20 Aug
2012
20 Aug
'12
1:31 a.m.
It's just occurred to me that when you have a running system maybe what it
is doing is as important as the fact that it runs. This together with a few
recent remarks about registering classic systems and the existence of HECNet
gives me an idea.
Regards
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Rod Smallwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 17 August 2012 20:25
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: To all with interest in preservation
I completely agree. Seeing and hearing a Spitfire
flying around above
you adds a whole new dimension to seeing a stationary Spitfire in a
museum. Recently I went with two of my sons to see the exhibition "Three
tons of minicomputers - 40 years with computers in the service of
Uppsala University". Both of them are very good programmers and
interested in computing, and they found the exhibition very interesting.
However, if the exhibits had been running, and they could have heard a
line printer or an ASR-33 printing, seen and heard a disk pack seeking,
seen the blinkenlights etc, it would have given them a much better idea
of what computing was like 40 years ago. That wasn't possible as the
exhibition was only a temporary one, but had it been permanent, I
I don't get that. Assuming the ART33 was maintained in running condtion,
that the lubrication points had bee attended to, etc, it doesn't take
much to set it up in a temporaray location and run it at least in local
mode. Ditto for most minicomputers. I've taken such things to talks that
I've given and have powered them up and run them during said talk. And
you don't get much more 'temporary; than that...
-tony