14 Jun
2013
14 Jun
'13
11:29 p.m.
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am not sure it has been
mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If someone is
around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual museum should
try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
14 Jun
14 Jun
11:40 p.m.
On 6/14/2013 8:29 PM, mc68010 wrote:
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am not
sure it has been
mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If someone is
around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual museum should
try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
Before people jump all over me I see now it is an actual museum. The
message made it seem like some city hall basement. Still cool pictures
though.
4:45 p.m.
On 06/15/2013 05:29 AM, mc68010 wrote:
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am not
sure it has been
mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If someone is
around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual museum should
try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
Nice to se a Cray-1 exhibit that has kept the Eclipse front end :)
/P
6:09 p.m.
New subject: Data General AViiON keyboard key cap needed
I dropped a book on my AViiON keyboard and snapped off the "/" key on
the keypad. No huge loss obviously but, it is annoying with the empty
space there. I figured DG probably bought the keyboards from a keyboard
manufacturer with a custom layout. Even uses a PC AT style connector. I
took a good keycap off and it doesn't look like one I've seen before.
The rubber dome goes between the key and the keyswitch. Anyone seen this
type of keyboard before and know which PC's may have come with them ?
Better yet have a compatible key ? I don't even really care that it is a
"/" just something to plug that ugly hole.
Here are some pics: http://imgur.com/a/cP8DI
16 Jun
16 Jun
4:14 p.m.
New subject: Data General AViiON keyboard key cap needed
I dropped a book on my AViiON keyboard and snapped off the "/" key on
the keypad. No huge loss obviously but, it is annoying with the empty
space there. I figured DG probably bought the keyboards from a keyboard
manufacturer with a custom layout. Even uses a PC AT style connector. I
took a good keycap off and it doesn't look like one I've seen before.
The rubber dome goes between the key and the keyswitch. Anyone seen this
type of keyboard before and know which PC's may have come with them ?
Better yet have a compatible key ? I don't even really care that it is a
"/" just something to plug that ugly hole.
Which part is broken? The keyswitch or the keycap. With a lot of
keyboards (it doens't sound like this is one of them) the keycap fits
over a thin tab o nthe switch actuator. Noramlly the tab breaks if
there's a mishap. With care you can extract the remains of the tab fro
mthe step of the keycap and only have to find a keyswitch (which may be
easier than finding the right keyvap as well).
I have seen a keyboard wit hthe rubber domes on top of the chassis, but I
can't for the life of me rememebr where. If it comes to me, I will let
you know.
As an aside, I once dropped a heavy soldering station (turned off...) on a
TRS-80 Mdoel 3 keyboard. The keyswichest and caps all survived, but the
impact bent the metal frame (not too much a of a problem) and one of the
support pillars in the computer case punched a nice (!) hole through the
SRBP PCB. I had to add a lot of jumper wires to get that one going again.
-tony
15 Jun
15 Jun
6:18 p.m.
On 6/14/2013 8:29 PM, mc68010 wrote:
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am not
sure it has been
mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If someone is
around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual museum should
try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
any idea why this was on a "rescue list"?
s2
6:31 p.m.
On 6/15/2013 3:18 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
On 6/14/2013 8:29 PM, mc68010 wrote:
One of the list members got a tour or something. His description of them
turning on the lights and city run is what made me think it was just a
basement somewhere at city hall or something. Google tells me it is not
although its not really a computer museum. Here's the original message:
I was in Eau Claire WI today with my friend Stuart, who is a former Cray
employee, so we tracked down the "Cray Museum" exhibit in Chippewa Falls.
It's now run by the city of Chippewa Falls, and along with the Cray stuff
has exhibits on Leinenkugels beer and Mason shoes.
The place was very laid back - they turned on the lights and let us loose
by ourselves. I asked if pictures were OK, and they said "Sure!" so
here's a link to a Flickr set of what we saw:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjG5d8XG
I figured this crew might enjoy them.
There was more (but not much more) including Seymour's plain Steelcase
desk, examples of the circuit diagrams that were done by hand in colored
pencil on graph paper, and the different patent grants, etc.
All in all a great trip. I came home with a nice Mac G5 Quad tower -
which was the point of the trip - so it was a good day
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am
not sure it has been
mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If someone is
around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual museum
should try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
any idea why this was on a "rescue list"?
s2 
7:28 p.m.
New subject: [cctalk] Re: Cray Exhibit in Chippewa Falls WI
On 06/15/2013 06:31 PM, mc68010 wrote:
One of the list members got a tour or something. His
description of them
turning on the lights and city run is what made me think it was just a
basement somewhere at city hall or something. Google tells me it is not
although its not really a computer museum. Here's the original message:
I was in Eau Claire WI today with my friend Stuart, who is a former Cray
employee, so we tracked down the "Cray Museum" exhibit in Chippewa Falls.
