Well it was time to retire the old Lexan case. It was glued together and was fragile enough to keep cracking at the glue points since it's now part of the...
Hi Gang: So, last night I was watching an episode of "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on Science Channel. The episode focused on possibilities for...
Just a friendly reminder that our holiday party, a.k.a. "Vintage Computer Festivus" is the weekend of Dec. 8-9 at the museum. $10/person as a donation to...
Long day! I got there with my girlfriend at 10am. We helped IXR's (and MARCH's) Dan W. who is leading the InfoAge holiday event. The g/f did that all day; I...
Because of the National Historic Landmark designation, last night InfoAge was on News12 New Jersey, and today it's in the Asbury Park Press. Hopefully there...
Whoa... We don't do 386 but we definitely do S100. :) ... From: monahan@... Subject: An 80386 CPU S-100 Board Sent: Oct 17, 2012 2:16 AM In case you...
See below, from cctalk. ... Subject: Toronto: APL@50 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 01:39:37 -0500 From: Jason T <silent700@...> Reply-To: General Discussion:...
See message from Fred, below. ... Hello Everyone, The Sec. of Interior signed the designation today. Camp Evans is a National Landmark for the home-front...
Well, it's been an exciting past few weeks! I was able to get an NEC APC to boot using an 8" drive and some diskettes that someone I work with had. I'm going...
My Q7 computer tribute site received a bit of publicity in Wired Magazine: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/movie-computers/ My web server is...
See below. I have no connection to this. Let us NOT use this topic to start another 'what is vintage' thread. ... Subject: Wants early 90's PCs for NY movie. ...
MARCHins, I was linked to this Kickstarter project by the Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, and it occurred to me that this might be of interest to the MARCH...
While you ladies were arranging your doilies, I went to the woman's house in Rockland county to pull the first of the PDP-11T03 lot. Earlier, I stopped by to...
It was a slow day at the museum on Sunday. No real visitors. Fred was giving a group, that he seemed to know, the quick tour of all of Infoage. They stopped in...
So I've been working on designing my own 64k SRAM card for my N* Horizon. I don't ever expect to need more than 64k of RAM (hah!), so I'm not implementing any...
Our next outreach event might be the NJ Science & Engineering Festival, Oct. 13-14, at Clifton (NJ) High School. MARCH was there in the InfoAge booth for the...
Hello Guys, I've been reluctant to do this for a while, but I'm giving away my PDP-11. I just never use it! In fact, it's been so long since I've last fired...
I had to buy a quart to have it computer match coded in enamel paint. 15 minutes, some patience and a toothpick made a great difference to the edges of the...
... moorings today. The REALLY good news is that once they succeeded at that, they were able to move the dish in elevation by a small amount. It is not longer...
All, I have a recently acquired DEC PDP 11/23 with DSD 880 (fixed drive + floppy drive). All in superb condition and was working prior to shipping. Now I am...
I really wanted it, but the shipping was twice what was reasonable. and the unit sold for just under $600.00. I have an LNW-80 Model I, but I'd really like a...
Hi all, I mentioned recently that I received a couple of NEC APCs and got one to actually boot. However, I am missing lots of DOS utilities, including ...