Repair workshop wrap-up 7/11 & 7/12, 2020
We had 10 people come to our repair workshop. It was very successful and everyone enjoyed it. We seem to have a pattern that works for everyone, so we will repeat it for the next workshop on August 15 & 16. I worked on recovering data from a modern hard drive Jonathan and Ian helped), which I will detail in another email. I also was successful in repairing a Rev A Commodore 64 board. Alex Jaccocks and Jonathan Sturges helped me. It had bad Character RAM (U6), Character ROM (901225) and a bad U1 chip (6526). This Rev A board has a ceramic VIC 6567 chip too! Bill Dromgoole successfully repaired the museum's Ohio Scientific computer. There were 3 keys that needed replacing. Ian fixed one of his black and white TVs and worked on many other things with others. Neville worked on his Kay Pro. I'm not sure how he made out with his repairs. Mike Rosen worked on Commodore 1541 repairs. Ian and Jason Perkins also worked on scanning some documents from the museum warehouse for preservation. Don't know what Alex Jaccocks and Jonthan Sturges were working on. Bill Indereidden continued to document and work on the Wang 4000. Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress. Next workshop is August 15 & 16: Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3Jc_RIHiBG08kZOOAgzvqjf8G0ox9ZRa6Bn... There will be a limit to 10 people in the workshop area. If more want to come, then there is room for 2 or 3 people in the museum workshop space. Face masks are required for this gathering. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
I had brought 2 commodore 1541 floppy drives to check out. One was not worth repairing and the other one I just basically swaps out some parts. I got drive 2 working, so I have one good drive and one drive for parts. I plan to use the power supply from drive 1 to make a more sturdy Commodore 64 power supply, eventually. I also brought a Zenith remote control black and white TV that had been sitting in my garage for nearly 20 years. I put it on a Variac to start for a few minutes and then put the voltage up to full line voltage. It worked with just a few adjustments and it worked well. I ended up giving it to Ian. My AmStrad gaming system still needs a memory IC, which I have to order. Ian brought his, so we can do some quick testing and it did seem to want to work, even without a second memory IC. I did find some books and magazines that were being discarded which I could use. Thanks for Jeff’s help and for Ian‘s help on Sunday. And the bagels from Bill. Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Jul 13, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We had 10 people come to our repair workshop. It was very successful and everyone enjoyed it. We seem to have a pattern that works for everyone, so we will repeat it for the next workshop on August 15 & 16.
I worked on recovering data from a modern hard drive Jonathan and Ian helped), which I will detail in another email. I also was successful in repairing a Rev A Commodore 64 board. Alex Jaccocks and Jonathan Sturges helped me. It had bad Character RAM (U6), Character ROM (901225) and a bad U1 chip (6526). This Rev A board has a ceramic VIC 6567 chip too!
Bill Dromgoole successfully repaired the museum's Ohio Scientific computer. There were 3 keys that needed replacing.
Ian fixed one of his black and white TVs and worked on many other things with others.
Neville worked on his Kay Pro. I'm not sure how he made out with his repairs.
Mike Rosen worked on Commodore 1541 repairs.
Ian and Jason Perkins also worked on scanning some documents from the museum warehouse for preservation.
Don't know what Alex Jaccocks and Jonthan Sturges were working on.
Bill Indereidden continued to document and work on the Wang 4000.
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
Next workshop is August 15 & 16: Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3Jc_RIHiBG08kZOOAgzvqjf8G0ox9ZRa6Bn...
