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VCF Midwest
by Mike Loewen 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

So, who's going to VCF Midwest? Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Museum Report
by Jeffrey Brace 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

About a dozen visitors total today with moderate interest. -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com

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IA needs clean-up help Saturday
by Evan Koblentz 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

InfoAge needs people this Saturday (9am until whenever) to help clean debris from the courtyard behind our museum building. If anyone can help, then email Gloria (admsupport(a)infoage.org) as soon as possible and let her know you're with VCF.

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Celebration Apple 1 update
by Evan Koblentz 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Bidding ends August 25. Jumped from 270K to 510K in the past day or two. Http://apple1.charitybuzz.com

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Aug 2016 Workshop
by Herb Johnson 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/vcf_aug16.html Still catching up after my Workshop appearance and work Sunday. Good to see my friends again and all-that-hardware. A mountain of 1960's transistor modules! Macs of various flavors. An early early Lear-Siegler terminal. Car repairs or avoidance thereof. And of course the VCF Museum. I've not captioned the photos much on my Web page - send me ID's and details so I can update the Web page. My fun was to take a S-100 system obtained Saturday, and getting it to power on Sunday. That is, after cleaning out the dust and subjecting to the Mach 1 power-vacuum at Infoage. Very careful powering process - Variac to bring up the S-100 power caps, keep the voltage down when running the box. Ohmic checks on the S-100 cards to look for shorted caps. Then adding cards to the chassis to check the regulators at work. No problems, no explosions. I'll have a Web page on restoring that Problem Solver System box and cards, soon. Had some interesting ownership. Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Next Workshop: September
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

For those interested then next workshop will be Sept. 17 & 10. -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com

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Festivus! Make sure to mark you calendars!
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Just a friendly reminder about Festivus on December 3 & 4. It will be the best Festivus ever! -- Jeff Brace - ark72axow(a)gmail.com

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Workshop
by Evan Koblentz 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Thanks everyone for another great workshop + Jeff B. for organizing it. I missed the last one so it was good to get back there. Special thanks to all who helped with museum projects (actually I think * everyone * did) and who bought leftover VCF East/West shirts... we'll keep hawking those until they are gone. :) Pleasant surprise -- the unanticipated appearances of Connor and Herb.

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Diner - 9am tomorrow
by Evan Koblentz 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

For anyone attending the workshop tomorrow, we'll be at the Princess Maria diner at 9am and probably back at the museum around 10:30ish.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Wall exhibit for our hallway
by Brian L. Stuart 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

On Thu, 8/18/16, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > I'd like to put some kind of large, nice-looking, interactive exhibit on > the wall in the hallway by our museum. Perhaps something that shows how > data is created, processed, and outputted in an electronic digital > computer, regardless of whether it's a modern system or an old one. > Something where kids can press a button, watch the circuit make a > decision, and follow along as the lights change leading to some result. > > Looking for serious/constructive feedback from people who are willing to > actually do work. That should narrow the replies. :) Looks like you narrowed the replies beyond your wildest expectations, Evan. :) Although it's a little different than what you described, I've been thinking about something along these lines for the hallway at the university based on the ENIAC simulator. I'm still contemplating the details, but the hardware would amount to a big screen TV, a Raspberry Pi, and some buttons. It may not be visually stimulating enough, but maybe it'll solicit some other ideas. BLS

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