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passing of MIDI developer
by Herb Johnson 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/arts/music/dave-smith-dead.html Tonight I had a taste for some MIDI music. In searching the Web for it, I came across this obituary of Dave Smith, who passed a week ago. Known as a synthesizer designer of the late 70's, turns out he collaborated with Roland to create the MIDI specification. This is a little out of my interests; but MIDI is really familiar to anyone who did personal computing and digital audio instruments in the 80's. Maybe arcade games too, that's how they sounded. MIDI is both a simple cabling and serial interface to connect digital audio instruments to a computer; and a specification for codes to represent instruments, tones and duration. Something between sheet music and a piano roll. The instrument renditions are pretty simple: square and triangular waveforms with envelopes. Not a hard program to write in 8-bit assembler, a simple D/A, even a 1-bit R/C network. It's incredibly data-compact to represent a song by notes and instruments. That mattered with 70's and 80's computers and later with consumer electronic piano keyboards, drumsets, etc. But to this day, a Web browser and most audio playback programs can play a MIDI file. So I thought I'd give a shout-out as I'm listening to a MIDI theme from Duke Nukem. MIDI piano works pretty well too, there's lots of piano-roll to MIDI out there. So a Scott Joplin tune from 1902, realized in MIDI, sounds alright. Or Gershwin! 89K bytes: https://www.midis101.com/free_midi/68230/Gershwin__Medley_From_An_American_… regards, Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://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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Did Classiccmp go down?
by Christian Liendo 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Did Classiccmp go down? I just tried to check the site and I get timeouts

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when you have too much time on your hands
by Jeffrey Jonas 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

https://youtu.be/kCCXRerqaJI The Floppotron 3.0 - Computer Hardware Orchestra Paweł Zadrożniak <https://www.youtube.com/c/Pawe%C5%82Zadro%C5%BCniak> The big upgrade of my PC hardware orchestra. 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners. What do you want to hear next? Write it in comments! Playing: Entrance of the Gladiators (by Julius Fucík). More details on how it works - http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] House for sale at 2004 Marconi rd.
by Jeffrey Brace 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 4:44 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Damn > We’re not THAT old! > Perhaps the golden nerds vs. the silver nerds. In my day we didn't even have a screen or a keyboard! > > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Jun 14, 2022, at 2:57 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > The Golden Nerds > > > >> On 6/14/2022 2:39 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:58 PM Jeff S via vcf-midatlantic < > >> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> > >>> I'd prefer a show more like "The Young Ones", calling it perhaps, "The > Old > >>> Ones" > >>> > >> How about "The Geek Ones", or "The Nerd Ones" ? > >> > >> > >>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 12:01 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < > >>> vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 6/14/22 11:42, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >>>> > >>>> BENNY! Done that! (yup, it's worse). > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com > >>>> http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site > >>>> http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog > >>>> Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies > >>>> > > > > -- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > >

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Swap Meet wares
by Mike Loewen 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

I'm liquidating my Apple II collection at the System Source Swap Meet on Saturday (6/18). I'm not expecting Ebay prices, but not bargain basement either. Major items listed on the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rXFxG_fLOHiYLlRbXJnt-wckqLL_SQ9QGHR… Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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House for sale at 2004 Marconi rd.
by Sentrytv 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

I just “realized”, If VCF did invest in the house they can start their own reality on-line show, “VCF, Down the Shore”. I know, bad joke, but I had to say it! Mike Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > On Jun 14, 2022, at 11:29 AM, Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Maybe VCF would like to invest? > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > >> On Jun 14, 2022, at 11:22 AM, Christian Liendo <cliendo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have looked in that area for some time as it is a nice area and I >> think if I retired I would volunteer at infoage. >> >> This is the only place I have seen within walking distance. It just >> happens to be very expensive. >> >> >>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:31 AM Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> At $6200 a month, >>> that is way more than I pay per month for all of my bills! >>> >>> Besides “shore” homes in NJ are just ridiculously priced and its probably OWNED by some corporation looking to make big money. >>> >>> It may be that prices are coming down soon, if not already, maybe you can get it at a bargain, Without having to go into a bidding war! >>> >>> Mike Rosen >>>

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] House for sale at 2004 Marconi rd.
by Neil Cherry 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

On 6/14/22 11:42, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: BENNY! Done that! (yup, it's worse). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] The Real World NJ
by Neil Cherry 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

On 6/14/22 12:39, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > In the words of Sylvester Stallone, > “Go for it”. “Go for IT” Fixed IT for you. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Can anyone lend me 1.5M dollars?
by Christian Liendo 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

If I had the money I would buy this house and just walk over to VCF I would also have crazy VCF parties. https://www.longandfoster.com/homes-for-sale/2004-Marconi-Road-Wall-NJ-0771…

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Re: Tractor fed white 8.5 x 11 paper
by Sentrytv 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

I can pick up both tomorrow During the day Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > On Jun 13, 2022, at 5:55 PM, Daniel L. Srebnick <dan(a)islenet.com> wrote: > >

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