There will be a limit to 10 people in the workshop area. If more want to come, then there is room for 2 or 3 people in the museum workshop space. Face masks are required for this gathering. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
Hello - I was there for Saturday only... I swapped out my loaner switch in the Museum rack and installed (with some helping hands from Alex) the 2nd Cisco 36xx switch that Martin from CDL obtained from us. That completes the Phase 1 of the Museum networking upgrade - from the cellular data to a physical drop from the CDL. So many thanks to Martin for finding this equipment and helping us get a network drop in the museum to use. The internet access there is much much faster. Alex also added me to the new KVM that was installed in the rack for the VCF firewall and Linux server. I moved the KVM to the CDL Private network so it can be accessed from the CDL building for easier remote access. I picked up the box of SGI manuals Adam located and found some interesting docs. I'm determining what is already online and I will scan what is not, as well as image some of the CDROMs included in the docs and upload them to the Internet Archive. I also spent some time installing a new wiki on the VCF "webserver" - which is the nice Dell 410 that Alex also donated to VCF. This required some db and java to be installed on the server. This wiki will allow us to have a local copy of important information about systems and applications at InfoAge for easy lookup on site. Also prepped the install of the Collective Access software which we will trial for usage in the warehouse for inventory of assets. The SystemSource museum in Baltimore uses this software and it has some very nice features. I talked a bit with Jeff about setting up a 'inventory cart' in the warehouse that would have a dedicated PC that would access the server back in the Museum, as well as tags and markers we could use to start tagging some assets in the warehouse. The CHM has advised us on tags and markers that will not damage equipment. https://www.collectiveaccess.org/ <https://www.collectiveaccess.org/> I tried to print to the LaserJet4+ from my mac but was just able to print some postscript commands to that PCL printer ;) I would love to locate a PS interface/card and upgrade it from a 4+ to a 4MP+. If anyone has any of those sitting around please let me know! Finally I watched in fascination as Ian, Jason, Alex and Jonathan did amazing things - and I want to get Jason to bring up his battery welder so I can rebuild all my classic laptop battery packs. His example on his Compudyne 486 was incredible. See you at the next one... -andy
On Jul 13, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
Andy, Question: Can we obtain a copy of the metadata that the SystemSource museum is using? Might be easier then starting over and defining everything under Dublin Core. BTW, You are welcome to use one of the VM in the CDL rack for a Dev (or prod) environment. You should be able to connect via the LAN to the VM. Martin Flynn On 7/13/2020 9:31 PM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Also prepped the install of the Collective Access software which we will trial for usage in the warehouse for inventory of assets. The SystemSource museum in Baltimore uses this software and it has some very nice features. I talked a bit with Jeff about setting up a 'inventory cart' in the warehouse that would have a dedicated PC that would access the server back in the Museum, as well as tags and markers we could use to start tagging some assets in the warehouse. The CHM has advised us on tags and markers that will not damage equipment.
https://www.collectiveaccess.org/ <https://www.collectiveaccess.org/>
-andy
Yes, Bob is going to get that to us. He and his team slightly modified Dublin and are willing to share. -Andy
On Jul 13, 2020, at 9:54 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Andy,
Question: Can we obtain a copy of the metadata that the SystemSource museum is using? Might be easier then starting over and defining everything under Dublin Core.
I scanned about 40 sets of documents, next workshop I'll get started on that project earlier. Last year I donated a sheetfed scanner, I'll bring a 2nd laptop with me next time and see if I can rope someone into helping power through the pile of documents :) On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:32 PM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello -
I was there for Saturday only...
I swapped out my loaner switch in the Museum rack and installed (with some helping hands from Alex) the 2nd Cisco 36xx switch that Martin from CDL obtained from us. That completes the Phase 1 of the Museum networking upgrade - from the cellular data to a physical drop from the CDL. So many thanks to Martin for finding this equipment and helping us get a network drop in the museum to use. The internet access there is much much faster.
Alex also added me to the new KVM that was installed in the rack for the VCF firewall and Linux server. I moved the KVM to the CDL Private network so it can be accessed from the CDL building for easier remote access.
I picked up the box of SGI manuals Adam located and found some interesting docs. I'm determining what is already online and I will scan what is not, as well as image some of the CDROMs included in the docs and upload them to the Internet Archive.
I also spent some time installing a new wiki on the VCF "webserver" - which is the nice Dell 410 that Alex also donated to VCF. This required some db and java to be installed on the server. This wiki will allow us to have a local copy of important information about systems and applications at InfoAge for easy lookup on site.
Also prepped the install of the Collective Access software which we will trial for usage in the warehouse for inventory of assets. The SystemSource museum in Baltimore uses this software and it has some very nice features. I talked a bit with Jeff about setting up a 'inventory cart' in the warehouse that would have a dedicated PC that would access the server back in the Museum, as well as tags and markers we could use to start tagging some assets in the warehouse. The CHM has advised us on tags and markers that will not damage equipment.
https://www.collectiveaccess.org/ <https://www.collectiveaccess.org/>
I tried to print to the LaserJet4+ from my mac but was just able to print some postscript commands to that PCL printer ;)
I would love to locate a PS interface/card and upgrade it from a 4+ to a 4MP+. If anyone has any of those sitting around please let me know!
Finally I watched in fascination as Ian, Jason, Alex and Jonathan did amazing things - and I want to get Jason to bring up his battery welder so I can rebuild all my classic laptop battery packs. His example on his Compudyne 486 was incredible.
See you at the next one...
-andy
On Jul 13, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Yes, scans will be online soon. On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 7:52 AM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:23:15AM -0400, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I scanned about 40 sets of documents, next workshop I'll get started on that project earlier.
Are these being put online somewhere?
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
I wish I could have made the July Workshop as originally planned, but I had to fulfill another last minute obligation. The only thing that will keep me from the August Workshop is either a virus or family emergency. Since the theme seems to be archiving, I'll be sure to bring my flux readers again like I did in June. I have three readers, one is a Zoom Floppy dedicated for Commodore software, the other two will read all 5.25 and 3.5 disks, and supposedly with the right cabling, I can archive 8" disks if an 8" drive was available. Jeff Salzman On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 8:15 AM Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Yes, scans will be online soon.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 7:52 AM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:23:15AM -0400, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I scanned about 40 sets of documents, next workshop I'll get started on that project earlier.
