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Happy New Year
by Tony Bogan 01 Jan '19

01 Jan '19

Hope everyone had a happy and safe New Years! I had a lot of fun in 2018 between VCF East, workshops, giving museum tours, festivus etc. Looking forward to an even better 2019! Tony Sent from my iPhone

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Warehouse stuff
by Evan Koblentz 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

Is anyone available to work with me in the museum warehouse this Wednesday?

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Museum report
by Tony Bogan 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

Quiet day at Infoage today. Sounded like most of the traffic came yesterday. I had a handful of visitors come through with mild interest and a father and son that took the full tour and asked lots of questions. I had the time today to test myself on several machines. In addition to the demo on the UNIVAC, I ran the shorter demo on the HP 1000 (lights moving in one direction) and I also had the Altair running “kill the bit” as well. Once Dave shows me how to demo the PDP I’ll move on to learning some basic stuff on the TRS-80 and PET. I have a simple text welcome program I run on the Apple II sometimes in lieu of the slide show disk we often run and I’ve learned enough about the C64 to run the Sid player or a program or two and I usually run a game or deluxe Paint on the Amiga. With Lisa Guide now set up on the Lisa (thanks Jason!) and the Mac 128 running MacPaint, the NeXT Cube running whatever you like (tons of software on it) plus the AT&T PC booted, the 5150 running its Intro software, the other PC running Windows 3.11 and the Osborne running (I usually load either Microsoft Basic or Hitchhikers Guide) we have the micros pretty well covered. Getting to be that time of year again for me so I’ll be able to docent at the museum more often over the next few months. Tony Sent from my iPhone

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OT: tool chest, table saw FS
by Evan Koblentz 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

I'm moving in a few weeks and need to go minimalist. Is anyone interested in a tool chest (red, casters, about waist-height) and/or a table saw? Both of them came from Sears around 10 years ago and do their jobs fine. I no longer need either one, but I do need quick $$$. I * may * be able to deliver these to the museum or anywhere not too far away. Not sure if the toolchest will fit in my car. Possibly if I lay it down. Please reply off-list. Priority goes to whomever can take them soonest. Rather not wait until the Jan. 12-13 workshop.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Straight 8
by Chris Fala 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

What Tony said. :-) On Dec 28, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Tony Bogan <thebogans(a)mac.com> wrote: > On Dec 28, 2018, at 8:07 AM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard > any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it? David, when I’ve been at the museum I have not run it as I am unfamiliar with it. Perhaps if you’re at one of the upcoming workshops you could give me a crash course (pun intended) so I could run a demo for visitors. When Bill Dromgoole was there he both wrote down and walked me through the diagnostic we use to show the machine running. It’s not sexy but for 99% of the people it’s enough blinking lights and whirring to get the “wow it actually works!” Response from them. I also have a video of Bill running the program that I can refer back to. I would never attempt to mess with a machine I am not familiar with, but I should have asked a long time ago for you to show me the basics. I’d love to have yet another machine to demo for visitors. Tony

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Looking for Tandy 2000 board
by Richard Cini 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

All – I just finished fixing a T2K that I was given and I’m looking for the mouse/clock board (26-5144) and mouse (26-1197) so that I can get Windows 1 working on it. If anyone has spares or is looking to thin their herd, please let me know. Thanks! Happy New Year to all! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

Jeff B. was our docent today. I was at the InfoAge front desk (it was VCF's turn). About 25-30 visitors today with varied levels of interest.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Straight 8
by Jeffrey Brace 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

