[cctalk] Re: New VCF Video bumper

2024-05-05 Thread Steve Lewis via cctalk
I picked the regular Daisy Bell one (except there is a little blip/bump at the 2-second mark that is a little jarring). It's a homage to what the IBM 7094 did back in 1961 (while that one did have vocals, it is a bit eerie, and so just an audio track like a PDP-1 might play it is good). On Sat,

[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-05-05 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Yes, in those days, magazines were printed, and mailed out, or shipped to newstands before their nominal date, in order to be delivered by their nominal date. The intent was that people would have it by January 1st, so it would arrive in late December. So, the January 1975 one would have been w

[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-05-05 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Perhaps After doing the layout work in the November  it was perhaps copyrighted Immediately during layout But it did not ship Until January Think!  back in those days things did not instantly happen and we're instantly shipped  Ed# Sent from AOL on Android On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM, Se

[cctalk] Re: Help request with fundraising campaign to save historic computers

2024-05-05 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 5/3/2024 5:35 AM, Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk wrote: Hello everyone I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to save a large number of machines with significant historic value, including some Sperry Univac systems. Museo del Computer is a non-profit organization

[cctalk] Re: Help request with fundraising campaign to save historic computers

2024-05-05 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 5/4/2024 11:46 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 9:28 AM Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: ... I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to save a large number of machines with significant historic value, includi