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Place to upload VCF-E photos?
by Jameel Akari 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Is there a place to upload event photos so everyone can share? I don't want to just dump them in the Facebook group if there's a better solution out there. -- Jameel Akari

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCFE XI - Home again
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic writes: >On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < >vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > >> > The Batmobile has landed in State College. > > Another great >show. Thanks to all for the hard work you put into it. > > > Mike >Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us > Old >Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ > > > >the Ravioli has splashed down in Pittsburgh Another GRRRRREAT show !! >good to see you again too Mike !! and so good to see >old friends again, and make some new friends too I'll upload my pics >later today to my gallery And if VCFed wants to add a gallery to their >website, I'll have them all in one directory so you can download them I couldn't make the time to drop in this weekend. :( After traveling to the Netherlands for a week (just home Wednesday), prepping for travel again this week (leaving Wednesday), and the fine weather for rocket launching Sunday, I missed it. I was thinking of dropping in for about the last hour Sunday but I wasn't going to pay for the whole day with so little time available. Were there T-shirts for the event? If so, what was the design on them this year?

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VCFE XI - Home again
by Mike Loewen 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

The Batmobile has landed in State College. Another great show. Thanks to all for the hard work you put into it. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] A Big Round of Applause
by Bob Aviles 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Hi, Enjoy the show, great work! Can't wait for next year. Bobby On Monday, April 3, 2017 8:36 AM, Bill Inderrieden via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: Let's all give a big round of applause to Jeff B. and Evan for a great job in organizing & producing this year's festival. A great time was had by all. If it wasn't for being completely inside, we would have all been swamped from the weather, so a big thanks also goes out to InfoAge for hosting with the facilities. Kudos also go out to all the exhibitors who set up such great and informative displays. We all had fun and learned a great deal. Thanks guys. Bill Inderrieden

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A Big Round of Applause
by SVCatITC＠aol.com 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Let's all give a big round of applause to Jeff B. and Evan for a great job in organizing & producing this year's festival. A great time was had by all. If it wasn't for being completely inside, we would have all been swamped from the weather, so a big thanks also goes out to InfoAge for hosting with the facilities. Kudos also go out to all the exhibitors who set up such great and informative displays. We all had fun and learned a great deal. Thanks guys. Bill Inderrieden

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OT - VCF attendees at ISEC
by Martin A Flynn 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

If anyone is willing to share their photographs of VCF attendees at ISEC (The Diana site), could you send them my way? They would be used for ISEC social media. Martin

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Arrived safe and sound!
by Alexander 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Just rolled into Neptune in the last half hour, and I didn't destroy my engine this time around -- fancy that! I am totally hyped for this weekend. See y'all in the morning! -Alexander 'Z' Pierson Sent from my pocket telephone.

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Locked and loaded
by Mike Loewen 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

The SAGE is loaded! :-) I hope to arrive mid-afternoon, Friday. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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stuff to donate
by Jeff G 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Id like the Dataphone modem. Readers digest version is I grew up watching the dataphone infrastructure be dismantled. My (rip) uncle's house was literally lined with woodgrain panels from the front doors of the equipment cabinets, with the dataphone logo on every one lol. I gotta get a pic one of these days we still have the house. >> 2. An AT&T Dataphone II 2224B modem, with power supply. This was >> hot-shit in it's day. It would do 2400 bits/second.

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Intro
by Michael Kato 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

My name is Maki and I've been on the list for a little while now, I've also had the chance to meet a number of members two weekends ago at TCF. Since I'm going to be at VCF-E on Friday and Sunday I thought I'd write a bit about myself so that maybe I can connect with those sharing similar interests. I grew up in Japan in the 80's; got my amateur radio license and then almost immediately got caught in the "paso-kon"(personal computer) excitement. Read lots of magazines and spent countless hours typing in hex code to run a game or to try a new programming language. My favorite was the Sharp MZ-80 machines with Z-80s. At school we had access to Hitachi Basic Master Level 3 machines with 6809 still with cassette tapes. I also had access to SORD M-100 and M-23 machines where I learned Z80, I also had a hand me down CP/M crate with 8" floppies.(Probably S-100, but don't know the make or model for that matter I don't even know who gave me the box - probably my dad's colleague) Eventually I went off to boarding school in Singapore, and took with me a Epson Geneva PX-8(z80 cp/m laptop). I have again my dad to thank for this nice gift. I did a little programming on that and remember writing a compiler that would take tiny pascal looking code and output z80 assembly.(in Lisp-80) >From college I remember TOPS-20 and Motorola 68HC11 intro to digital class. I also remember spending lots of time on a Mac IIci with Pascal and C, oh and of course Sun-2 and then Sparc. After graduating I entered the workforce as a programmer, worked for a number of companies including a trip back to Singapore to work for IBM Global Services.(I learned a bit of mainframe and a bit of AS/400 and did quite a bit of C++ on AIX and OS/2) Since returning to the states I've been almost exclusively in the Web space.(and of course the Arduino and Raspberry pi stuff for fun) During the 80's 90's and into the 00's I collected unix workstations mostly around the MIPS architecture, and enjoyed getting NetBSD to boot on each. Recently I've decided to focus on a few things I really want to spend my time on. I've kept my Z80s(~10 machines including a Sharp MZ-700 and Nascom-2) Motorola 88k (NCD X-terminals, VME machines, DG AViiONs and Omron 88k) and some Sharp PC-1500 calculators with 8bit LH5801. I feel like there are still more creating to be done on all the older platforms, but in particular I'm thinking along the lines of z80 as target for embedded application like motor control for a drawbot. I have done some Forth but feel like I haven't experienced enough of that so thinking about Forth on Z80 and 88k to programming these projects. On the NCD 88ks I'm thinking maybe someday of bringing up an Oberon system. Being a web guy I fancy building a collaborative disassembler where people can annotate and share annotations for reverse engineered binaries. That's sort of where my mind's at; looking forward to meeting more z80 fans and 88k fans. And looking forward to seeing cool old hardware. ....maki.... PS. I also kept my sparetime gizmo 6120 - looking forward to learning more about pdp8

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