Lend VCF Commodore 1702 monitors for TV show
Hello everyone, VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors. I already have the C64 and 1541 covered. We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August. If you can help, send me a private e-mail. Thanks! ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
I had to laugh, even before I Finished reading. Thinking that Jeff has the Commodore stuff completely covered, From his personal stash. Mike R. Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Apr 19, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:25 AM Sentrytv <sentrytv@yahoo.com> wrote:
I had to laugh, even before I Finished reading. Thinking that Jeff has the Commodore stuff completely covered, From his personal stash
Yeah. I have too many C64 and 1541! This is the one time when my hoarding pays off! .
Mike R.
Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Apr 19, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
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========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On 4/19/21 12:05 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Now if they had wanted 40 Apple II+ and 150 Disk ][ drives….. :-)
Tony
Sounds like Tony has a class room setting. Is it for the fish? Ah, no one appreciates my humor. ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Tony just reminds me that I need to move out of a one bedroom apartment and get a house.
I have 1, sounds like it would be a hassle for everyone involved as I am not local. Is the company willing to ship from my house and back no problem. If I had 5 or more, would offer them up easy! On 4/19/21, 11:11 AM, "vcf-midatlantic on behalf of Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic" <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org on behalf of vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Hello everyone, VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors. I already have the C64 and 1541 covered. We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August. If you can help, send me a private e-mail. Thanks! ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:05 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Jeff: I have 2. I guess they have to be marked so that we get our specific ones back. Interesting that they need so many. Any idea how they are showing these?
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper office.
On 4/19/2021 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charityhttp://www.vcfed.org/jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:26 AM Douglas Crawford <touchetek@gmail.com> wrote:
Ha! Gonna be running New Room? :-0 Should I get them to Infoage? What's your ship plan?
Hold off for now. I have to see if they changed their requirements.
[image: Image 1 - THE NEWS ROOM/DESIGN CREATE YOUR OWN NEWS PAPERS] On 4/20/2021 7:50 AM, Jeffrey Brace wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:05 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Jeff: I have 2. I guess they have to be marked so that we get our specific ones back. Interesting that they need so many. Any idea how they are showing these?
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper office.
On 4/19/2021 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charityhttp://www.vcfed.org/jeffrey@vcfed.org
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper office.
OHHHH I thought this was for an adult film. You can still use my monitor anyways. Will bring it to the swap meet. See ya all Saturday!@# - Ethan
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper
office.
In 1982 what enterprise-level newspaper publishing system would be using brand-new C64's, the year the C64 was launched, for it's operations? This is not the first time film/tv has requested props that were historically inaccurate, but wow, they're way off here if they think any newspaper office would have been using 40-column C64's for any professional purpose. Bill
Just hope that they don’t realize that because then the deal may be off! Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Apr 20, 2021, at 11:43 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper
office.
In 1982 what enterprise-level newspaper publishing system would be using brand-new C64's, the year the C64 was launched, for it's operations?
This is not the first time film/tv has requested props that were historically inaccurate, but wow, they're way off here if they think any newspaper office would have been using 40-column C64's for any professional purpose.
Bill
I concur. In 1982, EAI was using a mainframe computer and dumb terminals for word processing. Although I was in the Engineering Dept., I do not know whether they used CAD -- I think it was all still on paper. C64's strike me as completely inappropriate for a 1982 office -- but what do I know. Bruce NJ On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:43 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper
office.
In 1982 what enterprise-level newspaper publishing system would be using brand-new C64's, the year the C64 was launched, for it's operations?
This is not the first time film/tv has requested props that were historically inaccurate, but wow, they're way off here if they think any newspaper office would have been using 40-column C64's for any professional purpose.
Bill
https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/monday-memories/2020/07/13/monday-memories-i... http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/chicago-tribune-1970s-and-... http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/the-arizona-republic-1980s... Not Commodore... On 4/20/2021 5:21 PM, Bruce via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I concur. In 1982, EAI was using a mainframe computer and dumb terminals for word processing. Although I was in the Engineering Dept., I do not know whether they used CAD -- I think it was all still on paper. C64's strike me as completely inappropriate for a 1982 office -- but what do I know. Bruce NJ
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:43 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They need it for an office scene taking place in 1982. A newspaper office.
In 1982 what enterprise-level newspaper publishing system would be using brand-new C64's, the year the C64 was launched, for it's operations?
This is not the first time film/tv has requested props that were historically inaccurate, but wow, they're way off here if they think any newspaper office would have been using 40-column C64's for any professional purpose.
Bill
On 4/20/21 5:42 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/monday-memories/2020/07/13/monday-memories-i...
http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/chicago-tribune-1970s-and-...
http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/the-arizona-republic-1980s...
Not Commodore...
Mid 80's Agreed, when I worked for maker of news communications equipment the 70s/80s images looked like what I saw at AP & the Wall St. Journal. They both used a lot of DEC equipment behind the scenes and special editing terminals for they're stories (the hugemoungous keyboards). Early 80s As far as CAD, I recall having an early AutoCAD for the IBM PC while in college (helped create the computer labs at Middlesex CC). I recall that troublesome dongle that made things interesting. Many manufacturers had better CAD stations. Oddly enough I never learned CAD. I had learned to do it with pencil and paper. I probably still have the kit. :-) Home computers were useless in larger businesses, no network (okay terminals to the mini/mainframe and then the network there). I recall the first IBM PC networks being netbuei, then arcnet then the gold standard 3COM thick net board (with the 68K processor ;-) ). In the later part of the 80's do I recall twisted pair (1BaseT) and token ring (4M) and the ever popular FDDI. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
1983 my dad’s tool and die shop was using a PC with Autocad with MDA and CGA displays. We later put a 286 accelerator in it, and added serial ports to download jobs to the CAM computers. In 1987 I joined Simon & Schuster and they were doing no typesetting and very little layout on PCs or Macs. The few older machines they had were used mostly for editing text and to do back office tasks. A couple of years later we outfit the company with PS/2s, modern Macs and networking. By 1992 all the older machines were gone, along with the artists tables, all replaced by Mac workstation running PageMaker and later, Quark Xpress. PC with Windows for Workgroups were used for text editing and administrative business. On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:15 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 4/20/21 5:42 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/monday-memories/2020/07/13/monday-memories-i...
http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/chicago-tribune-1970s-and-...
http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/the-arizona-republic-1980s...
