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#29286 From: evan@...
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:37 am
Subject: Museum report
ekoblentz
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Jeff B. and I worked in the warehouse from about 11:30 to 6:30 today. Corey
joined us for a couple of hours in the afternoon (and brought pizza!)

We organized Apple II parts, DG Novas (Novii?), Epson QX-10 stuff, Tandy 3/4
systems, books/magazines, and miscellaneous things.

There is slightly more floor space now vs. before.

#29287 From: evan@...
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:44 pm
Subject: Trenton - March 16
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Trenton Computer Fest is early this year -- Saturday, March 16.

Bill Deg. had a great idea: MARCH should have a large presence there, like we
did in 2005, because we're not doing VCF this year. That gives club members a
chance to show off a little bit.

But it's only a month away. So I have a few ideas.

My fallback idea, if there isn't enough member participation, is I could
basically just bring our museum's homebrew exhibit and set it up at Trenton.
Instant awesomeness, just add nerds. Maybe I'll rent a truck and also bring our
home micros exhibit.

However I'd rather have a bunch of MARCHins there exhibiting your own stuff, and
then a group dinner somewhere.

Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb? Dromgoole? Ian?
Sridhar? Etc. ....

Let the discussion begin.

#29288 From: B Degnan <billdeg@...>
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:52 pm
Subject: Re: Trenton - March 16
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evan@... wrote:

>Trenton Computer Fest is early this year -- Saturday, March 16.
>
>Bill Deg. had a great idea: MARCH should have a large presence there,
>like we did in 2005, because we're not doing VCF this year. That gives
>club members a chance to show off a little bit.
>
>But it's only a month away. So I have a few ideas.
>
>My fallback idea, if there isn't enough member participation, is I
>could basically just bring our museum's homebrew exhibit and set it up
>at Trenton. Instant awesomeness, just add nerds. Maybe I'll rent a
>truck and also bring our home micros exhibit.
>
>However I'd rather have a bunch of MARCHins there exhibiting your own
>stuff, and then a group dinner somewhere.
>
>Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb?
>Dromgoole? Ian? Sridhar? Etc. ....
>
>Let the discussion begin.
>
>
>
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#29289 From: evan@...
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:37 pm
Subject: Stephen Gray mini-rescue
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I went on a (small) rescue mission today.

Stephen Gray, as some of you may know, published the "Amateur Computer Society"
which was a snail-mailed newsletter from 1966 to 1976. The newsletters are
already online:

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102654910

In the 1990s, Stephen donated 95% of his archive to the Charles Babbage
Institute.

Today I met with his adult daughter Elizabeth. She gave MARCH the rest. It
includes:

- Copies of his correspondence to/from various companies and granting
organization, in search of funding to form ACS (including an original IBM letter
hand-signed by Thomas J. Watson Jr.)

- Copies of Stephen's correspondence to/from various technical magazines, in
preparation for advertising ACS

- An audio cassette of his lecture from the 1976 National Computer Conference

- Printouts of every article he wrote for Creative Computing

- Misc. articles and notes, etc.

- A shrink-wrapped (new in box) Psion Series 5 plus another Series 5 by itself

- Some kind of portable music synthesizer

I have Elizabeth's permission to use these artifacts as we see fit. Most of it
will go into our library. We'll make an MP3 of the lecture cassette.

I will see how much the sealed Psion Series 5 is worth. We might sell that if it
could buy us another shelving unit, etc.

Elizabeth also said that she has her father's detailed diaries at her home in
Massachusetts. I will have a chance to look through them.

#29290 From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli@...>
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:01 pm
Subject: Re: Stephen Gray mini-rescue
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> I have Elizabeth's permission to use these artifacts as we see fit. Most
> of it will go into our library. We'll make an MP3 of the lecture cassette.

And, of course, all of this will be on bitsavers as well, if Al sees fit.

