[vcf-midatlantic] Workshop Report for 2022-07-30 & 2022-07-31

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:33 PM Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> Where do I find Mike's report? I saw part of what he was doing, whilst
>

He sent a message to this list on August 1 with the subject line: "Workshop
report".

on a walkabout around the grounds, on Saturday last.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 4:42 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > Lots of stuff repaired.
> > We had Bill Dromgoole fixing the Univac 2019 while training his new
> > apprentice Steven Shivone. Hopefully Bill can give a report on what he
> > accomplished.
> >
> > Mike Loewen already gave his report on the HP1000 repair. Great stuff!
> >
> > Jason Perkins troubleshooted the IBM PCjr and degunked the floppy drive
> and
> > it is working great! There is still a difficult to diagnose memory
> problem
> > that wasn’t resolved. He made sure to test everything by playing King’s
> > quest.
> >
> > Ian Litchfield discovered the problem with the Apple 2: bad ROM chips.
> > Maybe he can give a complete report.
> >
> > Alex Jacocks worked on getting the new OS/2 machine and the Linux 0.99
> > machine working as well as helping others. He also started work on
> > standardizing the museum’s IT setup.
> >
> > There were others there working on their own items that may want to chime
> > in.
> >
> > Overall another great Repair Workshop!
> >
> > Jeff Brace
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Jeff Brace
> > VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President
> > Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner
> > Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
> > https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>
> > jeffrey at vcfed.org
>