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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Friday classes @ VCF East
by Tony Bogan 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

On Jan 18, 2019, at 03:23 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Here's what I have in mind for Friday. We can extend the day by one slot (one hour per slot), so there are 18 classes instead of 15. 1. Apple II (Tony) 2. Mac (Tony) 3. Atari 800 4. C-64 5. Amiga 6. IBM PC 7. TI-99/4A (because it never gets any love) 8. TRS-80 9. CoCo 10. S-100 11. Land of CRTs (we all know who!) 12. "So you are curious about big iron" 13. Schleptops! 14. Power supplies 15. Electronics 101 (Fala) 16. Unix networking (Diller) 17. Unix weirdness (Jacocks) 18. Terminals? Keyboards? Disk imaging? Or anything else Looks good to me! In the event there are not enough bodies to fill the slots, then you could just recombine the apple ii and Mac back into one class. Whatever works best! Tony

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum Tomorrow (Saturday)
by corey cohen 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

You do know there is a monitor rom and kill the bit in eprom on the museum’s ALTAIR. There was a piece of paper under the ALTAIR with the memory addresses where the software is located. Worst case I think I have the bin files that were used to make the proms so I can figure it out on the weekend. corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 18, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Tony Bogan <thebogans(a)mac.com> wrote: > > Evan will be at the front desk at Infoage tomorrow so I will be docent in the museum from 1 to 5. > > > > Anyone not busy enjoying their weekend feel free to stop by! Going to test out my step by step "instructions for the front panel impaired" for the Altair and practice Dave G's instructions for the PDP. > > > > Company is always welcome! > > > > Tony >

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Friday classes @ VCF East
by Evan Koblentz 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

I'm starting to plan the Friday tech talks for VCF East. Andy D. said he'll do one about TCP/IP for vintage Unix computers. That gave me an idea: what if we do a whole *nix track? There are five classes per track. Each class is one hour. So, please speak up if you'd like to be an instructor. (That's important. We need people to say, "I will do it," not just "Someone should do it.")

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East dates - May 3-5
by Evan Koblentz 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

We're still waiting on IA management to make it super-duper-official, but, East will be May 3-4-5.

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Museum Tomorrow (Saturday)
by Tony Bogan 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Evan will be at the front desk at Infoage tomorrow so I will be docent in the museum from 1 to 5. Anyone not busy enjoying their weekend feel free to stop by! Going to test out my step by step "instructions for the front panel impaired" for the Altair and practice Dave G's instructions for the PDP. Company is always welcome! Tony

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Friday classes @ VCF East
by Tony Bogan 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Based on responses both public and private I’ll offer to do a class as previously described. If the powers that be deem it not worthy due to its focus, then that’ll mean more time Friday to set up the exhibit!!! Meanwhile I’d like to see if anyone either Commodore or Atari centric would be interested in possibly doing a duo. I’d like to have multiple “popular” platforms covered at once but a one hour class could easily be filled with one specific brand let alone several. Two I think would be doable. And Apple II/compact Mac and Commodore or Atari works for me if anyone else is interested. Again, one hour is so easily filled that more than two platforms would mean a lot less quality for all of them. If no one else is interested I could do a really comprehensive one on just the two Apple platforms. Ok, those that know me know I could talk for 10 hours without taking a breath but you get the idea! Volunteers? Tony

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Whoa! 11/70
by Evan Koblentz 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Forget the BeBox thread :), check out this in Pennsylvania: https://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-PDP-11-70-Datasystem-570/113553953503

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Friday classes @ VCF East
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > > >> What sort of class is wanted?=C2=A0 Ideas: > > 1) vintage Sun hardware >101 > 2) Solaris or hp-ux primer > 3)=C2=A0scsi basics > 4) 680x0 >workstations and servers (lots of different vendors had them) > > >Others? > > >How about an overview class of weird/unusual Unixes? I know there's >one for Amiga; what others are off the beaten path? It's all weird. ;)

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Feb Workshop Signup - February 9 & 10, 2019 - VCF Repair Workshop
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

So the next workshop will be February 9 & 10, 2019. Same place, same time. Here is the signup sheet: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Iy1jqPJqVzY1gnGRrHfLfIcx5IQ82QkkaB… > We tried Patrick's Pub for Saturday dinner and it was a bust. I take the blame for this one. It had great potential, and came highly recommended. I didn't call ahead and didn't anticipate the large crowd due to football playoffs. The waitress was cranky, the service slow, etc. I think that this place is probably hit or miss. When it's busy, then terrible, when not busy then fine. I will check out the next place in person to make sure. I think that we will try Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten.This one is highly recommended and Yelp rates it as a 3.5 out of 5. I also have a great idea for a different diner for Sunday breakfast. The Americana Diner which is only 2 minutes further away than the Blue Swan Diner. It's the best diner in the area. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Evan’s Favorite “F” Word (first)
by Chris Fala 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Something about this article rubs me the wrong way. For starters, he leaves out the word “portable” which makes the whole “first” thing false. What else can you say Evan? https://www.neweggbusiness.com/smartbuyer/systems/the-lasting-effects-of-th…

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