--
Will

#29291 From: Systems Glitch <systems.glitch@...>
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: Trenton - March 16
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>My fallback idea, if there isn't enough member participation, is I
>could basically just bring our museum's homebrew exhibit and set it up
>at Trenton. Instant awesomeness, just add nerds.

I may have my 8-bit homebrew project up and going by then, at least the
prototype phase. Don't want to get too many people excited in case it doesn't
happen so I'll hold off on details. If I don't have that put together, there's
plenty of other stuff kicking around that I could bring.

Thanks,
Jonathan

#29292 From: "J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks@...>
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:19 pm
Subject: Re: Trenton - March 16
caliphalexander
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Systems Glitch <systems.glitch@...> wrote:
 

>My fallback idea, if there isn't enough member participation, is I
>could basically just bring our museum's homebrew exhibit and set it up
>at Trenton. Instant awesomeness, just add nerds.

I may have my 8-bit homebrew project up and going by then, at least the prototype phase. Don't want to get too many people excited in case it doesn't happen so I'll hold off on details. If I don't have that put together, there's plenty of other stuff kicking around that I could bring.

Thanks,
Jonathan

I have one homebrew Z80 system that I could show (N8VEM/Kiselev Zeta), and I might have another, by then.

Thanks!
- Alex

#29293 From: evan@...
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:31 am
Subject: Great news re: Museum power situation
ekoblentz
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We can open soon!!!

Dan Lieb, who runs the shipwreck group and represents all of the member groups
to the InfoAge board of directors, announced the following tonight:

Here is the current status with InfoAge and our power situation:

------

Short-term:  Wall is going to loan us a 400kw generator for up to 90 days. The
hookup is expected in 7 to 10 days. This should be enough to power up most of
InfoAge. (Evan's note: that means we can open the museum. Woohoo!)

Mid-term: While this is going on, Fred is going to continue to pursue the
Princeton transformer. Wall is probably going to help us with transportation and
installation. (Evan's note: This refers to Princeton U. which is giving InfoAge
a transformer. Fred previously told me that transformer is too big; seems he
and/or the town changed their minds.)
 
Long-term: Wall is going to get with JCP&L to get our buildings metered starting
with the buildings we are now using. The rest of the buildings will be metered
as we spread out to occupy them. (Evan's note: This means town officials had
enough sense to understand that spending some money now means cost savings
later. For example, right now, InfoAge pays whatever the transformer sucks in.
But if the buildings are metered, then InfoAge only pays what we actually use,
which at least for the next few years will be much less than the transformer
approach.)

#29294 From: David Comley <david_comley@...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:07 pm
Subject: Re: Trenton - March 16
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Is it a one or two day event this year ?

If needed, I could bring something along to make up the numbers. My Spare Time Gizmos SBC6120 will be complete by then - I could run that with a vintage terminal of some sort, or I could dig out an HP-87 or a Vaxstation or even an HP64000, although they're quite big. I also have quite a decent functioning HP plotter that could be demo'd.

I never seem to have time to do a full-on VCF exhibit but something like this would be great, and I'm half an hour away from TCF.

-David

From: "evan@..." <evan@...>
To: MARCH Yahoo Midatlanticretro <midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: [midatlanticretro] Trenton - March 16

 
Trenton Computer Fest is early this year -- Saturday, March 16.

Bill Deg. had a great idea: MARCH should have a large presence there, like we did in 2005, because we're not doing VCF this year. That gives club members a chance to show off a little bit.

But it's only a month away. So I have a few ideas.

My fallback idea, if there isn't enough member participation, is I could basically just bring our museum's homebrew exhibit and set it up at Trenton. Instant awesomeness, just add nerds. Maybe I'll rent a truck and also bring our home micros exhibit.

However I'd rather have a bunch of MARCHins there exhibiting your own stuff, and then a group dinner somewhere.

Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb? Dromgoole? Ian? Sridhar? Etc. ....

Let the discussion begin.




#29295 From: "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <VAXman@...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:25 pm
Subject: Re: Trenton - March 16
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"evan@..." <evan@...> writes:

>Trenton Computer Fest is early this year -- Saturday, March 16.

