the end of the month reluctantly, mostly because at the time I didn't have a laptop who could communicate with it,via the PC Card slot it used. And of course the thing was expensive, then, for 1992 or so dollars. Naturally I'm still trying to find the things, and possibly the programming tools. Has anything like that shown up on the list of things for sale for the Swap meet? I'll even extend my wait until what we do in December, next. The whole thing also goes on that wishlist idea. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Signal corps teletypewriter
by Jeffrey Brace 24 Sep '22

24 Sep '22

Mike, If you have pictures, then please send them to me. Preferable in a Google Drive. I will see if any of the other InfoAge groups are intersted. Thanks! Jeff Brace On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 5:59 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > I went back today to this estate and found more teletype stuff including a > manual and I will send pictures to anyone who is interested > I am not interested in hauling it out or preserving it, but somebody out > there might want to contact me and I will put you in touch with the owners. > > Mike Rosen > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Sep 21, 2022, at 8:46 PM, Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Today I was at a “Silent key” estate. > > > > There was a > > Signal Corps teletypewriter > > model TT-5/SF > > serial number 3711 , > > order number 3254-PH-52 > > Teletype corporation > > > > I only have a couple of pictures and I would send to anyone who is > interested first come first serve > > I do not have the unit, it is still at the house, in the basement. > > Hard to get to and hard to move. > > > > Please let me know right away if you are interested and I will send pics > I have and later talk to the executor of the estate . > > > > Mike Rosen > > > > Sent from: > > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > >

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