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Vintage computing art project
by Evan Koblentz 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

I'd like to try an experiment with painting an on-topic design onto a sheet of clear plexi and having light shine through it. Anyone done something like this? What kind of paint should we use?

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disk duplicating machines
by william degnan 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Anyone into vintage disk duplicating machines? Me? I have two; one for 5 1/4 and one for 3.5 disks but I don't use them. Have not powered them on or tested in 10 years. I have never seen anyone demo these at a VCF or elsewhere, but I bet there was a time when these were in use in many businesses before easy software download. A lost piece of tech. Bill

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Fwd: Daily Tech News Show: DTNS 2846 – Vintage Computing Never Gets Old
by murphnj 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

The podcast that Evan was on has been posted. I have not yet had a chance to listen. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Blogtrottr <busybee(a)blogtrottr.com> Date: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:35 PM Subject: Daily Tech News Show: DTNS 2846 – Vintage Computing Never Gets Old Daily Tech News Show Keep up to date with independent, authoritative and trustworthy discussion of the tech news of the day. Tom Merritt and co-host's home for daily tech news. [image: thumbnail] DTNS 2846 – Vintage Computing Never Gets Old <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DailyTechNewsShow/~3/pPcs0vpMRJA/> Aug 31st 2016, 17:25, by tommerritt(a)tommerritt.com (Tom Merritt), Tom Merritt [image: Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com] <http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DTNS_CoverArt14…> Evan Koblentz from the Vintage Computer Federation joins Scott Johnson to discuss the allure of vintage computer technology and its role in shaping modern trends. MP3 <http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/280806555-dtns-dtns-vintage-computing.mp3> Using a Screen Reader? Click here <https://youtu.be/jmAB85gRU5Y> Please SUBSCRIBE HERE <http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyTechNewsShow>. Follow us on Soundcloud <https://soundcloud.com/dtns>. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you are willing to support the show <http://dailytechnewsshow.com/support/> or give as little as 5 cents a day on Patreon <http://www.patreon.com/dtns>. Thank you! Big thanks to Dan Lueders <http://danlueders.com/> for the headlines music and Martin Bell <http://twitter.com/martinbellmusic> for the opening theme! Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo! Thanks to our mods, Kylde, TomGehrke, sebgonz and scottierowland on the subreddit <http://dailytechnewsshow.reddit.com/> *Show Notes* To read the show notes in a separate page click here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oY2XMRtMlaBEujRfmD2cy7x1F-amg-OXQSq…> ! Media files: 280806555-dtns-dtns-vintage-computing.mp3 <http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/280806555-dtns-dtns-vintage-computing.mp3> (audio/mpeg)

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vintage computer streaming video
by Jeffrey Jonas 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

I finally repaired the power supply to my Roku box (Internet television). My guilty pleasure is over - the StarLost channel is gone! It was all StarLost all the time. I liked the urban exploring feel of the show as the clueless-3 wandered the Space Ship Arc's corridors of abandoned consoles, kinda like NASA mission control of the 60s, or an old military base. Gee, just like Camp Evans :-) Anyway, I found something wonderful: Joe Screwdriver's Retro Tech https://www.rokuchannels.tv/retrotechtimemachine/ https://channelstore.roku.com/details/39210/retro-tech-time-machine Joe Screwdriver presents the Retro Tech Time Machine curated collection of retroactive technology. Old-style motion pictures of high tech gizmos from the previous century are transmitted directly from Joe's collection to your Roku player. Plenty of old-time knobs, switches, rollers, gears, computers, telephones, tubes, spacecraft, blinky lights, and machines of all sizes to satisfy your retro tech urges. I wish I had YouTube links for all the wonderful videos showing - an analog computer with plugboard-o-wires running an early Apollo simulator - early computers, including a quick tutorial of the 026 and 029 keypunch - all sorts of pre-computer office machines such as Addressograph's variety of machines for printing labels and form letters. An early form of word processing: the typewriter punched holes in a wide paper tape similar to a piano roll, which was played back on "player piano" like typewriters so everyone could get an original document. Before the IBM Selectric was Varityper's typewriter with an interchangeable DRUM of various fonts and type sizes! - publicity films from IBM and Western Union, showing how early systems used MILES of paper tape every day! - lotsa NASA films from Gemini, Apollo, letting me relive the space race days. -- jeffj

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Live interview @ 4:30 ET today
by Evan Koblentz 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

I'm being interviewed by someone at the Daily Tech News Show this afternoon. http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/about/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Live interview @ 4:30 ET today
by Evan Koblentz 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

>> Cool! Any specific topic >From their email: "the lifespan and obsolesce of computers and computer related technology including smartphones and tablets".

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club
by Jeffrey Jonas 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

replying to william degnan > Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club > Anyone still operating actively an email address from before 1995 I have been jeffj/at/panix/dot/com since 1991. I know the fellow with a slightly lower UID but he's not a VCF member. Before that, my emails were via my employer, but as a consultant I quickly realized the merit of an email that I could keep independent of my employer or client. I had email via Genie, Delphi, Prodigy but never Compuserve or AOL. Before it was PANIX, there was Big Electric Cat. A friend used that to access USENET before the Internet, back when most systems were "walled gardens". -- jeffj

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club
by Bill Sudbrink 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

A quick "Google Groups Advanced Search" (God! I miss DejaNews) confirms the below address goes back at least to Nov. 1993. I think it actually goes back to Jan. 1992. Bill S. > -----Original Message----- > From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- > bounces(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Bill Sudbrink > via vcf-midatlantic > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 11:10 AM > To: 'vcf-midatlantic' > Cc: Bill Sudbrink > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club > > bill(a)umsa7.umd.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- > > bounces(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of william > > degnan via vcf-midatlantic > > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 11:02 AM > > To: vcf-midatlantic > > Cc: william degnan > > Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club > > > > Hey, > > Anyone still operating actively an email address from before 1995 > that > > one > > can send a message and receive a reply without turning on an old > > server, > > etc. > > > > In short, something more or less continuously in production daily > with > > the > > same FQDN, etc? > > > > b > > ----- > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2016.0.7752 / Virus Database: 4633/12791 - Release Date: > > 08/11/16 > > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7752 / Virus Database: 4633/12791 - Release Date: > 08/11/16 > Internal Virus Database is out of date.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report
by Christopher Gioconda 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi Jeff, I had to chuckle when I saw your Mind Mirror comment. My older brother had given me his C64 floppy disk collection about 20 years ago, and I remembered playing with that software title when he got it about 30 years ago. At that time I had no idea who Timothy Leary was, nor the purpose of the game. Sure enough, I went on a search and found the original diskettes, but no packaging nor original instructions. Luckily they still work! Christopher Gioconda cgioconda(a)gmail.com

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Small fridge?
by Evan Koblentz 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

We're looking for a small bar-sized refrigerator for the workshop area of our museum. Strong preference for one that uses as little energy as possible and is quiet-ish. There are a couple sitting around the InfoAge catacombs but I they're old and/or have ecosystems of their own. :) I feel the one-cubic-ft. fridge in the classroom down the hallway is too small; something a bit larger would be nice.

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