Grrr.  If it's not VCF, it's TCF, that is always scheduled when I have some
other function to attend.  VCF was finally scheduled at a good time for me
but cancelled due to the transformer issues at InfoAge.  I'll be presenting
a this <http://www.connect-community.org/?2013VMSBootCamp> which coincides
with TCF.  Maybe next year... :(

--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

#29296 From: Dan Roganti <ragooman@...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: Great news re: Museum power situation
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On 2/18/2013 11:31 PM, evan@... wrote:
> We can open soon!!!
>
> Dan Lieb, who runs the shipwreck group and represents all of the member groups
to the InfoAge board of directors, announced the following tonight:
>
> Here is the current status with InfoAge and our power situation:
>

sweet !
does this mean the micro-mini-VCFish-east is still a go ?

Dan

#29297 From: "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink@...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:37 pm
Subject: RE: Trenton - March 16
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evan@... wrote:
> Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb?
> Dromgoole? Ian? Sridhar? Etc. ....

The timing's no good for me.  Sorry.

Bill S.

#29298 From: evan@...
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:41 pm
Subject: Re: Great news re: Museum power situation
ekoblentz
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>> does this mean the micro-mini-VCFish-east is still a go ?

VCF East is still taking the year off for two reasons.: lack of time and
potential for risk. The power plan is just that -- a plan -- until it happens.

I think we should host a swap meet on May 14 and a tech day on May 15.

#29299 From: Dan Roganti <ragooman@...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:47 pm
Subject: Re: Great news re: Museum power situation
ragoo_sauce
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On 2/19/2013 7:41 AM, evan@... wrote:
>>> does this mean the micro-mini-VCFish-east is still a go ?
> VCF East is still taking the year off for two reasons.: lack of time and
potential for risk. The power plan is just that -- a plan -- until it happens.
>
> I think we should host a swap meet on May 14 and a tech day on May 15.

yea, thats what I was referring to,
I just used an alternative terminology :)

#29300 From: "B Degnan" <billdeg@...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:17 pm
Subject: RE: Trenton - March 16
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David,

Sounds good.  Just Saturday.   It’s not the same TCF as it was 20 years ago, or even 2005, the old ham fest atmosphere recedes each year.  Personally I am giving it another chance but I remain uncommitted to the future.

 

Everyone,

Here are some general guidelines for exhibiting at TCF in particular

 

1)      We don’t know much yet about where within TCF we will be, access to power outlets, or space to exhibit. 

2)      Don’t assume you’ll have a lot of power, you may find yourself running off a shared power strip.   Minis might have to sit powerless (even if they make a nice display).

3)      Unless you’re told otherwise expect you’ll have a single table for your exhibit at most, one of those standard ~5 or 6 by ~2 foot rectangles.  So, pick the one really good thing that fits.  Make the exhibit presentable, and avoid non-vintage hardware especially displays.  People are more impressed by complete setups of actual vintage computers. 

4)      Exhibits should have a placard “Make/Model/Date(s) produced for each item

5)      TCF is more general audience than your VCF or maker faire, they want to see cool old stuff.  If you have to constantly explain why something is important, it’s probably not (to the general public).

6)      TCF has always been a source of new members to MARCH, we always want to make a good impression.

7)      TCF in the past has been a good social for MARCH members.

 

 

Bill

 

From: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Comley
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:08 AM
To: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [midatlanticretro] Trenton - March 16

 




Is it a one or two day event this year ?

 

If needed, I could bring something along to make up the numbers. My Spare Time Gizmos SBC6120 will be complete by then - I could run that with a vintage terminal of some sort, or I could dig out an HP-87 or a Vaxstation or even an HP64000, although they're quite big. I also have quite a decent functioning HP plotter that could be demo'd.

 

I never seem to have time to do a full-on VCF exhibit but something like this would be great, and I'm half an hour away from TCF.

