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Hazel tine manuals
by dave 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Hi all, I also posted this to cctalk—sorry if you get a duplicate. These Hazeltine 2000 were just on Ebay and were quickly snatched up. Did anybody here happen to snag them? http://www.ebay.com/itm/272275536298 http://www.ebay.com/itm/282069468875 I've been looking for these manuals for some time. If someone won them (or has a set), I wonder if you'd be willing to create some nice high-quality scans. I'd be willing to pitch in to cover the costs of scanning large pages, etc. with high resolution. Alternatively, if anyone has similar manuals and would be willing to sell them, I'd be interested. Thanks for any info! Dave

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OT: hello world
by Evan Koblentz 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Hoping to get out of here tonight, otherwise it'll be tomorrow. Generally feeling miserable. Someone come bust me out of the joint. It's like I am Beeker being exposed to crazy Muppet experiments.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Recovering
by Al Hartman 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Great to hear that you’re OK Evan! -[ Al ]- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic" <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: "Vcf-ma List" <Vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: "Evan Koblentz" <evan(a)snarc.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 8:15 PM Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Recovering > Hey everyone. Was in surgery for three hours and now I'm recovering. They said > lab results will take a week to be official but unofficially it was as > expected, a benign cartilage tumor on my left femur. In some pain but mostly I > feel okay after a sleeping an additional three hours and eating. Getting a > room soon. Can't reiterate enough how much I appreciate all the friendship and > support in this group. I can be a PITA sometimes ;) but you're all my kind of > crazy.

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Other computers for sale...
by Al Hartman 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

I found another computer I’d like to sell. It’s a Tandy 1200HD, but not sure what’s in it as I never opened the box and powered it up. I’m pretty sure it has 2 floppies and no video card. I can provide a CGA or Monochrome card for a few bucks extra. I have no keyboard to go with it. Asking $150.00 – Local Pickup in Keansburg NJ. I also have a 5150 logic board upgraded from 256k to 640k in a clone PC Case. The Power supply is dead, but probably repairable. Make an offer. Need to raise cash for medical bills, and to clear out my collection in case I have to go to a Nursing home. -[ Al ]-

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Recovering
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic writes: >Hey everyone. Was in surgery for three hours and now I'm recovering. >They= said lab results will take a week to be official but unofficially >it was= as expected, a benign cartilage tumor on my left femur. In some >pain but= mostly I feel okay after a sleeping an additional three hours >and eating= . Getting a room soon. Can't reiterate enough how much I >appreciate all t= he friendship and support in this group. I can be a >PITA sometimes ;) but= you're all my kind of crazy. Happy to hear you're OK. I suppose this will limit your running for awhile?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Signed Apple ][
by Ethan 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

> Two words: > Retracted bid It must be two different accounts retracting their bid? I've done bid retraction before after noticing some detail in the auction that was detrimental to items usefullness. Scuba equipment is wrong model or thread or something like that, or seller has wrong model # on AV hardware which changes feature set. It didn't require sellers approval if before end of auction.

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Signed Apple ][
by Mike Loewen 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

What's with the VCF Apple ][ on Ebay? It was over $4,000 and now it's only $1,340. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Auction update
by Evan Koblentz 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Bidding on the Apple II passed $4,000 and there are three days remaining. Sol-20 is beyond $2,000. Evan can be a pain in the ass,

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Computer History Museum seeking Lotus + Prentice Hall software
by Evan Koblentz 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Everyone, CHM contacted me. They're seeking copies (or better yet, original disks) of Lotus Development’s Executive Briefing System for the Apple II and Prentice-Hall’s VCN ExecuVision for the IBM PC. Contact: dbrock(a)computerhistory.org -Evan

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Univac, our first real work!
by Evan Koblentz 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Hey everyone, Our workshop this past weekend had the usual highlights -- we repaired all sorts of 8-bit stuff, monitors, did some programming, enjoyed plenty of nerdly shenanigans -- but by far the highlight was when Duane C. and Bill Drom. told me the Univac 1532 I/O console (paper tape + Model 35 teletype) was ready for its first power up! Background: We acquired a complete-ish Univac 1219-B mainframe about six years ago. One tape drive was on display for a few years in our old museum, and much of the full system was on display as one of the VCF East shows, but mostly the computer lived in our warehouse. That changed this spring when we opened the new museum: its double doorway enabled us to put the computer on permanent public display. We cleaned it on the outside. Bill Drom. and Duane, who both used this model of Univac in their Navy days, jointly approached me ahead of this past workshop and asked if they could start technical work by modifying one of the console units for a modern power supply. They assured me it's safe and easily reversible to the original configuration, so I said yes. A summary from Duane about what they actually did: >> The +/- 15 and -4.5 switching supplies fit in the space we removed the 400 Hz. transformer-diode assembly. The -28 volt supply wound up in the air channel at the bottom. We bypassed the 400 Hz. power on relay and have to turn on with a external switch. Does anyone have a feel of what 60 Hz. voltage would pick a 115 Volt 400 Hz. relay? if it is a straight inductance problem it would be 17.25 volts . We left that for a future visit when we have a variac to play with. We did not have time to trouble shoot all the problems the 1532 had. at first the logic was so crazy that we put in a logic drawer from another unit. turns out the display unit was missing cards. The rubber on the reader capstan had turned to a gooey mess and peeled off onto the tape we tried. If none of their consoles has a usable pinch roller they will have to send it off to a service that does that sort of thing. Maybe we could try some of the liquid rubber that is made to dip tool handles in. The punch is punching extra bits. The oil on the TTY was all dried up and at first the TTY would not do anything. It took about an hour of oiling and moving stuff by hand until it gradually came to life. The tape chute has the bracket that holds it up under the punch broken so the tape gets snarled coming out of the punch. It will be easier to swap out the tape drawer than to try to swap the chute. I put in a new one once and it took me about a hour to figure out how to get it in without bending it. << Saturday night, when only the power supply was installed, about a half-dozen of us went into the museum room and observed the first power-up. Here's the video... well actually it's take two; the first time I idiotically recorded it with my phone in portrait mode. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQCSGF5Suxo We have three more of these console units in storage, along with one extra CPU and one extra tape drive, which is all very helpful for parts-swapping. This is an exciting milestone for us! I'm going to send a note to the nice people who gave us the system as well.

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