Not Commodore...
Mid 80's Agreed, when I worked for maker of news communications equipment the 70s/80s images looked like what I saw at AP & the Wall St. Journal. They both used a lot of DEC equipment behind the scenes and special editing terminals for they're stories (the hugemoungous keyboards).
Early 80s As far as CAD, I recall having an early AutoCAD for the IBM PC while in college (helped create the computer labs at Middlesex CC). I recall that troublesome dongle that made things interesting. Many manufacturers had better CAD stations. Oddly enough I never learned CAD. I had learned to do it with pencil and paper. I probably still have the kit. :-)
Home computers were useless in larger businesses, no network (okay terminals to the mini/mainframe and then the network there). I recall the first IBM PC networks being netbuei, then arcnet then the gold standard 3COM thick net board (with the 68K processor ;-) ). In the later part of the 80's do I recall twisted pair (1BaseT) and token ring (4M) and the ever popular FDDI.
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
C64 computers and 1702 monitors worked well in a business environment on the Halt and Catch Fire series. 😎 On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:31 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
1983 my dad’s tool and die shop was using a PC with Autocad with MDA and CGA displays. We later put a 286 accelerator in it, and added serial ports to download jobs to the CAM computers.
In 1987 I joined Simon & Schuster and they were doing no typesetting and very little layout on PCs or Macs. The few older machines they had were used mostly for editing text and to do back office tasks. A couple of years later we outfit the company with PS/2s, modern Macs and networking. By 1992 all the older machines were gone, along with the artists tables, all replaced by Mac workstation running PageMaker and later, Quark Xpress. PC with Windows for Workgroups were used for text editing and administrative business.
We won't be needing the monitors any more. OK. Everyone looks like the Technical Advisory convinced them that the Commodores were wrong for the set, so they are going with some sort of terminals. Oh well. Sorry to bother everyone with my request for monitors. I cancel my request. These set dec buyers are really getting to annoy me with requests that I research and then find. Then they change their mind and never tell me. On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:10 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
Simple: Charge a consultation fee. You're providing a service and they should pay for it. Bruce NJ On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:23 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We won't be needing the monitors any more.
OK. Everyone looks like the Technical Advisory convinced them that the Commodores were wrong for the set, so they are going with some sort of terminals. Oh well.
Sorry to bother everyone with my request for monitors. I cancel my request.
These set dec buyers are really getting to annoy me with requests that I research and then find. Then they change their mind and never tell me.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:10 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
In business the customer is always right, they have the right also to cancel or change their minds. How it is. Perhaps what might have been good was to ask "are you sure that's what you want" next time, or get them to sign a phased contract before you start the work. Phase I - do X, Phase II, do Y, etc. Bill On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:51 AM Bruce via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Simple: Charge a consultation fee. You're providing a service and they should pay for it. Bruce NJ
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:23 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We won't be needing the monitors any more.
OK. Everyone looks like the Technical Advisory convinced them that the Commodores were wrong for the set, so they are going with some sort of terminals. Oh well.
Sorry to bother everyone with my request for monitors. I cancel my request.
These set dec buyers are really getting to annoy me with requests that I research and then find. Then they change their mind and never tell me.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:10 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On 4/21/21 10:09 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
In business the customer is always right ... As long as they're paying for it. ;-)
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:10 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
In business the customer is always right, they have the right also to cancel or change their minds. How it is. Perhaps what might have been good was to ask "are you sure that's what you want" next time, or get them to sign a phased contract before you start the work. Phase I - do X, Phase II, do Y, etc.
Oh absolutely next time I won't make the same mistakes. Evan and Corey took care of this part of the process in the past. I only knew about the end result. Corey wasn't able to walk me through the pitfalls this time because he is busy with work. So I learn by trial and error. I won't make the same mistakes next time. I have learned from this experience. In fact there were 3 different shows that contacted me in the last two weeks and all of them flaked out in different ways. So at least next time I will ask questions before I go through the effort of locating, gathering and contacting people, etc.
Bill
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:51 AM Bruce via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Simple: Charge a consultation fee. You're providing a service and they should pay for it. Bruce NJ
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:23 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We won't be needing the monitors any more.
OK. Everyone looks like the Technical Advisory convinced them that the Commodores were wrong for the set, so they are going with some sort of terminals. Oh well.
Sorry to bother everyone with my request for monitors. I cancel my request.
These set dec buyers are really getting to annoy me with requests that I research and then find. Then they change their mind and never tell me.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:10 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
VCF was contacted by a TV show for a prop rental. They need 30 Commodore 64, 30 Commodore 1541 drives and 30 Commodore 1702 monitors.
I already have the C64 and 1541 covered.
We only have half of the monitors. Can anyone lend VCF monitors? They start filming in May, so it's likely that they will need them picked up within the next two weeks. They have shipping insurance for the monitors and use a professional shipping company. You will also get your portion of the rental fee. They will be needed for filming from Mid May to Mid August.
If you can help, send me a private e-mail.
Thanks!
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
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