It started out in bizarro world: Ian skipped this one, and Tony worked on Atari, Commodore, and Tandy gear (no Apple II!). :).... Jeff S. tested some of our Tandy hardware. Anthony and Jason worked on getting a Counterpoint system up. Refresher: Counterpoint built a few hundred Unix workstations on contract to AT&T in 1986, AT&T canceled the project, and so these were never released. The ones we have may be the last ones around. It took some brainstorming (and some trial-and-error), but this morning one of the workstations came to life! Drom stopped by, unexpected, and worked on the Univac. There was a Don Casselli sighting, but I didn't have a chance to talk to him (was busy withe museum visitors). I worked on the museum info kiosks. Big accomplishment: I installed Apache as our intranet server. Never installed that before, so I learned something new. Jason provided tech support for a few of my questions. Jameel donated two micro-form-factor PCs for powering the kiosks. I wiped them (they had Windows 10) and put on Linux, of course. :) I installed OpenKiosk on them. Tony's projects were for the VCF East Software Store. Jeff S. worked on his MOBIDIC replica which will someday power our life-size replica. I'm not sure what Dean did. Jeff B. helped out with a little of everything.
I went to a workshop for the first time, learned how to solder with the help of my friend Todd, but ultimately didn't succeed in repairing any machines yesterday...oh well, maybe next month. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
It started out in bizarro world: Ian skipped this one, and Tony worked on Atari, Commodore, and Tandy gear (no Apple II!). :)....
Jeff S. tested some of our Tandy hardware.
Anthony and Jason worked on getting a Counterpoint system up. Refresher: Counterpoint built a few hundred Unix workstations on contract to AT&T in 1986, AT&T canceled the project, and so these were never released. The ones we have may be the last ones around. It took some brainstorming (and some trial-and-error), but this morning one of the workstations came to life!
Drom stopped by, unexpected, and worked on the Univac.
There was a Don Casselli sighting, but I didn't have a chance to talk to him (was busy withe museum visitors).
I worked on the museum info kiosks. Big accomplishment: I installed Apache as our intranet server. Never installed that before, so I learned something new. Jason provided tech support for a few of my questions. Jameel donated two micro-form-factor PCs for powering the kiosks. I wiped them (they had Windows 10) and put on Linux, of course. :) I installed OpenKiosk on them.
Tony's projects were for the VCF East Software Store.
Jeff S. worked on his MOBIDIC replica which will someday power our life-size replica.
I'm not sure what Dean did.
Jeff B. helped out with a little of everything.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 9:26 PM V. Sigma via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I went to a workshop for the first time, learned how to solder with the help of my friend Todd, but ultimately didn't succeed in repairing any machines yesterday...oh well, maybe next month.
Glad that you could make it! VCF East is next in 3 weeks, so our next workshop won't be for 7 weeks during the first weekend of June (1 & 2): Signup is here: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cdRaUOarYmLe0c7Veddzl4HhOqB1BXTgTCQt...
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Also we tried a new diner: OB Diner in Point Pleasant. Everyone loved it. On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 10:44 PM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
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I went to a workshop for the first time, learned how to solder with the help of my friend Todd, but ultimately didn't succeed in repairing any machines yesterday...oh well, maybe next month.
Glad that you could make it! VCF East is next in 3 weeks, so our next workshop won't be for 7 weeks during the first weekend of June (1 & 2): Signup is here: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cdRaUOarYmLe0c7Veddzl4HhOqB1BXTgTCQt...
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I checked out a new to me C128, 128D, 1571 and Thompson RGBI CRT. Adam and I helped Tony with his CoCo 2. Docented for a couple of hours. Had two nice visitors. One was a dad and his two young kids. The girl was very interested in all the systems and how they work, including George and the Univac. The other was a Dad as his older son. The dad was extremely knowledgable about computer technology and asked me a lot of questions (I can't help but feel he was just testing me.) Hopefully, I covinced them all to attend VCFe, and that CP/M didn't matter ;-) On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 9:26 PM V. Sigma via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I went to a workshop for the first time, learned how to solder with the help of my friend Todd, but ultimately didn't succeed in repairing any machines yesterday...oh well, maybe next month.
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
It started out in bizarro world: Ian skipped this one, and Tony worked on Atari, Commodore, and Tandy gear (no Apple II!). :)....
Jeff S. tested some of our Tandy hardware.
Anthony and Jason worked on getting a Counterpoint system up. Refresher: Counterpoint built a few hundred Unix workstations on contract to AT&T in 1986, AT&T canceled the project, and so these were never released. The ones we have may be the last ones around. It took some brainstorming (and some trial-and-error), but this morning one of the workstations came to life!
Drom stopped by, unexpected, and worked on the Univac.
There was a Don Casselli sighting, but I didn't have a chance to talk to him (was busy withe museum visitors).
I worked on the museum info kiosks. Big accomplishment: I installed Apache as our intranet server. Never installed that before, so I learned something new. Jason provided tech support for a few of my questions. Jameel donated two micro-form-factor PCs for powering the kiosks. I wiped them (they had Windows 10) and put on Linux, of course. :) I installed OpenKiosk on them.
Tony's projects were for the VCF East Software Store.
Jeff S. worked on his MOBIDIC replica which will someday power our life-size replica.
I'm not sure what Dean did.
Jeff B. helped out with a little of everything.
participants (4)
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Dean Notarnicola -
Evan Koblentz -
Jeffrey Brace -
V. Sigma