Yes, but there are many of us who haven't and don't have that connection

Maybe Fort Monmouth ?  They have a lot of people working there that used vintage computers (and maybe still do).

Just wanted to let you see the funny comments that were posted on this video I edited last year from Bill's PDP11/40 playing Pacman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTwuEz_zCIY&feature=email

=Dan

Evan Koblentz wrote:
>
> So far I targeted groups re: IEEE, ACM, Linux, Windows, Apple, robotics,
> and general-purpose computer clubs.
>
> What other kinds of clubs / user groups should be target in VCF
> advertising?  Ideas please.

Computer science departments at some of the big east coast universities?
MIT, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, etc.

AccuWeather.com says mid-70s for VCF weekend. Nice!

-------- Original Message --------
> From: "Bob Schwier" <schwepes2002@...>
>
> Science fiction groups tend to have a lot of members that were early
adapters
> to computing.  You have groups in NYC, Long Island and Philadelphia.
They
> have conventions, Lunacon, ICON and Philcon which is currently held in
New
> Jersey and not Philadelphia.  At one point, Lunacon was held a stone's
throw
> from Jimmy Hoffa's burial site in Giant's Field.
> bs
>

Of course I will mention this event to my class and send an announcement to
the CISC/CPEG people at the University of Delaware...first day is today.

I have a full class this year, there is enough buzz about the class to keep
it going.  I have a new classroom too.

This year I am going to start off the semester by demoing a little BBS I
wrote for the Commodore 64, and the associated background about how people
used computers to communciate before the Internet as we know it today.
We're going to go over Ward Christensen's article from Byte magazine in
1978 - the CBBS, and so on.

And being in teacher mode I am wearing khaki pants.

Bill

Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> And being in teacher mode I am wearing khaki pants.
>
Wait!  Are you considered a computer science teacher,
math teacher or history teacher?  Please consult the
following chart:

Math             - Dark blue polyester pants.
Computer science - Blue jeans.
History          - Either cut off jeans or corduroy slacks,
                    depending on age.  If corduroy slacks,
                    must be worn with _badly_ mismatched
                    suit jacket.

This was the (apparently anyway) official dress code at
the University of Maryland in the 1980's and 1990's.  I'm
not kidding.  I had a good friend who was a comp sci prof
and switched over to math.  He switched from jeans to poly.
He said he "had" to.

Bill

 
 

I didn't think that PCs got their start via reverse engineered Microsoft DOS put on computers with 8080 processors...

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/235205/Space-Shuttle-To-Be-Replaced-By-SpaceX-For-ISS-Resupply
  
    

HI Christian:

I saw your post to the COSMAC group!  Nice!

73 de Ray


On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Christian Liendo wrote:

>
>
> I sent stuff to most of the blogs
>
> A2central's contact us page keeps blocking me because any link I put
> in there pops up as "Possible malicious code detected. I can�t post
> this message.:
>
>

HI Bill:

Nope. My son is a math professor at Georgia Southern Univeristy...
Khaki is in.  And a tie during the first week.

73 de Ray

On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Bill Sudbrink wrote:

> Bill Degnan wrote:
>>
>> And being in teacher mode I am wearing khaki pants.
>>
> Wait!  Are you considered a computer science teacher,
> math teacher or history teacher?  Please consult the
> following chart:
>
> Math             - Dark blue polyester pants.
> Computer science - Blue jeans.
> History          - Either cut off jeans or corduroy slacks,
>                   depending on age.  If corduroy slacks,
>                   must be worn with _badly_ mismatched
>                   suit jacket.
>
> This was the (apparently anyway) official dress code at
> the University of Maryland in the 1980's and 1990's.  I'm
> not kidding.  I had a good friend who was a comp sci prof
> and switched over to math.  He switched from jeans to poly.
> He said he "had" to.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

yea,, I am displaying a Cosmac, so people who want to see one can come..

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Ray Sills <raysills@...> wrote:

> From: Ray Sills <raysills@...>
> Subject: Re: [midatlanticretro] VCF advertising ideas?
> To: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:34 AM
> HI Christian:
>
> I saw your post to the COSMAC group!  Nice!
>
> 73 de Ray
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Christian Liendo wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I sent stuff to most of the blogs
> >
> > A2central's contact us page keeps blocking me because
> any link I put 
> > in there pops up as "Possible malicious code detected.
> I can’t post 
> > this message.:
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>     mailto:midatlanticretro-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>

Bad news / good news.

