Notes

Whisper quiet compared to a Teletype, I suppose

I got this 3M Whisper Writer 1000 today but it was not able to advance the paper properly. I took it apart and found a cracked plastic piece on the stepper motor, modeled a replacement part, 3D printed it, and it works again.

WHO
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VCF Midwest, Wikipedia Reader, and Subterm

https://jcs.org/2022/09/29/vcfmw

Assembling a laptop on stage as you are demoing it to the crowd feels like something only @FrameworkPuter@twitter.com could get away with now (though @gassee@twitter.com does it without any tools)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlQdWKmPuE

Well, it was this Z-Wave power control thing. When it's connected inline, it causes a buzzing through what I assume is the speaker.

How annoying that I swapped everything except the outlet it was plugged into. It was too loud at VCFMW to hear that it wasn't buzzing.

I've been getting an annoying buzzing from my Mac Plus BBS server for the past few weeks and it sounded like a bad flyback, so I replaced it but it didn't fix the problem. I just swapped CRTs, analog boards, and the logic board but it still buzzed. Any guesses what it was?

Someone walked off with one of my Mac Plus brochures while I was away from my table :(

My networking setup wasn't working here because the 10baseT DaynaPort ethernet adapters wouldn't negotiate with stuff I brought, so luckily someone was selling this janky old VolksNet 10baseT hub that made everything work to get
http://klud.ge back online from VCFMW

I am at @vcfmidwest@twitter.com, stop by and say hi (and take a cyberpals sticker)

Getting the kids all packed up for @vcfmidwest@twitter.com

wait what

It wouldn't be a Wiki without hyperlinks...