[cctalk] Vintage Computer Festival 6 talks recovered!

[Jeffrey Brace via cctalk]

It's been 20 years now since VCF 6.
VCF 6 took place October 11-12th, 2003 at the Computer History Museum

The web page for that event is:
https://vcfed.org/events/archives-show-summaries/vcf-west-archives/vcf-west-6-0/

Due to the extraordinary efforts of Kay Savetz, Clay Cowgill, and Josh
Malone over the past two years, some of the talks from Vintage Computer
Festival 6 have been recovered!

The recordings were in very poor condition and took extreme measures to
recover. The audio is often not good. Sometimes it is very bad. But this is
the best that they could do from very bad recordings.

C. H. Ting, Jef Raskin, John Ellenby, and Gary Starkweather are dead now,
so these are voices from those who passed.

They have the audio of the five recoverable sessions from VCF 2003 up at
Internet Archive.

Len Shustek – Computer History Museum
https://archive.org/details/len-shustek-computer-history-museum

Bruce Damer – The Joys and Trials of Computer Collecting
https://archive.org/details/bruce-damer-computer-collecting

David Jaffe / C. H. Ting / Kevin Appert / Dwight Elvey – Forth
https://archive.org/details/vcf2003_forth

Jef Raskin – Apple and the Humane Environment
https://archive.org/details/vcf2003_jef-raskin

John Ellenby / Gary Starkweather / Dave Robson / Peter Deutsch / Charles
Simonyi – Xerox Alto panel
https://archive.org/details/xerox-alto-panel


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: IBM .BOO format

[David Schmidt via cctalk]

I ran the Windows reader over the  f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't 
as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet 
Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support (everything in 
my PDF was basically Courier), and most tables were broken in both (even the 
old IBM one).  So if you want to make the f29bdg00.boo file available I can at 
least get a Courier version of it back to you.

Related to IBM CUA/Workplace Shell stuff... I do have a demonstration floppy 
around here somewhere of early CUA ideas that IBM put out BITD, if that's part 
of the itch you're trying to scratch.)

- David

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

[Liam Proven via cctalk]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 18:48, David Schmidt via cctalk
 wrote:
>
> I have it running in a Windows NT VM, and it prints to PDF using BullZip
> just fine.  Do you want to point to the library you want to convert, and
> I can run this over them?

Thank you!

I found one on the Internet Archive already -- it's here:

https://archive.org/details/sc34-4399-00

This is:
f29al000.boo

The one I haven't found yet is:
f29bdg00.boo

I have a local copy but I did not record where I got it... >_<

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