18 Oct
2022
18 Oct
'22
4:21 p.m.
I went to the Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA (USA) a few
weeks ago. I've never seen such a large collection outside of the CHM in
Mountain View, CA (USA) but I've also only seen three collections haha.
The LSSM's main area was amazing (and most items are operational) but the
systems in their off-site storage area blew my mind...
Dave the curator is an endless well of knowledge, too. I highly recommend a
visit.
=]
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 12:03 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I have seen system source both the museum part and the
warehouse in the
back. The rhode island.museum and warehouse is probably larger. Not that
system source is not substantial.
Bill
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 9:26 AM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I suspect
Jim Austin has one of the largest collections that's publicly
documented...
https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/
.. but many are very private about what they own....
Dave
Indeed! Looking down their list it's quite impressive but I think System
Source has them beat. I don't see a list of systems on the system source
website though so I have to go from memory and what I know.
Not sure how big the collections are behind the scenes at Living Computer
Museum, CHM or that place down in Georgia. And who knows how many other
Computer Reset Warehouses are out there that we don't know about.
--
: Ethan O'Toole