Nice! Thanks for being docent! Let me know on the docents list more detail about the Commodore 64 problems that you had. On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Todd George via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Quick museum report for today.
It was a bit of a slow day, but we did have one really interested visitor. Her name is Lynn, she has a long history with computers and said the museum looked a lot like her basement. She mentioned quite a few items she had in her collection, including a wall-mounted Apple //e that boots to Frogger, and TI-99/4A among a lot of other items. She spent a lot of time in the museum. I described our group and invited her to VCF East. She indicated having some prior interaction with Bil Herd during her employment (but not with Commodore). I mentioned that he has a habit of showing up at VCF East, she expressed interest in saying Hi to him. She also indicated that she had never owned a Commodore machine. Was very nice talking with her.
We also had a family stop by, they were mostly looking for the Model Train guys but spent a few minutes talking with me. They asked if we had any Burroughs equipment. I mentioned that there was nothing on exhibit, but that doesn't mean we won't have some on display one day.
I spent my free time working on the Apple ][ disk drive. It squeaked loudly and sounded altogether terrible, I also witnessed the demo program the Apple was running lock up on disk access a few times. I cleaned and lubed it. It no longer squeaks and in testing the graphic demo seemed much more stable.
I also noticed that the Macintosh seems to have an issue with the floppy, but I did not have the proper equipment with me to image another disk for it.
I think I remember it being mentioned previously, but we need an RGB cable for the Amiga 500 that's on display.
I spent a little time playing around with imaging some additional Commodore music disks (as I did bring equipment for that with me) but didn't have much success prior to running out of time.
See ya! -Todd
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com