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Vintage computer sighting...stranger things
by william degnan 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Can you name the make and model of the hardware being used season 2 episode 2 at 16:50 in? First one to get it wins a prize of no value but sure to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology. Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net

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LSSM visit
by Mike Loewen 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

We had a very productive hacking session yesterday at Dave McGuire's Large Scale Systems Museum. We managed to get his HP 2117F mini running, after finding some flaky DIP switches on one of the 64KW memory boards. I brought my HPDrive emulator and the requisite HP-IB boot loader PROMS for the 2117F, and we were able to load and run diagnostics from an emulated 9144 tape drive. Several of the front panel switch toggles on the 2117F were broken on one side, and one was completely broken. We pulled the switch assembly from a previously mouse-infested donor unit, and I showed Dave how to replace the switch toggles. The external Floating Point Processor unit I brought to complete the 2117F turned out to have an overload problem, tripping the internal breaker/switch. It would power up with either of the two internal boards installed, but not both. Dave thinks it may be just leaky caps. We also verified the operation of one of his 2645A terminals, and used it for running diagnostics. Matt and Chris cleaned up and evaluated a 7905A 15MB cartridge disc drive. It has the requisite 13037 controller and cables, and should connect right up to the interface card in the 2117F. Needs a good disc pack, tnough. Dave says he should be able to disassemble and clean the pack that was in the drive. Matt Patoray was there, along with Chris (?) and Dan Roganti. We accomplished a lot. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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IT stuff we need for the museum
by Evan Koblentz 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Thought I'd ask here one more time before searching eBay and stuff. To improve our evolving museum network, we can use the following: - Fanless rack-mount switch. Martin recommended the Juniper EX2200 or a fanless version of the Cisco 3010. He said the Cisco 2960 series also has fanless versions, but they sacrifice PoE which we need for security cameras. We could get by with 12 ports but 24 would be ideal - Rack-mountable UPS with good batteries. I don't have exact figures for the required specs. Stuff we'd be running: a couple of PC-like machines, small LCD monitor, small analog PBX, and no more than two network switches. The rack's other contacts do not need emergency power (stereo, minifridge .... well maybe I should reconsider about the minifridge ... in an emergency we might want a cold drink!) - Rack-mountable keyboard/mouse tray. - A bunch of the proper nuts/bolts to mount 4 or 5 components. - Unrelated: we could also use two chairs and one stool. We have some but they're old, breaking down, and don't match our decor. I would like to get nice ones that are typical black/chrome office designs. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, 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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Looking for BR1951-L05 chips
by Richard Cini 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

All – Does anyone have a cache of these WD baud rate generator chips? I just mistakenly bought three of the L06 versions but it turns out I need the L05 version, the difference being the divisor (I think) and the crystal. I’m going to re-create a Seattle Computer board and it uses the L05 version, and the software relies on the right divisor. If anyone has spares, please let me know. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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relaying the news: Oregon Train revisited
by Jeffrey Jonas 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

It's https://traveloregon.com/thegame/ from the boingboing random nooz generator: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/05/craft-coffee-and-dysentery.html A playable version of Oregon Trail to promote Oregon tourism The semi-independent Oregon Tourism Commission has created a playable version of the classic Apple ][-era adventure game Oregon Trail to promote Oregon tourism. I played for a while and didn't die of dysentery; instead I helped out at a Portland craft brewery, went skiing, threw out tees at a hockey game and bought kombucha in the general outfitters.

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Museum Report 2017-11-05 November 5, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

About 7 or 8 today. Interest varied from the quick tour to the long tour. As per tradition, I made sure to leave on random computers and peripherals to keep them warm through the cool fall months.

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Museum Report 2017-11-04
by Jeffrey Brace 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Bill Dromgoole was docent at the museum. About 7 or 8 people in 3 groups came. 2 were very interested, and the rest had casual interest. Andy Bodnar dropped off a Vax cooling fan.

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Vic 21
by william degnan 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Anyone have a vic 21 ? They're pretty rare too. Wonder what a person could get for one of those today. Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Use smile.amazon.com to donate to VCF
by Jeffrey Brace 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Yes of course that's what I meant and implied. Not literally VCF, but what the acronym represents. I figured that everyone could figure that out themselves, but I guess that I was wrong. I will go back to my literal self. The figurative one is too ambiguous! ;) On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 1:08 PM William Dromgoole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > VCF is Victory Christian Fellowship. > Maybe we should use Vintage Computer Federation. > > Bill > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic > Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 1:13 AM > To: vcf-midatlantic > Cc: Jeffrey Brace > Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Use smile.amazon.com to donate to VCF > > As a reminder when shopping on Amazon, please use smile.amazon.com and > specific VCF as the charity that will benefit. Amazon donates 0.5% of your > eligible orders to VCF. > >

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Use smile.amazon.com to donate to VCF
by Jeffrey Brace 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

As a reminder when shopping on Amazon, please use smile.amazon.com and specific VCF as the charity that will benefit. Amazon donates 0.5% of your eligible orders to VCF.

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