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Productive day @ museum
by Evan Koblentz 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Me, Jeff B., Tony (plus his son Mike), and Steve A. got a lot done at the museum today. In the new museum room: - Removed all leftover Infoage stuff - Swept the floor, brought in trash cans - Tony brought a bunch of tables and chairs for Festivus + we set them up - Moved a refrigerator into the room - Brought in the non-perishable food - Located the correct thermostat In the warehouse: - Assembled and filled two shelving units - Put away various unsorted items - Made a plan for sorting the rest of it - Brought in various stuff from museum Jeff B. will stop by on Friday to plug in the fridge and load it with soft drinks + perishable food (no point in plugging it in today and leaving it on all week).

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11am Festivus start next Saturday
by Evan Koblentz 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

That's all.

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Calcomp Colormaster printer.
by murphnj 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

Hello folks. I have a problem. I have to get a lot of stuff out of my apartment, or I'm going ot be in the street soon. I have a few things that I'd like to find homes for, and this is one of the largest. It's a Calcomp Colormaster printer. It's parallel, thermal transfer. (Per-postscript) Last time I had it out, it worked, printed fine. Oh, and by the way, if you're interested, you can get a second one free! One of them has a bad board, but the mechanicals were fine. I had swapped the board while troubleshooting, and both of them printed with the good board. One has the original box and packing material, the other does not. Not sure which is which anymore. That was a long time ago. There are Amiga drivers for it, not sure about anything else. (There were Windows drivers back in the day, but that day was quite a while ago.) I'd really like to find someone interested in it, so if anyone is, please let me know, or if you know someone off-list that may be please let them know. This must happen pretty fast, though. Also, it's large. As in too-large to-fit-in-my BRZ. So it will have to be picked up, in Morris county. Any takers? Want more details? Pictures? I'll dig 'em up. Thanks, --murph

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Festivus Entertainment Thread
by Jeffrey Brace 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

Who is bringing what for entertainment? Equipment, games, DVDs?

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Modern Core Memory Implementation
by J. Alexander Jacocks 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

All, I just finished reading these posts, and watching the accompanying YouTube videos, and I was absolutely blown away: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=79346 Amazing work, and really neat to see someone doing such a modern reconstruction of core. Definitely worth a look. - Alex

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Core memory
by william degnan 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

Getting intermittent stuck bits with my pdp 11 non parity core stack. Without getting into a lot of detail, I noticed that something is causing the inhibit to fart high every so often, effecting address bits and to a lesser extent data bits. I have been doing a lot of research. My question.. aside from manuals and the tech docs does anyone have any anecdotal info, advice or test procedures related to DEC core RAM and intermittent stuck bits? Shielding tips? Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net

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Heathkit 3400's
by william degnan 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

I remember ~10 or so people got nice cheap mostly working Heathkit 3400's at VCF 10 last year. Anyone do anything with theirs? Someone today sent me a question through my web site about terminal settings for the 3400 monitor program, I pulled my 3400 system out and fired it up to test and confirm mine is 2400 7/n/2 -- Bill

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Manuals For Sale or trade or for the V.C.F.
by Kelly Leavitt 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Just found several more boxes of manuals. Specifically, I found about 300 pounds of old TRS-80 model II, 12, 16, and 6000 manuals (both hardware and software). I have most of them. Looking for a loving home. Lots of Xenix, programming, database, and OS manuals as well as hardware reference manuals. I want these to find a home, not the recycle bin. The "federation" has first dibs if they want them for a donation. Any interest? Make an offer direct to my email. Two manuals I found that I've been looking for for several years are the Informix for Xenix and the VideoTex and Office System server manual. Not software yet, but I'm just getting started.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] UPDATE -- Festivus food thread: Who'sbringing what?
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Bill Dromgoole via vcf-midatlantic writes: >I will bring a case of Yeungling beer. I will also bring a portable >projection screen. The screen is available for donation to VCFederation >if needed or wanted. Also there are three cases of fanfold pin feed >paper up for grabs if VCF doesn't want it. Pottsvile piss! While I was weened on that stuff, I wouldn't drink it today!

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v/68
by william degnan 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

anyone running a v/68 system (motorola UNIX-ette) -- Bill

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