This workshop was fairly productive on this front as well. Friday night I arrived, accidentally stumbled into the Antique Radio Club, joined their club, and bought some junk from their members only auction. After finding my way back to CDL I worked on repairing a Zenith TV I pulled from the side of the road. It only had coax, but someone from Long Island whose name is evading me was more than happy to take it home for some vintage gaming event they hold. Recapped and ready to go by the end of the day Saturday. Saturday after finishing up the TV I worked on a couple old radios I picked up from the Antique Radio Club. An old 1939 RCA 94BP1 Battery powered AM radio and a home brew regen receiver. Midway through the day Bart asked me to give him a hand and found all the bad solder joints on the museum’s Mac’s analog board. I spent the later half of the day trying to build an audio amplifier for a speaker, but made an oscillator instead and scrapped the idea of mixing Hollow and solid state electronics We also had a very productive docent meeting before dinner. I was in the Brick House crowd and we had a good time there. Sunday was mostly just cleaning up, tinkering and joking around. I also stopped by the museum for a little while to catch up with everyone with a few others on the way to the warehouse. On Sunday, Ian P. pulled from the trash an old Philips radio we called a cromulent junk box. Surprisingly, soldering in 2 random filters, she fired right up. We were all waiting for the Loud earth shattering Kaboom, but it ended up earning its keep. At the end of the day He gave it to me since he didn't want to lug it home. I looked it up and apparently it's fairly rare, but not very sought after. The 536AN was made by Philips when they escaped the Netherlands in 1941 and only made until the US entered WWI so not much info is available, but I found this site on a related model https://people.ohio.edu/postr/bapix/Phil436AN.htm I brought it home and cleaned it and it came back pretty nice, just gotta reglue some veneer. I also enjoyed Patrick's. It's the only pub I know of where I can get a French dip with horseradish for under 15 bucks. Thank you CJ for the Trinitron. The picture on it is very crisp and clear. And for the capacitors from the Emerson TV! Looking forward to next month! Thanks! -Ian L. On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 20:43 Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> 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