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by John Herron

While we're on the topic of the fate of collections and museums, does anyone know if SMECC (Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation) is ok? I'm unaware if there was staff outside of Ed Sharpe (who respectfully rests in piece).

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Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

by Christian Liendo

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-living-computers-museum-logs-off-for… Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase for rare computing technology and interactive displays, will not reopen, more than four years after closing just ahead of the pandemic. Allen’s estate, which has been managing and winding down his vast array of holdings since his death in 2018, confirmed to GeekWire that the 12-year-old museum is closed for good. The estate also announced Tuesday that some key pieces from Allen’s personal collection of computer artifacts, displayed over the years at Living Computers, will be auctioned by Christie’s as part of a broader sale of various Allen items later this year.

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TexElec Foam and Foil" Capacitive Pads for KeyTronic & BTC Keyboard Repair

by Marvin Johnston

O n t he recommendation of a couple list members, I ordered five of their Foam and Foil" Capacitive Pads for KeyTronic & BTC Keyboard Repair. I thought the price was very reasonable for about 100 pads for each of the five bags plus shipping. Keyboard disassembly was rather tedious, but not particularly difficult. My guess is about a day to complete the job on a Vector 3 keyboard. An Installation video on Youtube is available... search for "How to fix a Keytronic foam and foil keyboard" and you should fnd it. To me, it helped out immensely covering foam pad removal and reassembly. arrival took about three weeks. Hopefully see everyone in September. Marvin

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Fwd: [GreenKeys] FW: [cca] Ed Sharpe, KF7RWW, SK

by Eric Moore

FYI, RIP Ed ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: W2HX <w2hx(a)w2hx.com> Date: Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 1:22 PM Subject: [GreenKeys] FW: [cca] Ed Sharpe, KF7RWW, SK To: Greenkeys <greenkeys(a)mailman.qth.net> FYI 73 Eugene W2HX *From:* cca(a)groups.io <cca(a)groups.io> *On Behalf Of *Scott Johnson via groups.io *Sent:* Friday, June 14, 2024 6:52 PM *To:* cca(a)groups.io *Subject:* [cca] Ed Sharpe, KF7RWW, SK All- With sadness, I must report that Ed Sharpe, KF7RWW, passed away 1 June 2024. He was 72. Ed was a consummate archivist, and had a large Collins collection, which he housed in a Historic house in Glendale , AZ, known as the Coury House. This was the home of SMECC, the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications, and Computing. Ed was a USAF veteran, a ground radio repairman stationed at Luke AFB in the early seventies. Ed haunted many of the vintage and military radio sites and garnered much of his collection through these channels. His rampant enthusiasm for technology of any kind will be missed! www.smecc.org https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/glendale-az/edward-sharpe-118465… Scott Johnson W7SVJ _._,_._,_ ------------------------------ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#11560) <https://groups.io/g/cca/message/11560> | Reply To Sender <scottjohnson1@cox.net?subject=Private:%20Re:%20%5Bcca%5D%20Ed%20Sharpe%2C%20KF7RWW%2C%20SK> | Reply To Group <cca@groups.io?subject=Re:%20%5Bcca%5D%20Ed%20Sharpe%2C%20KF7RWW%2C%20SK> | Mute This Topic <https://groups.io/mt/106679887/91829> | New Topic <https://groups.io/g/cca/post> Your Subscription <https://groups.io/g/cca/editsub/91829> | Contact Group Owner <cca+owner(a)groups.io> | Unsubscribe <https://groups.io/g/cca/unsub> [ w2hx(a)w2hx.com] _._,_._,_ ______________________________________________________________ GreenKeys mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:GreenKeys@mailman.qth.net >>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham's GreenKeys Search Tool: https://teletype.net/gksearch >>> 2002-to-present greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/ >>> 1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.html >>> Randy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool: http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.html This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to mooreericnyc(a)gmail.com

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Intel 8086 - 46 yrs. ago

by Murray McCullough

Intel introduced to the world the x86 processor: the CISC technology still with us. So what has changed other than speed and upward development? Happy computing, Murray 🙂

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Heurikon HK68/M10 (Multibus) information?

by Chris Hanson

Does anyone have any manuals or other information on the Heurikon HK68/M10? Or the Hbug ROMs for it? The HK68/M10 is a Multibus 68010 board with serial, SCSI, parallel, timers, 1MB onboard RAM, 2- or 4-channel DMA, and an optional 68451 MMU. It's similar but not identical to the HK68/V10 (the VMEbus version) and so far I haven't been able to find much that would make one usable. I'm particularly interested in: An Hbug ROM. Pinouts for the top edge connectors, which provide the serial ports, the SCSI port, and the parallel port. Jumpering/strapping and other configuration information. And of course it'd be incredible to find the UniPlus+ distribution for it, but I'm not holding out much hope for that. I already know what's on Bitsavers—such as the brochure—and I've already looked at the MAME HK68/V10 emulation, so no need to point those out. -- Chris

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VCF Swap Meet this Saturday

by Mike Loewen

Saturday, June 22 from 8:00 - 2:00 across from the Infoage campus in NJ. https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/ Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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L. Conway

by Murray McCullough

Today I came across an obituary of Lynn Conway, computer pioneer in the field of VLSI(along with Carver Mead) and also in one called dynamic instruction scheduling(used in supercomputing world). More to the point Conway was transgender and suffered for this, an almost forgotten pioneer in the microcomputing and supercomputing fields. Also, as a researcher at IBM and Xerox Parc where she contributed to the first years of microcomputing, the GUI and Ethernet protocol development. Eventually the IEEE recognized her contributions as did IBM - better late than never! Murray 🙂

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VCF Southwest 2024 a summary of activity

by Steve Lewis

Have some notes on my experience at VCF SW over last weekend. I got busy with my exhibits and talks, and didn't get as many photos to cover everything. But for those who couldn't make it over to Texas for this VCF, here is a summary of a few things there. VCF Southwest 2024 (Dallas/Richardson) — voidstar <https://voidstar.blog/vcf-southwest-2024-dallas-richardson/> https://voidstar.blog/vcf-southwest-2024-dallas-richardson/

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Lunar Lander, bug

by emanuel stiebler

Interesting reading, as I believe, we all played it at least once :) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-o…

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