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Pdp 11/15 ebay ending soon
by william degnan 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

http://m.ebay.com/itm/191933305000?_mwBanner=1 Located near nyc in new jersey. Pickup only Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net

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IBM PS/2 Floppy Blues
by Stephen A Edwards 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

Found an IBM PS/2 Model 60 (huge tower) a while ago. It powers on, displays video, complains about the CMOS memory, and refuses to boot further. I spent a day fighting with the 3.5" 1.44MB floppy: I recapped it, cleaned the heads, cleaned the track 0 sensor, and it's now happier than it used to be, but it still won't boot disks (it seeks to track 0 on reset, and spins the disk for a bit when it's trying to read track 0 for boot, but then gives up shortly after that). It's a strange floppy: a 40-pin edge card connector instead of the usual 34-pin. It has a 5.25 MFM (?) drive in it (90X8643 MCA controller card) that spins up and seems to move heads around, but it doesn't seem to want to boot off of that either, perhaps because the CMOS information is gone. Anybody familiar with how that needs to work. So I'm looking for advice, or reason to get rid of it. Anybody have a spare 3.5" floppy drive FOR AN IBM PS/2 kicking around (i.e., 40-pin edge card connector)? Is there any way to fix up the CMOS memory without booting a floppy? (It doesn't seem to have BASIC) Anybody have a MCA SCSI controller? Or does anybody want to take this boat anchor off my hands? -Stephen

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] FYI: VCF West is streaming Live
by Ray Sills 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

> On Aug 6, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Alexander via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > <snip> > Cool! Thank you for posting this. > > Just be aware of your frame and what's in it. Nobody wants to watch footage of the bottom of the stage, or of the camera man moving stuff in and out of the frame. > Yup. Doing live TV isn’t easy. You don’t get any “take 2s”. And the audio part is often the most difficult to deal with. 73 de Ray (CBS-TV retired)

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] FYI: VCF West is streaming Live
by Alexander 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Cool! Thank you for posting this. Just be aware of your frame and what's in it. Nobody wants to watch footage of the bottom of the stage, or of the camera man moving stuff in and out of the frame. Y'all have fun. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson Sent from my pocket telephone. Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: >FYI: >VCF West is streaming Live >http://livestream.com/accounts/20674917/events/6079382

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FYI: VCF West is streaming Live
by Dan Roganti 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

FYI: VCF West is streaming Live http://livestream.com/accounts/20674917/events/6079382

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Trackstar 128 disk
by Richard Cini 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

All – Someone contacted me about locating an image for the Diamond Trackstar 128 add-in board. Apparently it’s got some sort of copy protection and doesn’t exist on-line anywhere. Does anyone have this disk – and the hardware – to make a copy of it? Let me know and maybe I can connect you with the seeker. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Testing new ip for my mail server
by Jim Scheef 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Ben, Send yourself an email at a web-based account like Yahoo or mail. See if the problem shows up. I doubt the list is the source of the problem. Jim Sent from Surface From: 'vcf-midatlantic'<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Sent: ?Friday?, ?August? ?5?, ?2016 ?11?:?44? ?AM To: 'vcf-midatlantic'<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Ben Greenfield<mailto:ben@cogs.com>

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FW: [IBM1130] 029 keypunch available
by Dave Wade 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Clare Owens <clare.owens(a)gmail.com <mailto:clare.owens@gmail.com> > From: ibm1130(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com> [mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Clare Owens Sent: 04 August 2016 13:30 To: ibm1130(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [IBM1130] 029 keypunch available Sure, the more the merrier. Thanks, Clare On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm(a)gmail.com <mailto:dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> > wrote: Clare, Do you mind if I forward this to some other lists. I am sure there will be lots of interest. Dave From: ibm1130(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com> [mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com <mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Clare Owens Sent: 03 August 2016 20:55 To: ibm1130(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ibm1130@googlegroups.com> Subject: [IBM1130] 029 keypunch available My son Bill just reminded me that I should write and ask whether anyone would be interested in an 029 keypunch, pickup only in Syracuse, NY. It is complete but the cables were disconnected in order to move it in pieces several years ago. There are many spare parts (from another 029 taken apart years ago) and it has the complete CE documentation. Free to someone who will give it a good home and take care of it. Clare Owens Apex, NC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "IBM1130" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ibm1130+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ibm1130+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Testing new ip for my mail server
by Steven Michelsen 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Ben, OK that's fine; however, please know that every email from you that I have seen on the list appears as an "Outlook Item" attachment, rather than a regular email. Once I open the attachment your email appears. No big deal, but odd. You are not the only one whose emails come through like this; there are two others on the list with the same issue. I am not sure what causes this, or whether it's "you" or "me". Here's a picture of what I see when I look at your one of your emails. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65762317/forums/odd_email.jpg BTW I am using Outlook 2016 on a PC. Steve From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Ben Greenfield via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 11:44 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Ben Greenfield <ben(a)cogs.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Testing new ip for my mail server

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IBM power supply
by Jeff G 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

I have an IBM power supply, FRU 73X3695. Free to a home, good bad or otherwise. May be able to get it to infoage this wknd if need be. JeffG aka Bags

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