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System Source February Repair workshop
by Jeffrey Brace 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

The repair workshop at Bob Roswell's System Source in Hunt Valley, MD was a spectacular success! About 25 people the first day and 15 the second (Bob correct my numbers if they seem off). I saw lots of familiar and some new faces there. I loved the museum that Bob has setup there, I encourage everyone to visit the museum because it has rare and interesting exhibits. Lots of good repairing going on and lots of conversations with people about VCF East prep. Sometimes things work better to converse in person. Bob is hoping to do another workshop there next January or February. We will update everyone when we set a date. Anyone else want to chime in on their experience during the past weekend? -- ========================================= 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] System Source February Repair workshop
by Bill Degnan 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

I got help from Ryan to make an OS/8 disk on the System Source DECMATE, for my DECMATE. Unfortunately I learned I don't have the right cable so I still need one to complete this system. But one step closer! My favorite item at System Source is the Wang LOCI-2. Bill On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:43 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > System Source was great! I'm glad I got a chance to go both days (looked > like Sunday was off the table initially), and to see so many people I only > cross paths with once or twice a year. The contents of that museum are > different from other ones I've seen thus far, and sure, they had a lot of > the common big name machines, but they also had quite a few that I hadn't > ever seen before in person. Related note, they have a Westinghouse 1600 > terminal, which I had never seen before, much less heard of. Have any of > y'all crossed paths with them? > I rewired the rats nest in my OSI Challenger 4P, and added in an A15 I/O > connector board. Fired it up when I got back home and could reassemble the > hardware bits, which you can see here. I was able to compare against the > configuration of Bill Dromgoole's Challenger (which has an A15). I've > never seen so many OSI machines in one place before, and no two were the > same. More pictures on twitter. > Jonathan Sturges and Jeff Salzman were debugging their VIC-20's, and I > hope my input was helpful in their respective repair processes. Had I > thought about it, I would have dragged in some spare VIC parts, tools, and > appropriate documentation. > All in all, it was a blast. I'm glad it was close enough for me to attend > without much hassle. > -Alexander 'Z' Pierson > On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 02:53:00 PM EST, Ethan O'Toole via > vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > I have a pretty good writeup and info about loading BASIC onto an > Altair, > > and if the cards are the *same port* it will work on the IMSAI as well. > > Assuming a MITS SIO2 or the equivalent settings such as with the > Processor > > Tech SIO card. I don't know all of the details but I have done this many > > different ways on a number of S100 systems, happy to help if I can. > > http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=318 > > http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=531 > > Bill > > Hello Bill, > > I have the 88-2SIO board which is supposed to be 100% ALTAIR > compatibile. Off the top of my head the 1st Serial port is at 10H > > Also, I didn't use any kind of loader. I ascii upload it thru the rom > monitor on the 88-2SIO starting at address 0000. Then execute at 0000. > > - Ethan > >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] [Galactic] Re: Your critical thinking skills and opinion needed: Stickers!
by Michael Brutman 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Some late responses just came in, so voting continues ... but please vote honestly, and not in response to the early results. This is very critical you know and we don't want to compromise the results of the survey. Mike

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Paul Vixie speaking at NYC BSD User Group
by Christian Liendo 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Paul is a person who I would consider important to computer history but from a more recent time. https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10677 Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes, Dr. Paul Vixie 2020-03-03 @ 18:45 - NYU Tandon Engineering Building (new), 370 Jay St, Room 1013, 10th Floor, Brooklyn (directly across Jay St from National Grid office) Notice: You should RSVP for this meeting at rsvp AT lists.nycbug.org. You should receive an autoresponse email. Your email address is sufficient verification for entry. Abstract This meeting is cosponsored with NYU's Center for Cybersecurity. Apps and servers, especially on the Web, have an agenda which does not include or welcome any interference by any on-path actors such as ISPs, national security or regulation, or third parties from the supply chain or from the Internet core. The way the ideal role of on-path actors is often described by end users or application developers or online service providers is to say, "I just want you to be a dumb pipe". As of 2019, operating system developers and network and edge system administrators are also described this way. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and HTTP over QUIC(HTTP/3) now bypass the operating system's implementation and configuration of DNS, and bypasses the kernel's implementation of TCP. At the March 2020 NYC*Bug meeting, Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsight Security, will tell the story of how we got here, and what this trend means for endpoint and network security. FreeBSD and "ipfw" will be used for demonstration. Media Speaker Biography Dr. Paul Vixie is Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of Farsight Security. Dr. Vixie is an internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of award-winning Farsight Security, Inc. Dr. Vixie was inducted into the internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and anti-spam technologies. He is the author of open source internet software including BIND 8, and of many internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit internet infrastructure company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). In 2018, he cofounded SIE Europe UG, a European data sharing collective to fight cybercrime. Dr. Vixie earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to DNS and DNSSEC in 2010. https://www.farsightsecurity.com/about-farsight-security/team/vixie/

