[cctalk] New Dates for VCF East 2024: April 12, 13, 14

[Jeffrey Brace via cctalk]

We have decided to move VCF East to April 12, 13 & 14. There was a
significant number of people that were traveling to see the solar eclipse,
which takes place on April 8 in the United States. If we didn't move the
date, then attendance would have been impacted significantly. Those dates
are available at InfoAge and are now reserved.

More details will be coming soon:
* Consignment moving to a new more spacious location
* Possible on-site food cooking
* Discount hotel blocks
* More great speakers
* Plus more!

The themes this year:
1) The Rise of the GUI
2) Computer Art

Thanks!

Jeff Brace
VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President
Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner
VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
https://vcfed.org/ 

[cctalk] Re: Datapoint 2200 simulator - looking for more software.

[Curious Marc via cctalk]

Awesome!
Marc

> On Dec 3, 2023, at 4:00 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have an ongoing project to restore a Datapoint 2200 version II and in the
> process of doing so I created a small simulator for it to understand it
> better. The simulator is now in the condition that it runs the cassettes
> that I try on it quite well.
> 
> The simulator compiles on Macos and Linux.
> https://github.com/MattisLind/DP2200
> 
> A short movie clip when it is running:
> https://youtu.be/XfsMBhP13ww?si=CHpFKe8eecWjdxDC
> 
> Having a simulator for a 2200 if there is no software around is no point.
> There are some tapes on bitsavers.org and a couple of other collectors do
> have cassettes that can be read.
> 
> But is there anyone else out there that is sitting on tapes for a Datapoint
> 2200 (or 5500, 6000, 6600)?
> 
> Tapes can be read on a normal mono audio cassette tape recorder and fed
> into a PC which samples the signal, preferably at 44100 kHz with 16 bit
> resolution. It is important to not overdrive the input of the computer so
> that the signal becomes a square wave.
> 
> /Mattis