Museum Report 2018-02-24 February 24, 2018
Tony was at the museum from about 1pm to 4pm. Surprisingly Bill Dromgoole was already here! I arrived around 3pm stayed until 5pm. Dromgoole worked on the Univac some more. Did some memory testing. He took out a fan is going to work on it at home to repair. He will be back next weekend for the workshop. Tony did docenting and worked on repairing VCF apple machines. I talked with them and VCF member visitors Don Caselli and Nick Lordi. There was an InfoAge talk given with about 100 people in attendance. It was Alice Bowman NASA operations manager. About a dozen visitors throughout the course of the day. Evan, Adam, and Pete will be at VCF tomorrow. == Jeff Brace
On Feb 24, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Tony was at the museum from about 1pm to 4pm. Surprisingly Bill Dromgoole was already here! I arrived around 3pm stayed until 5pm.
I had two families of three come through, a father with his son and daughter and a mother with her two sons. The first family the father was the truly interested party (the son less so, the daughter too young to know what she was seeing) The second family they were all interested but the one son didn't want to leave. Played with every machine we had running, asked lots of questions, was a bit over anxious but very polite when asked to not try to reconfigure some machines! He was also very appreciative of the fact that we had so many vintage machines running. He truly would have stayed the rest of the day. He also happens to have excellent taste! His mother told me his room is filled with Classic Macs ;-) Bill got some serious work done on the Univac and I got to help lift heavy things (pulled one unit out so he could work on a fan.....I pick things up and I put them back down!) and I got to help run a memory test and watch it PASS!! Very excited to see this machine coming along, just too cool! I had enough time to get the Bell & Howell apple II plus running. Ended up being two bad 4116 ram chips that were the issue. I replaced them with known good ones and the machine passed a good 30 minute continuous memory test cycle. It is tagged and back in the warehouse. Quiet day for visitors but great day of company and working with the Univac! Tony
I forgot, not only did I get to see Eric Rangell who was there to drop a printer off for Corey (it's in the warehouse Corey) but I also got to spend some quality time with Eric's 86 year old father. He was a lot of fun to talk to, he loves to fish and has been on my family's boats, and was genuinely interested (or is a really great actor!!!) in what I was doing as I worked on the B&H II+. Thanks for bringing him Eric, he was a real pleasure to talk to. Tony
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Tony Bogan