Evan knows how to do it and will be including it in his forthcoming docent manual which will also have a video. @David Let us know what to look for as we run it. On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 9:17 AM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2018, at 8:07 AM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard > > any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it? > > David, when I’ve been at the museum I have not run it as I am unfamiliar > with it. Perhaps if you’re at one of the upcoming workshops you could give > me a crash course (pun intended) so I could run a demo for visitors. > > When Bill Dromgoole was there he both wrote down and walked me through the > diagnostic we use to show the machine running. It’s not sexy but for 99% of > the people it’s enough blinking lights and whirring to get the “wow it > actually works!” Response from them. I also have a video of Bill running > the program that I can refer back to. > > I would never attempt to mess with a machine I am not familiar with, but I > should have asked a long time ago for you to show me the basics. I’d love > to have yet another machine to demo for visitors. > > Tony > -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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PDP 8 documents (ephemera) available
by William Dudley 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

Back in the late 70's, when the PDP 8 was already getting long in the tooth, a friend and I built PDP-8 clones using the Intersil 6100 chip. (The museum has my PDP-8 clone in their collection.} We also copied every bit of PDP-8 documentation we could. Because I never throw anything out, but want to make it so my son doesn't have to get the extra large dumpster when I go, I recently discoved a book box full of PDP-8 documentation. Most of it is 8 1/2 x 11, except for the first two items. Some of this stuff is original Digital Equipment Corp publications, some is photocopies; that is noted for each item below. There are multiple copies of a few of the documents, also noted below. Also, there is one (1) pdp-12 document in the collection (a photocopy). All these documents are in excellent shape, especially since they've been in a box in my basement for 30 years, and in the same box in a different basement for 5 years prior to that. The museum (a.k.a, Evan) gets first dibs. After that -- I dunno, depends on how much interest there is. os/8 handbook first printing 1974/4 - 2 copies (official DEC paperback book) ALL of the following are 8 1/2 x 11: os/8 software support manual (version 3 1974/6) - 3 photocopies os/8 software support manual (version 3 1974/6) - 1 original decus program library: Focal photocopy DEC-S8-CFTNA-A-D fortran IV users manual first printing 1973/6 2 photocopies DEC-S8-LFSSA-A-D fortran IV software support manual 1973 photocopy pdp/8 floating point system programming manual photocopy Digital-8-2-U Binary loader (original listing) 1966/3/23 (to be toggled in) DEC-08-PMPA-D Readin-Mode (RIM) Punch (original listing) 1966/11/22 8 DEC-08-COAA-D (L) ODT (mimeograph ? listing) 1967/5/12 DEC-08-COCO-D ODT-8 1968/10/10 photocopy DEC-08-NGCA-D PDP-8 Console Manual 1966 original Maindec 802 Memory Checkerboard Test 1965/9/1 (original listing) Maindec 803 Memory Address Test 1965/5/11 (original listing) Digital-8-6-U-Sym Octal Memory Dump 1965/3/17 (mimeograph ? listing) Digital-8-5-U-Sym Binary Punch 1965/3/1 (original listing) DEC-08-ESAA-D PDP-8 Symbolic Editor Programming Editor 1965 original DEC-08-BA1A-D PDP-8 Program Abstracts 1966/10/11 (original) DEC-08-CMAA-D PDP-8 Macro-8 Programming Manual 1965 (original) DEC-08-ASAA-D PDP-8 PAL III Symbolic Assembler Programming Manual 1965 (original) DIGITAL-8-4-S PDP-8 DDT Programming Manual 1965 (original) DEC-S8-UPTHA-B-D EPIC User's Manual (photocopy) DEC-S8-OSRNA-A-D OS/8 System Release Notes (V03C) (2 photocopies) DEC-S8-OSHBA-A-DN1 OS/8 Handbook Addendum - New Handlers (photocopy) AD-0877G-B1 Digital Software News PDP-8 1977/4 (photocopy) miscellaneous pages of Digital Software News (1976) (photocopy) miscellaneous photocopied DEC errata and correction pages (title unknown) Chapter 4 RX8E Interfacing Programming Information (2 photocopies) DEC-12-UFPAA-A-D pdp12 FPP Assembler User's Guide 1973/7 - (photocopy) Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

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Straight 8
by David Gesswein 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it?

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