15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
12:45 a.m.
The west lab was restricted. You went down to the focault area and
headed west,
around the corner, to the far west end of the building, past the
classrooms.
the door at the end of the hall was the west lab, Containing a real
PDP-8,
the pdp-11/45 (rsts), and a bunch of other goodies. Gamatron irraditor,
liquid
nitrogen, lasers, tons of chemicals, a great collection of electronic
junk and
a bunch of student projects. Had a desk in there for a year or so. Up in
a closet, I located that little gem. Played with it for months.
Wish I still had my old OMSI software teeshirt. Rusty Whitney and Dan
fouts?
ran the place. Terror: the time I plugged in a he-ne laser and it
shorted the
220 and 110 mains. It blew up the swap drum on the 8.
healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
Gee, I had so much fun with that thing. OMSI had
one, I once tried to
build a very simple serial computer with the thing. With 8 JK-FF, it's
really difficult. This was back in 73 at the west lab. I have to agree,
$250 is quite a bit. Loved the wood case and the high quality
construction.
Hello to Jim Willing and Gary Oliver.
Jim Davis.
How could OMSI have sunk this low? I never was aware of any of this when I
was growing up and visiting there in the 70's and 80's. However, you go
there now and they just don't have any cool exhibits like they used to.
What I would really love to find is a Graphical version of "Hunt the Wumpus"
like they had. That was a really simple game, but really cool. I'd
probably write it myself if I could remember enough about how it went.
Zane