It's been 20 years now since VCF 6.
VCF 6 took place October 11-12th, 2003 at the Computer History Museum
The web page for that event is:
https://vcfed.org/events/archives-show-summaries/vcf-west-archives/vcf-west…
Due to the extraordinary efforts of Kay Savetz, Clay Cowgill, and Josh
Malone over the past two years, some of the talks from Vintage Computer
Festival 6 have been recovered!
The recordings were in very poor condition and took extreme measures to
recover. The audio is often not good. Sometimes it is very bad. But this is
the best that they could do from very bad recordings.
C. H. Ting, Jef Raskin, John Ellenby, and Gary Starkweather are dead now,
so these are voices from those who passed.
They have the audio of the five recoverable sessions from VCF 2003 up at
Internet Archive.
Len Shustek – Computer History Museum
https://archive.org/details/len-shustek-computer-history-museum
Bruce Damer – The Joys and Trials of Computer Collecting
https://archive.org/details/bruce-damer-computer-collecting
David Jaffe / C. H. Ting / Kevin Appert / Dwight Elvey – Forth
https://archive.org/details/vcf2003_forth
Jef Raskin – Apple and the Humane Environment
https://archive.org/details/vcf2003_jef-raskin
John Ellenby / Gary Starkweather / Dave Robson / Peter Deutsch / Charles
Simonyi – Xerox Alto panel
https://archive.org/details/xerox-alto-panel
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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/>
Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the
tools to read it?
I've not found any way to open them on a Mac. No joy on Linux yet
either; there's an old unmaintained tool that uses a 32-bit Java app.
I found 2 Windows tools.
One, IBM Library Reader, won't install on Win11.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-library-reader-windows
The other a Java app, IBM Softcopy Reader.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-softcopy-reader
It installs and runs on Win11 and I can print to PDF -- but only 1 page
at a time. Selecting multiple pages give me an empty PDF.
I found the original IBM CUA documentation and want to convert it to
some more modern, open format, but I am not having much luck...
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We have decided to move VCF East to April 12, 13 & 14. There was a
significant number of people that were traveling to see the solar eclipse,
which takes place on April 8 in the United States. If we didn't move the
date, then attendance would have been impacted significantly. Those dates
are available at InfoAge and are now reserved.
More details will be coming soon:
* Consignment moving to a new more spacious location
* Possible on-site food cooking
* Discount hotel blocks
* More great speakers
* Plus more!
The themes this year:
1) The Rise of the GUI
2) Computer Art
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/>
Hello!
I have an ongoing project to restore a Datapoint 2200 version II and in the
process of doing so I created a small simulator for it to understand it
better. The simulator is now in the condition that it runs the cassettes
that I try on it quite well.
The simulator compiles on Macos and Linux.
https://github.com/MattisLind/DP2200
A short movie clip when it is running:
https://youtu.be/XfsMBhP13ww?si=CHpFKe8eecWjdxDC
Having a simulator for a 2200 if there is no software around is no point.
There are some tapes on bitsavers.org and a couple of other collectors do
have cassettes that can be read.
But is there anyone else out there that is sitting on tapes for a Datapoint
2200 (or 5500, 6000, 6600)?
Tapes can be read on a normal mono audio cassette tape recorder and fed
into a PC which samples the signal, preferably at 44100 kHz with 16 bit
resolution. It is important to not overdrive the input of the computer so
that the signal becomes a square wave.
/Mattis
Although I knew that Ampex was a supplier of Multibus non-volatile RAM
boards (MC-8080 and MCM-8086) - Memory Products Division - I didn't realize
that they had competed for a while in the DG-compatible market alongside
companies like Digidyne, Fairchild, Bytronix, and SCI Systems (according to
court documents and the trade press).
Can anyone shed light on what they offered and when? And perhaps why?
Thank you,
paul
Hello all,
This is a reminder that the Vintage Computer Federation's warehouse will be
sealed for renovation, reorganization, and inventorying starting on *January
1st, 2024*. As such, no items will be permitted into or out of the
warehouse unless absolutely necessary. As many VCF members have used the
warehouse for storage of their personal belongings, it is imperative that
they either come to retrieve their belongings or notify me off-list (
thomas.gilinsky(a)vcfed.org) what of theirs is currently stowed in the
warehouse so that I may tag it and relocate it outside of the warehouse.
Please provide *verifiable proof* that the item in question is your
personal property, AND that it was not given to VCF as a donation.
*All items within the warehouse that have not been verified and tagged by
January 1st will be treated as the property of VCF.*
If your item has been verified and tagged before January 1st, but you are
not able to collect it, then you will still be able to pick it up after the
cut-off date, but *ONLY* if it has been verified and tagged. And, of
course, we will periodically nag you to come collect as well.
Thanks,
-Thomas Gilinsky
Vintage Computer Federation Warehouse Manager
SMS was based in Mountain View starting in the 70's. They sold DEC-compatible Q-bus storage systems in the early 80's and transitioned into IBM PC disk storage ASICs and boards under the OMTI brand in the late 80s.
What happened to them after that? Some CC'er in Silicon Valley must know :-)
Tim N3QE
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I have a formerly-gorgeous 27-inch Samsung monitor:
Model LF27T350FHNXZA
Serial 0AS1HCNR904588L
S/W M-T3527FGGA-1006.1
that now has a minor defect. The "wallpaper" has a dim stripe about
1/6th of the screen width, top-to-bottom, about 1/6th from the right
edge, where the blue band appears when I run its self test. Windows
display almost normally, with a little bit of dimness in that band for
some colors. White is fine, black is gray, .... Changing the wallpaper
doesn't change it. Fiddling with its internal settings doesn't change
it. Photo at http://vandykle.mynetgear.com/Samsung-27.jpg.
Is this the sort of thing that can be repaired at reasonable cost, or
should I just live with it until the monitor fails altogether?