Are these being put online somewhere?
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
I forgot my laptop, which precluded my planned Alpha netbooting project, so I built a kit, the Mini PET: http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2020/05/the-mini-pet-pre-order-open.html https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/mini-pet.html It was quite a fun build, and works perfectly. - Alex On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:24 AM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I wish I could have made the July Workshop as originally planned, but I had to fulfill another last minute obligation. The only thing that will keep me from the August Workshop is either a virus or family emergency.
Since the theme seems to be archiving, I'll be sure to bring my flux readers again like I did in June. I have three readers, one is a Zoom Floppy dedicated for Commodore software, the other two will read all 5.25 and 3.5 disks, and supposedly with the right cabling, I can archive 8" disks if an 8" drive was available.
Jeff Salzman
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 8:15 AM Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Yes, scans will be online soon.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 7:52 AM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:23:15AM -0400, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I scanned about 40 sets of documents, next workshop I'll get started on that project earlier.
Are these being put online somewhere?
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:23:36AM -0400, Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Since the theme seems to be archiving, I'll be sure to bring my flux readers again like I did in June. I have three readers, one is a Zoom Floppy dedicated for Commodore software, the other two will read all 5.25 and 3.5 disks, and supposedly with the right cabling, I can archive 8" disks if an 8" drive was available.
Have you looked to see if anybody has added support for OSI format yet so you can archive the pile of disks you have? I can bring the 8" drive and adapter I have been using for archiving if you don't have any that will work with your unit. I've been using a Kryoflux.
Yep. I can bring up the Samsung I got from you at Festivus. — Andrew Diller 267-353-2203
On Jul 14, 2020, at 12:23 AM, Jason Perkins <perkins.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
I scanned about 40 sets of documents, next workshop I'll get started on that project earlier.
Last year I donated a sheetfed scanner, I'll bring a 2nd laptop with me next time and see if I can rope someone into helping power through the pile of documents :)
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:32 PM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Hello -
I was there for Saturday only...
I swapped out my loaner switch in the Museum rack and installed (with some helping hands from Alex) the 2nd Cisco 36xx switch that Martin from CDL obtained from us. That completes the Phase 1 of the Museum networking upgrade - from the cellular data to a physical drop from the CDL. So many thanks to Martin for finding this equipment and helping us get a network drop in the museum to use. The internet access there is much much faster.
Alex also added me to the new KVM that was installed in the rack for the VCF firewall and Linux server. I moved the KVM to the CDL Private network so it can be accessed from the CDL building for easier remote access.
I picked up the box of SGI manuals Adam located and found some interesting docs. I'm determining what is already online and I will scan what is not, as well as image some of the CDROMs included in the docs and upload them to the Internet Archive.
I also spent some time installing a new wiki on the VCF "webserver" - which is the nice Dell 410 that Alex also donated to VCF. This required some db and java to be installed on the server. This wiki will allow us to have a local copy of important information about systems and applications at InfoAge for easy lookup on site.
Also prepped the install of the Collective Access software which we will trial for usage in the warehouse for inventory of assets. The SystemSource museum in Baltimore uses this software and it has some very nice features. I talked a bit with Jeff about setting up a 'inventory cart' in the warehouse that would have a dedicated PC that would access the server back in the Museum, as well as tags and markers we could use to start tagging some assets in the warehouse. The CHM has advised us on tags and markers that will not damage equipment.
https://www.collectiveaccess.org/ <https://www.collectiveaccess.org/>
I tried to print to the LaserJet4+ from my mac but was just able to print some postscript commands to that PCL printer ;)
I would love to locate a PS interface/card and upgrade it from a 4+ to a 4MP+. If anyone has any of those sitting around please let me know!
Finally I watched in fascination as Ian, Jason, Alex and Jonathan did amazing things - and I want to get Jason to bring up his battery welder so I can rebuild all my classic laptop battery packs. His example on his Compudyne 486 was incredible.
See you at the next one...
-andy
On Jul 13, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
At the August Workshop, someone asked me about the brushed metal ZoomFloppy case I had, and I forgot who asked me about it. The person I bought it from still has more of those cases available. If you're still interested in getting one for yourself, I can pass contact information around. Thanks, Jeff Salzman On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:41 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We had 10 people come to our repair workshop. It was very successful and everyone enjoyed it. We seem to have a pattern that works for everyone, so we will repeat it for the next workshop on August 15 & 16.