-David


From: "evan@..." <evan@...>
To: MARCH Yahoo Midatlanticretro <midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: [midatlanticretro] Trenton - March 16

 

 

Trenton Computer Fest is early this year -- Saturday, March 16.

Bill Deg. had a great idea: MARCH should have a large presence there, like we did in 2005, because we're not doing VCF this year. That gives club members a chance to show off a little bit.

But it's only a month away. So I have a few ideas.

My fallback idea, if there isn't enough member participation, is I could basically just bring our museum's homebrew exhibit and set it up at Trenton. Instant awesomeness, just add nerds. Maybe I'll rent a truck and also bring our home micros exhibit.

However I'd rather have a bunch of MARCHins there exhibiting your own stuff, and then a group dinner somewhere.

Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb? Dromgoole? Ian? Sridhar? Etc. ....

Let the discussion begin.

 





#29301 From: David Gesswein <djg@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:22 am
Subject: Re: Trenton - March 16
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:44:17PM +0000, evan@... wrote:
>
> Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb?
> Dromgoole? Ian? Sridhar? Etc. ....
>
I may be able to bring something for a single 6' table. Wouldn't really
want to do it if sufficient power isn't available. I can bring less hungry
stuff but won't work sharing with too many tables. When would you know
how much space etc they wish to give us this year?

#29302 From: "B Degnan" <billdeg@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:53 am
Subject: RE: Trenton - March 16
billdeg
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:44:17PM +0000, evan@... wrote:
>
> Degnan? Andy? Corey? Sudbrink? Gesswein? Chapman? Kelly? Herb?
> Dromgoole? Ian? Sridhar? Etc. ....
>
I may be able to bring something for a single 6' table. Wouldn't really want
to do it if sufficient power isn't available. I can bring less hungry stuff
but won't work sharing with too many tables. When would you know how much
space etc they wish to give us this year?


------------------------------------

Evan?
In a way it might make more sense to get a good room for a proper exhibit
that for it to be in a great spot, we can always flood the event with signs
- with arrows "See Antique Computers This Way! --->

#29303 From: Systems Glitch <systems.glitch@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:23 am
Subject: Re: Great news re: Museum power situation
systems.glitch
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Wall is probably going to help us with transportation and installation. (Evan's
note: This refers to Princeton U. which is giving InfoAge a transformer. Fred
previously told me that transformer is too big; seems he and/or the town changed
their minds.)

What's it weigh? I do own a flatbed dumptruck. If it's under 5-6 tons and Wall
has a hard time making transportation work, I can move it.

Thanks,
Jonathan

#29304 From: evan@...
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:29 am
Subject: Trenton update
ekoblentz
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I requested either a small classroom or at least 20 feet by 20 feet square.

Highly doubtful that we'll get any special power available.

My plan is to have the mother of all homebrew exhibits. One of nearly
everything, with as many as possible up and running for demos.

What I'd like MARCHins to do is everyone can call dibs on bringing one or two
particular machine(s). We shouldn't overlap. Altair, IMSAI, SWTPC, SOL, Poly,
OSI, TDL, Northstar, various SBCs, one or two modern kits, etc. .... I will
bring MARCH's Apple 1 repro, and hopefully we'll have the real Mark-8 by then*,
unless someone can bring a working replica.

Again, the goal is to have as many homebrew-era systems on display as possible,
with as many working as possible.

I will also bring a display of period-appropriate computer magazines -- this
might be a large wall-sized display. Also, our repro posters from the first TCF
and PC'76 shows, etc.

Note: our own Frank O'Brien is giving the keynote this year! He will talk about
Mars rovers.

* I signed a loan agreement last week. We're getting a five-year loan of a real
Mark 8 and we have permission to restore it! Details to come...

#29305 From: evan@...
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:31 am
Subject: Re: Great news re: Museum power situation
ekoblentz
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>> What's it weigh?

Beats me, but I will share your generous offer with Fred.

