[vcf-midatlantic] Good workshop!

[V. Sigma]

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 at 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.
>
>