I was toying with going to vcf west in october. Is San Jose the closest
convenient airport to fly into? Also, can someone recommend a cheap hotel
close to the venue?
Jay West
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Rescued a complete Atari Mega 2 from work that was getting thrown out. It was
quite dirty being on a mailroom production floor.
Anyway, my wife told me about these Mr Clean magic eraser things and they do
the best job with cleaning just about anything. It got this Atari nice and
clean, sun damage notwithstanding.
These eraser things clean off china marker, smoke stains, dirty fingerprints,
grease, permanent marker, and just plain dirt. They work perfectly on
textured surfaces like plastic computers and car interiors and has not harmed
anything I have used it on.
I don't know how it works since it's a sponge of some sort, but give it a
try. Better than any spray cleaning product I've ever used.
I have the follow STD boards with user manuals. These are spare boards
>from a system and are in excellent shape. I am looking for $15 each or
$40 for all plus shipping.
1. Pro-log model 7606 parallel I/O care
2. Enlode Inc. Model 200-1 realtime clock and prog. interrupt gen.
3. Datricon, model ANA10 analog I/O card
4. Cubit, model 7040 CRT controller (two styles of boards)
thanks Norm
At 11:35 -0500 8/6/04, jhfinexgs2(a)compsys.to wrote:
< ...compsys.to ?? cool, is Toronto its own nation now, or what?
>Can anyone comment as to what level of ID is helpful, in addition
>to a Passport and Driver's License, both with picture ID? Is
>company ID helpful as well when electronic stuff is carried?
Southwest Research Institute periodically has engineers
transporting spacecraft power boxes, compute boxes, and scientific
instruments. We cause minor headaches at security because many of
these are contamination sensitive and want to stay inside of their
dry-nitrogen-backfilled sealed ESD bags.
The engineers carry drivers' licenses and passports (where
applicable) and letters on SwRI or NASA letterhead and a contact
number at SwRI for security to call and verify they are who they say
they are. YMMV, but we have rarely if ever had problems. But then, we
all look like geeks anyway (Mike Gemeny, you can confirm this with
your brother :-) ).
We do call security in advance, but since there's usually a
shift change before we arrive, I think it rarely makes any difference.
>How do security people get through security?
>Or maybe I should not even be asking that question?
Can't help with that.
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The date for VCF 7.0 has been changed to November 6-7. A more formal
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> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Vintage
> Computer Festival
> Sent: 05 August 2004 20:21
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: RE: rarest computers
>
> On display until late October:
>
http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/
I couldn't see anything about computer dinosaurs there, just dinosaur
bones :)
Cheers
w
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Can anyone identify the classic computers in the new Dell commercial?
It has a tech duct taping a bunch of old machines to keep them running
longer.
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> > > 7000 just round the corner in stores. They're both backup
> > machines for
> > > a customer though so you can't have 'em.
> >
> > Bastard. Dibs! ;)
>
> You're in the queue after me :)
I know, but I would just like it known in case something... mysterious happens to you ;)
> > I was just chatting to Greg this morning about swapping my
> > worldbox for a BA23. Sad to see it go because it's so pretty
> > and noisy, but I can rack a BA23 and get some work out of it.
>
> Why not get one of the VAXstations he got from Jules? Do you have a
> requirement for a QBUS box or summat?
Yes, i'd like to transplant the fully-functioning guts of the MicroVAX-II in the BA123 into something a bit smaller. I've got various MicroVAX3100s around doing jobs too. Variety, man!
alex/melt
> > > > > 7000 just round the corner in stores. They're both backup
> > > > machines for a customer though so you can't have 'em.
> > > >
> > > > Bastard. Dibs! ;)
> > >
> > > You're in the queue after me :)
> >
> > I know, but I would just like it known in case something... mysterious happens to you ;)
>
> For a small fee I could lock him up in D Block at Bletchley this
> weekend... :-)
*paypal sent*
alex/melt
I just saw a snippet of the movie "The Towering Inferno" where they were
in a security control room and there was a panel in the background with a
grid of large rectangular lamps all blinking like mad. Was this a real
computer? If so, what was it?
If no one can answer, I'll just get the movie in my next Netflix batch and
suffer through it to check.
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