#29306 From: Dave McGuire <Mcguire@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:27 am
Subject: Re: Trenton update
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On 02/19/2013 10:29 PM, evan@... wrote:
> I requested either a small classroom or at least 20 feet by 20 feet
> square.
>
> Highly doubtful that we'll get any special power available.
>
> My plan is to have the mother of all homebrew exhibits. One of nearly
> everything, with as many as possible up and running for demos.
>
> What I'd like MARCHins to do is everyone can call dibs on bringing
> one or two particular machine(s). We shouldn't overlap. Altair,
> IMSAI, SWTPC, SOL, Poly, OSI, TDL, Northstar, various SBCs, one or
> two modern kits, etc. .... I will bring MARCH's Apple 1 repro, and
> hopefully we'll have the real Mark-8 by then*, unless someone can
> bring a working replica.
>
> Again, the goal is to have as many homebrew-era systems on display as
> possible, with as many working as possible.

   Very cool, but..."homebrew", "homebrew-era", or "kits"?  Or all of the
above?  I (for one) consider the three to be very different things.

              -Dave

--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

#29307 From: "Bill Dromgoole" <drummy@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:29 am
Subject: Re: Trenton update
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I can bring an RCA COSMAC VIP-711 single board computer and/or a KIM-1 and/or an
Ohio Scientific OSI-300.
All fully operational. Not much in the way of software though.
And they don't need much power.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: <evan@...>
To: "MARCH Yahoo Midatlanticretro" <midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:29 PM
Subject: [midatlanticretro] Trenton update


>I requested either a small classroom or at least 20 feet by 20 feet square.
>
> Highly doubtful that we'll get any special power available.
>
> My plan is to have the mother of all homebrew exhibits. One of nearly
> everything, with as many as possible up and running for demos.
>
> What I'd like MARCHins to do is everyone can call dibs on bringing one or two
> particular machine(s). We shouldn't overlap. Altair, IMSAI, SWTPC, SOL, Poly,
> OSI, TDL, Northstar, various SBCs, one or two modern kits, etc. .... I will
> bring MARCH's Apple 1 repro, and hopefully we'll have the real Mark-8 by
> then*, unless someone can bring a working replica.
>
> Again, the goal is to have as many homebrew-era systems on display as
> possible, with as many working as possible.
>
> I will also bring a display of period-appropriate computer magazines -- this
> might be a large wall-sized display. Also, our repro posters from the first
> TCF and PC'76 shows, etc.
>
> Note: our own Frank O'Brien is giving the keynote this year! He will talk
> about Mars rovers.
>
> * I signed a loan agreement last week. We're getting a five-year loan of a
> real Mark 8 and we have permission to restore it! Details to come...

#29308 From: David Comley <david_comley@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:18 pm
Subject: Re: Trenton update
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On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:29 PM, evan@... wrote:


What I'd like MARCHins to do is everyone can call dibs on bringing one or two particular machine(s). We shouldn't overlap. Altair, IMSAI, SWTPC, SOL, Poly, OSI, TDL, Northstar, various SBCs, one or two modern kits, etc. .... I will bring MARCH's Apple 1 repro, and hopefully we'll have the real Mark-8 by then*, unless someone can bring a working replica.

I can bring either a KIM-1 or the SBC6120/FP6120 replica of a PDP-8 I am building right now - or my first ever computer, the Sinclair ZX80 I built from a kit in 1980 in England. Can't believe I even still have it.

-David

#29309 From: "B Degnan" <billdeg@...>
Date: Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:59 pm
Subject: RE: Trenton update
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Given space and Evan’s theme:

Dave – KIM

Bill DromG – OSI

 

I will bring whatever is missing from the list that I have on hand.

 

Bill Deg

 

From: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Comley
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7:19 AM
To: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [midatlanticretro] Trenton update

 




 

On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:29 PM, evan@... wrote:


What I'd like MARCHins to do is everyone can call dibs on bringing one or two particular machine(s). We shouldn't overlap. Altair, IMSAI, SWTPC, SOL, Poly, OSI, TDL, Northstar, various SBCs, one or two modern kits, etc. .... I will bring MARCH's Apple 1 repro, and hopefully we'll have the real Mark-8 by then*, unless someone can bring a working replica.

