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Honeywell h-316 power supply
by Mike Loewen 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

I received the following from someone who has a Honeywell 316 power supply. If anyone is interested, send me a note off-list and I'll give you his contact info. He's in Vero Beach, FL. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- "I purchased some items from the estate of a space coast military electronics engineer and in it is a power supply for a Honeywell 316. As I understand, that computer was important to the ARPANET program but I have no practical use for it. It has paper copy's from the h316 maintenance manual of the chapter on the power supply. I would have attached pictures but I didn't want to seem suspicious with my first contact with you. My question is, do you have interest in this item? And if you don't, do you know of a good home for it? Thank you in advance."

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] suggested viewing
by Chris Fala 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Tried to resist but had to chime in. +5! On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:28 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > 4th'd: The Secret Life of Machines was incredibly inspiring to me a few > years back when I first discovered it. I stayed up all night watching > episode after episode. The one about the fax machine was particularly eye > opening. > -Alexander 'Z' Pierson > > > On Thursday, February 27, 2020, 04:09:06 PM EST, Jason Perkins via > vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > 3x on Secret Life of Machines. One of my favorite programs! > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:25 PM Jeff G via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > Secret life of machines was hands down me and my dads FAVORITE show to > > watch back in the day. You can find all the Episodes online, and even now > > the shows are still relevant. > > > > Jeff aka Bags > > > > > -- > Jason Perkins > 313 355 0085 > >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] suggested viewing
by Jason Perkins 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

3x on Secret Life of Machines. One of my favorite programs! On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:25 PM Jeff G via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Secret life of machines was hands down me and my dads FAVORITE show to > watch back in the day. You can find all the Episodes online, and even now > the shows are still relevant. > > Jeff aka Bags > -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085

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suggested viewing
by Jeff G 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Secret life of machines was hands down me and my dads FAVORITE show to watch back in the day. You can find all the Episodes online, and even now the shows are still relevant. Jeff aka Bags

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suggested viewing
by Jeffrey Jonas 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Wintergatan is famous for making amazing marble music machines, and a weekly video of other mechanical music machines: https://www.youtube.com/user/wintergatan2000/videos One of his marble machines was exhibited at a museum just for music machines: https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/lang/en/ just one of many music museums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_museums James Burke's "Connections" shows how cams and pegged cylinders evolved into punched card looms and tabulator cards episide 4 "Faith in Numbers" https://youtu.be/z6yL0_sDnX0?t=2150 "The Secret Life Of Machines" http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/ explores computer history in the episode "The Word Processor" https://youtu.be/nN9wNvEnn-Q enjoy! -- Jeff Jonas

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Hayes 300bps SmartModem for museum exhbit?
by Adam Michlin 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi Everyone, We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have: Acoustic USR 300 bps USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged) Telebit T2500 Hayes 9600 bps USR Sportster V.92 The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit). We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend? Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year. I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum. Thanks! -Adam

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Data Recovery from Jaz Cartridge
by Jeffrey Brace 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Someone sent me a message requesting data recovery services. If anyone is interested or capable, then I will forward the contact info. Here is the request: I have a friend who needs data recovery for his Iomega *Jaz* Drive -- he has around a dozen 1GB disks. He asked me to help. He has (1) the drive, (2) the “*Jaz Traveller*” adapter, and (3) the cable. He has no software to install. This drive uses a SCSI interface and many people are selling (*gouging*) little SCSI to USB adapters ( Adaptec USB2xchange, Jaz Scsi to USB, and Microtech SCSI to USB) , on ebay and elsewhere for $250-$300 but noone states they were able to see a (say) File Explorer view of the files when they put the USB cable into a modern machine (say Vista, Win 7, Win8, Win10). I don't think that these adapters would work and my friend can't afford $300 for an adapter that might not work. On the other hand, I concluded that since the “*Jaz Traveller*” adapter he does have claims to convert SCSI to the Parallel Printer Port Interface (the shape and number of pins for SCSI is similar to PPP Interface), he has enough equipment to connect the cables to a PPP on a machine which has what I believe is called the guest95.exe Jaz software. This is a standalone app that runs on Windows 95 and reads from the PPP. I do have a Windows 95 machine but I cannot find guest95.exe except on very dark and evil sites where I do not trust that download to be anything but a virus and I cannot risk my machine that way. On one site, I downloaded three .rar files but they were in error with regard to a part being missing. I am thinking perhaps one of your vintage cronies still has a working Jaz Drive and can do this recovery at an affordable price if the disks were shipped to them -- all data would all fit on a $6 SanDisk 32GB thumb drive :- ). -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] [Galactic] Re: Your critical thinking skills and opinion needed: Stickers!
by Michael Brutman 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

The idea that a FORTRAN board game existed is intriguing. The tag line "Input: Reason Output:Pleasure" is borderline horrifying ...

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ANNOUNCE: VCF East 2020 Kit, R6501Q Single Board Computer
by systems_glitch 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

All, After much delay due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, I now have prototypes for this year's VCF East kit project! It's a Rockwell R6501Q single-board computer, which fits with the 6502 theme for this year, but isn't "just another 6502 SBC," of which there are many fine examples available. You can read the particulars on the VCFed Forums: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?73828-ANNOUNCE-VCF-East-2020-Kit-… If you're definitely going to be at VCF East 2020 and will definitely be buying/building a kit, please visit that link and fill out the poll. That'll help me in planning for the workshop. Thanks, Jonathan

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WE WANT YOU! To be a volunteer at VCF EAST 2020!
by Jeffrey Brace 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

VCF East is an event accomplished entirely through the volunteer work of our wonderful members like you! We have a need for everything from camera operator, to ticket desk, to docent, to information desk to many other positions. *Not sure how you want to help?* We will work with you to find an opportunity for you to volunteer in a way most meaningful to you. We need reliable, committed people with a widely varied set of skills. Volunteers receive a show pass for the weekend and they can also sleep over in the Sandy area for $25 per night. If you are interested, then please sign up here: Volunteer Registration <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXwPptOjEr4lkiPDcxzO0EwEcqQgaMg1D…> or e-mail me at jeffrey(a)vcfed.org for questions. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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