18 Nov
2018
18 Nov
'18
12:36 p.m.
I'm trying to throw a party, but like any good host I'm worried about
the food and entertainment and if anybody will show up. We already
know there is no food at the museum so I need really, really good
entertainment ... Right now we have seven exhibitors who have
formally registered. We really need a total of 20 to 25 to make this
work. We are still a few months away so I'm not in full scale panic
mode yet, but I can feel it coming. ;-0
If you are interested in joining the party again, please register. An
overview of what it means to be an exhibitor and the link to the
registration form can be found here:
http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/ .
If you participated last year and don't want to do it again, I can
understand that. To keep things interesting I'm trying to minimize
the number of repeat exhibits. However, you can still help in a few
ways:
- Know somebody who should join the party? Talk to them about
exhibiting at 2019. A little nudging and mentoring from a friend can
make it easier to bring new people in.
- Have an interesting topic you want to talk about? We're looking for
speakers too ...
- Can you volunteer a few hours? Many hands makes light work, and
also gets you into the museum for the weekend for free.
Have any leads on people I should talk to or ideas for making the show
better? Send them along ... I'd be happy to discuss.
One final note: Contrary to any previously sent communication, we are
not "selling" spots ... I'm actively trying to get rid of the
exhibitor fee entirely, and will guarantee that it will be no more
than $20 this year if it is charged at all.
Thanks,
Mike
VCF PNW President, CEO, and Executive Floppy Disk Shuffler
20 Nov
20 Nov
1:22 p.m.
New subject: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!
I could imagine a talk/exhibit demonstrating vintage software.
The question that I have is how do we exhibit software (Hardware is challenging enough)
A quick stab is on our website at https://museum.syssrc.com/category/software/ where
online visitors can run some of the important 1980's software.
I would love advice from the crowd on how to teach/display. It is a bit daunting to just
sit down with 30 year old software even though it boots up in the browser.
(Perhaps laptops and monitors/projectors could be obtained locally, not really interested
in in schlepping lots of equipment)
Bob Roswell
broswell at syssrc.com
410-771-5544 ext 4336
Computer Museum Highlights
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!
I'm trying to throw a party, but like any good host I'm worried about the food and
entertainment and if anybody will show up. We already know there is no food at the museum
so I need really, really good entertainment ... Right now we have seven exhibitors who
have formally registered. We really need a total of 20 to 25 to make this work. We are
still a few months away so I'm not in full scale panic mode yet, but I can feel it
coming. ;-0
If you are interested in joining the party again, please register. An overview of what it
means to be an exhibitor and the link to the registration form can be found here:
http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/ .
If you participated last year and don't want to do it again, I can understand that.
To keep things interesting I'm trying to minimize the number of repeat exhibits.
However, you can still help in a few
ways:
- Know somebody who should join the party? Talk to them about exhibiting at 2019. A little
nudging and mentoring from a friend can make it easier to bring new people in.
- Have an interesting topic you want to talk about? We're looking for speakers too
...
- Can you volunteer a few hours? Many hands makes light work, and also gets you into the
museum for the weekend for free.
Have any leads on people I should talk to or ideas for making the show better? Send them
along ... I'd be happy to discuss.
One final note: Contrary to any previously sent communication, we are not
"selling" spots ... I'm actively trying to get rid of the exhibitor fee
entirely, and will guarantee that it will be no more than $20 this year if it is charged
at all.
Thanks,
Mike
VCF PNW President, CEO, and Executive Floppy Disk Shuffler
5:57 p.m.
New subject: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!
Emulators do great things, but they can't replace the visceral
experience of touching real old working hardware. Take the example
the sound of a modem making a 1200 bps connection, or the grinding
noise of a floppy drive zero-track seeking at bootup. Or how
inconvenient it is to shuffle floppy disks around. Or the slightly
out of focus look of a CRT monitor. (If you focused one area, you put
another area out of focus ...)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:22 PM rar <rar at syssrc.com> wrote:
I could imagine a talk/exhibit demonstrating vintage software.
The question that I have is how do we exhibit software (Hardware is challenging enough)
A quick stab is on our website at https://museum.syssrc.com/category/software/ where
online visitors can run some of the important 1980's software.
I would love advice from the crowd on how to teach/display. It is a bit daunting to just
sit down with 30 year old software even though it boots up in the browser.
(Perhaps laptops and monitors/projectors could be obtained locally, not really
interested in in schlepping lots of equipment)
Bob Roswell
broswell at syssrc.com
410-771-5544 ext 4336
Computer Museum Highlights
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Michael Brutman via
cctalk
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2018 3:36 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!
