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TI-00/4a PEB
by Bob Aviles 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Hi, I am looking for the following items. Trade or cash but prefer a trade. For my TI-99/4a PEB. 1. 32k 2. Cable RS232 3. Floppy drive Thanks Bobby

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Unloading help needed week of 10/29
by Evan Koblentz 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

It's about 95% definite that we are receiving a VERY LARGE computer around Halloween-time. I should know 100% sometime tomorrow. I do not yet know which day it will arrive: a truck is bringing it to us from the mountain time zone. It's leaving its current home on the 25th and then I will be able to track it. Estimate is middle of that week. I gave a heads-up to one of InfoAge's forklift drivers, but I will need help!! It's going to be hard work unloading an 18-wheeler and the driver isn't going to wait all day for us. Who can I count on to help that day? Don't leave me to attempt this solo. Everything should be on casters or pallets. I don't anticipate much lifting, but it's the quantity that I fear.

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

We have a modest amount of visitors today. I had an hour between the museum closing and the IA staff meeting, so I did some warehouse things. There was a part of George that I put with the rest of the analog computing items, and there was a teletype table that goes with an older teletype we already donated to NJARC, so I gave them the table too. These two steps cleared a whopping 4 square feet of warehouse space :) but every bit helps! ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, executive director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation

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Asante EN/SC adaptor?
by David Riley 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hey all, I have an interest in getting an Asante EN/SC adaptor (SCSI-to-Ethernet adaptor for Mac), and I suspect at least one of you (*cough* Herb *cough*) might have one I could acquire or purchase for a modest sum. Any version is fine; regular, mini or micro. Ideally I'd like a working one. If it helps, it's for the greater good: I want to reverse engineer and replicate it, as well as try and write some drivers for NetBSD, since it's one of the only reliable ways to get early PowerBooks on Ethernet. - Dave

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Festivus 2018 - Movie room
by Jeffrey Brace 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

So the last two years we didn't really do movies, but I'm considering it again. The reason is that we don't use the big dorm room (called the women's bunk room), so we can setup our 100 inch projector screen, lights off and project movies or TV onto it in that room. This way if you want to go see a movie or TV show (i.e. Whiz Kids) you can do it. If you don't want to see movies, then you can stay in the main festivus area. Who's votes for movie setup? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10
by Ethan Dicks 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 12:51 PM Christopher Blackmon via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > It wasn't supposed to be an attachment.... stupid yahoo mail. > https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/10/09/source-code-for-zork-dungeon-from-the-… It seems they noticed this repo after six months... (I'm on a mailing list that's part of the effort to resurrect MDL and other 36-bit applications - we were discussing this earlier this year) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/zork Mostly, this is the same MDL code that's been bouncing around for 25 years but BUILD.CMD is interesting to me, as are the text files. Those are not part of the standard tarball. -ethan

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Fwd: Transfer 5.25 inch data to USB to use on Windows based Laptop
by Evan Koblentz 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Anybody in the DC area want to help this person? Reply to him directly, not to me. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Transfer 5.25 inch data to USB to use on Windows based Laptop Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 20:32:05 +0000 (UTC) From: ann hwang <sunnyfield88(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: ann hwang <sunnyfield88(a)yahoo.com> To: evan(a)VCFED.org <evan(a)VCFED.org> Evan, I want to retrieve data from my 5.25 inch floppy disks.How can I do this? I would appreciate your help. Steve Hwang Fairfax, VA 202-330-9514

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10
by Jonathan Gevaryahu 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

On 10/9/2018 12:02 PM, Christopher Blackmon via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Whatever this message was, it got mangled pretty badly by the list. Remember, the vcf-midatlantic list strips off all attachments, whether they are images or files. Do you have a link to the source code? -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(a)gmail.com jgevaryahu(a)hotmail.com

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Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10
by Christopher Blackmon 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Saw this and thought someone might be interested... Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10 | | | | | | | | | | | Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10 If you’re into classic games, like from the DEC minicomputer days and into the early (vintage) computer days, yo... | | |

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Festivus craft time...
by jakari 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

A little Festivus instigation... Apparently, it used to be A Thing to make holiday wreaths from punchcards. My wife Jayme happened across his one for sale: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/709541509395750 And then we found: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102667304 And a bunch more on Google Image search, including: https://aadl.org/N021_0795_002 Well I might need one of these. ;) -- Jameel Akari

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