Wall Street Journal has an article about Paul Allen's Computer Museum

sad when ur looking for one thing and find something amazing but does not fit inside ur mandate :( hopefully some sweet home is made for the poor machean in aus who ever that farmer is deserves something for taking the time and space to spare it from death On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Rich Alderson<RichA at vulcan.com> wrote: > From: Eric Smith > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:44 PM > > Christian Liendo wrote: >>> Just interesting that that WSJ picked this up >>> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576516552161014410.h… > >> So Mr. Allen didn't want a 7090? That seems rather picky, as they're >> quite similar machines, other than that the 7090 didn't have the extra >> index registers. > > Our focus at the museum is on interactive computing, especially timesharing > mainframe systems and minicomputers. The 7090 is, and can be, neither. We > have a budget, and only spend money to further that mission. > >> "Soldered with silver and gold"? All of them I've seen use normal >> tin-lead solder. I thought silver solder was mostly used for jewelery, >> plumbing, and high-temperature stuff, which wouldn't usually be found in >> computers. I've never heard of gold solder used for anything other than >> jewelery, and wouldn't think it would be useful for computers. > >> Hmmm... a web search does reveal that gold solder is sometimes used for >> soldering gold metalized alumina ceramic plages to gold plated Kovar >> alloy assemblies. I haven't seen that kind of thing in really old >> computers, though. > > You should come visit the Xerox Sigma systems, to see what it looks like > in massive quantity. > > > Rich Alderson > Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer > Vulcan, Inc. > 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 > Seattle, WA 98104 > > mailto:RichA at vulcan.com > mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org > > http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/ > >