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Assistance with Pickup in North Andover, MA
by Alexander Jacocks 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

All, Is there anyone here who could help me to pickup some equipment in North Andover, MA? If so, please drop me a line, off-list. Thanks! - Alex

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Looking for some PhoneNet / AppleTalk adapters
by Jason Perkins 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

A few years ago I sold off all the AppleTalk adapters I had, thinking I’d never need / use them. Well... I’m looking for a few (2-3) phonenet adapters. If someone has one with a DB9 instead of the minidin I’d be interested - if you have one with a DB25 I’d be very interested! Thanks, -J -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone

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Vintage collection video
by Mike Loewen 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Marc Verdiell visited Bob Rosembloom's drool-worthy collection in 2017 and shot this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OkTm0vI7As For the Univac guys, there's a processor from a Trident submarine starting at 18:30. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Amiga 1000 (or any model) that needs a kickstart disk
by Bill Degnan 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

For those who know, if my Amiga 1000 has v 1.1 ROMS, will it only boot with a 1.1. kickstart disk? Thanks Bill

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Looking for some PhoneNet / AppleTalk adapters
by Jonathan Sturges 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

Jason, Unfortunately, I've only got one DB9 phonenet adapter. I've got a couple of mini-DIN ones I can let you have, and I can loan you the DB9 one, if that helps. I'm around this weekend too. -Jonathan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Amiga 1000 (or any model) that needs a kickstart disk
by Bill Degnan 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

I downloaded a zip of all of the kickstart disks, I have a catweasel. I should be able to make an ADF file. The system churms a little on the kickstart disks I have, but they are of unknown status. Bill On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 7:17 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Ethan > Cant a person using and Amiga with a Gotek drive and a floppy drive, > just Copy the Adf file to the Gotek drive and make a floppy disk? > Including Kickstart and Workbench files? > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Mar 12, 2021, at 6:55 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:50 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic > > <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> Thanks Ethan. Is there a way to use an Amiga to make a kickstart disk, > >> kind of like how a MS DOS machine can SYS.COM a diskette to move the > system > >> files to it and make it bootable i.e. format /s/v)? > > > > There's no complex structure to a Kickstart disk like there is to a > > bootable floppy, not even a "bootblock", let alone a filesystem. > > IIRC, it's just a raw block dump with some sort of Kickstart signature > > in the first block. No code from the Kickstart disk is executed at > > boot time. > > > > I've always just copied existing, working Kickstart disks, but > > apparently there's an Amiga tool WriteKickDisk that will take a ROM > > file and write it to the correct sectors to make a fresh Kickstart > > disk. > > > > https://lateblt.tripod.com/a1k_kick.htm > > > > I have not tried this, but the instructions seem to be reasonable. > > > > -etha >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Amiga 1000 (or any model) that needs a kickstart disk
by Bill Degnan 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:20 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Amiga 1000 Was not made with kickstart in ROM. > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. > > > On Mar 12, 2021, at 2:08 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:56 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic > > <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> For those who know, if my Amiga 1000 has v 1.1 ROMS, will it only boot > with > >> a 1.1. kickstart disk? > > > > If your Amiga is asking for a Kickstart disk (i.e., it has a WCS board > > not Kickstart in ROM), then it should work with any version of > > Kickstart from 1.0 to 1.3. 2.0 is too large to fit on the WCS board > > so that's when a bunch of us got ROM expanders to use an A500/A2000 > > Kickstart ROM chip. Some people also converted the WCS RAM to be > > extra RAM, I think, but that was a bit of a hack. > > > > -ethan > > Sorry The ROMS say v1.1 on them but they're not "kickstart" ROMs. here are pictures, which speak a 1024 words (or more) https://www.vintagecomputer.net/commodore/amiga_1000/ Bill

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF’s swap meet 2020 pictures
by Jeffrey Brace 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:08 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Can somebody send me the link to where I find the pictures for last year’s > swapmeet in November. > I want to add them to the Facebook posting I just made if that’s OK > Here is some pictures courtesy of David Gesswein: https://imgur.com/a/Ik4seJE > > Sent from: > My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. >

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VCF’s swap meet 2020 pictures
by Sentrytv 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

Can somebody send me the link to where I find the pictures for last year’s swapmeet in November. I want to add them to the Facebook posting I just made if that’s OK Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.

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It's no Silverball and it's far far away
by Jeffrey Jonas 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

For those who travel, put this on your bucket list for arcades: https://www.gameterminal.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GameTerminalNash/ GAME TERMINAL SUPER ARCADE + BAR 201 TERMINAL COURT NASHVILLE, TN 37210

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