Category Archives: Meetings

See us at Maker Faire — October 1 & 2

Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:32
Earl Baugh
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We will be hosting a tent at the Atlanta Maker Fair 2016

Come visit us!

Meeting Saturday August 13th 2016

Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:30
Earl Baugh
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Reminder — We’re meeting at the new location. WHERE: Computer Museum of America .  The address is Kings Market Center, 1425 Market Blvd., Suite 200, Roswell, GA 30076.  This was the old Comp-USA building for those of you who have lived in the area for a while.For those of you who haven’t been there before, this is where we also have held VCF SE.  A map can be found here. WHEN: We’re now meeting on the 2nd Saturday of the month.  So it’s this Saturday – August 13th. WHAT : Not sure if there is anything special planned for this month.  We will be discussing the VCF MW event coming up in September and discussing some updates for VCF SE 5.0. As always, folks will have new finds, new info and will be working on various projects…

Our next meeting…NEW DATE, NEW LOCATION

Wednesday, 29 June 2016 01:38
Earl Baugh
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PLEASE UPDATE YOUR CALENDAR — We are changing WHEN and WHERE we meet . WHERE: Computer Museum of America .  The address is Kings Market Center, 1425 Market Blvd., Suite 200, Roswell, GA 30076.  This was the old Comp-USA building for those of you who have lived in the area for a while.For those of you who haven’t been there before, this is where we also have held VCF SE.  A map can be found here. WHEN: We’re moving our meetings from the 3rd Saturday of the month to the 2nd Saturday of the month, since we have to match up with when the Computer Museum is open.  This means for July it will be the 9th.  August will be the 13th, etc.  

Last Meeting (May 21th)

Monday, 30 May 2016 14:50
Earl Baugh
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Our last meeting was May 21st at the regular location (Christ the Lord Church) Thanks to Jeff Stokes on a very detailed and wonderful job of relaying the insides of all things CP/M.   When he has a complete set of instructions ready to post, we will included a link here. Overall, he covered how to get software/files onto your CP/M machine. He demonstrated an easier (compared to making your own floppies) way to get software/files onto your real CP/M machine from your PC using a NULL Modem cable, a CP/M Terminal program like MODEM901.COM or IMP.COM, CP/M Emulators and serial server software running on Windows/Linux/Raspberry Pi. He showed that you can also logon to BBSs on the internet using this setup. One of the details that he pointed out is that you definitely need to know what kind of serial port it has.  Does it have a UART chip or is it CP/M SIO software driven?  This information is needed in order to assemble/link a working terminal program for it. CP/M software needs to be re-compiled in a lot of instances to run on the various machines.  Jeff demonstrated  two main ways  to do this.  If you ask, he can provide copies of the SW he used (maybe at our next meeting if you weren’t able to get it at this meeting.)  

VCF SE 4.0 Starts April 2nd!

Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:06
Earl Baugh
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The Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 4.0 is this coming Saturday, April 2nd, 10 AM – 7 PM, and Sunday  10 AM – 7 PM. Full details can be found at: http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ Here’s some recent press the show has received: http://northfulton.com/stories/Vintage-Computer-Festival-returns-to-Roswell,89980? http://www.11alive.com/news/atlanta-tech-edge-3-27-16-show-136/104679906 We hope to see you at the show!