[rescue] VCF Midwest, anyone?

[Steve Hatle]

Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large VAX" will be
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

This event has always fallen on a weekend I can't attend, but this year
they've pushed it back a week, so I and a friend are going to load up the car
and make our first trip there. I've reserved a seller table and will probably
bring a bunch of stuff that this group of folks would appreciate vs. sitting
in my basement for a few more years.

Would love to meet up with anyone from the list if you plan to be there!

Steve
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[Mike Loewen]

Post by Steve Hatle
Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large VAX" will be
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

I'll be there with a "very small HP3000" minicomputer. :-) Series 37 with
7959B and 7957B disc drives, 9144A cartridge tape drive, 700/92 and 2645A
terminals, and a 2934A printer. MPE/V OS.


Mike Loewen ***@cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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[Paul Anderson]

No Q7 Mike???

I'm looking forward to seeing you and hopefully some Q7 war stories.

Paul

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Steve Hatle
Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large VAX" will

be

Post by Steve Hatle
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

I'll be there with a "very small HP3000" minicomputer. :-) Series 37 with
7959B and 7957B disc drives, 9144A cartridge tape drive, 700/92 and 2645A
terminals, and a 2934A printer. MPE/V OS.
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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[Mike Loewen]

I did a massive Q7 display at VCF East in 2017. Too much stuff to haul
around. :-)

http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2017/

Post by Paul Anderson
No Q7 Mike???
I'm looking forward to seeing you and hopefully some Q7 war stories.
Paul

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Steve Hatle
Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large VAX" will

be

Post by Steve Hatle
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

I'll be there with a "very small HP3000" minicomputer. :-) Series 37 with
7959B and 7957B disc drives, 9144A cartridge tape drive, 700/92 and 2645A
terminals, and a 2934A printer. MPE/V OS.
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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Mike Loewen ***@cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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[Lyle Bickley]

Hey Mike,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:38:09 -0400 (EDT)

Post by Mike Loewen
I did a massive Q7 display at VCF East in 2017. Too much stuff
to haul around. :-)
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2017/

Thanks for posting this to the rescue list! Hope you'll bring it out to
VCF West sometime! What a nice collection of AN/FSQ-7 artifacts!!!

Cheers,
Lyle

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Paul Anderson
No Q7 Mike???
I'm looking forward to seeing you and hopefully some Q7 war stories.
Paul
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:59 PM Mike Loewen

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Steve Hatle
Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large VAX" will

be

Post by Steve Hatle
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

I'll be there with a "very small HP3000" minicomputer. :-)
Series 37 with
7959B and 7957B disc drives, 9144A cartridge tape drive, 700/92
and 2645A terminals, and a 2934A printer. MPE/V OS.
Old Technology
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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[Mike Loewen]

Thanks, Lyle! I'm honored that you think this would be a worthy exhibit
for VCF West, but you guys already have more SAGE stuff than anyone else!
:-) It would be an interesting cross-country trip, though.


Mike Loewen ***@cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

Post by Lyle Bickley
Hey Mike,
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:38:09 -0400 (EDT)

Post by Mike Loewen
I did a massive Q7 display at VCF East in 2017. Too much stuff
to haul around. :-)
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2017/

Thanks for posting this to the rescue list! Hope you'll bring it out to
VCF West sometime! What a nice collection of AN/FSQ-7 artifacts!!!
Cheers,
Lyle

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Paul Anderson
No Q7 Mike???
I'm looking forward to seeing you and hopefully some Q7 war stories.
Paul
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:59 PM Mike Loewen

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Steve Hatle
Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large VAX" will

be

Post by Steve Hatle
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

I'll be there with a "very small HP3000" minicomputer. :-)
Series 37 with
7959B and 7957B disc drives, 9144A cartridge tape drive, 700/92
and 2645A terminals, and a 2934A printer. MPE/V OS.
Old Technology
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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73 NM6Y
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

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[Earl Baugh]

Ibll be there. Part of the Atlanta contingent that comes up most years.

Earl
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[a***@alanlee.org]

Post by Earl Baugh
Ibll be there. Part of the Atlanta contingent that comes up most years.
Earl

I'll be there valeting Earl's bags...

-Alan
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[Patrick Giagnocavo]

While on the topic of early stuff... has anyone ever come across an MCM/70 or an IBM 5100? Or anything else that ran APL?

I have been reading about APL and it seems like a very interesting programming language...

Cheers,

Patrick

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Subject: Re: [rescue] VCF Midwest, anyone?

Thanks, Lyle! I'm honored that you think this would be a worthy exhibit
for VCF West, but you guys already have more SAGE stuff than anyone else!
:-) It would be an interesting cross-country trip, though.


Mike Loewen ***@cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

Post by Lyle Bickley
Hey Mike,
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:38:09 -0400 (EDT)

Post by Mike Loewen
I did a massive Q7 display at VCF East in 2017. Too much stuff
to haul around. :-)
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2017/

Thanks for posting this to the rescue list! Hope you'll bring it out to
VCF West sometime! What a nice collection of AN/FSQ-7 artifacts!!!
Cheers,
Lyle

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Paul Anderson
No Q7 Mike???
I'm looking forward to seeing you and hopefully some Q7 war stories.
Paul
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:59 PM Mike Loewen

Post by Mike Loewen

Post by Steve Hatle
Curious if anyone else besides Patrick F and his "very large
VAX" will

be

Post by Steve Hatle
attending VCF Midwest in Chicago next month?

I'll be there with a "very small HP3000" minicomputer. :-)
Series 37 with
7959B and 7957B disc drives, 9144A cartridge tape drive, 700/92
and 2645A terminals, and a 2934A printer. MPE/V OS.
Old Technology
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

--
73 NM6Y
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

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[Carl R. Friend]

Post by Patrick Giagnocavo
While on the topic of early stuff... has anyone ever come across an MCM/70 or an IBM 5100? Or anything else that ran APL?

Way back in the early '80s, there was an APL environment that ran
on the PDP-10s I was working on. Nobody had a Selectric terminal,
nevermind and APL "ball", but the general syntax could be approximated
in ASCII characters and that's what the -10s did. One of the bennies
I had with that gig was unlimited computer time on whacking big time-
sharing systems; everybody else paid by the kilo-core tick.

It's a very cool language, and really years ahead of its time in
what it could do with very compact programs.

Cheers!

[Mouse]

I have been reading about APL and it seems like a very interesting programmi$

It is! One of my projects, unfortunately low enough on the list it may
never happen, is to find enough documentation on it to build an
implementation. It'd be an interesting exercise, at the very least.

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[Liam Proven]

Post by Patrick Giagnocavo
I have been reading about APL and it seems like a very interesting programming language...

For many years I subscribed to Vector, the newsletter of the British
APL association. They worked long and hard to produce a free
interpreter, I-APL, which is now considered a historic curiosity as it
only runs on DOS and some old OSes such as Atari ST and Archimedes.

https://sites.google.com/site/baavector/interpreters

But there are plenty of others out there.

I never learned it myself. I think I lack the mathematical skills.

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[Dave McGuire]

Post by Patrick Giagnocavo
While on the topic of early stuff... has anyone ever come across an MCM/70 or an IBM 5100? Or anything else that ran APL?
I have been reading about APL and it seems like a very interesting programming language...

We have a pair of 5100s at the LSSM. Neither is functional at the
moment, but we will get them running eventually. One of them has the
APL ROMs installed.

-Dave