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Fwd: Fwd: IBM 5150
by Evan Koblentz 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

See below. Anyone who wants to make a few bucks should reply directly to Brooke. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brooke Douglass" <brookemdouglass(a)gmail.com <mailto:brookemdouglass@gmail.com>> Date: Jul 12, 2016 12:10 PM Subject: IBM 5150 Good afternoon, I have an IBM 5150 PC from 1981(?) and I'm looking for someone who knows a bit about old computers. I basically need to hire someone to take a look at it and figure out if it still works. I tried to turn it on to no avail but my husband thinks maybe it just needs a different hard drive or something. Are you in MD and if so, do you provide this kind of service? We have a very extensive collection of accessories, original keyboard, original boxes, printer, and tons of floppy disk games and programs. Thank you! Brooke

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VCF Workshop July 16/17 who's going? Watcha working on? When Coming?
by Jeffrey Brace 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Now that Independence Day has passed. Just getting the workshop interest moving again. The workshop will be July 16/17 Starting Sat. 7/16 at 10am and ending Sun. 7/17 at 5pm. Besides the list below I also created a Google Sheet to make a more clean way of looking at the list. 1. Jeff Brace - Commodore 64 Robotics Kit - All Weekend. 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? 10. ?

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OT: SCA SCSI Disks up for grabs
by Ethan 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Heya, someone I do some side work for is donating a bunch of IT hardware to a non-profit music and gaming fest I help. Not all is needed and there is some stuff that ?might? be of interest to this crowd. Not quite vintage yet. Up for grabs for cost of shipping, SCSI disks. SCA interfaces (sorry no 50/68 pin) 6 x Seagate st373453lc ultra 320 8 x Seagate st373454lc 15k.4 15 x Seagate st3300007lc 10k.7 2 x st3450857ss 15k.7

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] What's that smell?
by Mike Loewen 10 Jul '16

10 Jul '16

On 07/09/2016 12:41 AM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > sniff...sniff...oh look, the magic smoke is pouring out of my TRS-80 > 8MB hard drive! :-( The culprit turned out to be a RIFA X-class capacitor in the Astec power supply: http://q7.neurotica.com/0709162317.jpg This is exactly the same cap the blew in my Xerox 820-II. Fortunately, I had ordered spares when I fixed the Xerox, and replaced the X and Y-class caps: http://q7.neurotica.com/0709162345.jpg Time to order a new batch from Digikey. Here's a picture of the inside of the 8MB unit: http://q7.neurotica.com/0709162253.jpg The drive shows "ready" (green light). I need to find the diskette with the INIT program to see if I can access the drive. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Scan of an Apple IIc ad
by Jeffrey Jonas 10 Jul '16

10 Jul '16

I found this among my magazine clippings. Probably from Byte. http://ferretronix.com/tech/adz/apple_ad_1.jpg http://ferretronix.com/tech/adz/apple_ad_2.jpg

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HOPE - July 23-24
by Evan Koblentz 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Jeff B. and I are going to HOPE next month. Who else is going?

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What's that smell?
by Mike Loewen 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

sniff...sniff...oh look, the magic smoke is pouring out of my TRS-80 8MB hard drive! :-( Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Workshop July 16/17 location change
by Jeffrey Brace 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Since a lot of our members are going to K-Fest and the turn out looks really low we are moving the location of the workshop from the big room (9032-A) to a smaller "classroom" space in 9010-A. This is the same building where our new museum is located. This is also the same space where we will have Festivus. We will need help to move tables from 9032 to 9010. Please let me know if you have any questions. == Jeff Brace

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Hero Robot
by Alexander 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Welcome to the club, Joseph! I have the complete documentation that came with my Hero 1, however I have yet to begin assembly of mine just yet. As to Evan's suggestion, I believe that my schedule is setting up to be able to attend Saturday of the next workshop, however I am still finalizing that plan. My intent is to work in the VCFed's Hero 1, but I would be bringing along mine and all of the manuals in my possession. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson Sent from my pocket telephone. Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: >PS- There's nothing off-topic about HERO! Thus I removed the OT: from >the subject line.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] IBM 360 in North Carolina
by Evan Koblentz 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

>> The Vintage Computer Federation Museum? We never came up with anything better. :)

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