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Project of the day - Windows 3.11 386Enh on a floppy
by Richard Cini 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

Not really sure what applicability this really has, but today’s challenge was to get Windows 3.11 Enhanced Mode running from a single 1.44MB floppy disk. There are easy ways to get Standard mode running, including using files from “precopy.cab” on Windows 95 or 98, but this was way more challenging. I started from a full install and pared it down using a guide I found (which was a two-disk solution). The boot files and required extras (HIMEM, PKUNZIP and a very small ramdrive driver) took about 300K, leaving only about 1.2MB (1.156MB to be exact) for a complete install. A normal no-frills install is about 3-ish megabytes. There are significant compromises – no virtual memory, no networking, no multimedia, only system fonts, and only a few apps, but once running you could run them from another floppy. I discovered that 386Enh won’t put a temporary swapfile on a RAM drive, so it runs without it. I guess you could call this the 1992 version of PortableApps :-) Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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B205 tape drive (reduced)
by Mike Loewen 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

The Burroughs B205 tape drive in South Carolina has been reduced to $500: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-BURROUGHS-B205-CORPORATION-ELECTRODATA-COM… This was originally part of Claude Kagan's B205 system. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Make You Outdoor Swap Space Reservations Now for Kennett Classic 9/26/20
by Bill Degnan 05 Sep '20

05 Sep '20

Kennett Classic 9/26/20 - Make Your Outdoor Swap Space Reservation Now Anyone interested in reserving a space for the outdoor swap, please contact me directly here: https://www.vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm Cost per space $15 6 ft x 6 ft per space. Load In Before 9AM 9/26. Thanks Bill Degnan

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1st Annual Kennett Classic September 26th 2020 9a-5p+
by Bill Degnan 05 Sep '20

05 Sep '20

*1st Annual Kennett Classic is still a GO…* RSVP HERE: https://www.meetup.com/Kennett-Classic/events/268442992/ The weather couldn't be better in late September in Kennett Square, so we have decided to move our one year anniversary event outside to avoid the issues associated with COVID-19. We have a private parking lot behind our building that we will use to set up a smaller outdoor party for gathering while we host small group tours of the museum gallery. We look forward to expanding the event in a post-covid time but hope to provide a safe exhibition for all who join us. You can count on: - New exhibits, *including a new room*, will be open to guests (metered for social distance capacity). We have almost doubled in size since we opened a year ago. - *Outdoor swap meet/vendor spaces* (please contact Bill to reserve a space) - Refreshments - Individually packaged snacks, soda and spirits... - After hours dinner event (please RSVP so we can best plan) - Kennett Square closes State street each day so that outdoor seating and dining for our group is feasible. - Make a day of it here in Kennett Square! We are within walking distance to the shops, bars, restaurants and galleries. All are open with special outdoor dining and actively adhere to covid-19 capacities. There are several other local attractions nearby as well. Longwood Gardens, Winterthur and the Brandywine River Art Museum all offer timed admission tickets, so you can plan your day. If you’re interested in helping, please contact Karen or me, asap. Parking is available all along the square block that surrounds the building, at the nearby parking garage, and across the street. We hope to see you! RSVP HERE: https://www.meetup.com/Kennett-Classic/events/268442992/ Watch our facebook page for regular updates: https://www.facebook.com/kennettclassiccomp Best, Bill CONTACT: https://www.kennettclassic.com

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Monitor doors
by Martin Flynn 05 Sep '20

05 Sep '20

Ran off one of them - will put in CDL in the top of the tool box.

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Putting the Federation in Vintage Computer Federation
by svcatitc＠aol.com 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

Putting the Federation in Vintage Computer Federation Adam Michlin: amichlin at swerlin.com wrote: Sun Aug 30 18:03:18 EDT 2020 "And if you want to come to a workshop and work on something bigger, make a proposal. Bill Inderrieden, for example, has been doing meticulous and awe inspiring work in documenting the Wang Minicomputer in the museum and hopefully getting it up and running." Thank you Adam for the "shout out". As long as we have now highlighted that subject, some updates are in order. All the circuit cards have been sequentially pulled out of the respective card files and photographed. The pictorial documentation is now complete. Because there is no schematic documentation currently available, I now have to make an assembly drawing of the card file chassis for each drawer in the rack. I am taking a break from this project because it is "brain intensive" on organizing the documentation. Once the initial doc's are done, I plan on reaching out to our contact on the West Coast who is familiar with Wang calculator equipment to get his overall view of things. One diversion from this is getting back on the restoration of the EAI TR20, and it's peripherals. But that is a whole 'nother story. Thanks again Adam; Bill Inderrieden

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report: 2 September 2020
by Neil Cherry 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

On 9/3/20 12:08 PM, Bill Inderrieden via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > All visitor traffic was dead by 3pm. > Added, from my collection, a Rockwell 6809 uP to the processor display as requested by Dean N. Rockwell 6809 uP? I didn't know Rockwell made a 6809. Found this on Wiki: Second sources A common requirement for manufacturing companies was to require two or more sources for every part in the products they made. This ensured they could get parts if a supplier had financial problems or a disaster. Initially Motorola selected American Microsystems Inc (AMI) as a second source for the M6800 family. Hitachi, Fujitsu, Fairchild, Rockwell and Thomson Semiconductors were added later. Rochester Electronics was Authorized by Freescale/Motorola in 2014 to continue manufacturing any of the 8-bit peripherals and 8-bit processors of this era. Rochester specializes in fully authorized device duplication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800 I've seen Hitachi and Thomson, Knew about Rochester (might have purchased a few) but I didn't know about the rest -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Museum Report: 2 September 2020
by svcatitc＠aol.com 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Opened up around 1p. Fairly busy day. Had a Mom and her 2 sons come in with one of the InfoAge B of D's as an escort. (Don't know his name and whether it was a relative.) Older son was very much interested in the micro section. Mom took an interest as well. InfoAge escort (Drexel grad) helped with the explanation of keypunch cards on the IBM 1130. He explained how "spaces" in your program can screw everything up for the Program Admin. Second Mom and her daughter came in with a nice interest in the tail end of the miro (8 bit) aisle. All visitor traffic was dead by 3pm. Added, from my collection, a Rockwell 6809 uP to the processor display as requested by Dean N. Bill Inderrieden

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Commodore 1702 door
by RETRO Innovations 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

And, given the ubiquity of the lack of door on the 1702 in today's collections, I've even considered selling the doors off some of the units I have since I always leave the door open on units in use anyway :-) Jim -- RETRO Innovations, Contemporary Gear for Classic Systems www.go4retro.com store.go4retro.com

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Commodore 1702 door
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Sounds like an Outer Limits episode where the world was taken apart and remade every moment and sometimes they made mistakes which is why when you lose your keys you find time in a place that you already searched. <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> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:28 PM Jeff G via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Funny story about the 1702 and door. I have a 1702, that at some point gave > away to a buddy of mine. When I gave it to him, the door was missing. Also > to note, I had a box truck I was using for storage at the time, and its > likely the monitor did time in the truck. > > Years later, he eventually decided he didn't want it anymore and asked if I > wanted it back, with "h-- yeah" as the answer. > > Not too long after that, I cleaned out the box truck to get rid of it, and > lo and behold, I'm not sure where it came from, but I found the missing > door from that monitor. > > So YEARS and even owners apart, yet somehow managed to reunite monitor and > door! The door has the typical broken hinge but I used masking tape to keep > it on for now. > > The end! > > -- JeffG (aka Bags) > -- ========================================= 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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