Fred and others requested that I update the vintage computing page at www.infoage.org (click 'exhibits' on the top nav bar) .... or visit directly at...
FYI -- When MARCH exhibits at the Trenton show (Sat., April 24), I'm giving my usual "Intro to the Vintage Computing Hobby" talk, and me / Bill are jointly...
They all run BASIC natively, except the MAC. Most are the same exact version of MS BASIC, or at least they all contain the same subset of core commands. bd...
Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET all have BASIC built-in. After move to H-building space, we could have a whole exhibit of Logo, BASIC, Smalltalk, etc....
Yes, went I was there a few weeks ago. The same event was going on and I got a lot of visitors. It gets me excited to have visitors that you can teach a little...
That's great. Our exhibits are better suited for teens than younger children anyhow. We should introduce your teacher to Fred, who loves hearing from people ...
Speaking of schools/classes, I'm going to try to get some hype for a tour of InfoAge at my school. High school students aren't as "cute" as little kids, but I...
One of the volunteer groups, Blossom International (blossominternational.org), is having an ongoing donations drive for underprivileged kids. It's every...
Glad to hear that things are busy. Usually that means that there is another non-MARCH (InfoAge) event going on somewhere on campus. Was that the case today ?...
Andy and I were at the museum today. We were extremely busy with visitors for the first few hours. One group was quite memorable -- parents and three...
It would be funny if any of the punched cards I have were from those plates. My punched card collection: http://ferretronix.com/march/ forwarded from ...
I won't be around for the 4032... Ha! ... From: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Jeffrey Brace Sent:...
Courtesy of Steve G., here's a picture of a recent InfoAge resident: http://www.snarc.net/bird.jpg This is one of two that hang out above the cottage .......
As noted by Dan .... I looked at the thread just now and user Sydbolton's posts. He makes several statements of interest to MARCH (each followed by my...
I will take a look. I may not have a terminator that works. I have to check bd ... Alair without a disk drive or cassette. ... each ... number of ... my...
... interpreter. That's much larger than a memory test and it won't test memory. Use a smaller program that can test your hardware before trying to load...
... Anytime you add more loads on that bus, by adding more cards, it's wise to use a terminator card. The signal quality begins to degrade by the consequence...
... Maybe I missed something but the subject implies you're loading a BASIC interpreter. That's much larger than a memory test and it won't test memory. Use...
... each ... number of ... my ... there are lots of different kinds of tests that look for refresh problems on dynamic memory, as well as shorted address/data...
... Whoa! Run a real memory test! I'm assuming the memory is static, but there are lots of different kinds of tests that look for refresh problems on dynamic...
... might find some flaky memory chips. ... card during this test. ... I am not using a terminator. My memory tests so far have all been manual read/write/read...
An update on this event can be found on this forum http://tinyurl.com/y93ag7v While we mentioned this was using a serial host to access Twitter, it was proven...
... Just checking if your terminator card is plugged in ? If it is, it could still be acting up. Maybe if you run a memory tests on with all the Ram cards...
... I have been using the Altair 8800b. I have tried a number of RAM cards and the 2SIO seems OK, at least it handles the echo program without issue. I can...
Most of the manuals were by Sal Manetta who I exchanged emails with last night. He might have started with stuff written by Dave McWherter who was the VP of...
