Another successful repair workshop 3/6 & 3/7 2021
So about 15 people showed up to the repair workshop. Most were in the CDL building and the rest were in 9032-A, the museum and the warehouse. Ian was able to repair the Xerox in the museum by swapping out a board from another Xerox. He will try to repair the original board later. In addition Ian fixed a number of other items that hopefully he will mention here. Jeff Salzman tested all sorts of Commodore hardware which was fun watching especially him using the Magic Voice hardware and then realizing that Gor and Wizard of War both had digitized voices when the cartridges were plugged into the Magic Voice. Sounded just like the arcade versions. Jason Perkins tested and fixed the Diablo printer as well as a Apple Profile. Dmitry had success at the very end of the workshop, but I don't remember what he was working on. Corey and I started prototyping a new backdrop for the artifact carts that I hope everyone will like. Can everyone else chime in on what they were working on? Next event is the swap meet & repair workshop on April 24. 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 cell: 732-759-1783
I worked on my own Apple Lisa, with help from JasonP and Ian. We got it running but only by taking all the boards from Jason's Lisa :( I have more work to do on that. I was also running around doing some networking infra w/ Martin of CDL in the Hotel to get them setup with Wifi and reduce the number of cable modems IA has. I asked RyanB to help triage a Compaq luggable for VCF work but he reported the one P2 had a dead PSU. I pulled a P3 in the warehouse and plugged it in and got some video - but also some smoke from some caps that blew. I have a Toshiba 3200 that works that i may just donate and bring up on my next visit. It already has dos and it should take the ISA network card that martin donated for mTCP. Watching the Diablo print again was very cool, I hope we can use that for future projects. I saw Connor working all day on something fascinating that required soldering tons of very tiny wires, I don't know more about it than that. Dimitry was working on bringing back to life a Tandy 1400 laptop. Also Ryan (the other evo owner) was working on some vax and or unix machines. Jason the machine Perkins actually tested and formatted about 10 (it seems like that many) profile HDs on Sat! It was crazy to watch him go thru all those and bring some back I was sure were totally dead. And MikeL was there for most of Sat working on his Amiga2000- I didn't find out if he ever got it booting and working Workbench 2... -andy
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
So about 15 people showed up to the repair workshop. Most were in the CDL building and the rest were in 9032-A, the museum and the warehouse.
Ian was able to repair the Xerox in the museum by swapping out a board from another Xerox. He will try to repair the original board later. In addition Ian fixed a number of other items that hopefully he will mention here.
Jeff Salzman tested all sorts of Commodore hardware which was fun watching especially him using the Magic Voice hardware and then realizing that Gor and Wizard of War both had digitized voices when the cartridges were plugged into the Magic Voice. Sounded just like the arcade versions.
Jason Perkins tested and fixed the Diablo printer as well as a Apple Profile.
Dmitry had success at the very end of the workshop, but I don't remember what he was working on.
Corey and I started prototyping a new backdrop for the artifact carts that I hope everyone will like.
Can everyone else chime in on what they were working on?
Next event is the swap meet & repair workshop on April 24.
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 cell: 732-759-1783
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:11 PM Andrew Diller <dillera@gmail.com> wrote:
I was also running around doing some networking infra w/ Martin of CDL in the Hotel to get them setup with Wifi and reduce the number of cable modems IA has.
Oh and big thanks to CDL for letting us use your workspace. Everyone truly loves the space for so many reasons. Thanks Dan Jacobs, Martin and all other members of CDL!
I asked RyanB to help triage a Compaq luggable for VCF work but he reported the one P2 had a dead PSU. I pulled a P3 in the warehouse and plugged it in and got some video - but also some smoke from some caps that blew. I have a Toshiba 3200 that works that i may just donate and bring up on my next visit. It already has dos and it should take the ISA network card that martin donated for mTCP.
So you win the first to smoke award!
Watching the Diablo print again was very cool, I hope we can use that for future projects.
Yes. We will figure out what to do with this.
Last work shop. kickstart and work bench 2.1 booted just fine. I could not get the hard drive setup programs to find any installed hard drives. This time. Basically did the same thing, using kickstart rom 1.2 and workbench 1.3. Ran hard drive setup (RLL DRIVE) and formatted the drive 3/4 of the way before a “ Guru” software error showed up. I tried this 3 times before giving up. Then worked on C64 with memory issues I have to order some ICs. Checked TRS 80 b/w monitor which I sold to Jeff S. Gave Jeff Brace UNIVAC magnetic tapes for evaluation. MIKE ROSEN !! Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I worked on my own Apple Lisa, with help from JasonP and Ian. We got it running but only by taking all the boards from Jason's Lisa :( I have more work to do on that.
I was also running around doing some networking infra w/ Martin of CDL in the Hotel to get them setup with Wifi and reduce the number of cable modems IA has.
I asked RyanB to help triage a Compaq luggable for VCF work but he reported the one P2 had a dead PSU. I pulled a P3 in the warehouse and plugged it in and got some video - but also some smoke from some caps that blew. I have a Toshiba 3200 that works that i may just donate and bring up on my next visit. It already has dos and it should take the ISA network card that martin donated for mTCP.
Watching the Diablo print again was very cool, I hope we can use that for future projects.
I saw Connor working all day on something fascinating that required soldering tons of very tiny wires, I don't know more about it than that.
