[vcf-midatlantic] Straight 8

[Tony Bogan]

For those who may not know, I inadvertently omitted the word UNIVAC from my comments about Bill Dromgoole and the diagnostic. That’s the machine he gave me instructions to demo for visitors.

Tony

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> On Dec 28, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Chris Fala <chrisjpf33 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What Tony said. :-)
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> On Dec 28, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Tony Bogan <thebogans at mac.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 28, 2018, at 8:07 AM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>> In the various report of whats working and whats not I haven't heard
>> any report on the Staight 8. Has anybody been running it?
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> David, when I’ve been at the museum I have not run it as I am unfamiliar with it. Perhaps if you’re at one of the upcoming workshops you could give me a crash course (pun intended) so I could run a demo for visitors.
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> When Bill Dromgoole was there he both wrote down and walked me through the diagnostic we use to show the machine running. It’s not sexy but for 99% of the people it’s enough blinking lights and whirring to get the “wow it actually works!” Response from them. I also have a video of Bill running the program that I can refer back to.
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> I would never attempt to mess with a machine I am not familiar with, but I should have asked a long time ago for you to show me the basics. I’d love to have yet another machine to demo for visitors.
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> Tony