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Jan 9 & 10, 2021 Repair Workshop Info
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

Starting in January we will be charging $15 per person per day. $10 goes to InfoAge and $5 will go to CDL. Signup for January Repair Workshop here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NY5VMcNKIYeP3O9xuKBRtq7FHxpCaAp5-Uo… Remember the spaces are first come first serve to the CDL space. Limited space available. Overflow space in 9032-A building. The workshop is $15 *per* person, *per* day. $10 goes to InfoAge and $5 goes to CDL. Sign up to guarantee a table!!! DATE: January 9 & 10, 2021 LOCATION (two locations): InfoAge: 2201 Marconi Road, Wall Township, NJ 1) Building 9059 (CDL Hackerspace - Formerly IXR) AND 2) Building 9032-A (Old workshop area in main building) TIME: Saturday START time == 10 A.M. END time == 11PM. Sunday START time == 10 A.M. and END == 5 P.M. SIGNUP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NY5VMcNKIYeP3O9xuKBRtq7FHxpCaAp5-Uo… Workshop area is limited to 10 people per room and facemasks are required. Hand sanitizer is available. COST: - $15 per person, PER day. This money goes to InfoAge and CDL. - $25 per night for those wanting to stay overnight (Money goes to InfoAge). Please pay ME (Jeff Brace) upon arrival. Cash or PayPal is acceptable as payment. Ask ahead of time if you need to use a credit card. OVERNIGHT: Bring your own pillow, blankets, soap etc. We provide a bed frame and an uncovered mattress. There are showers and a kitchen for your use. - You can pay via PayPal to paypal(a)vcfed.org. or to me via cash or credit card in person. EQUIPMENT: - VCF will provide a table and you can use any available electrical outlet. - Bring your own tools, power strips, power cords, and supplies etc. - If you need particular tools that you don't know or particular parts, please post to the list for those going. They may have what you need. Let them know ahead of time. - Let everyone know what project you are working on ahead of time to inspire collaboration. DRINKS: You should bring your own. We have a refrigerator in CDL to keep them cold. VCF will buy some water and soft drinks for member use. FOOD: *Saturday afternoon*: Pizza from Attilios (Tinton Falls) *Saturday Night*: To be determined. *Sunday Morning*: Bagel order from Delicious Bagels ( https://www.deliciousbagelspointpleasant.com/) Fill out Order here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tsuj7dnUtH-PkE0ITXD70dtJAc1XQki2K1Z… *Sunday Afternoon*: Wawa order GATE: Please close the gate behind you at all times. We want to discourage random strangers from wandering the campus as well as during museum hours. PARKING: Park in the main parking lot, unless you are unloading. Don't park on the lawn. QUESTIONS? Contact Jeff: 732-759-1783 jeffrey(a)vcfed.org Have fun everyone! -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783 -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783

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February Repair Workshop Date change
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

I'm thinking that I need to reschedule the February Repair workshop. I didn't realize that February 7 is Superbowl Sunday. Anyone have any problems with February 13 & 14? -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783

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Museum Report 2020-12-31
by Jeffrey Brace 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

Yes, I was doing museum stuff on New Year's Eve. Why not work on a fun hobby when I can't go out? Bill Inderrieden, Jeff Jonas and I worked on various projects. These are the ones that I worked on: * Connected and tested the IBM PCjr keyboard adapter. The infrared keyboard was malfunctioning probably because the batteries were going bad, so replaced with a telephone wire adapter and works great! * Recorded video of GEOS 128, GeoPaint 128, GeoWrite 128. Both in 40 and 80 column mode and sent to Adam * Copied CoCo3 programs to CoCo SD card adapter and tested. * Documented which VCF East videos we have digitized and which we don't. I will be back tomorrow to work on other projects. -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783

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Second YouTube Video on the Ultra 5
by Alexander Jacocks 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

I just published my second video, in my series on the Sun Ultra 5 workstation. In that video, I show how to image a drive, upgrade the system’s RAM, and install Solaris 2.6: https://youtu.be/BLka4xtMkYw - Alex

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VCF t-shirt design
by Jeffrey Brace 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Hello everyone, I'm looking for an artist to design next year's VCF t-shirt. Obviously this would be a volunteer effort. I'm looking for someone who can work on a design quickly with fast turnaround time. If you or someone that you know has the interest and ability, then please send me a private email. Thanks! -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783

