That's my pet project at this point.
We are having some issues with the space so it will probably (hopefully) open as
appointment-only early next year.
The idea is to find trustworthy people who we can give access to the space to so they can
see projects thru from end-to-end on these systems- learn the development environments,
etc.
We do not intend to overlap with a big, professional museum like CHM or LCM. Rather think
of this as a kind of a maker-space for old systems; There is a lot of interest in Seattle-
largely people from the software industry- who would love to code something on a real PDP
11, Symbolics or a Xerox or a 3B2 / BLIT, but aren't equipped to handle care and
feeding of these sorts of machines.
We also hope to set up reasonable networking and remote access for systems where it is
possible so that people can continue to write software and reverse engineer things from
home, but also visit the machines whenever they need or want to.
It's a pretty crappy little basement but better than nothing, we will see what
happens.
Perhaps it was premature to spin up the Twitter, we have a ways to go but are slowly
making progress.
Cheers-
- Ian
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 8, 2015, at 11:23, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 10/8/15 11:18 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 10/8/15 10:07 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
If Al decides these sorts of images belong on bitsavers, I'll go on a full-on imaging
spree and work to improve my information hygiene.
yes, that is the plan. I received one this week as well that I was going to put into an
1186 to make some Koto/Lyric/Medley fresh system images.
I also see there's a computer museum coming to Capitol Hill
https://twitter.com/retrocompsea