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OT: please match subject line and content
by Herb Johnson 18 May '16

18 May '16

Recent messages with the subject line "Cromemco Dazzler 40th birthday presents..." discussed litigation around the "XOR" patent. It's an unrelated subject. A note to moderator Evan: please encourage posters to change the subject line to suit their message content. Why? 1) The VCF maillist archive display on the Web, arranges messages by subject. 2) So people have a clue when reading old or new VCF list emails. Note that I changed the subject, rather than respond under "Cromemco...". I eat my own cooking. However, I read the list from the Web archive, so my emails are hand-composed; that gives me the choice of subject. That has other consequences but it keeps my email traffic and archiving down. Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Roger Amidon, RIP....
by Evan Koblentz 17 May '16

17 May '16

Very sad news to report. Our good friend Roger Amidon died a few days ago. I found out just now. http://www.hopewellmemorial.com/obituaries/Roger-Amidon/#!/Obituary Roger was a founding member of ACGNJ, had the idea for the Trenton Computer Festival (implemented by Sol Libes and Al Katz), and founded Technical Design Labs which made the Xitan computer -- probably the first machine to put a Z-80 in an S-100 system. TDL spun out the people/company that turned in Epson USA. They designed Valdocs for the QX-10, etc. .... but more important than all of that is this: Roger was a great guy. I only knew him for 10 years, but he was always friendly and in a good mood. He cared a lot about groups like MARCH/VCF and always treated us very well. Here's a video of a panel from VCF East 7.0 including Roger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_I5H_9uvU Herb knew Roger better and for a much longer time than I. I'm sure others here also knew him pretty well, especially the long-time Trenton veterans such as Jeff G. and Andy Meyer. Further information is here: http://www.hopewellmemorial.com/obituaries/Roger-Amidon/#!/Obituary I will go to his memorial service this Friday. - Evan

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German Nixdorf 820 Brochure
by Ben Greenfield 17 May '16

17 May '16

Hey All, I just got a 65 page pdf brochure from the Nixdorf Museum in Germany. http://www.hnf.de/en/museum.html the problem is that I don’t speak or read german. I’m wondering if this group has connections to people that translate old computer docs. I would think that a normal german translator could be overwhelmed by technical explanations. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ben

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Commodore Mid-Atlantic Connection Article
by william degnan 16 May '16

16 May '16

Talks about my county; Chester, PA *http://tinyurl.com/zxywcpb <http://tinyurl.com/zxywcpb>* -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Cromemco Dazzler 40th birthday presents...
by Douglas Crawford 16 May '16

16 May '16

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Museum Report
by Jeffrey Brace 16 May '16

16 May '16

About 20 visitors came today. Most of them looking for the model trains museum. A few that were really interested. One that had graduated from Stanford recently so I told him about the VCF West that was nearby where he went to school. It was good that the Model train guys had advertising for the official open house. It will get more people drifting over from the main museum building to the new satellite museums. Jeff Brace

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Great day @ museum
by Evan Koblentz 14 May '16

14 May '16

The model trains group had a big event today with about 100 people. Around half of them made it across the hallway to see our museum, plus there were several ordinary InfoAge visitors. Herb stopped by too. A very good day.

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OT: Helpers needed to prepare InfoAge satellite dish exhibit
by Evan Koblentz 14 May '16

14 May '16

Everyone, InfoAge is looking for helpers at the satellite dish campus on May 21 and June 18. They're looking for people who are ready to do real labor, from painting to gardening to raking (and that sort of thing). RSVP privately to Jim Kudrick: jimkudrick(a)gmail.com / 908-278-4850.

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Belated group pic from last Saturday
by Evan Koblentz 14 May '16

14 May '16

A few of us met at a bar in Philadelphia last weekend: http://www.vcfed.org/evan/philly_5-7-16.jpg Right to left (because I like to be different): me taking the selfie, Jonathan G., David Rys., David's brother Phil, and Bill Deg. In related news: I highly recommend the chicken tenders at Misconduct Tavern, they're delicious.

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You should really have a redirect from vintage.org to vcfed.org
by Christian Liendo 14 May '16

14 May '16

I couldn't remember vcfed.org and if you google vintage computer fest it still links to vintage.org

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