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Vote for InfoAge!
by Evan Koblentz 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

A local public radio station is having a contest for charity organizations from now through October 15, where the winner will be mentioned on the air every day for a month. That is some pretty good free advertising. InfoAge got on the list. Please vote now, don't put it aside and forget about it! https://wbjb.formstack.com/forms/voteforagoodcause ________________________________ 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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CHIP / Pocket CHIP maker is no more :-(
by Jeffrey Jonas 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

I do not recall seeing this reported here before. Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.? We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived. -- jeff jonas

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Cool interview in progress...
by Evan Koblentz 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

I tracked down the guy in Denmark who was product manager for the Lego robotics kit in the mid-1980s. Got his name from one of the manuals, reached out to him on LinkedIn, and now we're corresponding by email. He already sent me some fascinating information. Tomorrow we are speaking by Skype at 1pm. Can't wait! I have so many questions. If any of you have questions, then let me know by tomorrow morning. For some of the technical questions, I'm thinking to myself: "What would Dan ask?"

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] CHIP / Pocket CHIP maker is no more :-(
by Brian L. Stuart 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

On Sun, 9/16/18, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > On 09/16/2018 06:46 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. > > The company is defunct :-( > > I hadn't heard either. I saw the astonishingly and obviously poor > decisions come, one after another, and expected this to happen > eventually, but somehow I had missed the news when it happened. I first heard something at VCF East this year. A visitor to my table was looking at one I was running the ENIAC simulator on. When I said something about having your own pocket ENIAC, he said "if you can find one now." At home, I did a little searching and came across the Hackaday article on it. > > We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived. > > I agree. I have several of their boards in daily use here, and I want > to keep them running. I've got a couple here, but never did get around to porting Plan 9 like I had intended. About the only other thing I ever did with mine was run simh for a pocket 11. Alas it joins my Nanonote and Agenda in my collection of promising open designs that didn't make it. BLS

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Ideas for "analog" icon?
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >There is an under-construction page on my Lego robotics website about >analog computing. I need a simple image to represent the idea of analog. >Any suggestions? I'm not looking for a picture of hardware, I'm looking >for something more like an icon even if I have to make it myself... but >an icon of what? It needs to be something recognizable to regular >people. Perhaps... https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/200637/primary-oscilloscope… Looks like a terminal with analog waveform.

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fire, all ok
by Dave McGuire 15 Sep '18

15 Sep '18

By now some of you have heard about the massive fire that just took out an entire block here in New Kensington. I'm sending this out because are phones are dead from having blown up all day over this. We are fine. There was no damage to the museum, which is on the adjacent block. Building 2 is right across the alley from the block that burned. (that's where Autumn and I live and work) That building filled up with smoke and was without power for much of the afternoon and evening. Power is back on and we are getting it cleared now; if it's cleared enough by later tonight we'll be able to sleep at home. We evacuated our cats (nine of 'em) to the museum for the time being. Suboptimal but it's the best we can do. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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Ideas for "analog" icon?
by Evan Koblentz 15 Sep '18

15 Sep '18

There is an under-construction page on my Lego robotics website about analog computing. I need a simple image to represent the idea of analog. Any suggestions? I'm not looking for a picture of hardware, I'm looking for something more like an icon even if I have to make it myself... but an icon of what? It needs to be something recognizable to regular people.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] fire, all ok
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > > > By now some of you have heard about the massive fire that just took >out an entire block here in New Kensington. I'm sending this out >because are phones are dead from having blown up all day over this. > > We are fine. There was no damage to the museum, which is on the >adjacent block. Building 2 is right across the alley from the block >that burned. (that's where Autumn and I live and work) That building >filled up with smoke and was without power for much of the afternoon and >evening. Power is back on and we are getting it cleared now; if it's >cleared enough by later tonight we'll be able to sleep at home. We >evacuated our cats (nine of 'em) to the museum for the time being. >Suboptimal but it's the best we can do. Shhhh...tuff happens. Happy to hear you, Autumn, kitties and computers are all well.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Cool interview in progress...
by Thomas Fuchs 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

I think all the FT packaging showed the same mock-up computer, they just changed the label. I’ll double check later as I have one minty-fresh in box and it’s for IBM PC... Best, Thomas > On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:56 AM, Thomas Fuchs via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > <mime-attachment>

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Interest in a Workshop at System Source, in Hunt Valley, MD?
by Duane Craps 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

I would be interested in either date Duane Craps Hope it works this time. I keep forgetting what email address of mine that goes though On 9/13/2018 9:34 AM, J. Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Here are the current numbers: > > *September 29th/30th:* 4-6 (Dromgoole, Hendrickson, Loewen, O'Toole, > Perkins, Jacocks) > *November 10th/11th:* 7 (Degnan, Dromgoole, Gesswein, Koblentz, Lou, > O'Toole, Sturges, Jacocks) > > Anyone else interested in the 29th or 30th, please let me know ASAP. I'm > going to talk to Bob Roswell, to confirm his availability. > > Thanks! > - Alex > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:33 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> November >> >> >> On 09/12/2018 03:27 PM, Bill Dromgoole via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >>> I am interested in either date . Maybe both. >>> >>> Bill Dromgoole >>> >>> >>> From: J. Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:22 AM >>> To: vcf-midatlantic >>> Cc: J. Alexander Jacocks >>> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Interest in a Workshop at System >> Source,in Hunt Valley, MD? >>> Any other interest? So far, I don't think that we have enough folks for >>> either the 29th/30th or the 10th/11th. >>> >>> Here are the current numbers: >>> >>> *September 29th/30th:* 2-4 (Loewen, Hendrickson, Perkins, Jacocks) >>> *November 10th/11th:* 4 (Degnan, Lou, Gesswein, Jacocks) >> -- DuaneCraps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp

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