It's time to start thinking about what you're going to exhibit at VCF 4.0.
The deadline for registration is September 20, 2000.
You can register at:
http://www.vintage.org/exhibit.html
Rules for the exhibit competition can be found at:
http://www.vintage.org/cgi-bin/content.pl?id=r00
Strut your classic computer stuff!!!
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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Looking for a six in a pile of nines...
VCF 4.0 is September 30-October 1
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California
See http://www.vintage.org for details!
I picked up a MicroVAX II today, thanks Nick, and need some help
in getting it up and running. I want to run VMS on this, not
interested in the version of BSD out there, already have enough
Unix boxen. The main thing I'm missing, besides getting VMS
itself are drives. This system is in the BA123 enclosure and has a
TK50 tape drive. It contains the following boards:
M7606-AC
M7608-BP
M7608-BP
M7546
M7516
M7516
M3104
M9058
What all drive options are there and what would people
recommend? What are my options for getting VMS for this? Any
other help or comments appreciated.
Thanks.
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David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
> > Was this the film that established that:
> >
> > 1) electrons are blue
> > 2) protons are red
> > 3) neutrons are green
> >
>
> Surely a glance at just about any 'scope screen, or indeed the IBM 5151
> monitor I'm using a the moment, would convince you that electrons are, in
> fact, green. After all, they leave a green image on the screen.
>
> QED
Hmm... then what subatomic particle does my amber-tubed Wyse 50 use?
I do happen to know it's *not* a plasma display... ;-)
Speaking of which: anybody know where I could find an old Plato terminal?
-dq
> From: "FBA" <fauradon(a)mn.mediaone.net>
> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:07 AM
> Subject: Time spent Looking VS time spent "Playing"
>
>
> > How much time do you devote searching for old machines?
>
Quite a bit, bot "old machines" per se, but classic computng related materials.
> > How much time "Playing" (fixing, using etc...) these machines?
>
> I've been trying to fit in more time playing with the C128. How many hours
> a week, I can't precisely say. But I probably spend as much time playing
> per week as I do looking, if not more....
This last year has been pretty miserable for me, my BBS (runs on a
Commodore 64, which is my most active "classic activity") was literally
down for months and ignored for a year. Tax return time did bring it
back to life with a high speed modem and 20mghz accellerator, but it is
still in need of programmatic overhaul to use the accellerator and my
network feeds aree still stranded in Washington... :P Also my (classic
computing) web pages needs updating (usually reserved for holidays but I
will have to wait on that too).
But I have collected lots of stuff to play with later (how many of us
say that and know we have too much "stuff" and not enough "later"...) I
hope in august to have available time to put more life into my classics...
I must protest on the concentration of the aquiring of computers, I have
had time to divide up my hobby into several categories (where the
"collecting computers" bit is actually kinda small):
Collecting
Computers
Hardware (peripherals, etc)
Software
Computer Books and Magazines
Computing Ephemera (ads, reciepts, pins, t-shirts, games, toys, etc.)
Researching
(see books, magazines, above...)
Reading Technical Information via Internet
Contacting People related to classic computing
Documenting
Web Pages
Articles
Presentations
Promoting
Posting/responding in newsgroups, Maillists (like this one)
Also web Ppge
Running a Classic BBS or Classic Display
Rambling on about how bad off the world is without good computer
education in schools...
(as in usage, programming, electonics, not just CAI)
From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
>Tony wrote:
>> Surely a glance at just about any 'scope screen, or indeed the IBM
5151
>> monitor I'm using a the moment, would convince you that electrons are,
in
>> fact, green. After all, they leave a green image on the screen.
>>
>> QED
>
>Sorry to burst your bubble, but that proves that electrons are purple!
Only if they are very bright and you stare at them. ;)
Besides all this electrons and holes stuff is bull. Anyone who has
worked
with electrical or electronics knows smoke is the powering force. The
proof
is when the smoke escapes, equipment stops working. ;)
Allison
>From what I recall, it actually got pretty close until someone stood up to
>point out the stupidity of it all, whence it quickly died.
I'm sorry, I guess I've been living in an alternate reality... since
when did anyone getting up in congress/senate/whatever beauracratic
organization you want to name and stating the stupidity of something
ever *reliably* prevent it from passing?
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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> On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> [someone srote about carbon tetrachloride:]
> > > Secret stash. Radio Shack dumped their cleaner/degreaser
> stock and I
> > bought
> > > it (at least from one store) I've been metering it out ever since.
> >
> > <Doug, his face green with envy>
>
> Not sure if this is still the case, but, while the sale of it was
> prohibited to individuals, companies could still buy it from
> mail-order electronics supply places. To get it all one need(ed)(s)
> is/was to manufacture a company name (e.g., like one does to get into
> an electronics trade show and get those free pit-beef sandwitches,
> etc. along with lots of freebies like samples and databooks), or, if
> they want a federal ID number, just start a corporation and do nothing
> with it but use it to make it easier to buy things from the bizdroids
> that don't like to sell to individuals. :-) :-) :-)
>
> There's more than one way to skin a bureaucrat!
Well, until they recently came up with a replacement for Halon,
you could still go to a local small airport/air park and buy
Halon extinguishers "for your plane".
:-)
> Have they released new vesrions of the Eddy Electron film, so that it
> now covers ethernet networking and proper network cabling? If not,
> I'd be inclined to suspect that this and other newer information
> hasn't been well enough proven to warrant the creation of a new movie.
> After all, we know that the Eddy Electron film is the one true source
> of authoritative introductory information about what electrons do,
> right? Everyone here did see this classic in their 10th grade
> high-school (or whatever the equivalent of the first year of high
> school is in other countries) electronics class, right? ;-)
Was this the film that established that:
1) electrons are blue
2) protons are red
3) neutrons are green
???
> That's funny; I got my PhD out of showing other engineers
> and economists that the "simplifying assumptions" that they
> make when designing deregulated electric power markets _in the
> real world_ are, well, too simplistic. Electrons cannot be
> bribed to obey economics rather than Kirchhoff, period.
> Yet, that seems to be a hard point to sell to politicians
> and economists.
Hoosier politicians have particular trouble understanding
that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.
I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...
-dq
> At 09:53 AM 7/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Chuck-
> >
> >WHERE are you able to find carbon tetrachloride? I thought it had
> >been banned, and I haven't been able to find it for years.
>
>
> Secret stash. Radio Shack dumped their cleaner/degreaser stock and I
bought
> it (at least from one store) I've been metering it out ever since.
<Doug, his face green with envy>
