1 May
2019
1 May
'19
1:10 p.m.
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast. They were hosted by the new location of the Computer
Museum of America, not yet open to the public. The show was a solid
representation of the hobby, with a wide range of micros, minis and
workstations as well as a few calculators and computing ephemera. On
the museum side, I've never seen so many Crays in once place - and
they're not even done yet!
Here is my photo set: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aiKGadREX511xeUt5
(contains computers, computer collectors and one giant rabbit)
Big thanks to Earl and the gang for putting on another great VCF and
showing me that southern hospitality.
More VCF Midwest news coming soon!
-j
1 May
1 May
1:57 p.m.
Cute bunny rabbit!!!
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 4:11 PM Jason T via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to
Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast. They were hosted by the new location of the Computer
Museum of America, not yet open to the public. The show was a solid
representation of the hobby, with a wide range of micros, minis and
workstations as well as a few calculators and computing ephemera. On
the museum side, I've never seen so many Crays in once place - and
they're not even done yet!
Here is my photo set: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aiKGadREX511xeUt5
(contains computers, computer collectors and one giant rabbit)
Big thanks to Earl and the gang for putting on another great VCF and
showing me that southern hospitality.
More VCF Midwest news coming soon!
-j
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2:10 p.m.
Here is my photo set:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aiKGadREX511xeUt5
(contains computers, computer collectors and one giant rabbit)
What is that wonderfully evil looking computer halfway down the pictures with all the red
blinkin LEDs? That would make a wonderful centerpiece to an evil lair!
I am guessing a Cray XMP of some sorts but that is just a wild guess....
-Ali
p.s. Wonderful pics! Next time in Atlanta will hopefully be after the opening and I can
visit...
2:20 p.m.
What is that
wonderfully evil looking computer halfway down the
pictures with all the red blinkin LEDs? That would make a wonderful
centerpiece to an evil lair!
I didn't realize they had a Connection Machine. And apparently it at
least powers up? Neat! 
2:20 p.m.
On 1 May 2019, at 21:10, Jason T via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast. They were hosted by the new location of the Computer
Museum of America, not yet open to the public. The show was a solid
representation of the hobby, with a wide range of micros, minis and
workstations as well as a few calculators and computing ephemera. On
the museum side, I've never seen so many Crays in once place - and
they're not even done yet!
Here is my photo set: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aiKGadREX511xeUt5
(contains computers, computer collectors and one giant rabbit)
Big thanks to Earl and the gang for putting on another great VCF and
showing me that southern hospitality.
Oh wow, a Thinking Machines CM-3 running?! That plus the PDP-12/PDP-15, aw man. Excellent
set of pics Jason, cheers!
--
adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
2:37 p.m.
On 1 May 2019, at 21:10, Jason T via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast. They were hosted by the new location of the Computer
Museum of America, not yet open to the public. The show was a solid
representation of the hobby, with a wide range of micros, minis and
workstations as well as a few calculators and computing ephemera. On
the museum side, I've never seen so many Crays in once place - and
they're not even done yet!
If you haven't visited Dave McGuire's Large Scale Systems Museum in New
Kensington PA yet, it's well worth a stop. Not QUITE as many Crays, but a
host (pun intended) of DEC, IBM, Sun, SGI, HP and other big iron, many of
which are in operating condition. Plus, a second floor of microcomputers, and
a third floor of workstations coming soon.
https://www.facebook.com/lssmuseum/
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
2:42 p.m.
It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 -
is most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes.
That particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes.
The other 6 are empty. I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors
was ever actually sold to a real customer.
The CM-2 in the photo has faux LED panels installed with LEDs spacing
that exactly matches the real CPU card stacks. Each of the 4096 LEDs
are individually PWM'd and addressable. The blinky pattern is generated
by a ESP32 which can also be WiFi and BT controlled. Only pulls about
100 Watts with that pattern running.
The machine in the original Jurassic Park was a 're-arranged' CM-5.
-Alan
On 2019-05-01 17:20, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
Oh wow, a Thinking Machines CM-3 running?! That plus the
PDP-12/PDP-15, aw man. Excellent set of pics Jason, cheers!
2:56 p.m.
It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside
not working in 2019 -
is most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes.
Most were 16K machines, I think.
The CM-2 in the photo has faux LED panels installed
with LEDs spacing
that exactly matches the real CPU card stacks. Each of the 4096 LEDs
are individually PWM'd and addressable. The blinky pattern is generated
by a ESP32 which can also be WiFi and BT controlled. Only pulls about
100 Watts with that pattern running.
CM-5 panels are their own things, and can be powered up without any
processors. They have a bunch of preset modes, two of which dance the
LEDs in a psuedorandom way to impress people when the machine is not
doing anything.
The machine in the original Jurassic Park was a
're-arranged' CM-5.
It was not even a real machine! Just panels bolted onto unused frames
(no serial numbers), with some power supplies bolted inside. If you
look at the film closely, you will also see that the panels are a bit
"dim". Every other row or so was masked with black gaffers tape.
Apparently there is such a thing as too many blinkenlights.
One of the Jurassic Park CM-5 frames holds Dave Fischer's stuff at
cca.org. It used to be mine, but I had no use for the thing.
--
Will
3:18 p.m.
On 1 May 2019, at 22:42, alan--- via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 - is most were
never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes. That particular machine only
has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The other 6 are empty. I'm not sure a
machine with max 64K processors was ever actually sold to a real customer.
Oh.
The CM-2 in the photo has faux LED panels installed
with LEDs spacing that exactly matches the real CPU card stacks. Each of the 4096 LEDs
are individually PWM'd and addressable. The blinky pattern is generated by a ESP32
which can also be WiFi and BT controlled. Only pulls about 100 Watts with that pattern
running.
