I had the pleasure of observing all the buzz! There were a number of really remarkable accomplishments that were worthy of capturing in the moment. Many deserved to be captured for posterity. I'm going to consider afresh how maybe to capture the highlights of a workshop or maybe broadcast it. Jeff B had expressed interest in this in the past I think. One of the coolest moments was when Ian P. took a crusty ancient radio discarded on campus and with a few deft strokes of a soldering iron had the radio playing. Related to the museum, Dave Gesswein got the Xerox Star back in operation. Next we might work on the warehouse Star so that we have a working spare for zero Star museum downtime. Its a really important part of our user interface presentation. Dave also worked on our SOL and as he said, swapped boards and parts. Related, we are nearing having operational computers in our kit and S100 area, all of which have been "dark" exhibits for quite some time. Specifically, the Scelbi, and Altair are being worked on by Corey. ROM programs are going to be in the Altair and we will do tape load demos too. Bart and Ian L broke open our long unreliable Mac128k and fixed cracked solder joints and "righted that ship". As someone else mentioned Bill Dromgoole continued his work to iron out problems in the UNIVAC 1219. Glad everyone had a good time and thanks very very much to those that contributed to the VCF Museum artifacts. It was a pleasure spending time with everyone. - DC On 1/16/2023 8:42 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Seems like everyone had fun this past weekend with the repair workshop. The usual suspects were there. Lots of interesting stuff getting fixed.
David Gesswein repaired the VCF Museum's Xerox as well as the Sol-20. Thanks so much Dave!
One lady came who needed picture files recovered from her early 2000's Macintosh. Dan helped her to recover and transfer most of them.
Bill Dromgoole worked on the Univac a bit.
Thomas worked on the Iris Personal as well as The Philips CD-ROM. Supposedly this is the first CD-ROM drive ever made. Very cool.
For dinner Saturday night we split into two groups half went to Brick House Tap & Tavern, the other half went to MJs. Both were good. Sunday night we tried a new place Patrick's Grill and the 8 of us really liked it. So I will make reservations next month for this place.
Anyone else want to chime in on what they worked on?
========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey@vcfed.org