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looking to team up to exhibit
by william degnan 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hi, Is there anyone who would be interested in teaming up with me this year on an exhibit? I am doing too much else that weekend to do a full exhibit on my own, but I do want to keep my steak going. I have exhibited in every VCF E since #3. I have plenty of time before the show to work on this, my biggest contribution would be made before the actual event. I do not have a lot of transport space. I have no bias as to what hardware, era, software, or market. To me they're all just vintages of computing all worthy of an exhibit. Contact me privately vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm or call me through my company phone # @ degnanco.net Bill

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test, ignore this
by Evan Koblentz 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

I posted this last night but it seems to have disappeared in the interweb: --------------- I was at the museum from 10am-8pm today. From 10-12 I gave a pre-scheduled tour to a VIP who works at Medium. Afterward, I went to lunch with Adam M. and then we worked in the warehouse from 1pm-8pm. Progress there is the same as the last few warehouse days -- slow but steady. A visitor would see a mess; we see less of a mess than when we started. :) Oh and here's a warehouse picture for the S-100 fans to drool over. :) http://vcfed.org/evan/s100.jpg (Not shown: our extra SOL-20, extra TDL, SCP, CompuPro, Zenith, etc.)

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Anyone up in NH want to buy a nice mug set?
by Christian Liendo 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

I think $100 is a lot but I know some people who might like this http://nh.craigslist.org/clt/5943731304.html

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pidp 8
by william degnan 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Anyone running Deeper Thought (2) on their PiDP-8? I have both "deeper" and pidp8 on the same box. Problem is, it's hard to cleanly switch from one to the other. Anyone have a process for this. When I run systemctl to manage these do I need to reboot multiple times? Etc. Example - I had deeper running just fine, loads and runs when the system boots. Deeper is not compatible with pidp8, you can't run them at the same time. [tech explanation here]. So, if I want to switch over I have to completely halt one or the other and update init.d, there are a bunch of considerations. I am a much better Windows OS person than Debian, anyone tackle this already and can share how to change over which of the two will load on boot cleanly? What info would I have to supply? I am running Debian Jessie. Thanks BIll

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Galileo spacecraft computer documentation
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic writes: >I've dealt with looking for Galileo spacecraft information: > >www.retrotechnology.com/galileo/galileo_1802.html >www.retrotechnology.com/memship/galileo.txt >www.retrotechnology.com/memship/1802_spacecraft.html > >...because of its RCA COSMAC 1802 processors. In the past it was a >challenge to find technical details of 20th century spacecraft, because >of fears of hacking; because it was on paper and not electronic media; >because few were interested. In the 21st century, so much info is thrown >online now, and a lot of archives get digitized. So what's not online >today, may be online tomorrow. > >I'd say, Web search from time to time. But if you have a strong >interest, find out where the former engineers for the project hang out >on the Web, and see if they can point you to more resources. Don't wait >too long: these guys/gals won't last forever. > >The Galileo spacecraft used several 1802's for its instruments, and I >believe it had a bus architecture for communicating to some other 1802's >for communications, data archiving and so on. It won't be a simple >architecture or simple software. Chances are, there were professional >journal publications in the era, which described the general >architecture. I may point to some of them on my Web pages. > >If you find a good resource, let me know, I'll add it to my Web site. http://stickershock23.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Matt-Johnson-uss-enter…

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Galileo spacecraft computer documentation
by Douglas Crawford 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

(The links I provided are referenced on Herb's retrotechnology site, which he previously provided)

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Galileo spacecraft computer documentation
by Douglas Crawford 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

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The Real Mad Men of Advertising
by Joseph Oprysko 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Smithsonian Channel will be airing a show on Sunday nights at 9PM through January called The Real Mad Men of Advertising. I haven't seen the previews for it, but on the 4th week (Jan 29th), I know they're covering the 1980's, including a cameo appearance by a Mac 128k. (Provided by yours truly). Should be an interesting watch covering Advertising from the 1950's through the 1980's. -- 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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Galileo spacecraft computer documentation
by Herb Johnson 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

I've dealt with looking for Galileo spacecraft information: www.retrotechnology.com/galileo/galileo_1802.html www.retrotechnology.com/memship/galileo.txt www.retrotechnology.com/memship/1802_spacecraft.html ...because of its RCA COSMAC 1802 processors. In the past it was a challenge to find technical details of 20th century spacecraft, because of fears of hacking; because it was on paper and not electronic media; because few were interested. In the 21st century, so much info is thrown online now, and a lot of archives get digitized. So what's not online today, may be online tomorrow. I'd say, Web search from time to time. But if you have a strong interest, find out where the former engineers for the project hang out on the Web, and see if they can point you to more resources. Don't wait too long: these guys/gals won't last forever. The Galileo spacecraft used several 1802's for its instruments, and I believe it had a bus architecture for communicating to some other 1802's for communications, data archiving and so on. It won't be a simple architecture or simple software. Chances are, there were professional journal publications in the era, which described the general architecture. I may point to some of them on my Web pages. If you find a good resource, let me know, I'll add it to my Web site. Herb Johnson William O'Neil Research Base Juno, Jupiter

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