Very good weekend at the museum! Yesterday and today were slow, visitor-wise, but we did lots of other great stuff. Saturday: I brought the Mimeo to the 4th annual Jersey Shore Makerfest. VCF table was busy most of the day. Educated lots of people about the history of Apple and about VCFed/InfoAge. Also got a good lead for a potentially interesting artifact. Today: Kelly organized our Epson collection and most of our Tandy collection. Before, the Epson collection took up 4/5th of one shelving unit and parts of two pallets. Now it's all on a single shelving unit and we put aside eight surplus computers that will be available at Festivus first, workshops (Jan, Feb, March, April) second, and VCF East (May) third. Here's a picture of the surplus machines. (We did not yet sort through the keyboards; no guarantee of those being available.) https://tinyurl.com/y7bh2nq5 No, we didn't leave them stacked like that. The stack was only for the picture. They're very safely in two piles of four computers each. Here is the newly pared-down Epson collection -- "Kelly not included": https://tinyurl.com/ycxgv8tr -- these are what we're keeping. On the Tandy side, before we had four over-stuff shelving units; now it's three, not counting the Model 1 and a CoCo (model 2 or 3, I forget which) both in the museum. I didn't get pictures. Surplus-wise, there are four of five CoCos (models 1, 2, 3). Thank you Kelly for your hard work today.
https://tinyurl.com/ycxgv8tr -- these are what we're keeping.
PS, if anyone is wondering: Normally we keep monitors separate. We made an exception because Kelly explained to me these monitors pretty much ONLY work with Epson computers. Also they fit really nice in the available space. :)
Yes, not only do those monitors only work with those computers, but those computers pretty much only work with those monitors. At least as far as I have been able to determine. They have a proprietary video/power connector so at a minimum some kind of adapter would be needed to drive any other monitor. I have a few more QX-10 CPUs than monitors myself, and I'd been hoping to get around to figuring out if such an adapter could be constructed, but time has not presented itself. Also, the QX-10 has a battery in it, would be prudent to attend to those. I need to check mine. Last time I looked they were ok, but I am intending to replace them. It is at least important to be aware that they're there. -Paul
On Oct 21, 2018, at 10:07 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/ycxgv8tr -- these are what we're keeping.
PS, if anyone is wondering: Normally we keep monitors separate. We made an exception because Kelly explained to me these monitors pretty much ONLY work with Epson computers. Also they fit really nice in the available space. :)
Yes, not only do those monitors only work with those computers, but those computers pretty much only work with those monitors. At least as far as I have been able to determine. They have a proprietary video/power connector so at a minimum some kind of adapter would be needed to drive any other monitor. I have a few more QX-10 CPUs than monitors myself, and I'd been hoping to get around to figuring out if such an adapter could be constructed, but time has not presented itself.
Thanks for the additional information. We will have two or three monitors available. I'm not sure exactly which models.
Also, the QX-10 has a battery in it, would be prudent to attend to those.
Agreed. We didn't have time for that today; our priority was to make space for VERY BIG THING arriving next month.
It is at least important to be aware that they're there. I am aware. Thank you. :)
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