I'm still on hiatus-ish until Festivus, but I was in the area and didn't have much to do today, so I took museum duty. It was busy. Cub Scout group (20-something people), RPI alumni group (10ish people), and regular visitors (10ish people). Kept me busy all day. It was the first time I used the upper rows of microcomputers which now have monitors. I was unable to get four things to work: - Apple II (crazy display) - Apple III (no display) - OSI Challenger (no display) - Atari 1040 (no display) Also did anyone work on the Heathkit H19? If not then someone should ... looking at you Alex Bodnar. :) I was told the new screens auto-sense the input type but I had to set some of them manually. Why is the original TCF poster taken down? I put a sign ("new exhibit coming here soon") in the large empty spot where the Timberwolf tape library was. Someone had left a random Novell poster there. Totally out of place and context. I removed it. Note to everyone, you can't just put random stuff in the middle of exhibits. Somehow the info kiosk got borked. I rebooted it and now it works fine again. Someone had put a sign on it saying "under construction". I don't know why. It will soon be improved for version 2.0, but the current version 1.0 works fine. It is simplistic but not broken. I removed that sign.
@Evan Did you mean to send this to the public list? Because only the MA Admin can answer these questions. On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm still on hiatus-ish until Festivus, but I was in the area and didn't have much to do today, so I took museum duty.
It was busy. Cub Scout group (20-something people), RPI alumni group (10ish people), and regular visitors (10ish people). Kept me busy all day.
It's great that it was so busy. It's more fun when there are lots of visitors.
It was the first time I used the upper rows of microcomputers which now have monitors.
I was unable to get four things to work:
- Apple II (crazy display) - Apple III (no display) - OSI Challenger (no display) - Atari 1040 (no display)
They all worked fine when I was there the previous day. I will take a look on Wednesday.
Also did anyone work on the Heathkit H19? If not then someone should ... looking at you Alex Bodnar. :)
We didn't look at that one yet. If Alex can fix, then maybe at the next repair workshop in January?
I was told the new screens auto-sense the input type but I had to set some of them manually.
I never had any problems with them. Just turn on computer, then monitor. The power switch doubles as the input selector, so maybe it was changed accidentally.
Why is the original TCF poster taken down?
Corey can answer that.
I put a sign ("new exhibit coming here soon") in the large empty spot where the Timberwolf tape library was.
What's Timberwolf?
Someone had left a random Novell poster there. Totally out of place and context. I removed it.
That was me. I meant to have Corey move it on Wednesday. It had history of Novell and history of Unix on it. Wasn't sure if we could use it or not.
Note to everyone, you can't just put random stuff in the middle of exhibits.
Somehow the info kiosk got borked. I rebooted it and now it works fine again. Someone had put a sign on it saying "under construction". I don't know why. It will soon be improved for version 2.0, but the current version 1.0 works fine. It is simplistic but not broken. I removed that sign.
Your definition of "fine" is quite different than mine ;) -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation
@Evan Did you mean to send this to the public list? Because only the MA Admin can answer these questions.
Yep. (Everyone else: "MA Admin" is shorthand for our administrative list.)
It was the first time I used the upper rows of microcomputers which now have monitors.
I was unable to get four things to work:
- Apple II (crazy display) - Apple III (no display) - OSI Challenger (no display) - Atari 1040 (no display)
They all worked fine when I was there the previous day. I will take a look on Wednesday.
May well have been user error on my part.
Also did anyone work on the Heathkit H19? If not then someone should ...looking at you Alex Bodnar. :)
We didn't look at that one yet. If Alex can fix, then maybe at the next repair workshop in January?
I hope so. He's our resident expert on Heathkit computers.
I put a sign ("new exhibit coming here soon") in the large empty spot where the Timberwolf tape library was. What's Timberwolf?
TImberwolf was the series name for StorageTek's tape libraries.
Someone had left a random Novell poster there. Totally out of place and context. I removed it.
That was me. I meant to have Corey move it on Wednesday. It had history of Novell and history of Unix on it. Wasn't sure if we could use it or not.
Probably not. It's kind of ugly (IMO) and unrelated to the area where it was left in the museum.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was unable to get four things to work:
- Apple II (crazy display)
I got this working. I changed the channel to 33 and adjusted the contrast. Now it works fine.
- Apple III (no display)
This isn't working. It is plugged in, but appears to have no power. Perhaps a power supply issue. Tony or others may need to look at it next workshop or when they have time as docent.
- OSI Challenger (no display)
Didn't have time to check this one.
- Atari 1040 (no display)
When I changed the input back to TV it worked fine.
Why is someone changing the Apple II TV from UHF channel 33? I did put a red mark on the dial so it’s very obvious what you need to set it to. corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 20, 2019, at 6:56 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was unable to get four things to work:
- Apple II (crazy display)
I got this working. I changed the channel to 33 and adjusted the contrast. Now it works fine.
- Apple III (no display)
This isn't working. It is plugged in, but appears to have no power. Perhaps a power supply issue. Tony or others may need to look at it next workshop or when they have time as docent.
- OSI Challenger (no display)
Didn't have time to check this one.
- Atari 1040 (no display)
When I changed the input back to TV it worked fine.
Dunno, wasn't me!
changing the Apple II TV from UHF channel 33? I did put a red mark on the dial so it’s very obvious what you need to set it to.
corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 20, 2019, at 6:56 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was unable to get four things to work:
- Apple II (crazy display)
I got this working. I changed the channel to 33 and adjusted the contrast. Now it works fine.
- Apple III (no display)
This isn't working. It is plugged in, but appears to have no power. Perhaps a power supply issue. Tony or others may need to look at it next workshop or when they have time as docent.
- OSI Challenger (no display)
Didn't have time to check this one.
- Atari 1040 (no display)
When I changed the input back to TV it worked fine.
I changed the channel to 33 and adjusted the contrast. Now it works fine.
Good work.
- Apple III (no display) This isn't working. It is plugged in, but appears to have no power. Perhaps a power supply issue. Tony or others may need to look at it next workshop or when they have time as docent.
Okay.
Atari 1040 (no display) When I changed the input back to TV it worked fine.
Oh, I thought they had to be on A/V. On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 7:55 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was unable to get four things to work:
- Apple II (crazy display)
I got this working. I changed the channel to 33 and adjusted the contrast. Now it works fine.
- Apple III (no display)
This isn't working. It is plugged in, but appears to have no power. Perhaps a power supply issue. Tony or others may need to look at it next workshop or when they have time as docent.
- OSI Challenger (no display)
Didn't have time to check this one.
- Atari 1040 (no display)
When I changed the input back to TV it worked fine.
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