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*** NOMINATION UPDATE *** - Steering Committee Election
by Chris Fala 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Hello again VCF members! Listed below are the current nominations for Steering Committee candidates. Additional nominations are still being accepted, but please hurry! Nominations will close this Wednesday, November 23. To the nominees: please submit a short "campaign speech" which will be posted on our website and shared on this mailing list. Help the voters learn who you are and what your goals are for the Steering Committee and the Vintage Computer Federation. Doug Crawford - nominated by Chris Fala Adam Michlin - nominated by Dean Notarnicola Jeff Salzman - nominated by Jeff Brace Ethan O'Toole - nominated by Alexander Jacocks Chris Fala - nominated by Tony Bogan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear VCF Membership, It is time once again for the VCF-MA annual Steering Committee member election! There are three seats becoming vacant; Alex Jacocks and myself have reached the end of our terms, and Doug Crawford was a temporary appointment following Tony Bogan's resignation and is automatically up for election as per the by-laws. Nominations are now open. The election will be held according to section 4 and 5 of our published by-laws (copied below, full document available here: https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VCFMA-Charter-Jul2022.pdf) Anyone who directly received this message is eligible to vote. Current members of this mailing list in good standing are eligible to submit nominations for Committee member candidates. Nominations can be made by simply communicating the nomination via e-mail to a current Committee member: Alexander Jacocks - alex.jacocks(a)vcfed.org, Dave McGuire - dave.mcguire(a)vcfed.org, Douglas Crawford - douglas.crawford(a)vcfed.org, Jason Perkins - jason.perkins(a)vcfed.org, or Chris Fala - chris.fala(a)vcfed.org) Members may also self-nominate. To be eligible for the election, the prospective nominee must then accept the nomination by replying in the affirmative to the nomination email. One nomination per member can be made. Nominations will close on November 23th. An updated list of eligible nominees will be published regularly. Voting will commence on November 26th, and will close at 11:59pm on December 7th. Winners will be announced on December 10th during the Town hall event at our annual VCF Holiday celebration. *This is your chance to help steer the direction of VCF Mid-Atlantic! Nominate someone and vote in the upcoming election!* Sincerely, Chris Fala Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Steering Committee of the Vintage Computer Federation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4. COMMITTEE ELECTIONS Steering committee membership includes representation of VCF membership, as determined by the VCF governing board and VCF-MA sponsored elections. - The committee membership will be determined by elections to be held on a yearly basis (currently November). - Committee membership is ideally comprised of five people but may vary due to changing circumstances. Any committee vote to determine an increase in committee members shall be held within six months after a new election cycle. - A minimum of one seat will be up for election in every cycle, unless additional vacancies create the need for additional seats to be filled, in which case all vacant seats will be up for election in that cycle. - In the event of a tie, a two-week runoff election will be held. - If a tie still exists after the runoff, the non-running committee members will determine a winner. - In the event of a committee tie, the current chairperson or chair delegate will determine the winner. - Nominations for committee members can be made by current members in good standing simply by communicating the nomination to a committee member. One nomination per member can be made. Said members may also self-nominate. - In the case of off-cycle vacancies, the committee may move, without a public election, to appoint by simple majority vote new committee members to fill the seats until the next scheduled election. - A committee chairperson will be appointed by the committee members within 30 days of each completed election cycle. At that time a recording secretary will be selected. - Prospective committee members should be knowledgeable in some aspect of computing, preferably vintage computers, and show a demonstrated interest in vintage computing, computing history, and museum management and governance. - In order to be sufficiently aware and have proper perspective of museum and warehouse issues, prospective committee members should be able to physically attend VCF events at least quarterly and attend meetings regularly. 5. VCF MEMBERSHIP VCF general membership is open and granted to anyone who joins the mailing list. Voting rights will be granted to active list members who join no less than 30 days before an election.

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Photos of David Walden at VCF East 2018
by Jeffrey Brace 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

Does anyone have any photos of the late David Walden from VCF East 2018? Here was his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZMEqTsSnMI&authuser=0 Someone from Computer World is writing an article and is looking for photos of him. 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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Vintage Computer Center is closing.
by Christian Liendo 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/ Store Closing We are very sorry to announce the closing of the Vintage Computer Center by the end of the year. What started as a hobby and a way to help the vintage computer community has grown into something we can not manage part-time at the level of customer service we demand. This little side business has served customers worldwide for almost five years, and we have loved every moment. We will close the business when sufficient inventory has been sold out. We will not be replenishing anything at this point, so if you have been waiting to get something, we suggest you get it now before it is too late. We want to thank everyone for your support over the last few years, and we genuinely appreciate all of you! Please feel to reach out to us if you have any questions, and again, thank you so much for your years of support!

