Doh! I saw the beginning of the subject line and got excited: I'm in
Somerset ... New Jersey.
On 12/2/22 08:14, Philip Belben via cctalk wrote:
Dear all,
I am still trying to declutter enough to empty the storage container,
and have room to move around in my basement. I have decided not to
"What do an Apple 1, Commodore 65, Enigma Machine, and the inventor of
C++ all have in common?"
"They all be at VCF East this weekend."
You should go, too.
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
e...@vcfed.org
(646
VCF East XII was held March 31-April 2. Around 500 people were there.
Adam Michlin's pictures: http://ceos.io/vcf/east/
Dave Riley's pictures:
http://oscar.the-rileys.net/VCF%20East%20XII%20Photos/
Dan Roganti's pictures: http://www.rogtronics.net/blog/?page_id=730
Mike Loewen's pictures: ht
VCF East XII was held March 31-April 2. Around 500 people were there.
Adam Michlin's pictures: http://ceos.io/vcf/east/
Dave Riley's pictures:
http://oscar.the-rileys.net/VCF%20East%20XII%20Photos/
Dan Roganti's pictures: http://www.rogtronics.net/blog/?page_id=730
Mike Loewen's pictures: http
VCF East is done, VCF Southeast is next (April 29-30), VCF West is
August 5-6, and this summer we're announcing a NEW edition of the show
in an awesome place. :)
Southeast will feature former Apple Macintosh exec Andy Hertzfeld and
former Tandy exec Don French. I will be there too, but don't l
https://www.gofundme.com/crunch-medical-fund
Help if you can.
We all owe a debt to John Draper aka the Cap'n.
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
e...@vcfed.org
(646) 546-
www.vcfed.org
facebook.com/vcfeder
Two computer industry pioneers died in the past week.
Harry Huskey worked on ENIAC, the Pilot ACE, SWAC, and the Bendix G-15.
He was also known for helping overseas universities start their CS
programs. Harry was 101.
Bob Taylor was an ARPAnet pioneer and Xerox PARC executive. He was 85.
__
Hi,
I'm going to Kfest for the first time this year, cannot wait!!!
Anyway: if you decide to visit here, then give me a few weeks' notice so
you can visit the VCF museum in New Jersey. We are in a small town about
60 minutes south of NYC and 90 minutes northeast of Philadelphia.
_
Here are my photos from the VCF South East April 30/May 1. Roswell, GA
hosted by Mims' Computer History Museum of America
http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=677
For anyone interested: the picture of my robot
(http://vintagecomputer.net/vcfse-5/Koblentz_Lego_Robot.jpg) doesn't
s
Very cool! Wish we had one of these up here in Vancouver, BC.
Vintage Computer Federation will announce a NEW edition of the festival
soon.
Thanks for posting this. I'm very interested to see how collectors value it.
Same here. IMHO it would be in the same category as a Scelbi (8008
computer).
Vintage Computer Federation is pleased to announce an expansion of the
Vintage Computer Festival series to the Pacific Northwest.
Finally! :)
We agree :) and it'll definitely be worth the wait. Right now we are a
tad busy with VCF West (Aug. 5-6 @ CHM), and after that you'll start
seeing PNW
Deadline to register a VCF West exhibit is this Monday at noon ET.
http://vcfed.org/wp/2017/07/14/vcf-west-exhibit-registration-deadline-2/
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
e...@vcfed.org
(646) 546-
www.v
Im guessing its pottstown, PA
https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/sys/d/ibm-system/6157580080.html but thats
a guess. Only aware of it from an incorrext location tag making it show up near
Austin also.
null
That one's been around for several years. Nobody here on the east coast
wants it. A
Everyone,
Online ticket sales for VCF West end this Friday night. Of course you
can buy tickets at the gate, but you'd save time going online.
All the latest show details are available at
http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/.
Less than two weeks away!!!
___
VCF needs more shelving for our 7,000 square foot warehouse in New Jersey.
Right now only about 5% of our library (books, magazines, manuals, etc.)
is sorted/organized and available for researchers.
In the warehouse we have a couple of dozen shelving units full of
bankers boxes of printed mat
Once programming moved from formal analysis and form filling eg COBOL
into an interactive creative activity requiring unitary focus women
had to work much harder to compete.
Can women be good programmers. Certainly, but they are hampered by
natural forces that they have to overcome
That's cr
Well, this is the stupidest thing I've read today.
"Do Not Feed The Troll" should go without saying. Really.
If this list becomes another partisan political list - I'm out of
here...
Lyle
There's nothing political about "men shouldn't act like pigs".
Lee Felsenstein -- of Free Speech Movement, Community Memory, Homebrew
Computer Club, Pennywhistle Modem, Processor Technology SOL-20, and
Osborne fame -- is starting a Patreon. He's also been an avid supporter
of the vintage computing hobby. Everyone should help him if you can!
http://www.pat
Here's a phone video from a recent repair workshop at the VCFed museum
in New Jersey. Bill Dromgoole is demonstrating progress on one of the
tape drives for our Sperry-Rand Univac 1219B mainframe (circa mid-1960s).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZxg7e7DJ3r/
Evan
Here's a phone video from a recent repair workshop at the VCFed
museum in New Jersey. Bill Dromgoole is demonstrating progress on one
of the tape drives for our Sperry-Rand Univac 1219B mainframe (circa
mid-1960s).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZxg7e7DJ3r/
Terrific!
It's really amazing that you
Here it is loading/running memory tests and Wumpus. :)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrzeovlnioDfQR86zJOLPQ-D
nice job. How many 1219-B's are still running in the world any more?
None that I know of...
Here it is loading/running memory tests and Wumpus. :)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrzeovlnioDfQR86zJOLPQ-D
Fun. Would love to see more Wumpus, but turn the camera 90 degrees.
Was it written in FORTRAN? Machine code? Feasible to port other
games of the vintage?
I text
Hello cctalkers! Join us as an exhibitor for the inaugural Vintage
Computer Festival Pacific-Northwest, Feb. 10-11, at the Living Computer
Museum in Seattle.
http://www.vcfed.org/registration/exhibitor_register-online.php?event_id=5
Evan Koblentz, director
Vin
Related to DEC emulation: is there a visual Straight-8 simulator? I'd
like to practice working the front panel and such.
The video is produced by an openly libertarian organization:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ReasonTV/about. It's an interesting story
but that is propaganda not a documentary.
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
e.
(Sorry everyone. That was supposed to be a private email to Sellam. Jay:
it was NOT my intention to have a political discussion on the list.)
On 10/27/2017 06:01 PM, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote:
The video is produced by an openly libertarian organization:
https://www.youtube.com/user
I am looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA, so I can write idea/notes when I
am away from my computer
Hi Tom.
Welcome to 1997. :-)
the [Psion 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3) and [Psion
5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5) look like good options,
but i read about th
It seems with the internet that crowd-sourcing is way of resourcing things.
Maybe we (that's us on this list) need to apply this concept to the scanning
and archiving and retention of any paper based repositories that still exist.
I'll call it crowd-scanning for the time being.
Unfortunately,
Radio Shack M100 ... still used by some writers for the very reason you mention.
That is not true.
It was an urban legend in the 1990s that a handful of old farts in the
entirely sportswriting industry (thousands of writers overall) may
"still" be using their Model 100s. I'm sure if you looke
This article has more details about the archive situation and, more
important, it has a comment from HP at the end.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/silicon-revolution/loss-of-hewlettpackard-archive-a-wakeup-call-for-computer-historians
top. Maybe
two generations if they're poor like me.
m
- Original Message -
From: "Evan Koblentz via cctalk"
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA
Radio Shack
Hey, TRS-80 M100 rocks! I've got several, and they all work perfectly to
this day. Built by Kyocera, who isn't known for making junk.
I agree, just not with the nutty claim that real writers still use them
as modern tools. That was an urban legend with maybe some tiny grain of
truth 25 years a
But I didn't say *professional* writers still use M100s. I said "some
writers", and I think the folks who self-publish stories on the
Internet, enter writing contests, contribute to the various on-line
magazines etc. or just write for pleasure and entertainment of friends
and family are every b
I guess you'd also just dismiss Harlan Ellison, Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov and the dozens
of other writers who prefer to use a typewriter over a modern computer as "old
cranks"...
They used typewriters in the 1980s, maybe some into the 1990s, when
typewriters were still common. You're talking
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
I should point out there is a technical error in the Guardian. The Baby was the first
Electronically Stored Program in what today we would call RAM. ENIAC had been configured
in stored program mode earlier in the year and ha
Heh ... so it begins on cctalk. Just like in modern politics, or
science, etc., people have opinions which they think override facts. :)
My own father does this and it drives me crazy. I'll say, "2+2=4" and
he'll say, "I believe it's 5" ... DAD IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU
FRIGGING BELIEVE, 2 PL
It's just another attempt to make an historical claim for the ENIAC, this time
trying to steal the light away from the Manchester Baby.
That's the dumbest thing I read today.
On 7/17/23 10:51, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Seen on the GCC bugzilla:
"actually, there are 10 types of people: those who understand ternary, those who
dont, and those who thought this was going to be a binary joke"
:-)
paul
HA!!!
Another version: "There are two types of peopl
Around the middle of the 1980s, Lego made a robotics system for 8-bit
computers, including the Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and IBM PC.
The system includes a hardware interface (set #9750, "Interface A"), a
card or cable (differs for each computer; the PC-ISA card is set #9771),
and vario
The question is probably, could they afford the power bill? We have a bunch of
Crays and CDCs at the Computer History Museum, and if they were operational,
we'd probably have to take up a special very-large-hat-passing collection
http://vcfed.org/wp/contribute/
:)
Amazing rescue! Hope nothing breaks.
Right now I'm just happy no * people * broke when it was delivered!
Unloading it from two 28-foot trailers required five people, two pallet
jacks, and a forklift.
"drrt1...@gmail.com" posted on AFC this morning that Bill died in the
Camp fire in Northern California on Thursday.
Has anyone else heard about this?
Google has no mention. Yet.
How can we confirm?
I emailed (on behalf of VCF) the person who posted it there but haven't
yet heard back.
That is a behemoth!!
Did you ger that huge powerforming thingy that goes
with it?
I'm told that we got * everything *.
Are you crazy enough to atempt a power-up?
Yes.
Here is a GoFundMe started by Bill's son:
https://www.gofundme.com/godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund
I communicated with the person who posted on alt.folklore.computers. The
person is a close relative of Bill's; thus, the information about his
tragic passing is true/confirmed.
The person added, "He was living in Oreville, California and perished in
his home on Thursday, Nov. 8. ... Bill was a
http://vcfed.org/wp/2018/11/13/r-i-p-bill-godbout-79/
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
e...@vcfed.org
(646) 546-
www.vcfed.org
facebook.com/vcfederation
twitter.com/vcfederation
The fundraiser for the Godbout family is stuck at $6,211 for the past
couple of days. Maybe cctalk'ers can give it a jump-start.
https://www.gofundme.com/godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund
https://www.elecshopper.com/vintage-computers.html I really would rather
these go to someone who needs them to complete a system than to the
destroyers of keyboards.
I am trying to get more of the vintage stuff listed. If you want to see
items as they are listed online, please turn on your RSS fe
I'll take care of it.
On 12/19/18 12:10 AM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
Does anyone here have any pull or contacts with the owner or moderator
at the Vintage Computer Federation forums? I've been a member there
since January 2014. In the past, I've lurked a lot, made a post here
and
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,
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm
It's an excerpt from a new book. I know the author. Very nice and smart
guy who spent several decades at IBM.
Does anyone know who owns 9track.net? I couldn't find any contact
information there.
It belongs to Matt Burke. He is very active in the simh mailing list.
Thanks
Hello!
I have a major announcement. :)
It's time for version 2.0 of my book, "Abacus to smartphone: The
evolution of mobile and portable computers," which I published on dead
trees four years ago.
This time, it's going to be a (free!) interactive website: the era of
printed books is behind
FYI, it is unlikely there would have been a VCF without Sellam. He
basically started it (with his own money) and continued through the
first 10 years or so. Many others help support VCF (and continue to
do so even though Sellam backed out some number of years ago.)
Many thanks to Sellam tho
Today I can announce that 10 original Apple 1 computers will be
displayed at VCF West, and we're working on getting more. Several of
these will be up-and-running. Original and current owners will join
early Apple employees in a panel to discuss the computers, why they were
purchased, how they w
When do you ever get a photo op with a bunch of apple 1 systems (which
I hope is a thing).
Definitely!
I thought the subject was a typo until I saw the sender lol
:)
real or replica?
Real! That's the whole point.
we might like a replica for display..oddly though with the thousands of
piles of boards heck we may even have a real one... never bothered to look for
one in the STUFF!
My classic mode is if I do not know what it is put it in a box and
What are the replicas gong for Evan?
A perfect reproduction -- for example a Mimeo will entirely
date-code-correct components -- can go for four figures.
Most repros/replicas aren't at that level.
The only people growing up today that would pay anything like that amount,
would only pay that much because they expected to make a profit. It is just an
investment.
Don't underestimate the force of "bragging rights" to people who can
afford such things. Many of them buy an Apple 1 because
Yes Evan, you mentioned that.
I know; ergo my use of a smiley there...
Today I can announce that 10 original Apple 1 computers will be displayed at
VCF West, and we're working on getting more.
Why? That is, what’s the advantage of having 10+ instead of one or two?
Awesomeness.
The Apple I never did very much, so is there really much to actually show on
the
Well, I think he kind of created a shitstorm and gave CR a little too
much exposure. The CR liquidation seems to have been going at a nice
controlled rate. Now that the whole world knows, it would not be a
surprise if security issues come up.
Eh, friends of mine were talking about that place
VCF West is this weekend at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View, California.
All of the details (and online ticket sales) are at
http://vcfed.org/vcfwest.
-Evan K.
Is there a reason why there has been no mention of VCF West?
(other than Apple oneS)
Isn't it scheduled for this coming weekend?
I was planning to take a carload of stuff down for consignment, but my
health has been too bad to even load the car.
Because we're very busy planning a kick-ass
>> I see it's already been dropped there to promote VCF MW
I don't know what you mean. "Dropped there to promote Midwest" ... that
is false. VCF West is atop our website header, our blog page, and the VC
Forum header.
It's true that we are focusing more on social media. There are a couple
of
so 17 unique Apple-1 computers, not counting the one in the CHM collection
,were on the floor at one time or another over the weekend
So, doing some simple math: 18 of ~70 remaining is .25xxx ... so 25% of
all Apple 1s in existence were there! There hasn't been that many in one
place since 1
https://www.reddit.com/r/computercollecting/comments/5pohwr/a_rare_find_in_pottstown_unsure_if_in_working/
That one has been available for several years. People who've seen it in
person said it is beat to < censored >.
Vintage Computer Federation sometimes rents out systems for prop use.
When we do, we require the renter to sign an equipment handling
contract. It stipulates what they must/must not do.
Friendly reminder that Vintage Computer Festival East XII is only 10
days away! March 31-April 2 in New Jersey. Two hands-on exhibit halls, a
dozen tech talks, three keynotes, consignment sale, and you can visit
the year-round Vintage Computer Federation museum while you're here. All
the detail
I know of two RP04 drives in the wild. One belongs to a private
collector. VCF has the other.
When this kind of things happens, it's best to just pick up the phone
and call the person -- not to speculate that something bad might've
happened.
I called Michael tonight. He reports, "I'm upright!" :)
Just a registration mix-up. He is working to get it fixed.
On 11/7/19 1:02 PM, jwest---
Interesting. I wonder if this is similar to the qbasic code in the dos 5 (6?)
source leak that's floating around. Or if Gates wrote any of it.
Gates told the Smithsonian that the last product for which he personally
coded was the TRS-80 Model 100.
Some things are easy to check, like the fact that the Z80 came out in 1976 when
Woz was already finishing the Apple II so he couldn't have considered using it
for the Apple I.
I haven't personally looked into whether he considered using the Z80,
but your statement there is oversimplified.
that relationship has become quite difficult lately. So much so, that I'm ready
to just turn it off and walk away. I'm sorry, but I have reached the point in
my life where that stress outweighs the benefits.
Throw in to the mix that for whatever reason - while I have dutifully taken care o
Does anyone have an ADDS Envoy portable terminal, circa 1972-1976? If
so, then please let me know if what if any are the U.S. patent numbers
cited on it.
Thanks,
Evan
Does anyone have an ADDS Envoy portable terminal, circa 1972-1976? If
so, then please let me know if what if any are the U.S. patent numbers
cited on it.
Thanks,
Evan
Is this the portable 5" version? I will look if that is what you're after.
thanks
Jim
I think so.
Who's in the Boston area? A technician at MIT needs to borrow a working
ASR-33 for demo there this month. Contact me off-list if you can help...
Here's a sneak preview of the shirt design for all of the 2018 Vintage
Computer Federation events. As usual, each event will have a different
shirt color.
Dan Roganti aka Ragooman used to design the VCF East shirts. Any
similarity to him or his interests in the current design is purely
coinci
https://retropopplanet.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/vintage-computer.jpg
Easy, that's Pavl Zachary.
I was not at this particular VCF out in California in the later 90's when
this photo of a DEC exhibit was taken; the original picture from vintage.org
is no longer hosted.
Does anyone have a co
I think it would be helpful if Evan and co. chimed in with the context of the
shirt and why it exists- maybe a bit more about who the guy on it is.
Fair enough.
It's a caricature of Dan Roganti aka Ragooman on this list, VC Forum,
various Apple and S-100 forums, etc.
Dan drew most of the ea
Gene wrote...
Just...no.
Yeah, agreed. No.
Fred wrote...
The "nuts" and "bolts" should be capacitors and chips.
The squared off U shaped object nearest on the desk >should be
replaced by
an Escher Fork (aka impossible >trident).
soldering iron and scope, instead of hammer.
maybe some magic
Apple II
IMSAI
ColecoVision
That's exactly right. We wanted to show some of his favorite systems. We
already knew he likes cats, robots, Star Trek, and building electronic
gadgets.
In any event, nice shirt :-)
Thank you.
For extra credit was it drawn in any particular vintage software or
computer?
Not to my knowledge.
Helloo cctalkers.
We've been planning this for almost a year and now it is time for the
inaugural Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, this weekend
(10am-5pm both days) at Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle.
There will be all the usual goodness that you expect from a
It was really cool of them to let use look through the storage rooms. A lot of
really cool artifacts. I don't know how I missed it while wondering around but
in the pictures, there as a Micral.
Kevin Savetz and I saw it. It's amazing that LCML owns multiple
mind-blowing big iron from Cray, DE
Wow, even a Bendix G-15 in there (although with Control Data logo).
Nope, look again, there are two :-)
Actually they have three.
The last time I checked, the remaining inventory was:
- Smithsonian (S/N 1)
- CHM (on static display)
- these 2
- the one at MARCH
- a University in A
the one at MARCH
on loan. there are supposed to be more in DC
That's what I alluded to in my reply, just didn't give the location...
yes the owner has a few more. Anyone who is a serious buyer () can
contact me privately and I will put you in contact with the seller.
But yes, the one a
Here's some news! VCF Southeast is April 21-22, VCF East is May 18-20,
and VCF West is August 4-5.
Exhibit registration is OPEN for Southeast and East.
For details please see www.vcfed.org.
It's gone meta: people threadjacking a thread about threadjacking. Now
it's some posters trying to show others who is smartest about arcane
details of obsolete email software.
Sounds like some people need to adjust their sarcasm meters. Guys: BILL
WAS JOKING because the topic was about threadjacking.
When the list was formed, it was defined as 20 years. Of course now, the list
itself is over 20 years old.
Sigh ... well if we're really have this conversation I maintain that
the present definition of "vintage", or at least how we see it over at
Vintage Computer Federation, is no longer
There will be three awesome keynotes for VCF East this spring.
- Friday: our own Bill Dromgoole who'll talk about restoring the VCFed
UNIVAC mainframe.
- Saturday: Don Eyles (NASA contractor who hacked the Apollo Guidance
Computer to save the Apollo 14 mission)
- Sunday: Dave Walden, who p
Don't procrastinate.
http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-east-exhibits/
VCF West XIII will be held August 4-5 at the Computer History Museum in
Mountain View, California. Exhibit registration is open:
http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/vcf-west-exhibits/.
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/tickets/
Note: Your paypal email confirmation is your ticket. A record of your
purchase will be at the door when you arrive at VCF East.
Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 e
I’m in Boston MA (technically Canton) for the next three weeks (April 29 to May
19). Looking for recommendations on classic computer/classic car/sailing things
of interest to do on the weekends.
- Visit the Science building at Harvard U. (Cambridge), where they have
(most of) the Mark-1 compu
Many are appearing on the VCFed mailing list already
To clarify: that's the VCF/Mid-Atlantic list. The only VCFed-wide
discussion board is VC Forum. :)
I had a good time and recommend the show to all who can make it out there
Thanks!
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