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Museum Report 2019-08-18 August 18, 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Aug '19

18 Aug '19

First half of the day was slow, but it picked up by 3:15 until about 4:30. Had about 3 dozen visitors with most of them being familes. Gave a few tours with visitors being from medium to high interest. Also worked on some museum management stuff. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Pretty busy today. A couple of dozen people came through our exhibit. Mostly families.

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LGR video - Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
by David K 16 Aug '19

16 Aug '19

Not sure if anyone saw this. It is a video of a guy on YouTube exploring a now mostly-closed place called "Computer Reset". It looks to be a place where they repaired computers as well as bought old computers and more. Some of the stuff is vintage stuff new in box. It puts Kemner's to shame. They are open to collector's and in the last part of the video they mention an apparent willingness to give/sell things to museums so I thought I would pass this along. If nothing else it is very interesting to watch. The catch is it is near Dallas, TX so that likely makes it a non-starter for most. But I believe there is a VCF-midwest who might be made aware of it. Enjoy! David

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GW-DEC-1: A New DEC Prototyping Board
by systems_glitch 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

Connor Krukosky and I have been working on laying out a new quad-height DEC protoboard, which can also be sheared down into a dual-height board. Full announce on the VC Forums: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?71177-GW-DEC-1-A-New-Quad-Height-… These should be available within a month or so. I'll be putting up a preorder soon to gauge interest in the production run, which as usual will have hard gold plating on the edge connectors. I haven't gotten a quote for the cost, but I expect them to be $30-40 each for production boards. They'll be available at VCF Midwest as well as online! Thanks, Jonathan

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Unix demo @ Bell Labs - June 5
by Evan Koblentz 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

This is tentative / not yet 100%: Bell Labs (at the historic Murray Hill, NJ location) is planning a Unix event on Wednesday, May 5. They invited us to do a mini-version of Unix Town that afternoon. Important details: - We'd probably have five or six tables. - This is NOT a public event; it's invitation-only by BL. - Our goal is to do demos for important people. So I'm gauging initial interest: who is able to take a day off from work that afternoon and come to NJ for this?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: ISO Sol-20 & Exidy Sorcerer
by Evan Koblentz 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

We'd like an Exidy Sorcerer, too. :) On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:58 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > All, a friend of mine is looking for a Sol-20 and an Exidy Sorcerer. These > two items are high on his list of “what I want next” and he’s preferably > looking for working condition but not a deal breaker depending on details. > > Contact me off list if you are looking to part with either (or both!) of > these machines from your inventory. I will put you in touch with each other > or play middle man if you’d prefer, either way works! > > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone >

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OT: ISO Sol-20 & Exidy Sorcerer
by Tony Bogan 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

All, a friend of mine is looking for a Sol-20 and an Exidy Sorcerer. These two items are high on his list of “what I want next” and he’s preferably looking for working condition but not a deal breaker depending on details. Contact me off list if you are looking to part with either (or both!) of these machines from your inventory. I will put you in touch with each other or play middle man if you’d prefer, either way works! Tony Sent from my iPhone

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Xerox 16/8
by Sentry TV 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

I will be bringing the Xerox machine, Monitor, Printer to the next Saturday workshop. Anyone who has 5.25 boot disk(s) DOS or CP/M that will be going to the workshop Saturday, could you bring a couple to test, please?Right now I do not have any boot disks for this.I had MS-DOS disks at one time but cant find them, yet. Thank you Mike R.

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VCF Mid-West 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

I was thinking about going to VCF Mid-West this year. I have never been there. Who else is planning to go? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Aug Repair Workshop 2019 - 8/24 & 8/25
by Jeffrey Brace 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

There is still space available for the workshop. It is about 11 days away. Sign up here: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Gmvr2ZEtEXouN0oB7Y_UtCRabbwhLTi4E_… > I will be sending out Info for the Repair workshop next week. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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