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Museum Report 2020-08-01
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

VCF West Watch Party was a small group, but we had fun and enjoyed the show on the big screen all day. I supported the VCF West guys, as well as monitored our museum reopening. InfoAge had 11 visitors on this first day of re-opening. 7 of the 11 made their way to VCF. I gave the tour to the group of 1 And Bill Inderrieden gave the tour to the group of 6. Dennis and Dylan the new docents were there as well, so it was a good showing of the re-opening of InfoAge and the VCF museum as well. Corey, Ian and Bill worked on repairing various stuff. Next repair workshop is August 15 & 16. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VAX/RD54 recovery
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >David, Those drives are safe at my house, the museum seemed to have no >interest in them since if they planned to get any machines going they >planned to run some of your boards and not original drives even if they >did work. Glad to see you were able to get the head amp board hooked up >to one of these. We should be-able to recover what was on the original >drives. > >I have not attempted anything with them myself but I have one of your >boards I plan to build up with a future digikey order. I have been >working on some new boards I designed I need to get up and going not >related to vintage computing. The next time I am at the museum I can >drop them off somewhere so you can look at them if you'd like. > >I believe I was not able to get MOP booting working on the Vax... I >believe it was an issue with it being a Microvax II. I really ought to >drag my Microvax II up and see if I can attempt to get it net booting. I >have only gotten later Vaxen going with my MOP boot setup. Specifically >a 3900 and some 3100s. Satellite booting work(s/ed) just fine with MicroVAX-II and onward. In the DoD labs I once worked as well as GE Astrospace/NASA Mars Observer, nearly all VMS workstations were diskless. They booted from the network and the storage for them was server from the central cluster.

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Stupid CP/M question
by Richard Cini 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

All — I just built myself a CompuPro Z80 system out some of my spare boards. It boots CP/M from one of the Maslin 8” disk images. To facilitate getting other programs onto the disk, I want to use XMODEM from Marty Eberhard. It compiles with CP/M ASM which is good, but what’s the best way of getting the source file onto the disk? It’s not clear if the CBIOS has code for a separate PUN/RDR port. I was thinking of using ED and then, using HyperTerminal, paste the source into the ED screen and save it. I looked at the manual for ED and it’s not clear to me if I can actually do that, so I wanted to ask the group if that’s a good way or if there’s something better. Thanks! Rich Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] keyboard cable for Kaypro
by RETRO Innovations 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

On 8/1/2020 7:06 PM, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: A number of years back, I sourced the specific jack for the KB port. If you can't find it, I can see if I can dig up the link/name/sku/etc. JIm -- RETRO Innovations, Contemporary Gear for Classic Systems www.go4retro.com store.go4retro.com

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] keyboard cable for Kaypro
by Mike Loewen 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Funny thing about the coiled cord for the keyboard is Is that it?s reversed > on one end. > > I have yet to determine whether it works or not since the jack on the > keyboard is broken. > Mike R. Don't try to use a cable from an older Mac. I've read that they're wired differently, and could cause damage. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] keyboard cable for Kaypro
by Dave McGuire 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

On 8/1/20 8:06 PM, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Funny thing about the coiled cord for the keyboard is Is that it’s > reversed on one end. > I have yet to determine whether it works or not since the jack on the > keyboard is broken. I can crimp those for you if you get stuck, but you'd have to ship it here. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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keyboard cable for Kaypro
by Herb Johnson 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

regarding: "Trip to Brooklyn to the Gowanus eReycling warehouse + questions" Someone posted that they obtained a Kaypro 2x but not the keyboard cable for it. Jim Hart posted "I believe you can use a regular handset cable from a corded telephone". I suggest caution. Someone with a Kaypro and experience with these telephone cords, that one can do as Jim suggests. Or Jim may wish to confirm the practice he cites, in his post of June 3. A counterexample I know of, is the Apple Mac 128K 512K and Plus. Use of a telephone coiled cord on THOSE systems, will *destroy* either the keyboard, or damage the Mac motherboard. Apple reversed the wiring on their keyboard cables; reversed DC voltage to the Mac keyboard is bad, very bad. Thus my caution. 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 retrotechnology DOT info

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VCF West Live Q&A Google Meet
by Jeffrey Brace 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

If you want ask questions live for VCF West 2020 Virtual show, you can joining the Google Meet: meet.google.com/pxh-dtgt-xoh -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783 <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>

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VCF West goes live tomorrow at 12 PM Eastern Time
by Jeffrey Brace 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

You can see our show live via YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoolSAHR5w Show starts at 12PM Eastern and runs to 6PM Schedule for VCF West 2020 Virtual: [image: image.png] -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Coast Star Article on InfoAge and VCF re-opening Aug. 1
by Jonathan Gevaryahu 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

On 7/31/2020 5:29 PM, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > After all the emails went back-and-forth about that there’s no attachments!! I rest my case. -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(a)gmail.com jgevaryahu(a)hotmail.com

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