November Workshop Idea - Human Interfaces day
Hello all! It’s been a while since a theme or anything has been used at a workshop. And with the next one coming up in a week I figured it’s more than enough time to try to get one going since it’s the last one of the year! Thomas said he will be working on an IBM Electromatic and that inspired this idea! My idea is to do Human Interfaces. Keyboards, teletypes, printers etc! I’m going to bring my PDP 11/23 and try to get my Model 33 going on it since I recently got an M8017 DLV11-E which can handle 110 baud! I may also drag out the Model 15 and see about messing with that. So if anyone wants to join in with the festivities of a theme next weekend, see what you have that needs work and join us in clunky old machines making far too much noise! I’ll bring some oil, a feeler gauge, service manuals if I can find them for ASR33s I know I have them somewhere.. and toothbrushes. See you all soon! Ian Litchfield
Ian, you might know this but it wasn’t clear from your email. The Model 15 won't work with a PDP-11/23 as it uses the ITA2 character set (5 bit) instead of the ITA5 (7 bit). Apologies if you know this. 73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@w2hx/videos -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2023 9:46 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Ian Litchfield <kd2ixl@gmail.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] November Workshop Idea - Human Interfaces day Hello all! It’s been a while since a theme or anything has been used at a workshop. And with the next one coming up in a week I figured it’s more than enough time to try to get one going since it’s the last one of the year! Thomas said he will be working on an IBM Electromatic and that inspired this idea! My idea is to do Human Interfaces. Keyboards, teletypes, printers etc! I’m going to bring my PDP 11/23 and try to get my Model 33 going on it since I recently got an M8017 DLV11-E which can handle 110 baud! I may also drag out the Model 15 and see about messing with that. So if anyone wants to join in with the festivities of a theme next weekend, see what you have that needs work and join us in clunky old machines making far too much noise! I’ll bring some oil, a feeler gauge, service manuals if I can find them for ASR33s I know I have them somewhere.. and toothbrushes. See you all soon! Ian Litchfield
No worries I know that. I have a surprise to fix that issue, courtesy of conversion technology. Thanks! Ian L. On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 11:52 W2HX <w2hx@w2hx.com> wrote:
Ian, you might know this but it wasn’t clear from your email. The Model 15 won't work with a PDP-11/23 as it uses the ITA2 character set (5 bit) instead of the ITA5 (7 bit). Apologies if you know this.
73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@w2hx/videos
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2023 9:46 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Ian Litchfield <kd2ixl@gmail.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] November Workshop Idea - Human Interfaces day
Hello all!
It’s been a while since a theme or anything has been used at a workshop. And with the next one coming up in a week I figured it’s more than enough time to try to get one going since it’s the last one of the year!
Thomas said he will be working on an IBM Electromatic and that inspired this idea!
My idea is to do Human Interfaces. Keyboards, teletypes, printers etc!
I’m going to bring my PDP 11/23 and try to get my Model 33 going on it since I recently got an M8017 DLV11-E which can handle 110 baud! I may also drag out the Model 15 and see about messing with that.
So if anyone wants to join in with the festivities of a theme next weekend, see what you have that needs work and join us in clunky old machines making far too much noise!
I’ll bring some oil, a feeler gauge, service manuals if I can find them for ASR33s I know I have them somewhere.. and toothbrushes.
See you all soon! Ian Litchfield
I've been doing typewriter repair some ~10 years now. Will bring along tools & "expertise"... If you've got a typewriter you want looked at, or want some pointers on typewriter repair, I'll be happy to help anyone out. Look for the guy in the suit. The Electromatic will not be touched during this workshop, I wouldn't torture myself publically again :P I will, however, probably be bringing a Selectric, a Rem-Blick, my Blickensderfer 5, an LC-Smith 8, and my Harris Visible (dirty harry, to those who have met him before) to work on. Looking forward to bleeding all over your machines! -Thomas On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 9:47 AM Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello all!
It’s been a while since a theme or anything has been used at a workshop. And with the next one coming up in a week I figured it’s more than enough time to try to get one going since it’s the last one of the year!
Thomas said he will be working on an IBM Electromatic and that inspired this idea!
My idea is to do Human Interfaces. Keyboards, teletypes, printers etc!
I’m going to bring my PDP 11/23 and try to get my Model 33 going on it since I recently got an M8017 DLV11-E which can handle 110 baud! I may also drag out the Model 15 and see about messing with that.
So if anyone wants to join in with the festivities of a theme next weekend, see what you have that needs work and join us in clunky old machines making far too much noise!
I’ll bring some oil, a feeler gauge, service manuals if I can find them for ASR33s I know I have them somewhere.. and toothbrushes.
See you all soon! Ian Litchfield
I have recently come into contact with a gentleman who is selling off his late uncles’s typewriter collection, many royals and Remingtons if anyone is interested. They were interested in coming out to the workshop and is willing to bring a few typewriters for the the workshop if anyone is interested! This is gonna be quite the interesting workshop! -Ian L. On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 17:54 Thomas G via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I've been doing typewriter repair some ~10 years now. Will bring along tools & "expertise"...
If you've got a typewriter you want looked at, or want some pointers on typewriter repair, I'll be happy to help anyone out. Look for the guy in the suit.
The Electromatic will not be touched during this workshop, I wouldn't torture myself publically again :P
I will, however, probably be bringing a Selectric, a Rem-Blick, my Blickensderfer 5, an LC-Smith 8, and my Harris Visible (dirty harry, to those who have met him before) to work on.
Looking forward to bleeding all over your machines!
-Thomas
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 9:47 AM Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello all!
It’s been a while since a theme or anything has been used at a workshop. And with the next one coming up in a week I figured it’s more than enough time to try to get one going since it’s the last one of the year!
Thomas said he will be working on an IBM Electromatic and that inspired this idea!
My idea is to do Human Interfaces. Keyboards, teletypes, printers etc!
I’m going to bring my PDP 11/23 and try to get my Model 33 going on it since I recently got an M8017 DLV11-E which can handle 110 baud! I may also drag out the Model 15 and see about messing with that.
So if anyone wants to join in with the festivities of a theme next weekend, see what you have that needs work and join us in clunky old machines making far too much noise!
I’ll bring some oil, a feeler gauge, service manuals if I can find them for ASR33s I know I have them somewhere.. and toothbrushes.
See you all soon! Ian Litchfield
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W2HX