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Busy weekend
by Evan Koblentz 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

I was at the museum both days this weekend (stayed overnight). Lots of visitors all weekend, and last night I represented VCF at InfoAge's annual "Wall of Honor" dinner. Our own Nick Lordi was there too. ________________________________ 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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WTB: Data I/O 351A-070, 071, 072 Socket Adapters
by systems_glitch 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

All, I'm looking for any or all of the following Data I/O Socket Adapters: 351A-070 (8741, 8748, etc) 351A-071 (8751) 351A-072 (8755A) Thanks, Jonathan

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AOL 4.0 on Ebay
by Herb Johnson 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

The AOL 4.0 CD ebay auction referenced, has a starting bid of $575, and one bidder. That bidder has ZERO rating and bidding history only 6 days old. I smell a RAT!. An ebay search for AOL CD's sold recently (months) shows most selling for several dollars to under $20, or in sets at those prices. There's stories years old on the Web, about this or that AOL CD or floppy selling for thousands; but not much since 2015. Now, that's just a modest and incomplete survey, looks over about an hour of time. But I'm not seeing any comprehensive collector's discussions and marketplaces. For items worth thousands, I'd expect to see more. In any event, there's no clear and obvious venue to determine likely value. That makes it hard to sustain interest in high prices, when you can't validate what you have (or are about to) spend. I imagine someone might tell me "blah blah blah, put it on eBay and take what you can get, what someone pays is what it's worth". I don't find that a satisfactory explanation, that's called "the greater fool". If there's any persistant value to AOL disks or CD's, I'd expect to find something - or have someone tell me "go *here* and see for your self". Herb Johnson lesser fool -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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AOL 4.0 on Ebay
by Bill Degnan 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-America-online-disc-for-internet-4-0-WITH… The last one sold for $10,000+. I think an AOL 2.5 diskette in original package with the Thompson Twins on the package went for $75,000 Bill

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] AOL 4.0 on Ebay
by Jeffrey Golas 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

I think I would wet myself if Prodigy came back in any iteration! Jeff

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HOPE
by Evan Koblentz 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

HOPE was great! Chris F., Mouse, Dmitry (a newish member), and I all worked the VCFed booth -- huge thanks to them!! Many other members were at the show. Jim, Rolf, Jason P., Kenzo, Brian Stuart, Jason Scott, Connor, Jonathan, Amy .... sorry to anyone I forget to mention. Chris L. didn't make it but he joined some of us for Saturday night dinner. My talk this morning went pretty well. Unfortunately it started 10 minutes late due to elevator problems (for everyone, all weekend long!) and so I had to stop before the audience Q&A. But the robot performed well and I was happy with all the recent code improvements. Next stop, Maker Faire! I'll start a thread about it this week. (Please don't fork this thread.)

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F/S ALTAIR Complete starter kit
by johnp＠exhilaronics.com 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

F/S Original Altair, many MITS boards, more than 50 (fifty) other s-100 boards, OEM 8"disk drives, Lab equipment, large selection of chips and other parts, selection of Cromemco Cyclops parts including S100 interface pair and original camera boards and cases. Cleaning out all my stock because of illness. MUST BE PICKED UP IN SOUTHERN NH AND CANNOT BE BROKEN UP OR SHIPPED! Will sell to best reasonable offer. For complete inventory email jparsonsnh at gmail dot com

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Arrival ETA tomorrow
by Evan Koblentz 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

Looks like Chris F. and I won't be there to set up the VCF table until around 10:00-10:30 tomorrow. We planned to be there by 9ish, but my 20-pin female/female ribbon cable broke tonight. I have to stop at the local electronics shop here and get a replacement made. They open at 9am.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Discounted HOPE ticket for partial sale (Friday & Saturday)
by Evan Koblentz 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

>> (This could be by you giving it to an i.e. vcf-midatlantic friend when you leave on Saturday who'll still be there on Sunday, and I call the person on Sunday morning and they come downstairs to bring me the extra badge.) We can have someone here at the VCF booth take care of that for you.

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Discounted HOPE ticket for partial sale (Friday & Saturday)
by Ken 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Know anyone in the following situation? - Wants to go to HOPE - Doesn't have ticket yet - Wants to be assured entrance in case the event sells out - Wants to go Friday and/or Saturday, but not Sunday - Wants to save some money - Wants to help someone else out (me!) in complementary situation I have a ticket (they're no longer for sale online, will cost more at the door, and might sell out). I can now only go on Sunday. I'd love to share it with someone, for whatever price split seems nice. The catch is, we have to find a way for you to hand off the badge to me when you're done with it. (This could be by you giving it to an i.e. vcf-midatlantic friend when you leave on Saturday who'll still be there on Sunday, and I call the person on Sunday morning and they come downstairs to bring me the extra badge.) Longshot? I figure I'd try. :) - Ken On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Ken via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: >I have an extra HOPE ticket for sale (I paid $170), because my friend accidentally double booked his weekend. >Anyone wanting to come to HOPE, let me know if you'd like to buy my ticket so I don't worry about selling it anymore! >I look forward to seeing many of you there as usual. The MARCH exhibit has always been a highlight, always attracting interesting/interested folks of all ages for great teachings and reminiscings. > >- Ken

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