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Fred Brooks manager for the development of the IBM System/360 and OS/360 has passed
by Christian Liendo 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

https://twitter.com/stevebellovin/status/1593414068634734592

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Work at CDL
by Martin Flynn 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

CDL is the recipient of three Vidmar parts cabinets. Here’s one in its current greasy glory. The plan for these is twofold: First is to get the makerspace small parts inventory into some semblance of order That’s where VCF comes in - I have a small budget to add consumables and components. Need a shipping list from VCF on what small parts would improve workshops Second is we are setting them up as if it was a radio shack. If VCF has any retail related material (signs and the like, can CDL borrow it? Sent from my iPhone

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ATTENTION - Steering Committee News - ELECTION TIME!
by Chris Fala 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Dear VCF Membership, It is time once again for the VCF-MA annual Steering Committee member election! There are three seats becoming vacant; Alex Jacocks and myself have reached the end of our terms, and Doug Crawford was a temporary appointment following Tony Bogan's resignation and is automatically up for election as per the by-laws. Nominations are now open. The election will be held according to section 4 and 5 of our published by-laws (copied below, full document available here: https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VCFMA-Charter-Jul2022.pdf) Anyone who directly received this message is eligible to vote. Current members of this mailing list in good standing are eligible to submit nominations for Committee member candidates. Nominations can be made by simply communicating the nomination via e-mail to a current Committee member: Alexander Jacocks - alex.jacocks(a)vcfed.org, Dave McGuire - dave.mcguire(a)vcfed.org, Douglas Crawford - douglas.crawford(a)vcfed.org, Jason Perkins - jason.perkins(a)vcfed.org, or Chris Fala - chris.fala(a)vcfed.org) Members may also self-nominate. To be eligible for the election, the prospective nominee must then accept the nomination by replying in the affirmative to the nomination email. One nomination per member can be made. Nominations will close on November 23th. An updated list of eligible nominees will be published regularly. Voting will commence on November 26th, and will close at 11:59pm on December 7th. Winners will be announced on December 10th during the Town hall event at our annual VCF Holiday celebration. *This is your chance to help steer the direction of VCF Mid-Atlantic! Nominate someone and vote in the upcoming election!* Sincerely, Chris Fala Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Steering Committee of the Vintage Computer Federation 4. COMMITTEE ELECTIONS Steering committee membership includes representation of VCF membership, as determined by the VCF governing board and VCF-MA sponsored elections. - The committee membership will be determined by elections to be held on a yearly basis (currently November). - Committee membership is ideally comprised of five people but may vary due to changing circumstances. Any committee vote to determine an increase in committee members shall be held within six months after a new election cycle. - A minimum of one seat will be up for election in every cycle, unless additional vacancies create the need for additional seats to be filled, in which case all vacant seats will be up for election in that cycle. - In the event of a tie, a two-week runoff election will be held. - If a tie still exists after the runoff, the non-running committee members will determine a winner. - In the event of a committee tie, the current chairperson or chair delegate will determine the winner. - Nominations for committee members can be made by current members in good standing simply by communicating the nomination to a committee member. One nomination per member can be made. Said members may also self-nominate. - In the case of off-cycle vacancies, the committee may move, without a public election, to appoint by simple majority vote new committee members to fill the seats until the next scheduled election. - A committee chairperson will be appointed by the committee members within 30 days of each completed election cycle. At that time a recording secretary will be selected. - Prospective committee members should be knowledgeable in some aspect of computing, preferably vintage computers, and show a demonstrated interest in vintage computing, computing history, and museum management and governance. - In order to be sufficiently aware and have proper perspective of museum and warehouse issues, prospective committee members should be able to physically attend VCF events at least quarterly and attend meetings regularly. 5. VCF MEMBERSHIP VCF general membership is open and granted to anyone who joins the mailing list. Voting rights will be granted to active list members who join no less than 30 days before an election.

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Reached our goal for the IBM 1130 fundraiser!
by Jeffrey Brace 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Hello everyone, As of November 14, 2022, we have reached our goal of $6000! Thank you so much to everyone that donated! We will leave the fundraiser open until the end date of November 30. Anything over our goal will be used for any unexpected expenses as well as getting the peripherals connected to it working such as the card reader and card puncher. Thanks again everyone. I will keep you updated as to when we are able to ship the machine down to Florida for restoration. ========================================= 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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CDL says thanks Alex Jacocks!
by Neil Cherry 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

I'd like to thank Alex Jacocks for the donation of a Windows 10 all-in-one touch screen PC. I'll set that up at the front with the 3D printer and OctoPrint so we can use that to send gcode to the printer. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ

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The VCF party that we have at the end of the year
by Jeffrey Brace 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

So the party that VCF has at the end of the year which has been called Festivus in years past is coming up on December 10 & 11. We have created a survey which I want everyone to fill out. The survey will be active for two weeks until November 26. One of the questions in the survey is the name of the event. We want to see if everyone wants to keep the name of the event as Festivus or change it to something else. Whether you are coming to the event or not, whether you have attended the event in the past or not, please fill out this survey: https://bit.ly/vcfEoY2022pre More details and signups for the event will be coming over the next week or so. Thanks so much! ========================================= 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] LPG-30
by Jeffrey Jonas 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

> Why can't I ever find things like this? I had a similar experience finding my high schools abandoned LGP-21. One day, I wondered "where does all the line printer paper come from?" since it magically appeared when needed. I discovered the supply room with then-current supplies (greenbar tractor-feed line printer paper and tab cards from JTC, paper tape and roll paper for teletypes). In the back was a long abandoned LGP-21 with some manuals and such. One of the manuals was signed out by a friend's older sister! I had no clue how to use the boot-loader so I spent a week or 2 just poking at the console learning the instruction set and running really small programs. Using the oscilloscope (to view the registers) and Flexowriter was FUN! The LGP-21 is the transistorized version of the LGP-30 with a fixed-head disk (not drum), but functionally equivalent. *THAT* is when I groked why my dad was ecstatic when SOAP was available (the self optimizing compiler for drum machines: kinda optimized the placement of variables vs. doing it totally manually like MEL A REAL PROGRAMMER!) -- jeff jonas

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