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OT: PC donations to Red Bank Regional High School (Little Silver, NJ)
by Adam Michlin 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hi Everyone, As many of you know, I teach computer science at Red Bank Regional High School in Little Silver, NJ. I'm trying to help my colleague who teaches IT. He does a lot of projects where the students take apart computers and put them back together (a project near and dear to mine and many of your hearts), but his class sizes are outpacing his supply of PCs. I'm hoping to collect 10-15 not so vintage PCs (core 2 duos and P4s are fine, but obviously we won't complain about better machines). The key is they have to be normal sized PCs, the kind that make it relatively easy for a 9th or 10th grader student to take it apart and put it back together. So no small form factor PCs or laptops. These would be donations and individual machines are fine. If you happen to be downsizing your desktop PCs at the office, that would be even better. Working or not working. I can pick up in most of NJ and will be at the VCF Swap Meet at InfoAge on February 26th, as well. Please contact me directly off list at <adam.michlin(a)vcfed.org> if you have any offers or questions. Thank you for your consideration, -Adam

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Vax 9000 transfer
by Jeffrey Brace 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hello everyone, The VCF Board and Steering Committee have decided to transfer our VAX 9000 out of our inventory to someone who has the ability to move 18 pallets and 6 rolling cabinets without charging us to get it out of the warehouse. We don't have the funding for such a move. This decision was made primarily because the machine is not functional, and we don't have the resources (time, parts, power requirements) to make it operational or display in our museum. Please be assured that it went to a very good home, to someone who has the time, space, and money to display it properly. In addition to providing a better home for this historical artifact, this move provided us the added bonus of clearing a significant amount of space in our warehouse, which gives us much needed breathing room to better organize our existing artifacts, as well as be more prepared for any potential future rescues. The triage process for computer rescues is never ending, so we need to manage all of our resources to keep things under control, as well as acknowledge when a particular artifact might have a better home elsewhere. ========================================= 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 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Trade / wish list for the Feb 26th swap meet?
by Dave Shevett 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hi everyone, new to the list - I'm hoping to make it to the swap meet on Feb 26th, and I'm wondering if folks have a few things I'm looking for... * AT&T 3b1 / 7300 / UnixPC hardware - looking for an actual 3b1, but also for boards and media. * AT&T 605 terminal(s) * Nothern Telecom Displayphone (hah, unlikely, but I want to toss it out there) * DEC terminals - specifically any VT2x+ terminals (Have several VT100's already) * DEC micro- hardware. Talking microvax, micropdp11, and Pro350 - specifically the 'under desk vertical cased' machines * DEC VK100 / GIGI terminal (a barco monitor with it would be amazing) More traditionally * TRS-80 Model III and Model 1 hardware * Non-bulky ascii terminals (altos terminals would be wonderful) And, because I'm the Handheld guy, any handheld computers. My wishlist / current collection is here: https://planet-geek.com/vintage-handheld-computers/ I have to offer: * Osbourne 1 * Kaypro 2, Kaypro 4, maybe a Kaypro 10? * Several HP calculators * Coleco Adam complete Looking forward to seeing folks... -d -- Dave Shevett shevett(a)pobox.com

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InfoAge Campus closed 1/31/2022
by Jeffrey Brace 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

To insure the safety of our volunteers and the public, InfoAge will remain closed on 01/31/2022 while they clear the snow from the campus ========================================= 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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Atari 8bit brown carts might be needed, common titles (VCFE)
by Ethan O'Toole 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hello, Just curious, does anyone have like 16 of the brown Atari 8bit carts, common titles or bad front labels? Looking to assemble 16 midimaze carts and trying to decide if I recycle old carts or 3d print some kinda shell. I see the XEGS style carts on thingiverse that look usable but not the brown carts. More on this in a bit :-)

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VCF East Related
by Martin Flynn 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

So the usual suspects from both CDL and VCF have been upgrading the network at Camp Evans. As noted by Jeff B, we extended single-mode fiber to 9032 and have the access points and a 48 port PoE switch staged to deploy. Question for the folks that will be exhibiting in or using 9032A for VCF East: Will anyone need telephone lines (analog / ISDN) or wired Internet connections during VCF East in the big room? Knowing ahead of time will let us prioritize the work better Martin Flynn

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Ada’s on the River
by Crawford Griffith 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Blake, Awesome find! D.C. area folks, We *must* meet here and check this out. David G.,Jason, Maki, Alex J., Jonathan(s)? Anyone (including people I missed) email me directly and we can set something up. -Crawford > > Oddly, there is a new restaurant in our town called Ada's on the River, on > the Potomac in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. We had a dinner there very > recently. It's filled with memorabelia, etc. related to Ada Lovelace's > life. https://www.adasontheriver.com >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 6:53 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < >vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> On 1/29/22 6:44 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >> So, >at least under that definition, VCF MA would gladly accept a > >> >donation of an Alpha (I think they may have one... but the more the > > >> > We *do* have one! Would love someone to see if it is working! > > >I can help with that. What model is it, do you know offhand? > > >Alex Jacocks said that it is an ES-40 donated by David Riley. I have three of those. What does it have for disk options? SCSI or was it using a fiber SAN? How many CPUs and how much memory, if anyone knows.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic = ><vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > >https://www.8bittees.com/product/alpha-two-sided-tee/ > >Just ordered one. Thanks for making this possible. Now I know what to >exhibit and what to wear. :) Are Alpha now *vintage*?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Another T-Shirt Rescue (DEC Alpha)
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 11:03 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < >vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> So, at least under that definition, VCF MA would gladly accept a > >donation of an Alpha (I think they may have one... but the more the > > >We *do* have one! Would love someone to see if it is working! I have many, very many, from small AlphaStations to ES47s. If you wish, I could drop by and see if whatever Alpha model you are speaking about is functional. I have stacks and stacks of Itanium servers too. I suppose those haven't achieved vintage status quite yet.

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