Seems we have a few different thread going:
So lets split it into two:
Topics dealing with Vintage Computers Committee (including the museum display as that’s VCC space) into its own thread with emulation, software and hardware under its own for ICM. Feel free to expand the acronyms to their actual titles.
oh my gods… that is hacktastic!! We got to see that in person.
I think we should actually have an event where the group picks a vintage computer and using the same ideas and emulation in your project build an working model of that computer
After a few of them are made then we could even open it up as a class as part of the STEM pilot program.
NOT my project. I purchased one from the gentleman who created it.
Are ya’ll aware of the North Dallas Area Retro Computing that has met at DMS several times …
I’ve heard of it and talked a bit with @mrcity about it. But I never see anything up on the calendar. Would be interesting to work together as a group.
Dwight, I’ve started selecting posts to move out to the new thread a few times; and, there is some overlap when taking your suggestions… I’ll come out to the 'Space tonight and work with you on how best to manage (split up) the posts into applicable Vintage Computers Committee (VCC) thread(s) and Interactive Computer Museum (ICM) thread(s).
Sounds good. I’ll be here around the classrooms or in commons working on a few things.
I found a couple of interesting things on the Freebie Shelf recently.
A paper tape reader. Unfortunately, I do not have any paper tape to try to read.
Volume One of the Dr Dobbs Journal reprints. I think I may already have a copy of that one - if so, VCC can have this one.
Thanks Bill. I’ll be able to swing by the space on Tuesday if you want to sync up on this unless one of the other members of VCC would like to take care of this one before then?
No hurry, I have both items in my possession.
Hey Dwight…
I was looking at the proposed Vintage Computer Committee wiki page, and noticed that you have a meeting tentatively set for November 30th (it’s not on the calendar yet, though…).
With the board meeting to appoint Committee Chairpersons coming up this month, it might be a good idea to hold a meeting prior to the board meeting so we can ‘vote’ on a Chair and offer an official recommendation during the October board meeting ( https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Meeting_20161021 ). It can be a fairly brief meeting - just to vote in a chairperson, since it looks like you plan on having a full fledged meeting in November.
It would also be a good idea to put an agenda item on the upcoming board meeting to request the proposed Vintage Computer Committee become an active one, as Brandon suggested - since we do have enough members to get things rolling.
I’m going through the posts and calendar right now to see what dates/times the rest of the meetings are - so I can post the info in the thread about voting for committee chairs prior to October 21st ( https://talk.dallasmakerspace.org/t/committees-need-to-have-meetings-before-october-21st/12945 ). There are already a handful of overlapping meetings, which is a shame. Hopefully we (VCC) can have a meeting at a time that’s not going to overlap any other committee meetings. 
Thanks!
As long as we don’t all have to meet in the committee space… haha
I think we need enough room for a working computer and shelves above and behind that … so a least a workspace and chair …
@mrcity was kind enough to post to about the meeting in the new Vintage Computer topic.
We are meeting at the National Videogame Museum this Saturday, 3:00 pm-6:00 pm. We all need to buy tickets for the museum, but then can enjoy the museum all day, as well as attend the meetup.
Please come and visit. If you have a vintage computer system you would like to bring for show and tell, by all means please do. If so, bring a power strip, just in case. Tables will be provided. Also, if you plan to come, please either post in the thread started by @mrcity, so I can have some idea how much pizza to order. If you are planning to bring a computer, give us a hint as well.
It’s great to see interest in vintage computers at the makerspace.
This Atariage group the focal point for all 99/4A activities. Amazingly, still lots of new development taking place, both hardware and software.
Thanks @dave. I’ll be bringing both my sinclair zx81 (timex model) and the raspberry pi “version”.
We’ll soon have a PDP-11 up in the datacenter followed by a MicroVAX, and a Plan9 386 node to show off.
The Meeting Agenda is up on the wiki for October with the meeting scheduled on 10/14 at 6:30pm in the Purple Classroom. (should be live in the calendar soon). Please speak up if this will not work for any of the members then we’ll reconvene no later than the following Tuesday evening.
Sweet. Any chance you might come to the upcoming meetup and bring it with you? If not, next meetup will be back in the DMS interactive classroom, Probably in January or February.