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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15
by Evan Koblentz 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

> What about my idea of having a panel session where people could ask questions on any computer repair topic and a panel of peeps would answer? Pondering it. Not as high on the idea as I was before, for various logistical reasons. > Also, any possibility of Bill Herd doing his soldering class again? Doubtful we'd repeat the same narrow-ish topic two years in a row.

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Museum report 2019/03/16
by Jeffrey Brace 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Today we had two to three dozen visitors because of a STEAM event at Infoage: https://njstempathways.org/event/steam-tank-regional-competition-at-camp-ev… Lots of medium to high interest adults and children. Some could identify different computers. I let some of them try some BASIC programming on the C64 as well as paint on PC, Amiga, Mac. Also some games on C64, PC, Next. Telling all of them about VCF East. I hope to get some of them coming. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Ticket desk volunteers needed, too...
by Evan Koblentz 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Everyone, Amy can't be at the ticket desk this year, and Ann will only be available Friday/Sunday (if I understood Kelly correctly), so we need people for the front desk. Just like in my previous email about consignment volunteers: this is super important!! We need people who have their shit together for this job. Apply off-list to me...

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Volunteers needed for VCF East consignment
by Evan Koblentz 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Everyone, Jim S. is leading the consignment booth on Saturday and Kelly is leading it on Sunday. We need a few volunteers to help them both days. This is a very important job. We need people who are ultra-reliable and on-the-ball in a retail environment. You've got to learn fast, work fast, and be there exactly when we need you. Apply off-list to me...

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...
by Todd George 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

\,,/ Sabbath!!! \,,/ Based on METAL, Tony is referring to Neon Knights. -Todd On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:44 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Wow, blast from the past! Funny thing is, sitting on the boat eating lunch > I looked up the cDc to see what names would be listed (handles of course) > on any Wikipedia or other entries online and what names is > remember/recognize. There were members (or supposed members....people liked > to pretend they were more connected than they actually were sometimes) I > had dealt with through my our group, especially when we were dealing with > MoD and LoD. > > The funny part is in the Wikipedia list of cDc “affiliations” are not only > groups I know and don’t know, but the group I was part of!!! Was two kids > from Jersey (me being one of them) and one from Oregon and one from > California when we started it when I was 12 years old (1980, just before my > 13th birthday in November) > > Todd George could probably look at the list and know which group it was > based on the name!! > > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 15, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-beto-orourke-special-rep/sp… > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic > > <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is > >> crazy..." > >> > >> It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has > >> been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of > >> cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that > used > >> to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this > >> knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went > >> public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out. > >> > >> A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking > >> social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear > >> about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a > lot > >> of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all. > >> > >> - Ethan > >> > >> > >> > >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...
by W2HX 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Am I the only one? All emails from Tony (and I think some others) always come in as attachments. Meaning I get a blank email from Tony (through the list) with no content, only an attachment. That attachment is an email message itself (like an .eml or whatever) containing his content. Am I seeing things (again)? 73 Eugene W2HX From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org] On Behalf Of Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 1:44 PM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Tony Bogan Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15
by Evan Koblentz 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

> I’d like to see such a course be a yearly thing at VCF as it literally will never go out of style The thing is, that could be said about many topics. Only 15 slots to play with ... we could easily come up with 30-40 topics, if there were enough teachers. :) I would TOTALLY DO THAT if we knew that enough people would attend VCF East as a four or five-day event.

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Re: vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15
by Jeff G 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

What about my idea of having a panel session where people could ask questions on any computer repair topic and a panel of peeps would answer? Also, any possibility of Bill Herd doing his soldering class again? I really want to take that as I missed the last one. Jeff aka Bags

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Urgent! Lots more instructors needed for VCF East
by Evan Koblentz 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

VCF East classes are Friday, May 3, and we still need many more instructors. There are 15 slots. So far we have: - Unusual Unix(es) ... Alex Jacocks - Unix networking ... Andy Diller - Unix headless booting ... Stephen Edwards - SimH ... David Gesswein (We need one more Unix-y topic.) We also have people committed to teach: - Atari 400/800 ... Bill Lange - 8-Bit Computer Basic Repair ... Chris Fala - TRS-80 101 ... Dean Notarnicola - Hard Drive Repair ... Jason Perkins - Apple II 101 ... Tony Bogan That's only nine classes so far. Here are some ideas: - What's NeXT - VMS/OpenVMS - How to be a good PET owner - Commodore 64 repair (it'll never go out of style) - Early IBM PC repair (yes it's vintage now...) - Ian's CRT Magic (people can't get enough!) - "Don't be scared of front panels", a.k.a. "If Evan use one then so can you!" (but no I'm not qualified to teach this) - The role of microcontrollers in the hobby today

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes...
by Chris Fala 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

When I read on the web interface (Gmail) it is fine, but when I view on my iPhone, I get them as attachments. For a few other users as well. On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:29 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > Eugene, sometime a few months back (perhaps it was late last year) > something changed with the list and even my own emails come back to be as a > .mime attachment. It did not used to be that way, and I did not change > anything on my end. Perhaps my .mac/iCloud service changed something, I do > not know. > > There are a handful of people on the list whose emails come through as you > describe. > > Tony > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Blake Patterson via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Hah, this is great. I hope it does bring the spotlight on BBS of past > (and > > present!). I am active on several boards daily, right now. The one I hit > > the most frequently is The Level 29 BBS ( bbs.foxxtexx.com ) which is > the > > official BBS of the r/Retrobattlestations subreddit. Stop in (telnet or > > dial-up)! > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < > > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is > >> crazy..." > >> > >> It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has > >> been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of > >> cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that > used > >> to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this > >> knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went > >> public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out. > >> > >> A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking > >> social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear > >> about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a > lot > >> of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all. > >> > >> - Ethan > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Heisenberg may have slept here. > >

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