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PI day (March 14)
by Jeffrey Jonas 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

March 14th is "pi day". Tau Beta Pi is the engineering honor society for all engineering disciplines (unlike HKN: IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of IEEE ... for electrical engineering, computer engineering, and other IEEE fields of interest. https://hkn.ieee.org/ ) TBP celebrates PI day, so should we! https://www.tbp.org/other/PiDay.cfm In conjunction with the annual celebration on March 14 commemorating the mathematical constant, the Association encourages its members to take advantage of this great opportunity to proudly display their membership, participate in engineering-related activities, and wear your Bent, charm, and other TBP apparel. Join us on Monday, March 14, 2022, or celebrate all month!

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Plaintext Emails
by skogkatt007＠yahoo.com 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

I can read your stuff. And yahoo even resists my attempts to specify plain text. Or maybe it's android. Why they default to html or unicode or rich text is beyond me. Thoroughly stupid. It's Chris by the way. On Saturday, January 29, 2022, 05:29:22 PM EST, Alexander Pierson <ajpierson1(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Plaintext Emails
by Alexander Pierson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

>What's strange is that I'm on yahoo, skogkatt007 is on yahoo, and yet their emails come in as an attachment that I can't read either in my mobile client or desktop browser client. > >¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Alright, now yahoo is just messing with me when my own emails come back packaged up in a file. -Z

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Plaintext Emails
by Jonathan Chapman 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

All, Hate to be That Guy on a listserv, but some folks are sending non-plaintext emails, which the listserv turns into an attachment (I get a body of "Empty Message" with something like email-1.eml attached). I don't bother to read those, and I suspect few who read text-only mailing lists do either. You can typically configure an email client, even most webmail clients, to treat listservs as plaintext-only. Please consider taking the time to do that for those of us who will otherwise just ignore the message. I also don't know what it looks like on whatever the web presentation of the list is. Thanks, Jonathan

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Items available
by Jeffrey Brace 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Someone's father passed away and contacted InfoAge. They are looking to donate any of the following items. If there is interest, then let me know: *ITEM LIST* Antique Newsletters Video Display for NBC from the 80's National NC Tuning Boards Sunshine Master 2810 CGN Old IEEE papers Old IBM Tech Reference Books Lots of Microsoft magazines and papers Coil Repair manuals Electronic Handbooks ICF Handbooks Volume 1 & 2 Introduction to Micro Computers RCA Boards with "the light things on them" Lots of manuals of all kinds. ========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by Adam Michlin 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Hi Everyone, After leaving Amdahl, my father went to a couple of other companies including Synopsys, Cadence, and Transitive Technologies (which made the original dynamic binary translation software for Apple's PowerPC to x86, aka Rosetta, a story for another time). Some time in there, he gave me a tshirt he got from who knows where that DEC was using to promote the then new Alpha chip. I was so excited because I had just read about the Alpha in Byte magazine and was in the middle of the study of computer architecture and knew this was going to be the next great thing (oh well). I've been wearing it up until about a year ago when it had all but become tatters. I never did get to play with an Alpha machine, but so it goes... Dean Notarnicola was nice enough to scan it and Javier Rivera cleaned it up for reprinting. Neither Dean, myself, or I (or VCF) receives any money from the sale and yeah, we know DEC (now owned, I believe, by HP) might copyright strike us so get it while you can. https://www.8bittees.com/product/alpha-two-sided-tee/ Best wishes, -Adam

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Swap meet
by Sentrytv 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Here’s a question for anybody who can answer it. Does the VCF Midwest host a swap meet? I posted the VCF East swap meet on “vintage computer site” on Facebook. Many people are wondering why it seems there is no swapmeet in the Midwest area or central states? Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Swap meet
by Bill Degnan 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

VCF MW *is* a swap meet among other things. b On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 4:16 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Here’s a question for anybody who can answer it. > > Does the VCF Midwest host a swap meet? > > I posted the VCF East swap meet on “vintage computer site” on Facebook. > > Many people are wondering why it seems there is no swapmeet in the Midwest > area or central states? > > > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Swap meet
by Andrew Diller 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

I thought all of Midwest _was_ a giant swap-meet? I have not been, just seen pictures. So, yes they do host a swap-meet. It's called VCF MidWest. -andy > On Jan 28, 2022, at 4:16 PM, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > From: Sentrytv <sentrytv(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Swap meet > Date: January 28, 2022 at 4:16:07 PM EST > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org>, Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey(a)vcfed.org> > > > Here’s a question for anybody who can answer it. > > Does the VCF Midwest host a swap meet? > > I posted the VCF East swap meet on “vintage computer site” on Facebook. > > Many people are wondering why it seems there is no swapmeet in the Midwest area or central states? > > > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > >

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WTB: Apple M0100 Mouse
by Jonathan Chapman 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

All, Looking for an old style DE9 Apple mouse. Figured I'd check here before hitting eBay. Thanks, Jonathan

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