... Al Katz!! Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. He has a GIGANTIC dish antenna in his backyard. It's gotta be 25 feet across. He does...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 23, 2012 4:34 am
Guys, Our own Matt M., who's in his second semester of Rutgers CS, found this incredible document: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED227829.pdf. It's great...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 23, 2012 4:55 am
Proud to announce our first-ever VCF East corporate sponsor: Eli's Software Encyclopedia. They're sponsoring our show t-shirts, and they'll have a couple of...
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Jeff Jonas
jeff_s_jonas
Feb 23, 2012 11:51 am
... Yay! Great research! page 15: 1967: they had an IBM system 1130! Perhaps several: as stand-alone and for RJE to the 360 *does the Snoopy happy dance* page...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Feb 23, 2012 2:17 pm
I think a lot of people will agree with this. http://imgur.com/r/funny/2ZTj8...
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Alexey Toptygin
stoolingpigeon
Feb 23, 2012 9:17 pm
... I get timeouts trying to connect to that host :-( Alexey...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 24, 2012 12:52 am
... Works fine for me. Opened immediately on my last-gen BlackBerry just now. ... From: Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@...> Sender:...
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Mike
mwillega
Feb 24, 2012 3:33 am
It was quite a neat experience fixing and operating this machine. I haven't run a Macintosh 128K in almost 28 years! I added an image of my first printout to...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 24, 2012 5:12 am
... Cool. We have a working one in our museum. It's been upgraded with a top-mounted fan/surge protector and extra RAM. It is interesting when we get to...
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Feb 24, 2012 6:27 am
... Umm. :) I can attest to this. My fiancee' was born in 1983 (she's a bit younger than I am ;)) and she took to an original Mac like a fish to water. -Dave...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Feb 24, 2012 8:39 am
It's funny, a few years ago I would see people pretty much giving away 128ks and now after Steve Job's death they are commanding incredible prices. I have an...
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jaj@...
jus10j
Feb 24, 2012 12:02 pm
Check out the shirt at shirt.woot.com today (Friday). I'm in for one!...
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
Feb 24, 2012 12:24 pm
... Is that why Macs make good aquariums? :-) Mike Loewen mloewen@... Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/...
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Mike
mwillega
Feb 24, 2012 1:51 pm
Extra ram really makes a huge difference with this machine. With only 128K, it runs out of memory so fast, it's incredible. For instance, it has some code...
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Jeff Jonas
jeff_s_jonas
Feb 25, 2012 4:39 am
... Despite my affection for 8" floppies, I'm not impressed 1) they're read/write, UNLIKE punched cards 2) and went up to 1.2 meg for DSDD for the equivalent...
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Jeff Jonas
jeff_s_jonas
Feb 25, 2012 4:47 am
... I used an Apple Lisa with the "twiggy" drive around 1984 for composing and editing documentation. The client was mostly mainframes and had no clue what...
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Bee Dee
whd_whd_whd
Feb 25, 2012 9:35 am
You have to look here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=60692 It's a nice shirt. - Bill D ... CRAV Computing Hobbyist : Classic/Retro/Antique/Vintage ...
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David Gesswein
dgesswein
Feb 25, 2012 4:31 pm
... I assume they were referring to the capability at the 1971 date where they were used for microcode loading on IBM 370. Only IBM internally could write them...
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Bee Dee
whd_whd_whd
Feb 25, 2012 10:32 pm
I have another batch of Elf 2000 PCBs in stock while, as the saying goes, supplies last. It's the same deal as before - the PCB is a snap apart combination...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 25, 2012 10:34 pm
... I'm confused. Did you copy and paste from Bob's announcement? 'Cause I know Bob. You're not him. :)...
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Bee Dee
whd_whd_whd
Feb 26, 2012 4:34 am
... Yes. I help Bob with stuff now and then. - Bill D ... CRAV Computing Hobbyist : Classic/Retro/Antique/Vintage ..... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cravcomp/...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 26, 2012 4:53 am
... Okay. Tell him I said hello....
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Jeff Jonas
jeff_s_jonas
Feb 26, 2012 4:58 am
... And later on many other devices such as my high school's RJE terminal. ... Oh, right! Similarly, ZIP, Jaz and other magnetic media could not be low-level...
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David
dgreelish...
Feb 26, 2012 9:48 pm
Hi everyone, Blake Patterson of blakespot.com / toucharcade.com and myself have launched a new biweekly podcast that looks at the Apple company and it's...
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Richard Cini
altairmanrich
Feb 26, 2012 9:57 pm
All --- I'm working on a side project with some of the N8VEM guys and a question came up about interpreting the instructions with implementing ECO 77-0098 (a ...
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Bill Dromgoole
willie5015
Feb 27, 2012 12:16 am
I think those changes are already included in the Rev 4 schematic. See http://www.imsai.net/support/CPA-rev4_ECO_mods.pdf Bill D ... From: Richard Cini To:...
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B Degnan
billdeg
Feb 27, 2012 1:00 am
Who is coming to TCF Saturday (March 10th)? Justin and I will be selling a few things at the new-location flea market, Evan will be running the MARCH table...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Feb 27, 2012 1:06 am
... I need another person for the club table. Can't leave it unattended when I go to lectures....
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Richard Cini
altairmanrich
Feb 27, 2012 1:09 am
Bill -- Ok, maybe there are different versions of the rev.4 schematics floating around. For example, my schematic shows the 76-0061 ECO hand-drawn on it, but...
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Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce
Feb 27, 2012 1:10 am
... That does look very strange. You can't leave the CLR input hanging like that. That must be another 35yr old typo. My CPA board is also Rev.4 and the...
