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Floppy Days VCF Midwest
by Mike Loewen 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-63-vcf-midwest-11-preview-with-jas… My exhibit gets a nice promo about 25 minutes in. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Floppy Days 63 - VCF Midwest 11 Preview with Jason Timmons
by Randall Kindig 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-63-vcf-midwest-11-preview-with-jas… <http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-63-vcf-midwest-11-preview-with-jas…> Randy Kindig host Floppy Days Podcast floppydays.com

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40 years ago today
by Evan Koblentz 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Aug. 28-29, 1976 - Personal Computing Conference in Atlantic City. Read all about it on pages 6-7 of the October 1976 DDJ. Trenton show came before this, and there was a midwest event in between Trenton and AC, but AC was more of a national conference vs. hobby event. This was a lecture topic at VCF East 7.0. Here's the video: https://youtu.be/8P_I5H_9uvU.

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Museum Report
by Jeffrey Brace 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

I arrived before 1pm today and stayed until 7pm. There was a special Veteran's appreciation event at InfoAge. Dozens and dozens of visitors stopped by. Interest varied wildly between casual to very. At about 3pm a student from Rutgers stopped by to run a Commodore 64 floppy disk on real (not emulated) hardware. I spent hours with him going back and forth with visitors as it slowed down after 3:30pm or so. The software was Tim Leary's Mind Mirror. Also Don Caselli donated two copies of IBM Macro Assembler 2.0. -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com

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Corey made the Beeb ...
by Neil Cherry 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Internationally renowned http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37199000 -- 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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Kaypro 10 ROM question
by Mike Loewen 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Any Kaypro experts here? I'm in the process of installing a KayPLUS ROM in a Kaypro 10, in preparation for installing a new (larger) hard drive. My K10 has a 81-180 series mainboard, but the sticker is missing from the factory ROM and I can't tell which one it is. It powers on to display version 1.9e. Assuming that this is an '83 version mainboard, the ROM should be 81-302. Can someone confirm which ROM version displays 1.9e? I've successfully burned a 2764 with the kplus83.rom image and made the hardware modifications described in the KayPLUS manual. However, absolutely nothing happens when I power up. Everything works fine when I replace the original ROM. I want to make sure I'm following the right instructions for my combination of mainboard and ROM. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Our new scope
by Evan Koblentz 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Martin F. got a 'scope donated for our museum workbench. It was professionally recalibrated and it's being delivered this Saturday. http://vcfed.org/evan/scope.jpg

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Lancaster PA Cosmac Development System 1800 Ebay
by william degnan 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

What's nice for me personally is that this manual probably will help me with the earlier Microkit I have, from 1975. At least I hope the backplane configuration is more or less the same. I have been held up because I am unsure which slots in the backplane, assuming it's possible that there are assigned slots, to put each card. I can see from the MPM-216 page 30-31 (I had earlier found the manual too) that my hunch was correct about specific card slot assignments. You never know for sure if you have no docs. Here is my COSMAC Microkit thread if anyone is interested in comparing and contrasting my system with what's for sale now on Ebay http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=511 BIll On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Ben Greenfield via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ben Greenfield <ben(a)cogs.com> > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:46:47 -0400 > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Lancaster PA Cosmac Development System 1800 > Ebay > I was curious so I dug up a manual for the box. > > > http://www.cosmacelf.com/publications/books/mpm-216-dev-sys-op-man.pdf > > > > On Aug 26, 2016, at 9:32 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > > > of interest to people who are into MidAtlantic computing history. there > is > > a Cosmac Development System 1800 on Ebay, looks to be from 1977, This > unit > > has the same chassis as the 1975 RCA Microkit, and same general layout of > > boards. > > > > Bill > > >

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Lancaster PA Cosmac Development System 1800 Ebay
by william degnan 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

of interest to people who are into MidAtlantic computing history. there is a Cosmac Development System 1800 on Ebay, looks to be from 1977, This unit has the same chassis as the 1975 RCA Microkit, and same general layout of boards. Bill

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Who's going to VCF Midwest?
by Jack Rubin 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

I am! Jack

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