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More about Friday talks @ East XII
by Evan Koblentz 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

For those who may be interested: the Friday technical talks at VCF East don't have to be simply "how to fix xyz". They could be other topics such as how you did some cool project, how to use certain modern or vintage peripherals, etc. .... almost anything as long as it's educational, on-topic, and technical (not historical) in nature. Please send me your ideas.

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Reliable volunteers needed: East XII consignment booth
by Evan Koblentz 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

We need two or three ultra-reliable people to lead the consignment booth for VCF East next spring. One person to be the room leader and a couple of assistants. This is a very important job so whomever volunteers must be reliable as (censored), on-the-ball with money/transactions, and represent VCFed professionally at all times. I will waive all show expenses for the people who do this job.

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VCF East flyers for MAGFest?
by Ethan 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

Heya, I volunteer with a Video game music and video gaming festival called MAGFest that happens off of the DC Beltway in Maryland. It's in it's 15th year or something and brings around 20,000 people. The division I mostly deal with is arcade machines, but we spawned a computer museum section in the arcade a few years ago that now has it's own room. The guy that ran the entire event from 2nd event to 9th event is a chiptune artist who is big into retro computing and retro computing music (Inverse Phase is his chiptune name.) The computer museum is 3000 square feet and mostly plastic micros and DOS machines. Kaypro, Osbourne, etc. Some early Macs and other technology makes it on display, as well as rare and odd console gaming systems. Not exactly 1:1 with what VCF is but still it's a pretty wide audience. I actually just found out that a new Amiga documentary is being premiered at 'fest in the movie area about the Amiga and a few early Amiga people are going to be there. Anyways, if there is a flyer for VCF East in PDF form or something I'll print out a bunch and make sure they're at event so that people coming to the museum (and Arcade) learn about VCF East. 1/2 a page is best, but I also have a large format printer (36" wide) and am willing to run off a big sheet or two. The people that handle the museum room (who are also into the arcade thing) are long time friends, they actually came to VCF East 2016 with me and probably will come again to 2017. Anywho, figure I'd put it out there :-)

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Jan workshop RSVP
by Jeffrey Jonas 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

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Call for VCF East speakers (Friday 3/31)
by Evan Koblentz 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

Subject line says it all. We people to speak on technical subjects for Friday, March 31 @ VCF East next year. Topics should appeal to a wide-ish audience.

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Hey! January workshop. Who's going?
by Chris Fala 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

1. Jeff B. 2. Evan K. 3. Ian P. 4. David G. 5. Chris F. 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? 10. ?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Semi-OT: what tech gifts did you get/give?
by william degnan 25 Dec '16

25 Dec '16

On Dec 25, 2016 5:23 PM, "Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic" < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > Got an Amazon Echo. Gave my son a TP-10 printer and a Vectrex32 programming > cart. > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 4:36 PM Ethan via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > > > Happy holidays for systems of any word length and our analog friends too! > > > > > What tech gifts did you get/give this year? > > > > > > > > Gave parents an Ultra HD bluray player and some movies. Sounds like the > > > > discs average 60GB to 100GB in storage size. They bought a new TV but it > > > > has yet to arrive (replacing a 3-gun CRT rear projection.) > > > > > > > > Way more bleeding edge than any of my hardware :-) > > > > > > > > Got another CHIP and a Rasp Pi for Pi8P8 B

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Semi-OT: what tech gifts did you get/give?
by Evan Koblentz 25 Dec '16

25 Dec '16

Happy holidays for systems of any word length and our analog friends too! What tech gifts did you get/give this year?

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DIY Mark 8 computer
by William Dudley 25 Dec '16

25 Dec '16

https://www.zapptronics.com/mark-8-mini-computer-replica/ pointed to from hackaday.com Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Has anyone checked out this place in Pottstown PA?
by Duane 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Doug >>He is a Navy veteran and work on shipboard UNIVAC computers. Do you know what ones? He could be someone who could help with VCF’s UNIVAC equipment. He might be interested in my Yahoo! group : https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/UnivacComputers/info Duane From: Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 10:02 AM To: vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org Cc: Douglas Crawford Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Has anyone checked out this place in Pottstown PA? Doug here, I'm the Pottstonian of the group so I'll do the dump. The owner, Bill Kemner, used to operate a store at the famous Gilbertsville Zern's farmers market. For decades he and his family bought up auctions and offered the items for sale in his store and at ham fests. He is a Navy veteran and work on shipboard UNIVAC computers. A number of years ago he moved out of Zerns into this warehouse. Bill has quite a bit of old electronic components, two isles, perhaps 30 feet long, full with small bins of misc parts. He also has LOT of tubes- a large closet full of them ("The tube room"). He has several rooms of old A/V media, equipment, and tube radios. Other stuff runs the gamut of typical yard sale household items to scientific gear, including at this time, an electron microscope... and an IBM System 30. And yes he has a lot of vintage microcomputer gear, including software, cables, accessories. Here's the sad part for us: Much of the pre- IBM PC computers he has were stored in outdoor semi trailers and much have sustained either fairly extreme temperature, moisture and in many cases outright water damage. That being said for some purposes the computers are useful. He tends to be "optimistic" about what things are worth, but you can always make offers. Last summer he brought out a lot of additional stored computer equipment. There is currently a lot of Apple II+s and IIe's out on pallets. The Apples and TRS-80s computers usually came from schools and have school brandings on them in some cases. There is a also room of that is a 90s computer store time capsule. A few of us locals have used trips to Kemners as a good reason to get together out here and that's been great. I'd love to have that happen with the further away folks sometime. Its entirely possible to burn half a day lost in there. If you need to bring the family on the loop, there are some not-too-far-away places of interest: Check out Saint Peter's Village and the Hopewell Furnace Rev war iron works. On 12/23/2016 3:22 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Is anyone familiar with this? http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/for/5918505303.html surplus and vintage electronics (POTTSTOWN PA) 114 S. WASHINGTON ST

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