KansasFest 2019

[Steven Weyhrich (a2history) via cctalk]

For your interest:

MARCH 8, 2019 — KansasFest 2019, the 31st annual Apple II convention, is 
scheduled for July 16 – 21 in Kansas City, Missouri. Mark Pelczarski of Penguin 
Software, well-known for numerous graphics utilities, books, and games, will 
join us with a keynote presentation to celebrate the Apple II.

Pelczarski began publishing graphics-related Apple II software in 1978 while in 
his early 20’s under the brands Penguin Software and Polarware 
.  He is an entrepreneur, 
author, programmer, consultant, and professional educator.  Mark is well known 
for the Graphics Magician  
software, a toolkit for creating graphics that includes over 50 major software 
publishers as customers including Random House, Sierra Online, Spinnaker, and 
Mattel.  He wrote monthly columns for Softalk and the book Graphically 
Speaking.  Besides pioneering computer graphics, Polarware published numerous 
games including Transylvania 
, The Coveted Mirror 
, and Spy’s Demise 
.  After leaving Polarware in 
1987, Mark turned his attention to computer music and to online courses.  Mark 
once said “I like to make computers do things,” 
 
so he’ll surely fit in at KansasFest.

KansasFest is an annual convention offering Apple II users and retrocomputing 
enthusiasts the opportunity to engage in beginner and technical sessions, 
programming contests, exhibition halls, and camaraderie. KansasFest was 
originally hosted by Resource Central and has been brought to you by the KFest 
committee since 1995. Any and all Apple II users, fans, and friends are invited 
to attend this year's event. Registration details will be announced on the 
KansasFest Web site, and registration will open on March 31. For photos, 
videos, and presentations from past KansasFests, please visit the event's 
official Website .

CONTACT:

KansasFest 2019
http://www.kansasfest.org/
 http://twitter.com/kansasfest/ 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2286816188228271/ 

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Steven Weyhrich —<

Re: DECnet License for older VAX VMS

[Matt Burke via cctalk]

On 07/03/2019 03:21, BGeezer via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, I can see now that they are different. If I can't find a license
> tape I'll probably put on 5.5 which I have as well. In fact I have
> V1.0 on up. I'm running two Simh instances on each Raspberry Pi all
> clustered and running DECnet and TCP/IP. I was hoping for a large mix
> of machines and VMS versions so hopefully I can eventually find some
> early licenses.

Search for BE-X083A-BE and you should also find BE-X085A-BE and BE-DL08A-BE.

Matt

Re: Unix tools, Bill Webb, UBC, TRIUMF

[Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk]

I used to work at UBC in Pharmacology in the 
1980's and had a few talks with Bill Webb about 
Unix but, unfortunately, for the data acquisition 
we were doing Unix was far too slow and I did 
everything in optimized PDP-11 assembler.  Of 
course, we didn't have a PDP-11/45 like Bill had 
and had to make do with a slower PDP-11/34.  Bill 
had hacked Unix considerably and it was locally 
known as Webbix on campus.  Played around with 
Unix and Webbix back then but don't think I have the tapes anymore.


One of the RL01 or RLO2 disks I picked up at SERF 
in the 1990's (along with a MINC system) 
contained a copy of Webbix but I'm not sure I 
copied it.  Gave away the MINC and 2 RLO1 or RLO2 
drives to a guy in Seattle about 2006 and hopefully he's copied them.


Boris Gimbarzevsky

I recovered several pieces of Unix media ­ all 
of whichh I think made it into TUHS/PUPS 
collection - at UBC in the mid-1990’s while I was working at TRIUMF.


Those Unix disks and tapes came from a SERF sale 
(Surplus Equipment Recycling Facility) on UBC 
main campus, not from TRIUMF. Bill Webb was a 
common thread for Unix use in the biology department at UBC.


TRIUMF extensively used Data General Nova, then 
Eclipse (both 16 and 32 bit), computers from 
opening through the 1990’s for both cyclotron 
control systems and data acquisition for 
experiments.  They also had a fair number of 
PDP-11’s and VAXen running RSX-11, RT-11, and 
VMS. I myself had an Alpha workstation on my 
desk for the two users I was at TRIUMF.


One of my favorite connections between TRIUMF 
and UBC, was the underground pneumatic tube used 
to rapidly carry short lived isotopes produced 
in the cyclotron to the main campus for biology 
and medical uses. It should not come as a 
surprise to anyone that I still work in moving 
things and people through underground tunnels 😊


Tim N3QE