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Macintosh TV for sale in Rochester
by Jeffrey Brace 08 May '25

08 May '25

Someone called VCF's landline looking for ideas on where to sell Macintosh TV and a Mac Plus. If anyone is interested, then I can forward you his contact info. Take care! Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President VCF East Showrunner VCF/MARCH Fundraising Manager Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OTish: Any Core2duo desktops super reliable?
by Kenneth Seefried 06 May '25

06 May '25

> From: Kenneth Gober <kgober(a)gmail.com> > > In my experience, the Dell OptiPlex 745 and 755 lines have been very solid. > > Can confirm that Dell Optiplex machines from the LGA775 era seem pretty reliable. In addition to having a couple of thousand pass through our company back in the day, I still have several Dell Optiplex 960 desktop FF in a mix of Core Duo and Quad that are my regular 'crash and burn' machines (and a couple of later Optiplex i7-860s); they aren't exactly treated gently. Despite the abuse, they have never given me any trouble. The only real downside I run into if you want to call it that is the 8GB memory limit on that generation of kit. YMMV. And no, mine have never needed a recap. That is not a foregone conclusion. KJ

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OTish: Any Core2duo desktops super reliable?
by Ethan O'Toole 05 May '25

05 May '25

> On any older Systems, such as these, you will have to recap the power > supply and the motherboard that is typical of components this age > Expect that when you go looking I am trying to avoid that work, at least for the short term. Have two CRT monitors to recap from the games, and one has HV arcing as well. Never used corona dope before but I might get my chance here. 78 capacitors on those Wells Gardner D9200s, and I have yet to figure out how to extract the monitors from the game cabinets. When it comes to motherboards, it's probably 3 bucks for a 3300uf 6.3v these days! - Ethan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OTish: Any Core2duo desktops super reliable?
by therenguy 05 May '25

05 May '25

I would like to remove myself from this mailing list. Would someone tell me how to do that. Dr. Randy M. Kaplan the renguy On May 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM -0400, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org>, wrote:

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Swap Meet June 7, 2025 @ InfoAge
by Jeffrey Brace 05 May '25

05 May '25

https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/ *CLICK HERE FOR VENDOR Registration* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVH2pMWrQt4yeNTwHdohC4Om_g1MdaNJc…> Take care! Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President VCF East Showrunner VCF/MARCH Fundraising Manager Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>

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OTish: Any Core2duo desktops super reliable?
by Ethan O'Toole 05 May '25

05 May '25

Any advice as to core2duo desktops that have really reliable components? I have two Dell E520 type desktops where I did some custom hacks to get Windows XPe installed to run software. XPe is embedded, so it's driver stripped. Any known reliable PCs that are Core2duo or maybe P4? Thinkcenter? HP/Compaq? Some other brand? Needs 6 channel audio, ethernet, ability to put in a lower end older NVidia card (Original was AGP but had it running on a PCIe one.) Curious if there is anything out there that should still be working today without issue. I have old P4 Compaq SFF that I use for disk imaging that has been strong. Longer story: Originally the computers were DFI I believe, and I forget the motherboard model but I still have something close enough. These are for arcade games, Need for Speed/Need for Speed underground. I had them running fine on the Dells pre-covid but now one isn't happy. It's blue screening when it boots into XPe, but passes memtest86+. the PSU has swollen caps, and the mobo had two bad ones. I replaced the bad ones, still blue screens. Time is tight so looking for alts. I think original was P4, but Core2duo is fine. 6 channel audio is needed, ethernet, and USB. Intel chipset is desired because I know I can install the XP copy of the chipset drivers in XPe on the original motherboard then move the drive into the new machine.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Past VCF Photo Galleries
by Jeffrey Brace 04 May '25

04 May '25

On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Mike, > > > Does your q7.neurotica.com site contain all of the older galleries you > used to keep on your previous website? I ask because in my travels of > gathering up links, I've found atleast half a dozen references to your old > website, but so far they're all for things that I already had the newer > version of on my directory. > > > Since posting about the page publicly, I've received no less than 4 dozen > new links so far. We're down to about 9 domestic events I'm missing > something from as of right now. Sadly, records from European events are > rather spotty, and I'm not sure who might have stuff from those events to > fill in those gaps. Either way, keep 'em coming! > I have some contacts with the european events. Here are some from VCF GB: https://www.facebook.com/vcfgb/photos_albums > > > Thanks, > > > -Alexander 'Z' Pierson >

