Small Intro and a Thank You to everyone
Hello! My name is Lou Kohn but I also go by Faust in the community (IRC mainly). I am 27 years young with a jump to 28 next weekend and I live in the farmlands and suburbs of Gloucester County New Jersey. As for my interest in vintage computing it comes from many different places, from my fascination in technology at an early age to experiencing my first time using a system which was a 486sx on win3.11 (I know not really old) and exploring different systems, the history and what ultimately became of them in relation and development to modern technology today. I love exploring more obscure systems and different operating systems with my current interest towards different flavors of Unix, but also I have great appreciation and interest in the "Big Iron" systems which I still want to learn more from. In fact when it comes to learning I still have a lot ahead of myself but I am always eager to pick up anything I can to better understand it. In fact this year I am going to be doing a lot of this when it comes to doing hardware and I hope to grasp hardware repair better because a big part of the hobby is repairing and restoring. I hope that I can find a place here among others who share the same interest and maybe even become a regular in due time! Also I have to give you all a big thank you Saturday night when attending the festivus event! Not only was it my first but being the socially awkward person that I am (with an even more socially awkward fiancee that was with me during the event) everyone was so nice and awesome, we really felt welcome to be there and just have fun among everyone. A special thanks to Evan for the tour around the building, Ian for using his CRT repair kung-fu in figuring out what was up with my terminal and Herb for giving me a scsi drive for a mac that did not have one. I can go on with the thanks but to make it clear its wonderful to be among a group like this and I cannot wait for the next event. Hope everyone else enjoyed the weekend and got home safe!
On 12/11/2017 12:24 AM, Lou via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hello! My name is Lou Kohn but I also go by Faust in the community (IRC
(in a drone voice) Hi Lou ... ;-)
mainly). I am 27 years young with a jump to 28 next weekend and I live in the farmlands and suburbs of Gloucester County New Jersey. As for my > interest in vintage computing it comes from many different places,
Age doesn't matter, interest does. :-) I have a 486sx running Linux 1.2 (I think it still works). We've been starting to add 'interesting' IBM PC Clones from the era. A lot of the beige boxes are as common as tissue paper. But that doesn't mean they're not vintage now. There's just so many that VCF needs to be selective for the museum. In addition to my interest in Linux, I mostly have various Atari 8 bit systems. I hope to be at the the next repair shop (Jan. 13th, I think) with my Atari 800's and a Raspberry pi running SIO2PI (drive emulator). There are Mini, Mainframe, Micro (home and business computer), portables and even embedded. I think we have folks from every era starting from the 1950's computers to the present.
Also I have to give you all a big thank you Saturday night when attending the festivus event! Not only was it my first but being the socially awkward person that I am (with an even more socially awkward fiancee that was with me during the event) everyone was so nice and awesome, we really felt
You do realize that you're describing most of the folks that were at Festivus. :-) And despite the weather there was a large crowd. It's the one holiday party where I feel comfortable. PS: IXR (Makerspace) is also at InfoAge. We meet every Monday night but not on 12/25 (Christmas) and I'm not sure about 1/1. Not all are interested in vintage computer but we play with different technologies. -- 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 Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Lou via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hello! My name is Lou Kohn but I also go by Faust in the community (IRC
I was glad that you made it and glad to meet you!
mainly). I am 27 years young with a jump to 28 next weekend and I live in
Which channels and which networks? I'm Arkaxow and usually in #c64friends, #c64, ##Atari.
the farmlands and suburbs of Gloucester County New Jersey. As for my interest in vintage computing it comes from many different places, from my
I sometimes make my way down that way with Uber driving.
Also I have to give you all a big thank you Saturday night when attending
the festivus event! Not only was it my first but being the socially awkward
person that I am (with an even more socially awkward fiancee that was with
Yeah, like Neil said really most of us are socially awkward. I really feel comfortable and can be myself at this event. I'm never bored and always have someone interesting to talk to or something interesting to see or do there. All a great group of people!
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