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KISS goes wrong
by Jeffrey Jonas 07 May '22

07 May '22

No, I'm not talking about Gene Simmons et. al., or https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/DeathTongue?file=DeathTongue.jpg I'm talking about insane engineering, gone insane! The stuff that Rube Goldberg, Heath Robinson, Frederick Roland Emett, and Wallace&Gromit build all the time: https://youtu.be/WN90HYiFpAw Marble Machine X - A Lesson in Dumb Design from Wintergatan Dumb Design requirements are holding the Marble Machine X back from Success, let us see if we can at least try to learn something from my biggest mistakes :) "Back to the drawing board" as we used to say, but more importantly, "THINK". Not "Think different", more like "think CLEARLY", "think AHEAD" but most of all, KEEP IT SIMPLE! Antoine de Saint-Exupery said it best "perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away" [sadly, "value engineering" often takes that to stupid extremes] -- Jeff Jonas

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Wang 2200 in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
by Dave McGuire 07 May '22

07 May '22

On 5/6/22 20:38, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Even if I asked my son to go pick that up > it would be a 2 Hour Dr. from Columbus. 2hrs? At the drop of a hat. I generally want maybe an hour of notice if the drive is to exceed 5-6 hours. I've still not heard back from them; I'm hoping something can be worked out. LSSM doesn't have much of an acquisitions budget, so maybe it won't be all about the dollar signs for them. We'll see. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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Wang 2200 in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
by William Sudbrink 07 May '22

07 May '22

I wish I could go get it. https://www.estatesales.net/OH/Sagamore-Hills/44067/3272274 About 16 pictures down. Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Atari gets a shout out
by W2HX 06 May '22

06 May '22

https://youtu.be/WDrZY2hn5cs?t=480 Trevor Noah. 73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/w2hx-channel/videos

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10 Years ago today
by Christian Liendo 06 May '22

06 May '22

You can love or hate Facebook, but I do like the reminders of what happened in the past 10 Years ago today we had a VCF We mourned the loss of Claude Kagan Dave McGuire brought a rather nice DEC with multiple terminals David Gesswein brought a couple of DECs and had the PDP-8 out Bill Degnan had a IBM PC setup with multiple versions of the PC Bill Dromgoole brought his OSI collection Ian Primus had a large Apple II setup Kids were playing Guitar Hero on a C64 Brian Cirulnick and I were showing off our SGIs. Daniel Kottke was our speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boCSTajHutc It's nice to look back and remember.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2022 article and videos
by Dave McGuire 06 May '22

06 May '22

On 5/5/22 12:31, Brian L. Stuart via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Yes, she was there. I kind of got the impression she didn't > want to be recognized though. She was almost incognito. > Otherwise, I might have mentioned that some of the bits > in my display were purchased from Adafruit. :) She's a bit of a celebrity, plus the whole "hard-core tech girl" aspect of things. I really don't blame her for staying low-profile; she'd probably end up getting cornered by tech guys and not have been able to enjoy the event. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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VCF East 2022 article and videos
by Jeffrey Brace 06 May '22

06 May '22

Thought I would share some good press about the show! https://hackaday.com/2022/05/02/vintage-computer-festival-east-raises-the-b… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5s7u8p3uqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVS4dCl4lcM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi07_OtCeFA ========================================= 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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Bench Spares order
by Martin Flynn 06 May '22

06 May '22

CDL is restocking & placing a parts order for the makerspace workshop, here's whats on the list so far: Pre-cut Heat Shrink assortments Molex pin kits (903 series 4 and 12 pin) Dual wipe IC sockets (Tyco-Augat) * 8-pin * 14-pin * 16-pin * 18-pin * 24-pin * 28-pin * 40-pin * 64-pin D & E connctor shells + pins for the pneumatic crimper 3.6V ni-mh packs and pigtails to replace motherboard barrel batteries Anything else suggested as stock? Martin Flynn

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VCF East 2022 photos
by Mike Loewen 05 May '22

05 May '22

For better or for worse, here are my pics: http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2022/ Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Veteran's Appreciation Lunch May 20 @ InfoAge
by Jeffrey Brace 05 May '22

05 May '22

Mike Ruane, CEO of InfoAge wanted me to pass this along to VCF members =========================== From: Patricia Mariconda <pmariconda(a)townshipofwall.com> Subject: Veterans Appreciation Luncheon May 20, 2022 Good Morning! I am reaching out to those of you who have previously participated in one of our Veteran or Senior events to invite you to be a vendor at our Veterans Appreciation Luncheon on May 20th at 11:00am. We will be inviting our township Veterans to lunch and would love for them to be able to explore numerous vendor tables as well. Please let me know if you are able to participate by responding with your organizations name. If you know of anyone else who would be interested and can provide a service to this population please feel free to forward the information. Just make sure that they RSVP to be by May 13th. Thank you and hope you are all doing well. *Patti Mariconda* *Director* *Wall Youth Center and Community Services* *1824 South M Street* *Wall, NJ 07719* *732-681-1375* ========================================= 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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