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Bert Sutherland and Larry Tesler died this week
by Jeffrey Brace 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

It has been reported that these two people who were involved with some important vintage computing history have died. Burt Sutherland was a manager at Bolt, Baranek and Newman which helped develop ARPANET, at Xerox PARC and later at Sun Microsystems. He participated in the creation of Smalltalk, Java and Internet. Larry Tesler had worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon and Yahoo!He was a proponent of human-computer action and modeless software. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey(a)vcfed.org

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Ram testing / surface mount soldering at SS?
by Jason Perkins 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

I've got a laptop ram card with some bad ram on it I'd like to fix up next weeked. I got some standard 30 pin SIMMs with the same type of chip. I don't have any systems which use 30 pin SIMMs, so no way to test them. Does someone have a way to test these rams, and / or help me do the surface mount soldering to move them onto the laptop's card? Thanks! -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Your critical thinking skills and opinion needed: Stickers!
by Michael Brutman 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Sure! About $70 per roll, and we have 20+ candidates there. ;-0 MIke On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 1:26 PM Adam Michlin <adam.michlin(a)vcfed.org> wrote: > Umm.. can we do them all? Pretty please? Too much awesomeness to choose > from! > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 1:05 PM Michael Brutman <michael(a)vcfed.org> wrote: > >> I'm trying to break the impasse on stickers ... I know, it's very >> critical that we solve this problem. >> >> Here is a link to a quick survey that I'd like you to take. The idea is >> simple; if you like an idea click on the corresponding check box. If you >> don't like it, leave it alone. >> >> https://forms.gle/oS6Jv6Wvi78j4Fst8 >> >> Vote just once please; we're not enforcing it. We'll leave voting open >> for two or three days. The most popular sticker candidates might be turned >> into stickers. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >

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Repair Workshops March 2020
by Jeffrey Brace 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

March 7 & 8, 2020: Wall, NJ (InfoAge) - CDL Hackerspace building 9059: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DySkGulduRUxJuPwK2RUEdP_yKD8YiDEn7K… > March 28: Kennett Square, PA. at Bill Degnan's Kennett Classic Let him know that you are coming: Website: <https://www.kennettclassic.com/> -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Your critical thinking skills and opinion needed: Stickers!
by Michael Brutman 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

I'm trying to break the impasse on stickers ... I know, it's very critical that we solve this problem. Here is a link to a quick survey that I'd like you to take. The idea is simple; if you like an idea click on the corresponding check box. If you don't like it, leave it alone. https://forms.gle/oS6Jv6Wvi78j4Fst8 Vote just once please; we're not enforcing it. We'll leave voting open for two or three days. The most popular sticker candidates might be turned into stickers. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Retro technology at CDL
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >On 2/15/20 9:47 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > The CDL >PBX thinks it's 1981 again as it allows calls between our M43 (4320AAA) >> Teletype in the CDL and other ASCII machines on site using the >historically correct > area codes of 510, 610, and 910. > >??? - Wasn't NJ just 201 and 609? I recall Great Adventure having a 201 >number despite being in Jackson. The jamesburg exchange office was in >609 which meant Monroe Twp was split into 609 and 201. Jackson had been 201. Then, 908 was created and Jackson was put in that area code. Soon thereafter, 732 was created and Jackson was again move into that new code. I stopped having business cards printed as it seemed that every time I had new cards printed, the area code was changed. ;) 609 was, as you're probably aware, split too. 609 and 856. There are serveral other area code now for NJ but I believe those are set aside mostly for mobile assignment.

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