Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-31 Thread Michael Brutman via cctalk
Hi Rick, I'm glad you enjoyed the event - we aim to please. I should have seen this earlier but I've been avoiding computers this week for reasons you can probably guess. And just for the record, "it takes a village" to make these things happen. I was the very visible face of the event because I

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-29 Thread Johnny Eriksson via cctalk
Noel Chiappa wrote: > > It has been in use at STACKEN at least since the beginning of the 80ies > > I was meaning before that; somewhere in Scandanavia, I expect? Eh, not that > important, I guess. >From Finland. Sold used by DEC Sweden to Stacken, for 1 SEK (aound 20 cents at that time).

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mattis Lind >> Ah. I wonder where it came from originally? > It has been in use at STACKEN at least since the beginning of the 80ies I was meaning before that; somewhere in Scandanavia, I expect? Eh, not that important, I guess. >> And it's odd (to me, at least) to see

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
torsdag 28 mars 2019 skrev Noel Chiappa : > > From: Mattis Lind > > > It is KATIA. Peter Lothbergs collection. > > Ah. I wonder where it came from originally? It has been in use at STACKEN at least since the beginning of the 80ies until maybe mid nineties. STACKEN is the computer club at

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
I have a pretty full complement of printed manuals, so if anyone wants to send me a PDP 10, I would appreciate it. . I guess I would even pick it up. Yes. On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:34 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Mattis Lind > > > It is KATIA. Pet

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mattis Lind > It is KATIA. Peter Lothbergs collection. Ah. I wonder where it came from originally? That looks like a relatively 'new' one; the older KA10's had black panels. And it's odd (to me, at least) to see TU56's on a KA10. I wonder how many KA10's are left in the world? I

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Den tors 28 mars 2019 kl 14:17 skrev Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > > From: Rick Bensene > > > upstairs to the computer room and take some photos of the KA-10 > > Wow! That's a rara avis indeed; I wasn't sure there were any left. Does > anyone know where this one came

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rick Bensene > upstairs to the computer room and take some photos of the KA-10 Wow! That's a rara avis indeed; I wasn't sure there were any left. Does anyone know where this one came from? Noel

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Huw Davies via cctalk
Wow - a LOCI-2 - now that brings back some good memories - nearly 50 years since I last used one :-( > On 28 Mar 2019, at 08:56, Rick Bensene via cctalk > wrote: > > > The Old Calculator Museum exhibit consisted of a Wang LOCI-2 and punched > card readers (1st and 2nd-generation card readers)

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 22:57, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: > > So, that's my "trip report". Great reading. Thanks for that! -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/L

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-28 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
Rick, thank you for exhibiting and for your glowing report! Hi, everyone, Myself and my friend Mike, representing the Old Calculator Museum, exhibited the line of Wang Laboratories electronic calculators at the Vintage Computer Federation's Vintage Computer Festival/Pacific Northwest edition,

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-27 Thread Monty McGraw via cctalk
Rick, Thanks for your report on the show! I used a Wang 360E in college - since it was a scientific calculator and great for engineering homework! Monty McGraw Tektronix 4052 and 4054A vintage computers On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:57 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > H

VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-27 Thread Rick Bensene via cctalk
Hi, everyone, Myself and my friend Mike, representing the Old Calculator Museum, exhibited the line of Wang Laboratories electronic calculators at the Vintage Computer Federation's Vintage Computer Festival/Pacific Northwest edition, at the Living Computer Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington this p