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Classes at VCF East 2021 on Friday, October 8
by Jeffrey Brace 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

We currently have 11 classes scheduled for VCF East on Friday, October 8. There is room for one more. We have a great lineup for classes so far! Atari 2600 Graphics Programming Pax Consola - 8 Bit development system #Fujinet Personal Computer Graphics of the 70's and 80's Fuzix Intro How to Create a simple video controller with a FPGA Pong Restoration CRT Repair PROMAL for the C64 Calculating with Slide Rules, Volvelles, Abaci and Mechanical Computers Practical Lisa. The schedule will be finalized soon, but here is a draft of of it: https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-east-sche… ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member 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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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] 30 Years of Linux
by Dave McGuire 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

On 8/26/21 1:48 PM, madodel via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> Linux is *everywhere*. I'm willing to bet that everyone on this >> list, literally every person, has half a dozen instances of Linux >> in their houses right now that they don't even know about. > > My Tesla runs Linux, but that's in my garage. ;-) Excellent. :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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30 Years of Linux
by Christian Liendo 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

https://linuxfoundation.org/linux30th/ I think Linux is historically important and something VCF may want to cover in the future. For now, I just say Happy 30!

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No more exhibitor tables left for VCF East
by Jeffrey Brace 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

There are no more exhibitors tables left. If you are still interested, then you can go on the waiting list and we will let you know if any exhibitors drop out. There are tentatively some slots available for The World of IBM mega exhibit. Dean and Adam are in charge of filling up 25 tables for their mega exhibit. This is the Exhibitor registration form: https://forms.gle/SqV17sCzVG3hjSGGA ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member 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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Looking for “Small Windows” book
by Herb Johnson 25 Aug '21

25 Aug '21

https://archive.org/details/smallwindowslibr0000hend A search of archive.org for "small windows" title and "hendrix" for producer, found this "borrow" copy there. There's some means for registered persons to do something with a copy for an hour, I don't know what. Otherwise nonregistered persons can only see a few pages. also: copies of the book held at remote physical libraries - a suggested search found some - may be physically borrowed by contacting your local library and (after registering) using "interlibrary loan" to borrow it remotely. It will be mailed to your local library for your pickup and return. This is generally free through public libraries, that is paid by your local taxes to support these fine institutions. I'm explaining all this out for people who are unfamiliar with these methods. Regards, Herb Johnson -- 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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Looking for “Small Windows” book
by Richard Cini 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

All — I’m looking for the Small Windows book from Jim Hendrix (M&T Books, 1987). It’s one of his “small” books like Small-C. If anyone had a copy they want to get rid of, please let me know. Oddly, I have the disks but not the book. Thanks! Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] For the IBM XT Clone exhibit - AT&T PC
by Ethan O'Toole 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

[NON-Text Body part not included] I used to love the look of that computer. Color scheme and box shape and all that. But now I know the Tandy 1000SX was a better computer, despite it's flaws. I think the Walt Disney ride "Spaceship Earth" had a set during it where there was one of those AT&T PCs on a desk or something. - Ethan

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Re: For the IBM XT Clone exhibit - AT&T PC
by David Hayden 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

That brings back memories. That was my first PC back in ... 1986? I was working at Bell Labs and they sold them cheap to employees. It's made by Olivetti as I recall. AT&T had bought Olivetti and was in the process of running it into the ground.... The motherboard is mounted upside down. To access it, you turn the PC over and remove the bottom case. I saw several posts by people complaining that a memory upgrade (socketed DIPs on the MB) required tearing the entire machine apart. They didn’t realize that all they had to do was turn it over and remove 2 screws. 😊 Dave

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] For the IBM XT Clone exhibit - AT&T PC
by Dean Notarnicola 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

Yes, not worth it without the keyboard and monitor On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:52 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Looks nasty ! > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Aug 23, 2021, at 11:00 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/133833992747 > > > > cheap, close to pick up. Good? > > > > BIll > >

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For the IBM XT Clone exhibit - AT&T PC
by Bill Degnan 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133833992747 cheap, close to pick up. Good? BIll

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