I can bring either a KIM-1 or the SBC6120/FP6120 replica of a PDP-8 I am building right now - or my first ever computer, the Sinclair ZX80 I built from a kit in 1980 in England. Can't believe I even still have it.

 

-David





#29310 From: corey986
Date: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:43 am
Subject: Re: Trenton update
corey986
 
Count me in also.   I should be able to do Saturday.

Cheers,
Corey
--- In midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com, "Evan Koblentz" <evan@...> wrote:
>
> We are officially registered for two tables, with electricity, adjacent to
> the ACGNJ booth.
>
> The people at MarketPro (company managing TCF business on ACGNJ's behalf)
> is demanding a list of who from our group will attend, in order for us to
> have volunteer badges.  I tried telling them (nicely) something along the
> lines of "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" ... but still they
> insist.
>
> Somewhere at home I have the list of everyone who said they're coming,
> thus far, so I'll check tonight (at work now) ... if you did NOT add your
> name, or if you're * thinking about * going, then speak up now or don't
> complain when they want to charge you $15 for admission to your own club's
> booth.
>
> I have to send them the list by next week.
>
> To those who asked which day they should go, if not both -- I'll try to
> figure that out in the next day or two.
>

#29311 From: "J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks@...>
Date: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:59 am
Subject: Re: Re: Techno Swap Fest 2/23rd Baltimore
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, B. Degnan <billdeg@...> wrote:
 
>
> >> Any chance of carpooling?
>
> I might like to go, and happy to split the driving / split the gas ...
but obviously in your station wagon, not my Miata.
>
> >> It's 5+ hours each way from NJ.
>
> What? Baltimore is at most 3.5 hours from where you and I live, and
that's if I drive slow. Four hours at most if we stop to eat / pee / fuel.
>
>

more like 3.5 from where you live but only because you're actually going to
a point south/west of Balt. Trenton to Baltimore city is 2.5 hours tops.

So, who's coming, for sure?  I'll be there @ 9am.

- Alex

#29312 From: Mike Loewen <mloewen@...>
Date: Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:06 am
Subject: Re: Re: Techno Swap Fest 2/23rd Baltimore
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:

> So, who's coming, for sure?  I'll be there @ 9am.

     I'll be there, probably between 9:30 and 10:00.


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#29313 From: evan@...
Date: Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:52 am
Subject: Re: Re: Techno Swap Fest 2/23rd Baltimore
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>> So, who's coming, for sure?

I haven't heard back from Jeff J. ... but I don't really want to wake up at
4:30am anyhow.  :)

#29314 From: David Gesswein <djg@...>
Date: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:35 am
Subject: Re: Great news re: Museum power situation
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:41:16PM +0000, evan@... wrote:
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> I think we should host a swap meet on May 14 and a tech day on May 15.
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My calendar says thats a tuesday and wednesday.

#29315 From: "J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks@...>
Date: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:36 am
Subject: Re: Re: Techno Swap Fest 2/23rd Baltimore
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Mike Loewen <mloewen@...> wrote:
 

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:

> So, who's coming, for sure? I'll be there @ 9am.

I'll be there, probably between 9:30 and 10:00.

Mike,

I just acquired my first 68k workstation, an HP 9000/375.  I'm really excited to play with it, especially since I have discovered that the HP Computer Museum has archived a bunch of the software that HP made available for the machine.  I got the 375, and a 82901 dual disk drive unit, and a pair of HP-IB cables.

I remembered that you were using HPDrive, to replace the drive on your HP mini.  I'd love to chat with you about HP-IB cards, as I will need to get one, for a PC, to use as mass storage, as I don't have a hard drive, to perform the initial load.

See you Saturday!
- Alex

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