On 03/19/2017 08:13 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

Michael Kato and Jeff Galinat were venders. I got to chat with Bill Inderrieden, Wm Dudley, Rebecca Mercuri, Neil Cherry, Herb, Dean & Drew and "the usual suspects".

Despite being compressed into one day, I felt satisfied. I got some goodies in the dealer's den - displays from Galinat - books from Kato - bags of 1,000 leds and VFD modules from Ott

Neil Cherry's home automation presentation had new things from last year. With 13 presentations at a time, everyone's sure to be disappointed and miss things. I missed the earlier C++ talk and the later one was cancelled.

I was a bit disappointed in my presentation. I did stay up until 3am tweaking it. Yes, I still haven't learned not to to do that. I had it completely working and was ready to demo it with all the software and show off the neat features (all open source). Ultimately what did me in was a conspiracy of idiocy. I had too much to present for 50 minutes. I was delayed by the schools display which was slow to work (weird). Then the WiFi router I used failed to retain it's hard coded IP/MAC pairings. Finally I let one gentleman dominate the questioning and I might not have fully understood what he was asking. Next year, demo first (but after I arrive early and do a test setup of the stuff I which to demo. Now in other news: I trade Mika (Michael Kato) a box of doughnuts for a CoCo 2, a Coco 3 w/disk drive, OS9 software and books, and a set of really interesting XOR boards (lots of ADC and digital IO) with 2 6809 boards. I intend to get the Tandy up and running with OS9 and donate it to the museum to add to the 8 bit collection. One of the interesting things about OS9 is that it runs on a 8 bit processor (the Motorola 6809 processor, my favorite), and Level II will let you run multi-user & multitasking. Microware's OS9 is very Unix like (with pipe and redirect) but not POSIX compatible. I noticed the software is the Windowing version of OS9 (not Windows!). Even, you won't see this donation for at least a year. It's going to take me some time to get this all working. -- 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 03/19/2017 08:13 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

Michael Kato and Jeff Galinat were venders. I got to chat with Bill Inderrieden, Wm Dudley, Rebecca Mercuri, Neil Cherry, Herb, Dean & Drew and "the usual suspects".

Despite being compressed into one day, I felt satisfied. I got some goodies in the dealer's den - displays from Galinat - books from Kato - bags of 1,000 leds and VFD modules from Ott

Neil Cherry's home automation presentation had new things from last year. With 13 presentations at a time, everyone's sure to be disappointed and miss things. I missed the earlier C++ talk and the later one was cancelled.

-- jeffj

Oh and I want to thank everyone who attended and everyone I met. I love hanging around with the nerds. I thoroughly enjoyed Frank O'Brien's "The View from the Apollo Guidance Computer." I wonder if it would be possible to write that OS on something like a AVR? Well I won't find out too soon. And Sorry Even, I really did have to run to N. Jersey. Good thing I left whe I did. When we were leaving N. Jersey the weather turned to snow and cold. -- 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