Bad - the slide show from Network World fell through.  :(

Good - I got a call from the Philadelphia City Paper today (alternative
weekly).  Reporter said she's writing an article for their Sept. 10
issue.  Somehow her editor found our web site.

> Evan,
>
> I thought you have a list already.
> Hve you posted at the regular places online(I'm sure I missed some)
Awesome list.  Thanks Dan.

My list is own computer clubs, but the email addresses tend to flake out
over time.  That's why me and Jeff F. are busy with an (ahem) data
mining (not spam!!) project.     :)

>
> Computer science departments at some of the big east coast universities?
> MIT, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, etc.
Good idea.  It would be great to contact every CS department at every
college/university from Hartford to Pittsburgh to D.C. .......

..... But I'm massively bogged down .... what I desperately need is
HELP.   :)

I've got a template email.  Can someone get the email addresses for me?
Let's collect the email addresses of every prof and admin assistant of
every CS department of every college/university in Mass., Conn., NY, NJ,
PA, De., MD, DC.

I'm serious.  If everyone mines the CS web sites from a few different
schools then it won't be too hard.  Key is to get ALL the schools, not
just the biggies.

Then send me the emails in comma-separate format i.e. joe@...,
jim@..., etc. and I'll plug them into a template email and send away.

Science fiction groups tend to have a lot of members that were early adapters to computing.  You have groups in NYC, Long Island and Philadelphia.  They have conventions, Lunacon, ICON and Philcon which is currently held in New Jersey and not Philadelphia.  At one point, Lunacon was held a stone's throw from Jimmy Hoffa's burial site in Giant's Field. bs

Here's the message I am sending to as many groups / forums as possible.
Please post the MARCH list everytime ya'll put this someplace, so we
don't do redundant work.

It's also cool to customize the template in * your own words * .....

All please limit your posts to just online forums and blogs for now.
I'll send out all the messages to regular computer clubs (with the
assistance of everyone else, as explained in my previous couple of
messages....)

------------------------------

Hello, fellow (fill in topic) fans!

This year's Vintage Computer Festival East will be held September 12-13
at the InfoAge Science Center located in Wall, New Jersey.

VCF is a public event celebrating the history of computers from the
1940s - 1980s.  The morning schedule is for lectures and workshops; the
afternoons are an open exhibit hall where everything is turned on and
working.

Among this year's highlights are the keynote address about RCA computers
in the 1950s, an 8-bit musical concert, BASIC programming challenge, and
the build-your-own terminal workshop.

Details are posted at http://www.vintage.org/2009/east/ where you'll
also find the latest VCF news and a 2-minute video montage of last
year's show.  Or refer to the simple event brochure at
http://www.vintage.org/2009/east/vcfe6.pdf .... tickets are $10 for one
day or $15 for both days; 17 and younger get in free.

The event benefits the InfoAge Science Center, which is a 501c3 non-profit.

Thank you,
- Evan Koblentz
(646) 546-9999

--------------------------------

Evan Koblentz wrote:
>
> ..... But I'm massively bogged down .... what I desperately need is
> HELP.   :)
>
> I've got a template email.  Can someone get the email addresses for me?
> Let's collect the email addresses of every prof and admin assistant of
> every CS department of every college/university in Mass., Conn., NY, NJ,
> PA, De., MD, DC.
>
> I'm serious.  If everyone mines the CS web sites from a few different
> schools then it won't be too hard.  Key is to get ALL the schools, not
> just the biggies.
>
> Then send me the emails in comma-separate format i.e. joe@...,
> jim@..., etc. and I'll plug them into a template email and send away.
>

I'll take UofMaryland and VA Tech.

>
>> I'm serious.  If everyone mines the CS web sites from a few different
>> schools then it won't be too hard.  Key is to get ALL the schools, not
>> just the biggies.
>>
>> Then send me the emails in comma-separate format i.e. joe@...,
>> jim@..., etc. and I'll plug them into a template email and send away.
>>
>>
> I'll take UofMaryland and VA Tech.
>
Thank you.

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Evan Koblentz wrote:

>>> Then send me the emails in comma-separate format i.e. joe@...,
>>> jim@..., etc. and I'll plug them into a template email and send away.
>>>
>>>
>> I'll take UofMaryland and VA Tech.

     I'll do Penn State.


Mike Loewen 		 mloewen@...
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/