25 Sep
2018
25 Sep
'18
6:59 p.m.
A friend of mine passed away a few days ago, and I am helping his brother
go through boxes of items. He was a research professer at the U of I, but
also spent time at CMU, Stanford and other places.
What I have had a chance to sort today follows, and there will be updates
throughout the week.
VIDEOS:
Tony Warnock- CRAY RESEARCH There are 3 tapes /day. I have 1-15 over 5 days?
Margaret Cahir -Cray Multitasking 6 tapes
John Rollwagen, CRAY- chairman and ceo,business, q and a organizational
changes- 4 tapes most dated 87, 88
also a tape labeled profile composite
TERA MTA report from SDSC 2 from 98, 1 from 99
Cray/ Silicon Graphics- The Power To See
UCA Professional Video Tape Plus- CRAY Applications Video Composite 1986
1600 BPI Perfect Benchmarks tape
A FEW of the Reports...
ACM SIGMETRICS 1994
ACM SIGMETRICS 2000
SPAA ACM 2002
SPAA ACM 2003
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING VOL 1, NUM 1 SPRING 87 through VOL 8, NUM 2,
SUMMER 1994 22 volumes, might be missing a few. they could turn up tomorrow
CRAY -3 Hardware Reference Manual
CRAY Y-MP System Prog Reef Manual
Programmer Ref Manual
Functional Description Manual
CRAY UNICOS LINE EDITOR
I have 4-5 more boxes of books i will not get to tonight. There could be
another 20 boxes or more still there.
I am looking for reasonable offers and good homes. I am not a software guy,
my plate is more than full, and I have no place to store it.
Thanks, Paul
25 Sep
25 Sep
7:04 p.m.
Hi Paul:
I'm very interested in Cray items... primarily manuals / books, not software or
videos; I live in Vancouver, Canada, so shipping won't be super expensive.
From: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, cctech at vax-11.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 6:59:11 PM
Subject: helping to clean out an estate - a lot of CRAY
A friend of mine passed away a few days ago, and I am helping his brother
go through boxes of items. He was a research professer at the U of I, but
also spent time at CMU, Stanford and other places.
What I have had a chance to sort today follows, and there will be updates
throughout the week.
VIDEOS:
Tony Warnock- CRAY RESEARCH There are 3 tapes /day. I have 1-15 over 5 days?
Margaret Cahir -Cray Multitasking 6 tapes
John Rollwagen, CRAY- chairman and ceo,business, q and a organizational
changes- 4 tapes most dated 87, 88
also a tape labeled profile composite
TERA MTA report from SDSC 2 from 98, 1 from 99
Cray/ Silicon Graphics- The Power To See
UCA Professional Video Tape Plus- CRAY Applications Video Composite 1986
1600 BPI Perfect Benchmarks tape
A FEW of the Reports...
ACM SIGMETRICS 1994
ACM SIGMETRICS 2000
SPAA ACM 2002
SPAA ACM 2003
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING VOL 1, NUM 1 SPRING 87 through VOL 8, NUM 2,
SUMMER 1994 22 volumes, might be missing a few. they could turn up tomorrow
CRAY -3 Hardware Reference Manual
CRAY Y-MP System Prog Reef Manual
Programmer Ref Manual
Functional Description Manual
CRAY UNICOS LINE EDITOR
I have 4-5 more boxes of books i will not get to tonight. There could be
another 20 boxes or more still there.
I am looking for reasonable offers and good homes. I am not a software guy,
my plate is more than full, and I have no place to store it.
Thanks, Paul
7:09 p.m.
Hello Paul, I would be willing to take on the task of converting all the
videos to digital format (as high quality as possible) for archive. Could
pay shipping, but then would like to pass on the tapes to someone else.
- Ethan O'Toole
A friend of mine passed away a few days ago, and I am
helping his brother
go through boxes of items. He was a research professer at the U of I, but
also spent time at CMU, Stanford and other places.
What I have had a chance to sort today follows, and there will be updates
throughout the week.
VIDEOS:
Tony Warnock- CRAY RESEARCH There are 3 tapes /day. I have 1-15 over 5 days?
Margaret Cahir -Cray Multitasking 6 tapes
John Rollwagen, CRAY- chairman and ceo,business, q and a organizational
changes- 4 tapes most dated 87, 88
also a tape labeled profile composite
TERA MTA report from SDSC 2 from 98, 1 from 99
Cray/ Silicon Graphics- The Power To See
UCA Professional Video Tape Plus- CRAY Applications Video Composite 1986
1600 BPI Perfect Benchmarks tape
A FEW of the Reports...
