Calling all TRS-80 experts... This system has a couple of modifications that I've not seen before. It appears to have the Tandy lower-case option, but there's...
Greetings, I obtained one of the 809 trainers but it did not come in a binder and did not have either the tech or lab manuals with it. I can do without the...
Here is the MOTHER OF ALL VCF EAST AGENDAS .... and it's not even finished yet! Before we're done, there will be one more Saturday session, and two more Sunday...
ALT/1977 fantasized about traveling back in time to the late 1970s with a pocketful of modern gadgets and turning the tech world upside down. These mock...
Hi All, Being new to this group I haven't yet seen anything about 6800/6809 SS-50 / SS-30 bus stuff initially represented by Southwest Technical Products...
Pleased to announce that Gesswein just registered the first exhibit -- his restored Straight-8! I am very excited about this, and I imagine he is even more...
VCF East will begin each day at 9:30am with a brief opening session. Lectures and workshops last from 10:00am until 2:00pm. The exhibit hall and marketplace...
All MARCHins: be sure to post the VCF Facebook link on your own walls! It is http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8 -- we appreciate when people 'like' it, but the...
Does anyone have an idea of what color "Hazeltine Green" (phosphor) is, or might be, or where that info could be found? My question is regarding web and...
My name is Corey and I have an Apple problem. ;) I am currently building my second "Mimeo" Apple-1, the first one being a project that my 11 year old son and I...
It's official! Dan Kottke is our Sunday, May 6 keynote. Dan was a college buddy of Jobs, went with him to India, built Apple 1 boards in Jobs' parent's garage,...
I just won a working TRS-80 Model III on eBay. It needs a new keyboard, but otherwise works. Is a keyboard one of the spare parts I can buy from M.A.R.C.H.? Or...
We need volunteers to run this year's VCF workshops. Saturday workshops: - Intro to Commodore 8-bit Maintenance (11:30-12:30, with Bil Herd as co-instructor) -...
I know that this is a bit off the main purpose of this group, but I figured that someone here might have some information on a mechanical calculator. I don't...
Guys, Bil Herd will have a dual role at VCF East this year. First, he'll be present during the Commodore maintenance/repair session. He declined to lead that...
<sniP> and Bill Deg. has the software backup/imaging/recovery course. ... I think this is a one hour lecture, right? I will probably do one actual computer...
Good morning, Mike W. will lead the Apple II workshop, and Bill Deg. has the software backup/imaging/recovery course. Bill says he could use an assistant if...
As some of you may know, I recently acquired an Altair 8800. As received, it had no memory, and had a wiring problem with the front panel - it was missing the...
Greetings and Happy New Year to all of you. I hope that in 2012 you will be able to continue to collect and preserve a little bit of history in each area that...
Forking my own post. :) ... And then I found http://www.basicprogramming.org ... nice! Waiting for the admin(s) to approve my registration there so I can...
A question for MARCHins who are parents .... Even though we advertise the VCF as morning lectures and afternoon exhibits, there are always some people who...
Picked one up today with XM box (tape drive and floppy), 5 boxes of manuals/software in AT&T binders. Also has a bunch of the AT&T CBT material and an AT&T dot...
This year's VCF East 8.0 keynoter is Tom Kurtz. Who, you ask.....? Tom, while at Dartmouth in the mid-1960s, co-developed a little language called BASIC. :-)...
