Hello- I've been asked for an intro, so here we are. I live in Philly and work for a very large local MSO in the city. I run a medium sized engineering team and we handle large scale messaging (SMS and Email) for the MSO. I've been to a number of VCF East Festivals and have loved them (the Ted Nelson festival and the recent Apollo 11). I have been aware of the forums and site for many years, but just decided to join the list. Like many here I have a decent collection of computers - enough that I have to pay for a storage at a local provider (climate controlled of course, I'm not a monster...). I've been lately interested in 1990s era workstations and have been working on refining my collection. I both love and hate eBay. My collection ranges from Cannon Cats to Atari 800XLs to SGI Indigos and much in-between. Looking forward to meeting some of you as time and life permits, meanwhile we can do it virtually. -andy diller PS - To give you a better idea, here is my basement space with my 'in-progress' work right here as I type this: Currently working on: netbooting my SGI and Ultra10, setting up an open-source asset-management app with tags so I can track things better (that's the hand-held scanner there in front of the Sun) and installing Netatalk service on a linux machine to host a AppleTalk/Ethertalk file server for some older Mac's I'm trying to get back in shape... I have a personal blog at http://dillernet.com/apple where I've posted things over the years.
Hello- I've been asked for an intro, so here we are. I live in Philly and work for a very large local MSO in the city. I run a medium sized engineering team and we handle large scale messaging (SMS and Email) for the MSO. I've been to a number of VCF East Festivals and have loved them (the Ted Nelson festival and the recent Apollo 11). I have been aware of the forums and site for many years, but just decided to join the list. Like many here I have a decent collection of computers - enough that I have to pay for a storage at a local provider (climate controlled of course, I'm not a monster...).
I've been lately interested in 1990s era workstations and have been working on refining my collection. I both love and hate eBay. My collection ranges from Cannon Cats to Atari 800XLs to SGI Indigos and much in-between.
Looking forward to meeting some of you as time and life permits, meanwhile we can do it virtually.
-andy diller
PS - To give you a better idea, here is my basement space with my 'in-progress' work right here as I type this:
Currently working on: netbooting my SGI and Ultra10, setting up an open-source asset-management app with tags so I can track things better (that's the hand-held scanner there in front of the Sun) and installing Netatalk service on a linux machine to host a AppleTalk/Ethertalk file server for some older Mac's I'm trying to get back in shape...
I have a personal blog at http://dillernet.com/apple where I've posted things over the years.
Good intro! Welcome, again. We're having a "Vintage Computer Festivus" holiday party this weekend at the museum. It starts around 10am Saturday and ends when the last nerd drops Sunday afternoon. Many of us are staying overnight. Interested?
My collection ranges from Cannon Cats
Oooooh. We don't have one of those in the museum collection. Just saying. :)
On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> wrote:
Good intro! Welcome, again.
We're having a "Vintage Computer Festivus" holiday party this weekend at the museum. It starts around 10am Saturday and ends when the last nerd drops Sunday afternoon. Many of us are staying overnight. Interested?
My collection ranges from Cannon Cats
Oooooh. We don't have one of those in the museum collection. Just saying. :)
Yes- for some reason I didn't realize there was an actual computer museum there. While at the Vintage Festivals I've gone thru the Museum in the 'middle' of the grounds but that was all TV and Radio exhibits. Where is the actual Computer Museum? Is it on the grounds of the Marconi buildings? And it's open every weekend? If I can't make it to festivus I will be out there some weekend soon to see this. I will try to make it to festivus if I can. The Cats are strange- I like them because they are so out of the mold of almost every other machine UI ever created. I've been tempted many times to get a table at one of the Vintage Festivals with a "Cat vs. MacSE" setup (really Steve Jobs vs. Jeff Raskin) - with printers for each system all setup and running. The challenge is to type out a simple cover letter on each system and print it. I predict that 99% of the people will do it on the Mac SE without issues, while .05% will be able to do it on the Cat :) -andy
Yes- for some reason I didn't realize there was an actual computer museum there.
Yep! All of the other groups at InfoAge are state-level or smaller; here at Vintage Computer Federation we're a national group and we think of InfoAge as our headquarters. We have a museum on campus (in the set of buildings behind the radio/TV museum) and we also have a large storage warehouse on campus. If you can't come to Festivus next weekend, then email me off-list to arrange a private visit.
On 2018-11-27 18:19, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Currently working on: netbooting my SGI and Ultra10, setting up an open-source asset-management app with tags so I can track things better (that's the hand-held scanner there in front of the Sun) and installing Netatalk service on a linux machine to host a AppleTalk/Ethertalk file server for some older Mac's I'm trying to get back in shape...
I have a personal blog at http://dillernet.com/apple where I've posted things over the years.
If you attached/embedded a photo, I think it got stripped from the mailing list. Nice, I'm also into 90's *nix workstations. My college was deep into IBM, so as a result of working in the buildings where we threw out machines, I have a pretty deep stack of RS/6000s and parts. ;) Also SGI, Sun, and DEC. I feel like I need an HP PA-RISC box to round it out. What are you using for your asset-management app? I keep meaning to write something to keep inventory... -- Jameel Akari
No photo- the photo is at the link I posted. So was my college - UMCP (university of MD @ College Park) I actually had 2 IBM RTs - that had the original ROMP RISC chip, pre-POWER. They were in an instructors closet (the were old by the time even I was there) and they had the SystemV Academic Version of UNIX - not AIX. Of course they are long gone from me.. really should have kept that one. The asset management app is really nice - Snipe-IT - https://snipeitapp.com/ and code is https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it I looked for a long time and it's the nicest totally free, linux/php/mysql based package out there. I've used it with their vagrant install to play around with on my mac, and then just set it up on a small linux server I keep around. There are USB scanners on amazon for $20 and a set of 500 asset bar-code tags for like $10 I think. It works very nicely. -andy
On Nov 28, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If you attached/embedded a photo, I think it got stripped from the mailing list.
Nice, I'm also into 90's *nix workstations. My college was deep into IBM, so as a result of working in the buildings where we threw out machines, I have a pretty deep stack of RS/6000s and parts. ;) Also SGI, Sun, and DEC. I feel like I need an HP PA-RISC box to round it out.
What are you using for your asset-management app? I keep meaning to write something to keep inventory...
-- Jameel Akari
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