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Museum Report 2020-12-29
by Jeffrey Brace 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Corey, Bill Inderrieden and I worked on various projects. Including finishing up the paper tape reader/puncher. Corey found another Sol-20 board in the warehouse as he has been going crazy trying to figure out what is wrong with it. He had done a lot of repair work on the one in the museum, but after much troubleshooting and repair, there is still as mystery as to what is going on. Here is EAK!, The Tech Support Chicken trying to help him: EAK_SOL_20 <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kW0mHh53c0vr3ODiTT6bLtwSSo425Zqp/view?usp=…> We also switched around the Bendix G15 desk with the Computer/Tape Drive. It looks cleaner and better. File_000.jpeg <https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Mu7uF49c1NRKyLaJ7qeooMMQbWSJvv_/view?usp=…> File_001.jpeg <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-uOYHsrB6nycFNg8QlSSyGdKs4yN2jS2/view?usp=…> We started brainstorming some other ideas as we were there. Bill and I plan on going there again tomorrow to get some other projects done. -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783

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Museum Report 2020-12-28
by Jeffrey Brace 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

We met from 1 to 4PM and worked on various projects in the museum. Corey worked on getting his paper tape copier. It works great reading in and punching out. Some mylar ones were too shiny and didn't read correctly. Bill Inderrieden word on putting up some IBM signs to put over the IBM 1130. I worked on tracking down provenance on particular artifacts. I found 3 out of 4 of them and am working on the last one. I also found some more and will continue recording the information. Although we could have done a lot of this by ourselves, it was more fun and productive to do it together. -- ========================================= 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 cell: 732-759-1783

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What projects are you working on?
by Blatboy 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Re: my last email to the group Apologies for the bad subject heading and yeah, those are 4016s not 8016s. I need to proofread more. It's not like I don't have the time! haha :) Walter ++++++++++++++++++++++ https://jwalterhawkes.com like to know where/when I'm playing? Click here to sign up for my list, and let the babble begin.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 31, Issue 26
by Blatboy 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM <vcf-midatlantic-request(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:00:00 -0500 > From: Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey(a)vcfed.org> > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] What projects are you working on? > Message-ID: > <CALWfZAKGzJ1J2_-L02rb4C9k+n1BYp2ajhhTN7PzFNqncuG_Bw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > During this time of year many of us are off work or inside for one reason > or another. > I'm curious what projects everyone is working on. > > -- Ha. Thanks for asking, Jeffrey. Who asks me this??? No one. haha. I am so happy to oblige: I'm still extremely underemployed, so I've been spending more time on my retrocomputing projects than ever. I have two PET 8016s that I'm restoring very slowly. At this stage I'm cleaning/repairing keyboards and trying to clean the very dirty and red markered-up cases. That's serious labor. I also have a pile of Amiga stuff I've been making progress on. Some stuff I'll keep, some I'll sell or whatever.: I'll be upgrading the SCSI chip on an Amiga 3000... hoping to get the voodoo out of the SCSI bus so I can more reliably test the myriad of SCSI accessories (some interesting stuff including a floptical drive and a bornoulli box) that I want to eventually clean up and sell. The A3000 needs a serious keyboard cleaning. I'm a little hesitant. I have a bad habit of making things worse when I "fix" them. Especially keyboards haha. I'm replacing the keyboard membrane on an Amiga 1200 (see earlier comment re:fixing keyboards). During the earlier part of the pandemic, I was able to get a Mac Classic II somewhat spiffied up, fully tricked out, and put on the network. I've been enjoying exploring the software on that, as I never had a Macintosh back in the day. I've also been doing some assembly coding for the PET... I've been eyeing my Micro-KIM as that may be next in line for some new code projects. I also did a serious repair on an old (late 1980's) Ensoniq SQ-80 synth. I learned a lot on that one... Otherwise, I've been making videos like this one: https://youtu.be/ii3ripsTF90 Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all the absolute best in 2021. :) Walter ++++++++++++++++++++++ https://jwalterhawkes.com like to know where/when I'm playing? Click here to sign up for my list, and let the babble begin.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] What projects are you working on? (Jeffrey Brace)
by Michael Thompson 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

> > I'm curious what projects everyone is working on. > > -- > Jeff Brace > Restoring a 1965 vintage Wang LOCI-2 Calculator. It will add and subtract, but nothing else works yet. Still working on the PDP-9. It will boot and run ADSS V5 from DECtape. I am trying to get earlier versions of ADSS to boot because they use less core. Need to add the Flipchips to enable the EAE option, and then add the Flipchips for the 34H graphics so we can play SpaceWar! Just finished restoring two MITS Altair systems, one boots BASIC from EPROMs and the other boots CP/M from Micropolis floppies. -- Michael Thompson

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