I'm trying to throw a party, but like any good host I'm worried about the food
and entertainment and if anybody will show up. We already know there is no food at the
museum so I need really, really good entertainment ... Right now we have seven exhibitors
who have formally registered. We really need a total of 20 to 25 to make this work. We
are still a few months away so I'm not in full scale panic mode yet, but I can feel it
coming. ;-0
If you are interested in joining the party again, please register. An overview of what
it means to be an exhibitor and the link to the registration form can be found here:
http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/ .
If you participated last year and don't want to do it again, I can understand that.
To keep things interesting I'm trying to minimize the number of repeat exhibits.
However, you can still help in a few
ways:
- Know somebody who should join the party? Talk to them about exhibiting at 2019. A
little nudging and mentoring from a friend can make it easier to bring new people in.
- Have an interesting topic you want to talk about? We're looking for speakers too
...
- Can you volunteer a few hours? Many hands makes light work, and also gets you into the
museum for the weekend for free.
Have any leads on people I should talk to or ideas for making the show better? Send them
along ... I'd be happy to discuss.
One final note: Contrary to any previously sent communication, we are not
"selling" spots ... I'm actively trying to get rid of the exhibitor fee
entirely, and will guarantee that it will be no more than $20 this year if it is charged
at all.
Thanks,
Mike
VCF PNW President, CEO, and Executive Floppy Disk Shuffler
21 Nov
21 Nov
2:22 a.m.
New subject: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 02:57, Michael Brutman via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Emulators do great things, but they can't replace the visceral
experience of touching real old working hardware. Take the example
the sound of a modem making a 1200 bps connection, or the grinding
noise of a floppy drive zero-track seeking at bootup. Or how
inconvenient it is to shuffle floppy disks around. Or the slightly
out of focus look of a CRT monitor. (If you focused one area, you put
another area out of focus ...)
I agree... but with an exception that came as a slight surprise to me
when I first encountered it.
I learned VMS and Fortran on a VAX 11-780 cluster in the mid-1980s. I
used the computers daily for 3 years, but I never once saw them. They
were hidden away in a back room, tended, I used to imagine, by
operators in white lab coats, probably with very neat hair and heavy
black-rimmed spectacles.
So the first time that I used an emulated VAX over a serial line from
a real DEC terminal, I was struck by how the experience was 100%
faithful to the original.
P.S. Please bottom-post, will you?
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20 Nov
20 Nov
6 p.m.
Hi Mike,
I teach science (all of ?em!) and computing at a small, rural, K-12 school
in Montana (we graduated our Senior (sic) last year!) and we?re trying to
figure out how to get all of our mini proto geeks to the museum (and house
them) to both volunteer and exhibit some of our vintage systems at VCF PNW
2019. They?ve started to recognize me at all of the convenience stores in
the five surrounding counties, so knocking over any more of them for petty
cash is out!
Going further than a surrounding county in Big Sky Country can mean
traveling upwards of a thousand miles, or at least it feels like that. We
have counties that are bigger than a bunch of those teeny-weenie states
back East!
Anyway, we?ll figure out how to get something through GoFundMe, etc. The
kids are very motivated, but we don?t have any businesses that can sponsor
and support us. In fact, The Gas Station just not only closed today, but
they dug up the gas tanks and trucked them off with the pumps and sign out
front!
All the Best,
Jim
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 13:36 Michael Brutman via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'm trying to throw a party, but like any good
host I'm worried about
the food and entertainment and if anybody will show up. We already
know there is no food at the museum so I need really, really good
entertainment ... Right now we have seven exhibitors who have
formally registered. We really need a total of 20 to 25 to make this
work. We are still a few months away so I'm not in full scale panic
mode yet, but I can feel it coming. ;-0
If you are interested in joining the party again, please register. An
overview of what it means to be an exhibitor and the link to the
registration form can be found here:
http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/ .
If you participated last year and don't want to do it again, I can
understand that. To keep things interesting I'm trying to minimize
the number of repeat exhibits. However, you can still help in a few
ways:
- Know somebody who should join the party? Talk to them about
exhibiting at 2019. A little nudging and mentoring from a friend can
make it easier to bring new people in.
- Have an interesting topic you want to talk about? We're looking for
speakers too ...
- Can you volunteer a few hours? Many hands makes light work, and
also gets you into the museum for the weekend for free.
Have any leads on people I should talk to or ideas for making the show
better? Send them along ... I'd be happy to discuss.
One final note: Contrary to any previously sent communication, we are
not "selling" spots ... I'm actively trying to get rid of the
exhibitor fee entirely, and will guarantee that it will be no more
than $20 this year if it is charged at all.
Thanks,
Mike
VCF PNW President, CEO, and Executive Floppy Disk Shuffler
2004
days inactive
2007
days old
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