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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Apple //c equipment in Erie PA
by Eric Rangell 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hello all, My name is Eric Rangell and I live in Downingtown, PA. My parents live in Lakewood NJ so I am looking forward to visiting the museum in Wall in November. My first computer was an Apple //e when I was 13 years old in 1983. I learned programming in Basic, Pascal, and assembly language in my teens, which led to a degree in Information Systems and a job on Wall St, where I worked with COBOL, helped get the company through Y2K, then branched into Client/Server: Powerbuilder/Sybase, Java, C, C# .NET/SQL Server, HTML/JS. After that job I did consulting for a university where I built a class for remedial music theory in Java, Php, Mysql, and Unix. My current position is a solution architect in the pharma industry where I try to keep up with Azure and VSTS while coordinating testing and FDA validation of systems. So retrocomputing is a hobby that helps ground me in something familiar. I am revisiting a MIDI system I developed for myself on the Apple //e and learning about efforts by archive.org to preserve floppy disk images. I have recently become interested in the ideas of Ted Nelson - Xanadu and Zigzag. When I was recently forced to dive into Javascript it was Doug Crockford's video series that helped me explore it. I am impressed with how people got things done under the constraints of old hardware, and can appreciate the unique talents that this community has. Thanks, Eric

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Very much OT: Bitcoin?
by Joseph Oprysko 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Does anyone have any experience with Bitcoin? I setup a bitcoin wallet, but I don't have any bitcoin to deposit in it. I've tried using some of those "Satoshi Faucets" but they give SO little, I haven't "earned" enough to even put a fraction of a bitcoin in my account. If someone wouldn't mind sending me a little bit of bitcoin so I can see what the big deal is. My wallet ID is: 1NtEGyywbKdYmsb1rAafrUs32nGkCm8vyh Thanks in advance for anyone who can send me a little bit. Joe -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?

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Anyone Looking for a Ferret?
by william degnan 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Jeff J or someone may be interested in this testing system. Not sure it's a good value, no idea, but the name is Ferret. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-FERRET-FERRET-A-Multi-Function-Computer-Tes… Bil

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Apple //c equipment in Erie PA
by Eric Rangell 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Hello all, I'm forwarding this info about a system in Erie PA that is on Craigslist for anyone interested who can get there: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/6wfuw4/guy_says_hes_going_to… https://t.co/stTtT9ewmS I live in Downingtown, so it is an 8 hour drive for me. I don't need the equipment, but hope the software and floppies can be saved and imaged for archive.org. Eric

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Saturday museum report
by Evan Koblentz 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Not much happened yesterday. We had an ordinary amount of visitors including a 12-year-old who seemed genuinely interested + wanted the full tour. I'm getting to be good at entering octal code on the HP-1000. Roddy (art guy next door to us) is going to make some new signs for us around the campus. Jeff B. brought over the 30-ft. white Ethernet cord that I ordered. We swapped out the gray cord that we borrowed from IXR and returned it to them. White one fits better (other was 25 ft., too short) and blends in better against our white walls.

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Sunday Museum Report
by Douglas Crawford 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Nice day at the museum. Took 4 families through the museum. One was a father and his 2nd year E.E. son. They got the full extended tour version complete with the 8 and 16 bitter IC history :) There were two families that breezed through without a tour. The Museum looked great. -DC

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Who exhibited ICS 8080 @ VCF East?
by Alexander Pierson 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

I believe that was Bob Roswell, the guy over by the door closest to the consignment area. He had the mechanical logic trainers and toys along with the ICS branded trainer. Rather than Bob himself, I mainly saw the younger pair of folks running the exhibit, but I cannot recall their names. Can anyone confirm? -Alexander 'Z' Pierson On Monday, August 28, 2017 8:13 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: Someone asked me who demo'd an 8080-based trainer from Integrated Computer Systems at VCF East last spring. Does anyone know? ________________________________ 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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Who exhibited ICS 8080 @ VCF East?
by Evan Koblentz 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Someone asked me who demo'd an 8080-based trainer from Integrated Computer Systems at VCF East last spring. Does anyone know? ________________________________ 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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Pet 2001 in NJ
by Christian Liendo 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

https://newjersey.craigslist.org/sys/d/vintage-commodore-pet-2001/628062186…

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OT: Ruby programming books available
by William Dudley 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

I have the following titles available for free: The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition, by Hal Fulton Agile Web Development with Rails by Thomas and Hansson Learning Ruby by Fitzgerald Ruby Cookbook by Carlson and Richardson I'll ship if you pay for shipping. Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

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