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Signup Sheet for MARCH Repair Workshop - June 7-8
by Jeff Salzman 04 May '25

04 May '25

Here is the signup sheet for the upcoming MARCH Repair Workshop for Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8, 2025. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LnfIzE2RH6EAPVMhQwnYPIyqi5mOL9BCSjZ… Note that this coincides with the VCF/MARCH Swap Meet that runs in the morning of June 7. https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/ Below are signup sheets for the other MARCH Workshops this year, in case you want to get a head start on reserving a space for future events. July 12-13: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q0gBzeCUCYCjWWvyDh_2BqHSfl6ADPFO_EK… August 9-10: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hT8BFEpNLZLa5ibWOG7sGZDzkd5S6Mmd13I… September 6-7: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Ngyq02l57Z3oEFSoQ24JXXuegF3goNNuJF… October 18-19: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VjEFJF7lxYFgcdQk0OeNWjof1ZhrpYRPDqj… November 15-16: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZZNkZB6MGB-xPF-LVwmzkpKP4dxqZWazqcA…

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Past VCF Photo Galleries
by Ethan Dicks 03 May '25

03 May '25

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > I don't know about you, but I find myself looking at photos of past VCFs for a number of reasons, and not just photos I took, or from events I attended. It affords us an opportunity to see community members, speakers, exhibitors, etc. who might no longer be with us. Yes! > So I made a directory of all the links I could find from every VCF I could find: > > https://www.commodorez.com/vcfarcgal.html Funny thing - I stumbled across this a few days ago on my own searches for VCFs past. My own goal was to populate a list of shows I've attended, and where I've presented or exhibited, on what. Your archives and links were most helpful! I'm still trying to track down a couple of data points - the oldest VCF East shows don't have show dates on the VCF archive pages. In particular, I'm missing dates for 3.0/2006, 5.0/2008, and 6.0/2009 (my own first VCF East wasn't until 2012). I have a quantity of pictures myself, but not (yet) sorted into albums, etc. I'm happy to find some place to post them for all. Thank you for pulling all this together! It's a fantastic historical resource. -ethan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Anniversaries of MARCH/Vintage Computer Festival/Vintage Computer Federation
by jritzman＠neo.rr.com 02 May '25

02 May '25

REMOVE -----------------------------------------From: "Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic" To: "vcf-midatlantic" Cc: "Jeffrey Brace" Sent: Wednesday April 30 2025 1:10:18PM Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Anniversaries of MARCH/Vintage Computer Festival/Vintage Computer Federation On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Not sure which this is. From old email > That would be *MUSEUM 2.0*. VCF East 5.0 - September 13-14, 2008 That's the day that I joined this group as an attendee! > Highlights of VCF East 5.0 include a presentation by Bill Mauchly, son > of computer pioneer and ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly, as well as the > grand opening of the MARCH Grabbe Computer Museum at the InfoAge > Learning Center. > > > -=/ VCF East 5.0 Speaker Schedule /=- > > Saturday, September 13 > > Time Speaker Topic > -------- ---------------- ------------------------------------------ > ... > 1:15 PM Evan Koblentz MARCH - Grabbe Computer Museum Opening > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 10:24:04AM -0400, Jeffrey Brace via > vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > *2025* > > 20th VCF East > > 20th VCF Midwest > > 20th VCF West (originally not called West) > > 20th Anniversary of MARCH museum opening (May 14, 2005?) > > > > *2026* > > 10th Anniversary of Vintage Computer Federation (June 17, 2015) > > 20th Anniversary of VCF East @ InfoAge (May 13, 2006) > > 25th Anniversary of VCF East (July 28-29, 2001) > > > > I need to track down which year we opened MARCH museum 2.0 and 3.0. > > > > Take care! > > > > Jeff Brace > > VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President > > VCF East Showrunner > > VCF/MARCH Fundraising Manager > > Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity > > https://vcfed.org/ [1] /> > Links: ------ [1] https://vcfed.org/

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