ACM SIGMETRICS 1994
ACM SIGMETRICS 2000
SPAA ACM 2002
SPAA ACM 2003
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING VOL 1, NUM 1 SPRING 87 through VOL 8, NUM 2,
SUMMER 1994 22 volumes, might be missing a few. they could turn up tomorrow
CRAY -3 Hardware Reference Manual
CRAY Y-MP System Prog Reef Manual
Programmer Ref Manual
Functional Description Manual
CRAY UNICOS LINE EDITOR
I have 4-5 more boxes of books i will not get to tonight. There could be
another 20 boxes or more still there.
I am looking for reasonable offers and good homes. I am not a software guy,
my plate is more than full, and I have no place to store it.
Thanks, Paul
--
: Ethan O'Toole
27 Sep
27 Sep
9:01 a.m.
On 09/25/2018 08:09 PM, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
Hello Paul, I would be willing to take on the task of
converting all the
videos to digital format (as high quality as possible) for archive.
Could pay shipping, but then would like to pass on the tapes to someone
else.
I encourage this and I'll contribute to the cause of digitizing and
archiving to make things available to others. (Email me directly when
the time comes.)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
11:01 p.m.
Here is the update:
When I returned from VCFMW, I took my time emptying my minivan. It was
mostly empty empty when I learned of my friends death. A mutual friend put
me in touch with his brother because I was interested in some photography
equipment he had talked about selling me earlier.
When I got there and he found out I was into computers, I offered to buy
items from him. I have removed THREE vans loads, and I probably have THREE
MORE to go. I sort (computer/non-computer) and load all afternoon, unload
and sort all night. I have sorted boxes of CRAY, all kinds of conference
and trade show material, monthly, quarterly, etc periodicals, and 10 or so
boxes fill of memos, research papers, sales literature, benchmarks, and
grant proposals. There are papers, etc. there from most major universities,
government agencies including Aragon natl labs, Los Alomos, CERN, ETC.
Basically, it could take months to go through everything. I would like to
got the CRAY items that I have found so far ( I look through all the boxes,
but might have missed some) which are now about 40 three ring binders and 4
boxes of packets and small items first. Also the periodicals that are
sorted would be nice to get out of my way. The more you want, the quicker I
can get it processed. Smaller lots might take longer. Feel free to ask
questions or make requests. I'm sorting as quickly as I can.
I appreciate the multiple offers to digitize the tapes. I will try to get
back to everyone next week. Maybe split the load? Looking for ideas here.
My only rule is both museums get a copy and post it for public use. I do
have a few requests for some of the original tapes.
Thanks, Paul
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:59 PM Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
A friend of mine passed away a few days ago, and I am
helping his brother
go through boxes of items. He was a research professer at the U of I, but
also spent time at CMU, Stanford and other places.
What I have had a chance to sort today follows, and there will be updates
throughout the week.
VIDEOS:
Tony Warnock- CRAY RESEARCH There are 3 tapes /day. I have 1-15 over 5
days?
Margaret Cahir -Cray Multitasking 6 tapes
John Rollwagen, CRAY- chairman and ceo,business, q and a organizational
changes- 4 tapes most dated 87, 88
also a tape labeled profile composite
TERA MTA report from SDSC 2 from 98, 1 from 99
Cray/ Silicon Graphics- The Power To See
UCA Professional Video Tape Plus- CRAY Applications Video Composite 1986
1600 BPI Perfect Benchmarks tape
A FEW of the Reports...
ACM SIGMETRICS 1994
ACM SIGMETRICS 2000
SPAA ACM 2002
SPAA ACM 2003
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING VOL 1, NUM 1 SPRING 87 through VOL 8, NUM 2,
SUMMER 1994 22 volumes, might be missing a few. they could turn up tomorrow
CRAY -3 Hardware Reference Manual
CRAY Y-MP System Prog Reef Manual
Programmer Ref Manual
Functional Description Manual
CRAY UNICOS LINE EDITOR
I have 4-5 more boxes of books i will not get to tonight. There could be
another 20 boxes or more still there.
I am looking for reasonable offers and good homes. I am not a software
guy, my plate is more than full, and I have no place to store it.
Thanks, Paul
28 Sep
28 Sep
8:13 a.m.
I appreciate the multiple offers to digitize the
tapes. I will try to get
back to everyone next week. Maybe split the load? Looking for ideas here.
My only rule is both museums get a copy and post it for public use. I do
have a few requests for some of the original tapes.
I was one of the people that offered. I have pro decks, Composite + SDI
converter, audio processors for volume maximization on spoken content, and
a Blackmagic ATEM system for SDI to H264 conversion. Colo host and 60TB of
disk at home, along with a 500TB LTO-5 library.
My goal is just to digitize the tapes, get the files to whomever wants
them (plus archive.org), and then the tapes go to some collector that
wants to hold onto the originals. I don't have physical room to store the
tapes long term.
I have archived a lot of laser show content recently that is digital data
stored on 3/4" umatic, Beta, and SVHS ADAT format. I've found that pro
tapes have help up well but consumer tapes less so.
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: Ethan O'Toole
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