With the transition to fiber, there is unused CATV coax between the makerspace & hotel, and soon the Makerspace and 9010. If asked nicely, the usual suspects can pull RG-11 between 9010 and 9036 when the 10GB fiber goes in.... On 11/29/2022 12:01 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Might the installed base of vintage computer users of the system end up larger than the user base when originally released? :-O
Precursors to the internet are going to be interesting footnotes... worthy of museum consideration...!
On 11/27/2022 12:32 PM, Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I purchased one, at the eBay price. Also bought a NABU adapter, for possible hacking.
I love seeing the community doing work like this. Also FYI, the family member of several of the key NABU engineers is working on the project to get the network emulator working here:
That video is some corporate history, that I thought folks here might be interested in. There are some others documenting his progress.
- Alex
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:29 AM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Did anyone take advantage of the $20 deal and have extras? I am considering taking advantage of the eBay listing but of course I would prefer one third the price. ;-)
Chris
On Nov 27, 2022, at 9:26 AM, Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
About 50 of the NABUs sold each hour after the video released. Adrian Black is a pretty big YouTuber and garnered a lot of attention to the listing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394352064883
It looks like there aren’t many left, unless the seller is going to relist more
They aren’t the 20 dollar local pickup from Craigslist anymore, but 60 dollars is still cheap enough. I picked one up in the hopes that someone much smarter than I helps with porting CP/M or other software.
-Ian Litchfield
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 09:07 Duane Craps via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Another tear-down of the NABU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLYjZoShjy0
In the comments the seller said that he is selling a lot after the video came out,
-- DuaneCraps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp