Osborne available

I received an email from plebourge...@me.com who said he's in Mandeville, Lousiana and has an Osborne available with accessories/manauls to a good home for the cost of shipping. He said he'll throw it away if he does not find a home for it soon. That's all I know, do not reply to me or this li

More exhibits and volunteers needed for VCF West

It's almost time for Vintage Computer Festival West XIII! The show is August 4-5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. You’ll find dozens of hands-on exhibits, incredible lectures, a huge consignment sale, and much more -- plus the museum's own tours and hands-on demos.

Revealing a new project (non-VCF)

Time to reveal a personal project related to vintage computing and unrelated to my role at VCFed. In the past two years, while getting neck-deep in the historic Lego 9700 "Technic Control Center" set, I learned that there is a TON of information about this set (and about various related sets)

Re: zilog system 8000

A very big and expensive door stopper without OS tapes. But most importantly: the CPU board is missing! The card in slot 2 appears to be an additional SIO card. This is a model 20, quite low-end. We have a model 32 (much rarer, I haven't found anyone else with a model 32), but it is non-functi

Re: Landfill?

The modems and 386 would be on-topic for VCF consignment, but I don't think the scanners, etc. would be we don't want it to become the Vintage Generic PC Crap Festival. :) On 07/19/2018 05:51 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Is there ANY interest in Courier 56K V.92 modems? Laserjet IIP

Tim Paterson / QDOS lecture @ VCF West next weekend

I am excited about this!! Tim Paterson, of Seattle Computer Products, is speaking at Vintage Computer Festival XIII next weekend (August 4-5). The event as always is at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Tim created QDOS - Quick & Dirty Operating System -- which was the

Re: Tim Paterson / QDOS lecture @ VCF West next weekend

I wonder whether Evan could get Tim Paterson to agree to VCF selling autographed copies? Sorry, we would have had to plan that well in advance. Presumably he'll be glad to autograph whatever people bring with them.

Re: looking for out-of-print computer book

I am trying to find an out-of-print tech book for a research project I'm doing. The book is called Porting Macintosh Applications to Windows 95 and NT by Greg Stone, dated December 1996, ISBN 0471118516, published by Wiley. It's listed on Amazon but not available; I've searched on

VAX 9440

The VCF museum took delivery of a VAX 9440 today. It arrived in two 28-foot trailers. Here's our forklift driver beginning to unload the first truck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-Q5xrsYXyjrZEZh92xIBhlStvvNUcRV/view?usp=sharing Here's a teaser picture of the main cabinet: https://drive.

Re: VCF Swap Meet in Wall, NJ

But, there have been no verified accounts of giant squid attacks in Wall, NJ. I know Evan is doing a lot of train installation at his house, but I suspect that and the Miata are distractions so we don't see the large pool sized aquarium in the basement. Thanks Jim My house is a bilevel,

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