Dimitry was working on bringing back to life a Tandy 1400 laptop.
Also Ryan (the other evo owner) was working on some vax and or unix machines.
Jason the machine Perkins actually tested and formatted about 10 (it seems like that many) profile HDs on Sat! It was crazy to watch him go thru all those and bring some back I was sure were totally dead.
And MikeL was there for most of Sat working on his Amiga2000- I didn't find out if he ever got it booting and working Workbench 2...
-andy
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
So about 15 people showed up to the repair workshop. Most were in the CDL building and the rest were in 9032-A, the museum and the warehouse.
Ian was able to repair the Xerox in the museum by swapping out a board from another Xerox. He will try to repair the original board later. In addition Ian fixed a number of other items that hopefully he will mention here.
Jeff Salzman tested all sorts of Commodore hardware which was fun watching especially him using the Magic Voice hardware and then realizing that Gor and Wizard of War both had digitized voices when the cartridges were plugged into the Magic Voice. Sounded just like the arcade versions.
Jason Perkins tested and fixed the Diablo printer as well as a Apple Profile.
Dmitry had success at the very end of the workshop, but I don't remember what he was working on.
Corey and I started prototyping a new backdrop for the artifact carts that I hope everyone will like.
Can everyone else chime in on what they were working on?
Next event is the swap meet & repair workshop on April 24.
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 cell: 732-759-1783
I almost forgot. Coming back from dinner, behind Connor and his new Lincoln, he was trying to get it to auto parallel park but being from Philly I just went took the spot and the Lincoln gave up. I will not bow down to our future robot overlords... -andy p.s to be fair I did wait like 15 seconds and it seemed like he was just sitting there.
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
So about 15 people showed up to the repair workshop. Most were in the CDL building and the rest were in 9032-A, the museum and the warehouse.
Ian was able to repair the Xerox in the museum by swapping out a board from another Xerox. He will try to repair the original board later. In addition Ian fixed a number of other items that hopefully he will mention here.
Jeff Salzman tested all sorts of Commodore hardware which was fun watching especially him using the Magic Voice hardware and then realizing that Gor and Wizard of War both had digitized voices when the cartridges were plugged into the Magic Voice. Sounded just like the arcade versions.
Jason Perkins tested and fixed the Diablo printer as well as a Apple Profile.
Dmitry had success at the very end of the workshop, but I don't remember what he was working on.
Corey and I started prototyping a new backdrop for the artifact carts that I hope everyone will like.
Can everyone else chime in on what they were working on?
Next event is the swap meet & repair workshop on April 24.
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 cell: 732-759-1783
If you were in NY , Brooklyn , you could have been shot for doing that! Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:17 PM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I almost forgot. Coming back from dinner, behind Connor and his new Lincoln, he was trying to get it to auto parallel park but being from Philly I just went took the spot and the Lincoln gave up.
I will not bow down to our future robot overlords...
-andy
p.s to be fair I did wait like 15 seconds and it seemed like he was just sitting there.
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
So about 15 people showed up to the repair workshop. Most were in the CDL building and the rest were in 9032-A, the museum and the warehouse.
Ian was able to repair the Xerox in the museum by swapping out a board from another Xerox. He will try to repair the original board later. In addition Ian fixed a number of other items that hopefully he will mention here.
Jeff Salzman tested all sorts of Commodore hardware which was fun watching especially him using the Magic Voice hardware and then realizing that Gor and Wizard of War both had digitized voices when the cartridges were plugged into the Magic Voice. Sounded just like the arcade versions.
Jason Perkins tested and fixed the Diablo printer as well as a Apple Profile.
Dmitry had success at the very end of the workshop, but I don't remember what he was working on.
Corey and I started prototyping a new backdrop for the artifact carts that I hope everyone will like.
Can everyone else chime in on what they were working on?
Next event is the swap meet & repair workshop on April 24.
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 cell: 732-759-1783
Luckily the Lincoln didn’t have the 50 cal ‘parking enforcer’ option!! — Andrew Diller
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:33 PM, Sentrytv <sentrytv@yahoo.com> wrote:
If you were in NY , Brooklyn , you could have been shot for doing that!
Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:17 PM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I almost forgot. Coming back from dinner, behind Connor and his new Lincoln, he was trying to get it to auto parallel park but being from Philly I just went took the spot and the Lincoln gave up.
I will not bow down to our future robot overlords...
-andy
p.s to be fair I did wait like 15 seconds and it seemed like he was just sitting there.
On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
So about 15 people showed up to the repair workshop. Most were in the CDL building and the rest were in 9032-A, the museum and the warehouse.
Ian was able to repair the Xerox in the museum by swapping out a board from another Xerox. He will try to repair the original board later. In addition Ian fixed a number of other items that hopefully he will mention here.
Jeff Salzman tested all sorts of Commodore hardware which was fun watching especially him using the Magic Voice hardware and then realizing that Gor and Wizard of War both had digitized voices when the cartridges were plugged into the Magic Voice. Sounded just like the arcade versions.
Jason Perkins tested and fixed the Diablo printer as well as a Apple Profile.
Dmitry had success at the very end of the workshop, but I don't remember what he was working on.
Corey and I started prototyping a new backdrop for the artifact carts that I hope everyone will like.
Can everyone else chime in on what they were working on?
Next event is the swap meet & repair workshop on April 24.
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 cell: 732-759-1783
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