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  • Members: 380
  • Category: Computers
  • Founded: Jan 17, 2005
  • Language: English
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Hi all -- http://www.infoage.org/html/calendar-events.html Lots of upcoming events at InfoAge. There's something for everyone, from model rocket lessons to an...
1 May 9, 2010
4:29 am

Evan Koblentz
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HA! made you look! See I told you a kidney would go for a lot of $$$ Seriously though, I cannot believe the price... I would love to know who really got it....
1 May 9, 2010
2:50 am

Christian Liendo
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FYI: surplus ALPS [ASCII] mechanical keyboards available The ascii is in brackets as there's no encoder circuit provided, it's just like the way original ones...
5 May 8, 2010
2:00 pm

Dan Roganti
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Hi, Does anyone have a current email address for Bob Grieb? I wanted to ask him if he has any Lisa or MAC dev tools, I spoke with him about it once, and there...
2 May 7, 2010
6:11 pm

Evan Koblentz
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For those with interest in the Commodore 64. A guy on the uIEC group is working on a file moving utility, specifically with the uIEC in mind. It is in Beta...
1 May 7, 2010
5:47 pm

Jeffrey Brace
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Flash Video is one of those things that many people have begged and pleaded for as features on their smartphones. Now most of the smartphone platforms, except...
1 May 7, 2010
3:07 pm

ExSlyder
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Here's a story about our hobby, written by an American U. grad student, and featuring myself and David. I don't think the story was published anywhere (the...
5 May 7, 2010
12:03 pm

David Gesswein
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[copy of post from vintage-computer.com/vcforum/ - anyone interested in attending or even exhibiting?] Vintage Computer Festival South 1.0 Announcing the...
3 May 6, 2010
1:08 pm

Mike Loewen
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http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?20411 The club already has one, but it'd be a shame if the guy dumps it....
16 May 5, 2010
11:05 pm

Ray Sills
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sort of on topic, as Yoda speak is the same as Reverse Polish Notation :) It's National Star Wars Day... "May the 4th be with you !" talk like Yoda today, ...
1 May 4, 2010
5:09 pm

Dan Roganti
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Hi everyone, I am very happy to announce what I hope to be the start of a very regular show - The Classic Computing Show / video podcast. (Oh, good one David,...
9 May 3, 2010
11:54 pm

David
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It is Bill Degnan's nightmare, in that it is filthy, and that might be an understatement, but it is fully functional. It actually isn't bad inside the case,...
1 May 3, 2010
8:16 pm

Justin Jernigan
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Any TRS-80 aficionados in the Philadelphia/Montgomery County area available to help me out with some new acquisitions? The former prez of the PACS TRS-80 sig...
3 May 2, 2010
8:23 pm

Mike Loewen
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Early roll call.... who is planning on going to the Last Hope July 17th, and who is going to exhibit? I plan to bring a UNIX PC and small exhibit about the 911...
4 May 2, 2010
4:14 am

Evan Koblentz
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Hi Guys, I posted a bunch of old Computers and Electronics Mag Covers in the photos section of our group. Enjoy Ron...
1 Apr 30, 2010
9:20 pm

RonK
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I think this is the first time I have heard vintage computers called geriatric.. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/04/20/13653086-qmi.html It says that...
11 Apr 30, 2010
12:48 pm

B Degnan
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HI Gang: Along those lines... I saw an ad for a ZX-81... but the seller said he couldn't test it because he did not have the proper connectors to connect it to...
5 Apr 29, 2010
2:48 pm

Bill Degnan
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http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=343...
5 Apr 29, 2010
2:08 pm

Bob
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All -- I¹m picking up on an old 6502 SBC project of mine -- building a speech/sound board for it. I have a few SP0256 chips for the speech, but I¹m torn on...
2 Apr 28, 2010
4:41 am

Jeffrey Brace
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All-- I was able to get a dual 5.25² floppy case on ebay for $10. It¹s not vintage, but it¹s speckled-painted sheet metal. I figure I could paint the top...
5 Apr 27, 2010
4:42 pm

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In case anyone was wondering -- our club is in the black, not red! We have NO debt, and in fact we never have had any debt. Since forming in early 2005,...
12 Apr 27, 2010
3:04 am

Christian Liendo
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Dan and Bill Drom. In Byte Dec 1980 on page 277 there are two cards that look like the SC RAM cards from the CP/M workshop. The company is out of Aurora, IL....
10 Apr 26, 2010
11:00 pm

B Degnan
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I was looking at the TCF web site and noticed that when the page is refreshed, a number of the photos on the top of the page appear to be from the MARCH...
17 Apr 26, 2010
9:30 pm

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So, is there a set date for the next MARCH party? -Ian...
1 Apr 26, 2010
5:55 pm

Mr Ian Primus
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Hi all, Bill Deg. had a good idea for how MARCH can raise some money. Back at VCF East 5.0, we sold any computer where we owned more than three: it's good to...
3 Apr 26, 2010
4:00 am

Bill Dromgoole
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Trenton was fun, but HOPE will have a lot more people, who are a lot more into our subject. "The next HOPE" is July 16-18. Traditionally we only go on Saturday...
1 Apr 26, 2010
3:11 am

evan@...
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Hi, Ian Primus sent me a 9 in 1 ISO for Windows XP that will be very useful for rebuilding XP boxes...is there such a thing for Vista or Win 7? Does anyone...
2 Apr 26, 2010
2:22 am

Jim Scheef
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Some of these are related to computer history. Look at the one about RCA. http://tinyurl.com/2fcnk3l<http://tinyurl.com/2fcnk3l> Jeff Brace...
1 Apr 26, 2010
1:30 am

Jeffrey Brace
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For those with hefty bandwidth, here is a link to the presentation PDF from Evan and my presentation today on the history of computing in the Mid-Atlantic...
1 Apr 25, 2010
2:16 am

B Degnan
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MARCH booth is in lobby of "Social Science Building" -- it's a classroom building that looks like a Las Vegas resort inside. Amazing....
2 Apr 24, 2010
10:52 pm

Dan Roganti
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