Hello,
After 18 years of acquiring artifacts, our warehouse is in need of
reorganization, as well as major renovation work - climate control, roof
repairs, etc. A total restructuring, inventorying, and refurbishment of the
warehouse is planned to commence soon - some steps such as the installation
of climate control have already been taken - however, planning this process
is made difficult by the fact that a number of our members have their own
personal belongings stored within, many without proper tagging or
documentation as such.
On January 1st, 2024, the VCF warehouse at Infoage will be closed for
renovation and organization. During this time, no items will be permitted
in or out of the warehouse bar those permitted *directly* by the VCF
Warehouse manager - Thomas Gilinsky - during monthly repair workshops.
As such, if you have any personal belongings stored within the warehouse,
and would like to retrieve it, or have it tagged and set aside for you to
collect later, please contact either me at thomas.gilinsky(a)vcfed.org, or
Doug at douglas.crawford(a)vcfed.org. Please provide *verifiable* *proof*
that the item you are describing is your possession.
*ITEMS WHICH ARE NOT CLAIMED BY JANUARY 1ST, 2024 WILL BE ASSUMED TO BE THE
POSSESSIONS OF VCF.*
Donations to VCF will still be accepted during this time - we have other
areas to store them while the warehouse is reorganized.
Thanks,
Thomas Gilinsky
Vintage Computer Federation Warehouse Manager
Jim Hall will be doing a livestream on VCF's YouTube channel:
https://youtube.com/live/FpBnRk8oWLc
We don’t give much thought these days to what “Unix” means. In 2023, most
Unix systems are actually running some version of Linux, which includes
modern tools and commands that were unthinkable when Unix hit the scene in
the early 1970s. But some 50 years later, “Unix” still lives on.
Jim will look back on Unix history and experience first-hand what it was
like to use the original Unix. Unix 3rd Edition debuted in 1973, and he
chose that version as my target. That’s transporting back in time by 50
years.
He will talk about:
* Terminal setup
* FORTRAN66 program
* nroff document
* linenum program
* For another example of using Linux like original Unix, read hist article
on Sysadmin Signal:
https://sysadminsignal.com/2023/06/19/run-linux-like-original-unix/
For more FreeDOS content, visit his website
https://www.freedos.org/
Join hist project on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedosproject/
Follow his project on Mastodon
https://fosstodon.org/@freedosproject
Thanks!
Jeff Brace
VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President
Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner
VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>
jeffrey(a)vcfed.org
Well, I've got the Greaseweazle software to run, but I don't know why,
which is hardly encouraging.
Installing various Windows updates, downloading .dlls, and puting the
latter in various directories changed the error messages but it never
actually worked. But downloading the latest Greaseweazle software did,
it ran first time. So no idea what I was doing wrong (maybe 32 bit
.vs. 64 bit Windows applications?)
I can now get the list of commands when I run gw.exe. And can get help
on them using the -h option. I've not tried connecting a drive yet,
but the software can find and talk to the board (the green 'activity'
LED turns on). For example 'gw rpm' which is used to check the drive
speed by timing the index pulses times out and gives a 'no index'
error which seems entrely reasonable.
However I am not sure if I'll be able to use it. There is one very
important thing missing : DOCUMENTATION. The 'wikii' on github is
ridiculously incomplete. There is no user manual or man pages. The
software source in python (a language I've never used) has very few
comments and is not clear at all.
It's not clear to me exactly what all the options are for, and when to use them.
-tony
