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Who's going to SE?
by Evan Koblentz 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Let's make a list. Who from our group is going? ... Not counting you Atlanta guys, since that's obvious. :) 1. Evan 2. Bill Degnan 3. Brian Stuart ________________________________ 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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Possible future workshop dates
by Jeffrey Brace 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Please vote on dates: June 3/4 or 17/18 July 8/9 or 15/16 August 5/6 or 12/13 September 9/10 or 16/17 November 4/5 or 11/12 -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64 ========================================================

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Museum update
by Evan Koblentz 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

We had a good mix of visitors today. A pair of Infoage volunteers who hadn't seen our new space, three or four guys who drove down from Long Island and worked in IT, a family, and an older man who stopped by to donate some old DEC/IBM manuals + punch cards. I stopped at Home Depot and got one more package of window tint to further protect the books/magazine on our workshop shelves from harmful sunlight.

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Maybe OT: Intel AboveBoard AT info needed
by Richard Cini 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

All -- I'm working on getting my old AT running and I'm installing an Above Board AT memory expansion card I found in a box. I have the drivers downloaded, but when setting it up it says the switch settings don't match the memory configuration on the board. Googling doesn't produce a copy of the manual anywhere, so I wanted to ping the group to see if anyone had info on the DIP switch settings. Thanks a lot! Rich Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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FS: New Apple II Protoboards with Hard Gold Edge Connectors
by Systems Glitch 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

The boards from this thread: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?53008 Are now available as finished boards with HASL finish in the proto area and hard gold plated edge connectors! Pictures: http://i.imgur.com/QMb1X7v.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qq7w3pr.jpg $10 each plus $5 shipping in the US. International shipping is fine, but I need an address to calculate an actual price. I've got 98 in hand at the moment. Send me a message off-list or (preferably) a message via my contact form: https://services.theglitchworks.net/ng/messages/new Thanks, Jonathan

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Omnimon rises (Atari)
by Neil Cherry 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

I'm in a good mood despite the rain (couldn't finish painting for my bicycle club's Farmland tour). Last night my parts arrived to connect my computers to my TV (Antenna in - 300 Ohm). I plugged in my first computer, the Atari 800XL with Omnimon and up popped the familiar BASIC Ready prompt. The reversal of the control and shift keys is biting me from time to time (grr) but I was able to pop into Omnimon (a resident machine language monitor). Next step will be to check out the condition of a few other computers and then start working on building the Raspberry Pi interface (to replace the disk drive and other common peripherals). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Inventor of the first personal computer dies - and it's not who you think
by Jim Scheef 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Noticed this in the NYT and thought that I've never heard of this guy, but he is mentioned in "Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer" by Scott McCartney. The NYT article is "Harry Huskey, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Is Dead at 101" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/harry-huskey-dead-computer-pioneer.ht… His G-15 computer was 'personal' because it could be operated by one person. Jim

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Traveling south for VCF East from Landenberg PA by car
by william degnan 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Hi, I am traveling by car with my video camera to the VCF SEast. leaving early this week (Tues or early Weds). No fixed schedule. Should anyone who is in the process of finalizing/packing their exhibit for the event and would be interested in being videoed briefly doing so let me know. It's for an informal documentary about the hobby that I have been working to complete for a few years now. I am just about done with phase 1 of the project. I need a little more about what a person does to get ready to exhibit, the work involved and then pair it up with the exhibit at the show. Looking for someone who is roughly between Roswell GA and Landenberg, PA (@ ~DE/MD/PA border) Even if you are not interested maybe you know someone who might be ... please pass this message along. I will not be in the way but I would need to plan my travels to time my arrival(s) to get useful footage. I'd also be interested if you have a big collection of vintage computers that you'd like to capture on video for the documentary. Contact me privately if interested: http://vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm Bill

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Museum report 2017-04-22 April 22, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

It's been weeks since I was docent because of VCF and taking care of persona matters. Getting used to the new tablet kiosks. Wrestling wi-fi problems. Talking to various InfoAge volunteers about different things. There were about a dozen visitors with medium to high interest. It's nice to have visitors on a rainy day. That's why I'm here after all to give tours! Gonna try to continue getting different demos running on the various machines. Some work, some don't. I will be training three more docents in the next month. We have a shortage of docents, so Evan and I often have to be at the museum. It gets hard be here every weekend when we have personal and work things to take care. -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64 ========================================================

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Who's volunteering - Volunteer Day May 6 & 7, 2017
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Who's volunteering? Let me know. Send me an e-mail or Signup here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10H4aFaxjt6l2EQO9tjmlY-d3az0UZLGFEjU… -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64 ========================================================

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