It's now run by the city of Chippewa Falls, and along with the Cray stuff
has exhibits on Leinenkugels beer and Mason shoes.
The place was very laid back - they turned on the lights and let us loose
by ourselves. I asked if pictures were OK, and they said "Sure!" so
here's a link to a Flickr set of what we saw:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjG5d8XG
I figured this crew might enjoy them.
There was more (but not much more) including Seymour's plain Steelcase
desk, examples of the circuit diagrams that were done by hand in colored
pencil on graph paper, and the different patent grants, etc.
All in all a great trip. I came home with a nice Mac G5 Quad tower -
which was the point of the trip - so it was a good day
Great pics, thanks for sharing them. I'd love to head up there someday!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
8:05 p.m.
New subject: [cctalk] Re: Cray Exhibit in Chippewa Falls WI
On 6/15/2013 4:28 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/15/2013 06:31 PM, mc68010 wrote:
Yes! with enlightenment comes desires and goals :)
s2
One of the list members got a tour or something.
His description of them
turning on the lights and city run is what made me think it was just a
basement somewhere at city hall or something. Google tells me it is not
although its not really a computer museum. Here's the original message:
I was in Eau Claire WI today with my friend Stuart, who is a former Cray
employee, so we tracked down the "Cray Museum" exhibit in Chippewa
Falls.
It's now run by the city of Chippewa Falls, and along with the Cray
stuff
has exhibits on Leinenkugels beer and Mason shoes.
The place was very laid back - they turned on the lights and let us
loose
by ourselves. I asked if pictures were OK, and they said "Sure!" so
here's a link to a Flickr set of what we saw:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjG5d8XG
I figured this crew might enjoy them.
There was more (but not much more) including Seymour's plain Steelcase
desk, examples of the circuit diagrams that were done by hand in colored
pencil on graph paper, and the different patent grants, etc.
All in all a great trip. I came home with a nice Mac G5 Quad tower -
which was the point of the trip - so it was a good day
Great pics, thanks for sharing them. I'd love to head up there
someday!
-Dave
8:03 p.m.
On 6/15/2013 3:31 PM, mc68010 wrote:
On 6/15/2013 3:18 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
ahhh *now* I understand. I saw the follow-on msg but didn't really
add it up... my apologies for being a little slow today :(
s2
On 6/14/2013 8:29 PM, mc68010 wrote:
One of the list members got a tour or something. His description of
them turning on the lights and city run is what made me think it was
just a basement somewhere at city hall or something. Google tells me
it is not although its not really a computer museum. Here's the
original message:
I was in Eau Claire WI today with my friend Stuart, who is a former Cray
employee, so we tracked down the "Cray Museum" exhibit in Chippewa Falls.
It's now run by the city of Chippewa Falls, and along with the Cray stuff
has exhibits on Leinenkugels beer and Mason shoes.
The place was very laid back - they turned on the lights and let us loose
by ourselves. I asked if pictures were OK, and they said "Sure!" so
here's a link to a Flickr set of what we saw:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjG5d8XG
I figured this crew might enjoy them.
There was more (but not much more) including Seymour's plain Steelcase
desk, examples of the circuit diagrams that were done by hand in colored
pencil on graph paper, and the different patent grants, etc.
All in all a great trip. I came home with a nice Mac G5 Quad tower -
which was the point of the trip - so it was a good day
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am
not sure it has
been mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If
someone is around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual
museum should try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
any idea why this was on a "rescue list"?
s2
8:57 p.m.
New subject: [cctalk] Re: Cray Exhibit in Chippewa Falls WI
On 06/15/2013 08:03 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
ahhh *now* I understand. I saw the follow-on msg
but didn't really
add it up... my apologies for being a little slow today :(
You sound like you drank what I drank last night. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
17 Jun
17 Jun
4:31 p.m.
At 05:31 PM 6/15/2013, mc68010 wrote:
One of the list members got a tour or something. His
description of them turning on the lights and city run is what made me think it was just a
basement somewhere at city hall or something.
Not in a basement.
<http://www.cfmit.org/>http://www.cfmit.org/
http://goo.gl/maps/8j80T
- John
15 Jun
15 Jun
6:31 p.m.
On 06/15/2013 06:18 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
On 6/14/2013 8:29 PM, mc68010 wrote:
Sounds to me like someone jumped the gun and decided * for themselves *
that the equipment needed rescuing, even though it's fine and safe.
This was just posted to the rescue list and I am
not sure it has been
mentioned here before but, they have a nice Cray setup If someone is
around to turn on the lights for you anyway. Some actual museum should
try and grab this gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatle/sets/72157634133969978/
any idea why this was on a "rescue list"?
s2
7:06 p.m.
On 6/15/2013 3:31 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Sounds to me like someone jumped the gun and decided * for themselves
* that the equipment needed rescuing, even though it's fine and safe.
Someone that posted 2 minutes later that it was a museum and to never
mind but, I guess you missed that message somehow.
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