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Tractor fed white 8.5 x 11 paper
by Daniel L. Srebnick 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Can anyone use a pretty full box of Xerox branded tractor fed white paper?Free to a good home if you can pickup in 07747.Also free to a good home is a DLT external SCSI tape drive if anyone can use it.Sent from my Galaxy

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Furby 6502 subset
by Neil Cherry 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

I'm toying with some 6800, 6809, FLEX and RT68MX (hardware and software) and came across this: The Furby CPU was based on the 6502 Furby (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751599 , actually a 6502-subset) http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf Never knew that. -- 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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Help identifying Model 100 expansion board
by Bob Shuster 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

I hope there’s a few TRS-80 Model 100 aficionados in the group! I’m in process of going through my Model 100 collection items, and came across a small circuit board. I’m not sure if it’s a RAM or ROM expansion. It’s labeled “PG Design” with “Model No. 000132” on a sticker plus “HE-3-V0” etched on the circuit board. Photos in the shared directory below. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? If there’s an online reference to it I’d sure love to take a look, but I couldn’t find anything! - Bob Shuster https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nSbR93IsIOkn5beRZZlhVSjqoKQyu6rE?us… <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nSbR93IsIOkn5beRZZlhVSjqoKQyu6rE?us…>

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Apple II+ keyswitches
by Mike Loewen 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

> Those switches are hard to come by, but malfunctioning ones can usually be > revived by taking the key Cap off and flooding with IPA and working them > vigorously. I tried DeOxit on them, which worked on the other nonfunctioning keys, but not these. After reading some accounts by other users, perhaps I didn't wait long enough for them to dry out. I'll try again, and use some compressed air afterward. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Apple II+ keyswitches
by Mike Willegal 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Those switches are hard to come by, but malfunctioning ones can usually be revived by taking the key Cap off and flooding with IPA and working them vigorously. Regards, Mike Willegal > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 23:23:16 -0400 (EDT) > From: Mike Loewen <mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us> > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Apple II+ keyswitches > Message-ID: > <alpine.LFD.2.21.2206092322320.44992(a)cpumagic.137clearview.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> >> >> I'm in need of 5 keyswitches for the Apple II+ Datanetics keyboard. Does >> anyone have some spares? I need to fix up the keyboard before next weekend's >> swap meet. > > To be more precise, these are Datanetics DC-51-31 switches. > > > Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us > Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ > > > ***********************************************

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Apple II+ keyswitches
by Mike Loewen 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

I'm in need of 5 keyswitches for the Apple II+ Datanetics keyboard. Does anyone have some spares? I need to fix up the keyboard before next weekend's swap meet. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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PACE TR-20 by EAI
by Jeffrey Brace 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

So the docents were looking into information about the EAI TR-20 and information was found calling it PACE TR-20. What does the PACE stand for? Does anyone know? ========================================= 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] PACE TR-20 by EAI
by Bill Degnan 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

PACE is a microprocessor name, but in this case I think thr PACE EAI's were transistor systems. Kind of like as guitar lamps switched from tubes to transistors, so did some analog computers. My guess. Bill On Thu, Jun 9, 2022, 9:18 PM W. Bryan Caudle via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Looks to be precision analog computing equipment. > > [cid:37D4F138-BCB0-447B-BCD8-68D3DC44A1D1] > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 9, 2022, at 8:32 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > So the docents were looking into information about the EAI TR-20 and > information was found calling it PACE TR-20. What does the PACE stand for? > > Does anyone know? > > ========================================= > 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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FYI: Vintage Anniversaries
by Jeffrey Brace 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

As part of the brainstorming for VCF East themes we came up with anniversaries. I am sharing them here. I'm sure that there are many more that we missed, so this list isn't exhaustive, but these are the most interesting and important that came to mind when brainstorming. I thought I would share to inspire and as an FYI. Space War = 1962 Removable Storage = 1962 C programming = 1972 Magnavox Odyssey = 1972 Pong = 1972 Bell’s Law = 1972 Commodore 64 = 1982 Timex Sinclair = 1982 Tron = 1982 Knight Rider = 1982 Linux = 1992 Vintage Computer Festival = 1997 ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner VCF Mid-Atlantic Executive Director Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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New tool in the CDL Makerspace at Camp Evans....
by Martin Flynn 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

New tool for the Makerspace: MAC tools ST1518A 22" T15 TORX Driver. Now to find a "pull apart" tool.... Martin Flynn

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