I checked out a new to me C128, 128D, 1571 and Thompson RGBI CRT. Adam and I helped Tony with his CoCo 2. Docented for a couple of hours. Had two nice visitors. One was a dad and his two young kids. The girl was very interested in all the systems and how they work, including George and the Univac. The other was a Dad as his older son. The dad was extremely knowledgable about computer technology and asked me a lot of questions (I can't help but feel he was just testing me.) Hopefully, I covinced them all to attend VCFe, and that CP/M didn't matter ;-) On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 9:26 PM V. Sigma via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I went to a workshop for the first time, learned how to solder with the help of my friend Todd, but ultimately didn't succeed in repairing any machines yesterday...oh well, maybe next month.
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
It started out in bizarro world: Ian skipped this one, and Tony worked on Atari, Commodore, and Tandy gear (no Apple II!). :)....
Jeff S. tested some of our Tandy hardware.
Anthony and Jason worked on getting a Counterpoint system up. Refresher: Counterpoint built a few hundred Unix workstations on contract to AT&T in 1986, AT&T canceled the project, and so these were never released. The ones we have may be the last ones around. It took some brainstorming (and some trial-and-error), but this morning one of the workstations came to life!
Drom stopped by, unexpected, and worked on the Univac.
There was a Don Casselli sighting, but I didn't have a chance to talk to him (was busy withe museum visitors).
I worked on the museum info kiosks. Big accomplishment: I installed Apache as our intranet server. Never installed that before, so I learned something new. Jason provided tech support for a few of my questions. Jameel donated two micro-form-factor PCs for powering the kiosks. I wiped them (they had Windows 10) and put on Linux, of course. :) I installed OpenKiosk on them.
Tony's projects were for the VCF East Software Store.
Jeff S. worked on his MOBIDIC replica which will someday power our life-size replica.
I'm not sure what Dean did.
Jeff B. helped out with a little of everything.