I worked on recovering data from a modern hard drive Jonathan and Ian helped), which I will detail in another email. I also was successful in repairing a Rev A Commodore 64 board. Alex Jaccocks and Jonathan Sturges helped me. It had bad Character RAM (U6), Character ROM (901225) and a bad U1 chip (6526). This Rev A board has a ceramic VIC 6567 chip too!
Bill Dromgoole successfully repaired the museum's Ohio Scientific computer. There were 3 keys that needed replacing.
Ian fixed one of his black and white TVs and worked on many other things with others.
Neville worked on his Kay Pro. I'm not sure how he made out with his repairs.
Mike Rosen worked on Commodore 1541 repairs.
Ian and Jason Perkins also worked on scanning some documents from the museum warehouse for preservation.
Don't know what Alex Jaccocks and Jonthan Sturges were working on.
Bill Indereidden continued to document and work on the Wang 4000.
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
Next workshop is August 15 & 16: Sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3Jc_RIHiBG08kZOOAgzvqjf8G0ox9ZRa6Bn...
There will be a limit to 10 people in the workshop area. If more want to come, then there is room for 2 or 3 people in the museum workshop space. Face masks are required for this gathering. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:20 AM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
At the August Workshop, someone asked me about the brushed metal ZoomFloppy case I had, and I forgot who asked me about it. The person I bought it from still has more of those cases available. If you're still interested in getting one for yourself, I can pass contact information around.
I asked you about it. Send me the info please.
Thanks, Jeff Salzman
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:41 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We had 10 people come to our repair workshop. It was very successful and everyone enjoyed it. We seem to have a pattern that works for everyone, so we will repeat it for the next workshop on August 15 & 16.
I worked on recovering data from a modern hard drive Jonathan and Ian helped), which I will detail in another email. I also was successful in repairing a Rev A Commodore 64 board. Alex Jaccocks and Jonathan Sturges helped me. It had bad Character RAM (U6), Character ROM (901225) and a bad U1 chip (6526). This Rev A board has a ceramic VIC 6567 chip too!
Bill Dromgoole successfully repaired the museum's Ohio Scientific computer. There were 3 keys that needed replacing.
Ian fixed one of his black and white TVs and worked on many other things with others.
Neville worked on his Kay Pro. I'm not sure how he made out with his repairs.
Mike Rosen worked on Commodore 1541 repairs.
Ian and Jason Perkins also worked on scanning some documents from the museum warehouse for preservation.
Don't know what Alex Jaccocks and Jonthan Sturges were working on.
Bill Indereidden continued to document and work on the Wang 4000.
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
Next workshop is August 15 & 16: Sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3Jc_RIHiBG08kZOOAgzvqjf8G0ox9ZRa6Bn...
There will be a limit to 10 people in the workshop area. If more want to come, then there is room for 2 or 3 people in the museum workshop space. Face masks are required for this gathering. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
I really need help recovering hard drives from several old macs . I have external drives also but honestly I was always terrible at labeling anything. If anyone can help me at the workshop, that would be awesome. It seems to be on topic this time around? Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 12:13 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:20 AM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
At the August Workshop, someone asked me about the brushed metal ZoomFloppy case I had, and I forgot who asked me about it. The person I bought it from still has more of those cases available. If you're still interested in getting one for yourself, I can pass contact information around.
I asked you about it. Send me the info please.
Thanks, Jeff Salzman
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:41 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We had 10 people come to our repair workshop. It was very successful and everyone enjoyed it. We seem to have a pattern that works for everyone, so we will repeat it for the next workshop on August 15 & 16.
I worked on recovering data from a modern hard drive Jonathan and Ian helped), which I will detail in another email. I also was successful in repairing a Rev A Commodore 64 board. Alex Jaccocks and Jonathan Sturges helped me. It had bad Character RAM (U6), Character ROM (901225) and a bad U1 chip (6526). This Rev A board has a ceramic VIC 6567 chip too!
Bill Dromgoole successfully repaired the museum's Ohio Scientific computer. There were 3 keys that needed replacing.
Ian fixed one of his black and white TVs and worked on many other things with others.
Neville worked on his Kay Pro. I'm not sure how he made out with his repairs.
Mike Rosen worked on Commodore 1541 repairs.
Ian and Jason Perkins also worked on scanning some documents from the museum warehouse for preservation.
Don't know what Alex Jaccocks and Jonthan Sturges were working on.
Bill Indereidden continued to document and work on the Wang 4000.
Maybe everyone can tell what they were working on and their progress.
Next workshop is August 15 & 16: Sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3Jc_RIHiBG08kZOOAgzvqjf8G0ox9ZRa6Bn...
There will be a limit to 10 people in the workshop area. If more want to come, then there is room for 2 or 3 people in the museum workshop space. Face masks are required for this gathering. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
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