Okay, quickie post here because I've been crazy busy and haven't read a single word posted here since August. Chris Liendo says party is Dec 10. A few days...
What should I be bringing to the party this year? In previous years, I've brought video games and television sets - should I do it again this year? Any...
Hi MARCHins -- The company I work for, American Legal Media, has a job opening for a full-time "Senior UNIX Administrator" here in Manhattan. If anyone applies...
Despite the seven-person list thus far, I know we'll get the usual amount of twice that many people, or maybe more (I invited IXR too.) I hope people remember...
Hi, I'm John from Montclair, NJ (northeast), and I heard about this group from the cc-tech newsletter. I'm particularly interested in the musuem, as I had once...
I finally put up pix and info: http://ferretronix.com/march/dm160_dage/ Can anyone identify the diagnostic panel? I need help with my Dage Scientific MC-3 1802...
Hi, I'm new in town, I recently got an IMASI and was messaging with Mike Loewen. He invited me to this group. I hope I can get some tips and help to get my...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to contact Tony. Tony, I need your mailing address in order to send you your book, "The Complete Historically Brewed" from the...
On Friday, I took a drive over to Harrisburg to pick up some equipment for the museum. We acquired an IBM 5110 (a model 2 w/internal tape drive), a 5103...
As promised, here are some pictures of the system: http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/IBM5110/ The printer is a 5103 and the dual-floppy unit is a...
All -- I'm trying to test out a few spare S100 serial cards that I have and I'd like to compare my jumpering with a known good card. Does anyone have a working...
I need to read some OLD 4 track QIC cartridges, preferably to a FTP site to get the Zilog diagnostics to a fellow in Germany who's repairing his Zilog system...
Lots of productive things happened at the museum today. This morning was the TIROS landmark designation ceremony, sponsored by the local IEEE chapter. Jeff B....
I have finally perfected an "easy" process of loading and running BASIC on an Altair computer with 8080 processor. There are directions online by others, but...
I did not pick up the email subject reference to the Model 1, and I now remember that you're earlier post has the model 1 photos. . . If I find a model 1...
Does anyone have an IMD image of LDOS 5.3.1? I have a DSK image from Tim Mann's site, but have been unable to successfully convert it to an IMD image. Mike...
Happy (almost) Turkey Day to all supporters of MARCH! We've had a helluva year -- a great VCF, the massive Kirk estate rescue (from which there's still more to...
Anyone using the Zoomfloppy yet? Tonight I was messing around with it, moved some programs to the Plus/4 system. Works pretty good, but you have to be...
I just discovered this group after listening to the retrocomputing roundtable podcast. I'm in Dallas, and it's hard to find other engineers to BS with here,...
For those of you who never had the (dubious) pleasure of working on removable pack disk drives, here are some pictures of a carriage assembly with 6 heads and...
Something's amiss with our only Apple II. The vertical hold is all messed up. Tried adjusting it; it stays put for a while and then moves around. Tried...
... Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:18:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: AT&T 6300 computer in your area Gentlemen; This person has an old computer to part with in Exton, PA ...