I suppose in this day and age that?s all I need to see since the machine itself would be,
as William says, fantastically useless. I was definitely swooned by the marketing shots
back in the day though.
--
adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
10:11 p.m.
New subject: VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines
It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside
not working in 2019 - is
most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes. That
particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The other 6
are empty. I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was ever actually
sold to a real customer.
Years ago in my SGI collecting days the Connection Machine 5 was high on
my list. I never found one, and that seems good since the one at the NSA
museum is huge. I don't even know if it would fit into a normal dock
height Penske truck.
Any idea how many are out there in the collector sphere?
I know the NSA museum has CM-5
I know the Mountain View museum has a CM-2
Apparently the GA Museum has a CM-2
I saw a CM-5 system that ... was very small footprint on a work trip to a
datacenter. It didn't have the LED panels visible through the front or
anything, and it was pretty small. Like maybe just a fraction of a system
in a box doing some processing. They talked as if it was running jobs of
some sort but it might end up at auction (I didn't persue since it didn't
really look like a CM2/CM5.)
I had a MASPAR MP-2 at one point but sold it to someone in Florida to free
up some space.
Very cool to see some of these being preserved.
--
: Ethan O'Toole
3 May
3 May
11:02 a.m.
New subject: VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines
> It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s -
aside not working in 2019 - is most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8
hyper-cubes. That particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The
other 6 are empty. I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was ever actually
sold to a real customer.
Very cool to see some of these being preserved.
Is there any documentation still around? I did a quick check on bitsavers, but couldn?t
find any? was I looking in the wrong place?
1:26 p.m.
New subject: VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines
On 5/3/19 8:02 PM, Sytse van Slooten via cctalk wrote:
Here is some documentation:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/
Also there are a couple of documents on archive.org like the CM chip
specification:
https://archive.org/details/06Kahle001103
- Jan
> It's a
CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 - is most were never fully
populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes. That particular machine only has card
cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The other 6 are empty. I'm not sure a machine with
max 64K processors was ever actually sold to a real customer.
Very cool to see some of these being preserved.
Is there any documentation still around? I did a quick check on bitsavers, but couldn?t
find any? was I looking in the wrong place?
7 May
7 May
1:10 p.m.
New subject: VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines
Thanks! Had a good bit of fun reading that.
I?m not going to try building an FPGA version though. Not yet.
On 3 May 2019, at 22:26, Jan Adelsbach via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/3/19 8:02 PM, Sytse van Slooten via cctalk wrote:
Is there any documentation still around? I did a quick check on bitsavers, but
couldn?t find any? was I looking in the wrong place?
Here is some documentation:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/
Also there are a couple of documents on archive.org like the CM chip specification:
https://archive.org/details/06Kahle001103
- Jan
It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside
not working in 2019 - is most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8
hyper-cubes. That particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The
other 6 are empty. I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was ever actually
sold to a real customer.
Very cool to see some of these being preserved.
1 May
1 May
2:46 p.m.
Few more photos here:
https://www.atlhcs.org/photos-from-vintage-computer-festival-southeast-7-0/
-Alan
On 2019-05-01 16:10, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to
Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast.
10:05 p.m.
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to
Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast. They were hosted by the new location of the Computer
Museum of America, not yet open to the public. The show was a solid
representation of the hobby, with a wide range of micros, minis and
workstations as well as a few calculators and computing ephemera. On
the museum side, I've never seen so many Crays in once place - and
they're not even done yet!
Wow! Now that is a museum -- holy crap. I've never seen so many Cray
bits in one spot. Reminds me of a personal collection of a guy I chatted
with some time ago.
Most impressive! And also, the Thinking Machines CM-2! Very few CM systems
out there. It used to be on my list -- thank goodness I never got one
after seeing the CM-5 at the NSA Cryptographic museum.
Very cool!
--
: Ethan O'Toole
3 May
3 May
1:32 a.m.
Very nice photos although I am confused by some. Some of them appear to
be moving but a lot of stuff stays still. What is happening??
This one for example:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMxQT03fXAj3rZSF8jUm5IrLnmLnVYTTP_hgiN…
Aaron
On 1 May 2019 at 21:10 BST, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
Last weekend I made an unannounced visit out to
Roswell, GA to visit
our brothers-and-sisters-in-hoarding at the Vintage Computer Festival
Southeast. They were hosted by the new location of the Computer
Museum of America, not yet open to the public. The show was a solid
representation of the hobby, with a wide range of micros, minis and
workstations as well as a few calculators and computing ephemera. On
the museum side, I've never seen so many Crays in once place - and
they're not even done yet!
Here is my photo set: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aiKGadREX511xeUt5
(contains computers, computer collectors and one giant rabbit)
Big thanks to Earl and the gang for putting on another great VCF and
showing me that southern hospitality.
More VCF Midwest news coming soon!
-j
--
Aaron Jackson, Research Associate
Computer Vision Lab, University of Nottingham
http://aaronsplace.co.uk
4:21 a.m.
On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 10:41, Aaron Jackson via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Very nice photos although I am confused by some. Some of them appear to
be moving but a lot of stuff stays still. What is happening??
Please bottom-post on the list.
It looks to me like an Apple "live photo".
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4 May
4 May
6:59 p.m.
On Fri, May 3, 2019, 06:21 Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
It looks to me like an Apple "live photo".
Google/Android's version of the same. In a couple cases (like the CM's LED
panels) I used it intentionally to capture motion. In others, I had
forgotten to shut it off :(
I can/should go back and save stills out of the motion clips for those
where I didn't intend to use it.
j
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