Museum Report - 22-Jan-2017
Quick museum report for today. It was a bit of a slow day, but we did have one really interested visitor. Her name is Lynn, she has a long history with computers and said the museum looked a lot like her basement. She mentioned quite a few items she had in her collection, including a wall-mounted Apple //e that boots to Frogger, and TI-99/4A among a lot of other items. She spent a lot of time in the museum. I described our group and invited her to VCF East. She indicated having some prior interaction with Bil Herd during her employment (but not with Commodore). I mentioned that he has a habit of showing up at VCF East, she expressed interest in saying Hi to him. She also indicated that she had never owned a Commodore machine. Was very nice talking with her. We also had a family stop by, they were mostly looking for the Model Train guys but spent a few minutes talking with me. They asked if we had any Burroughs equipment. I mentioned that there was nothing on exhibit, but that doesn't mean we won't have some on display one day. I spent my free time working on the Apple ][ disk drive. It squeaked loudly and sounded altogether terrible, I also witnessed the demo program the Apple was running lock up on disk access a few times. I cleaned and lubed it. It no longer squeaks and in testing the graphic demo seemed much more stable. I also noticed that the Macintosh seems to have an issue with the floppy, but I did not have the proper equipment with me to image another disk for it. I think I remember it being mentioned previously, but we need an RGB cable for the Amiga 500 that's on display. I spent a little time playing around with imaging some additional Commodore music disks (as I did bring equipment for that with me) but didn't have much success prior to running out of time. See ya! -Todd
Nice! Thanks for being docent! Let me know on the docents list more detail about the Commodore 64 problems that you had. On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Todd George via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Quick museum report for today.
It was a bit of a slow day, but we did have one really interested visitor. Her name is Lynn, she has a long history with computers and said the museum looked a lot like her basement. She mentioned quite a few items she had in her collection, including a wall-mounted Apple //e that boots to Frogger, and TI-99/4A among a lot of other items. She spent a lot of time in the museum. I described our group and invited her to VCF East. She indicated having some prior interaction with Bil Herd during her employment (but not with Commodore). I mentioned that he has a habit of showing up at VCF East, she expressed interest in saying Hi to him. She also indicated that she had never owned a Commodore machine. Was very nice talking with her.
We also had a family stop by, they were mostly looking for the Model Train guys but spent a few minutes talking with me. They asked if we had any Burroughs equipment. I mentioned that there was nothing on exhibit, but that doesn't mean we won't have some on display one day.
I spent my free time working on the Apple ][ disk drive. It squeaked loudly and sounded altogether terrible, I also witnessed the demo program the Apple was running lock up on disk access a few times. I cleaned and lubed it. It no longer squeaks and in testing the graphic demo seemed much more stable.
I also noticed that the Macintosh seems to have an issue with the floppy, but I did not have the proper equipment with me to image another disk for it.
I think I remember it being mentioned previously, but we need an RGB cable for the Amiga 500 that's on display.
I spent a little time playing around with imaging some additional Commodore music disks (as I did bring equipment for that with me) but didn't have much success prior to running out of time.
See ya! -Todd
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com
Quiet day but nice day at the museum. Two sets of visitors, one lady that came in did a quick look and was out. Then a family can in, parents and a teenager. They were interested in the whole history tour, seemed to like it, and their boy expressed interested in the hobby from STEM viewpoint. I encouraged him to get involved, with our benefits of learning essential computer principles, electronics, and troubleshooting. Parents were pleased. Our Wiki information was VERY helpful getting the place opened up. The place looked great. I think I left it how I found it :) I studied the 5150 from a demo viewpoint. I think it is a really slim configuration- I suspect that it is MDA video and not Hercules? I ran the C64. Left the rest of the exhibits alone. The workshop PC works good. I added a link on the browser bookmark bar for the wiki. Doug Crawford
Thanks, Doug! On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:21 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Quiet day but nice day at the museum. Two sets of visitors, one lady that came in did a quick look and was out. Then a family can in, parents and a teenager. They were interested in the whole history tour, seemed to like it, and their boy expressed interested in the hobby from STEM viewpoint. I encouraged him to get involved, with our benefits of learning essential computer principles, electronics, and troubleshooting. Parents were pleased.
Our Wiki information was VERY helpful getting the place opened up. The place looked great. I think I left it how I found it :) I studied the 5150 from a demo viewpoint. I think it is a really slim configuration- I suspect that it is MDA video and not Hercules? I ran the C64. Left the rest of the exhibits alone. The workshop PC works good. I added a link on the browser bookmark bar for the wiki.
Doug Crawford
participants (4)
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Dean Notarnicola -
Douglas Crawford -
Jeffrey Brace -
Todd George