We might move the Perkin-Elmer 3210 for that reason. To be determined. Timing -- I'm trying hard to get it pre-VCF. More info to come in a day or two....
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midatlanticretro@yaho...
Sep 1, 2009 11:12 am
MARCH frequently asked questions -- updated August 1, 2009 1. What is MARCH? MARCH is a user group for people who enjoy using antique/vintage computers. Our...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Sep 1, 2009 12:47 pm
Anyway we can do people's names onsite? I think people would spend $$$ on a personalized punch card. ... From: Joe Giliberti <Starbase89@...> Subject:...
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
Sep 1, 2009 1:04 pm
... Many of us who learned to program in the punched card days have fond memories of cards and keypunches, even though none of us would ever go back to that...
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
Sep 1, 2009 1:12 pm
... Only if we can get the museum's 029 in working order. I don't think we should push this too far. Mike Loewen mloewen@... Old Technology...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Sep 1, 2009 1:15 pm
Yes, but there are many of us who haven't and don't have that connection. I would buy one that had my name on it, because that makes it more personal to me,...
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Bill Degnan
billdeg
Sep 1, 2009 1:28 pm
I am looking for a replacement Qume QumeTrak 842 8" disk drive (just the drive), and I read in the manual that the Shugart 850 is compatible logically and...
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Barry L. Kline
barry_kline
Sep 1, 2009 1:51 pm
... I think that I have the CPF command reference manual for that machine. Do you want it? Barry...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Sep 1, 2009 4:41 pm
I can pick some of these up but I need our non-prof info...
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Bob Schwier
schwepes2002
Sep 1, 2009 4:51 pm
The story I heard was that SAGE was finally put off line because, in the seventies, they discovered that the only source for the vacuum tubes was from...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Sep 1, 2009 5:34 pm
Saw this on Freecycle, he is in the upper west side His e-mail is mediaman@......
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
Sep 1, 2009 5:55 pm
... I've heard that same story (about tube sources), but never saw any corroborative evidence. The military tends to hang on to things as long as possible, as...
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Bob Schwier
schwepes2002
Sep 1, 2009 6:38 pm
The story about the techs using rolling stock that I heard was that the techs on ENIAC used shopping carts of tubes. That was told to me by M. Bouchillon who...
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evan@...
evan947
Sep 1, 2009 7:19 pm
... roller skates, pushing shopping carts full of tubes is almost certainly not true, at least not on the SAGE I worked on. The same ridiculous story has been...
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evan@...
evan947
Sep 1, 2009 7:24 pm
... Oy ... Grace Hopper and her stories again ... Hopper was a decent computer scientist and had much to do with getting COBOL started. That's it. Last year I...
One of my history books has a picture of the Mark I logbook with the moth taped to the page but I can't find it right now. However, the story is directly...
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
Sep 1, 2009 9:52 pm
Nobody denies there WAS a literal bug in the computer. The problem is she's widely and falsely credited with coining the term itself, despite the term going...
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B Degnan
billdeg
Sep 2, 2009 1:39 am
Anyone work with these? Looks like a fun tool to have. http://vintagecomputer.net/pictures/thm_multi-tech_systems_MT25_breakout.JPG EIA-CCITT Monitoring. Bill...
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
Sep 2, 2009 2:20 am
I'm sending VCF email announcements to every user group I can fathom. So far I targeted groups re: IEEE, ACM, Linux, Windows, Apple, robotics, and...
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
Sep 2, 2009 2:31 am
... Also targeting AT&T, Lucent, Verizon....
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Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Sep 2, 2009 2:33 am
Any groups relating to Bell Labs? What about sending information to some of the technology/engineering schools in the area (NJIT, Stevens, Rutgers, etc)? You...
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Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Sep 2, 2009 2:34 am
You think anyone at Interdata in Eatontown might be nostalgic?...
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
Sep 2, 2009 2:37 am
... They already know about us. Local radio, etc. - Fred's taking care of that. And please start trimming your replies and bottom-posting. That goes for...
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Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Sep 2, 2009 2:44 am
Also, kind of a long shot, but people who work for the census bureau may have interest. I was talking to a census guy at a job fair at school. He told me of...
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Jeffrey Brace
arkaxow
Sep 2, 2009 3:31 am
Maybe Fort Monmouth ? They have a lot of people working there that used vintage computers (and maybe still do). What about hobbies shops ? ... From: Evan...
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
Sep 2, 2009 3:46 am
Some of you have toured the original two Marconi buildings down by the river bank, which the Army left for dead ..... Fred sent this message tonight: "The BRAC...
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Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Sep 2, 2009 3:58 am
I would think that repairs to those buildings alone would be well into the quintuple digits....
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
Sep 2, 2009 5:16 am
Dan R. says the VCF shirts should be here (my home) by tomorrow or Thursday. I'm excited!...
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Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Sep 2, 2009 5:20 am
I didn't think that PCs got their start via reverse engineered Microsoft DOS put on computers with 8080 processors... ...
