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Museum Report 2021-07-07
by Jeffrey Brace 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

A very busy summer day! 31 people total visited today. A range of ages from 3 to 75. A range of interest from low to high. Got some people interested in our VCF East show and lots of people were happy that we were a hands-on museum. Lots of questions and answers about the history of computers. What was the first this? What was the first that? What's this one? What's the most unique, etc. It's nice to see the museum back to a normal flow of visitors. ========================================= 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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Free equipment available at System Source workshop
by Jason Perkins 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Sorry about the short notice... If anyone is looking for rackmount gig switches, or ~5 year old rackmount servers, let me know asap. We're doing a recycle purge at work tomorrow, and I can nab some stuff if people are interested. Thanks, -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] past, present and future
by Eric Rangell 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

> > Hi all, > I plan to bring the exhibit I intended to show last year about Ted Nelson to VCF as well as my current exhibit of the PC Transporter for the Apple //e. I will also be able to show demos of Ted Nelson's JOT and Jef Raskin's SWYFT systems for anyone interested. Ted and Jef had great ideas that were ahead of their time. The potential uses for them I see in the decentralized internet space (which is already being crowded out by corporate interests). After corresponding with others who have done more extensive research I do not see them practically seeing the light of day in any product, other than specialized applications, like molecular biology which uses ZigZag. If you have different opinions, or stories about Ted to share, please contact me off-list at erangell(a)gmail.com. Thanks, Eric

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Volunteers for East Filming / AV
by Andrew Diller 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Hello- If you are interested in helping film the upcoming VCF East event - classes and keynotes- please let me know via email off list (or on if that is your thing). I'm looking for a few people to help record, edit and produce some nice videos for VCF East 2021 "Live or Bust" At InfoAge Learning Center in Wall NJ. I can do editing so don't worry, that won't get dumped on you. I really need camera operators to cover the classes, keynotes and maybe some live interviews... This year we'll try to document the event with smartphones and wireless mics in order to keep things simple and agile. -andy

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Volunteers for Consignment Staffing - VCF East 2021
by Alexander Jacocks 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

All, I'm looking for volunteers to staff the consignment area, during VCF East, 2021. We have three times the space for consignment that we had in 2019, which should be great. But, to avoid the long lines that we have had in the past, we'd like to have 3 volunteers working the room, during Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, at all times. I'm looking for folks to sign up for one or more of the following 2.5 hour shifts, for each day: 8:30 11:00 11:00 13:30 13:30 16:00 16:00 18:30 Please send me questions, or let me know what shifts you'd like to work. If you can, please give me a first and second choice for shifts, in case we're already full for that slot. Responsibilities will include sales, answering questions, and crowd control, should that be an issue. I hope that everyone else is as excited about VCF East as I am! Thanks! - Alex

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Fwd: Sperry Univac Core - Which computer and Capacity?
by Duane Craps 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

I sent this from the wrong email -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Sperry Univac Core - Which computer and Capacity? Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 20:59:46 -0400 From: Duane Craps <duaneb.craps(a)cox.net> To: Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Douglass, Not much help but looks like it is still in the federal supply system https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ztq716e7053r80/2021-07-05.png?dl=0 Maybe TI has an online search tool. Duane On 7/5/2021 4:54 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > The board has bottom row (nearest connectors) of TI ICs label SN97674J. > Two of these have an extra designation "SN J55325J". > There are two smashed ICs in this row that would need replacing which > I presume are the same ICs as the rest of the row. > I'm not finding anything thing relevant on web searches, internet > archive, or any recent sales on ebay. > Any recommendations on where else to look? > > On 6/24/2021 9:17 AM, Duane Craps via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> Here s a link to a manual on bitsavers: >> >> bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/an_uyk-20/N00039-73-C-0431_… >> <http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/an_uyk-20/N00039-73-…> >> >> >> >> looks to be preliminary information; it has a lot of hand drawn figures >> >> Memory description starts on page 3/49. paragraph 3-78 >> >> There was a control board and a data board for each group of 4 memory >> cards. >> >> On 6/22/2021 12:15 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >>> Board is identified as 90536-7128081-00 G >>> Web hits on this are thin. >>> Anyone know what Univac machine this is from and its capacity? >>> I suppose count of the wires H x L = # of bits of storage, and one >>> side is the word size of the computer? >>> Confirmation? >>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kw4AAOSwwlBgujxR/s-l1600.jpg >>> Thanks, >>> DC >>> -- Duane Craps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp

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Sperry Univac Core - Which computer and Capacity?
by Douglas Crawford 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Board is identified as 90536-7128081-00 G Web hits on this are thin. Anyone know what Univac machine this is from and its capacity? I suppose count of the wires H x L = # of bits of storage, and one side is the word size of the computer? Confirmation? https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kw4AAOSwwlBgujxR/s-l1600.jpg Thanks, DC

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Mo' stickas (2" inch circle stickers of vintage computers)
by Jeffrey Brace 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

There was a sticker sale, I got 3 more: Atari 800, TRS-80, Altar 8800: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Cl8ZPsxcT3d05krNtuam684_o6QdYAk?us… They are available for sale now at the museum and at VCF East and VCF West. ========================================= 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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why all my email is plain text
by Jeffrey Jonas 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

I have been a rather effective email user since the 80s. It's the MESSAGE that counts. The CONTENT. Not the glitz, cute fonts, colors, icons, logos, stickers, emojis or other decorations. panix is my main ISP (Internet Service Provider). I usually ssh into their NetBSD server and use the PINE email program. It's fast, responsive, and allows me to manage my email effectively. It also means that it's nearly impossible for malware, spyware, tracking cookies and other HTML atrocities to run. [admittedly, PINE has a LYNX ability to text-display HTML]. I archive emails by person or topic. Those are plain text files, so I can GREP them and easily use any editor to manipulate the content. HTML emails are usually 3x the file size of plain text. That counts against my disk quota. I don't appreciate folks filling my files with fluff. I prefer the digest so I get complete conversations albeit delayed up to a day. -- jeff jonas

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] why all my email is plain text
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >I have been a rather effective email user since the 80s. It's the >MESSAGE that counts. The CONTENT. Not the glitz, cute fonts, colors, >icons, logos, stickers, emojis or other decorations. > >panix is my main ISP (Internet Service Provider). I usually ssh into >their NetBSD server and use the PINE email program. It's fast, >responsive, and allows me to manage my email effectively. It also means >that it's nearly impossible for malware, spyware, tracking cookies and >other HTML atrocities to run. [admittedly, PINE has a LYNX ability to >text-display HTML]. > >I archive emails by person or topic. Those are plain text files, so I >can GREP them and easily use any editor to manipulate the content. > >HTML emails are usually 3x the file size of plain text. That counts >against my disk quota. I don't appreciate folks filling my files with >fluff. > >I prefer the digest so I get complete conversations albeit delayed up to >a day. Kudos!

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