21 Apr
2017
21 Apr
'17
3:44 p.m.
Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations
and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a
thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits.
On May 6th, there will be a large block party (actually, several
blocks) here in town, called "New Kensington Better Block", with
street vendors and other standard block party fare. LSSM will be
participating in that event with our post-renovation reopening; we
will be open to the public all day with docents on duty. Many of our
systems will be running and demonstrated throughout the day.
In even bigger news, LSSM is pleased to announce the opening of a
brand new wing, the Large Scale Integration Museum, or LSIM. As the
name suggests, the LSIM wing is dedicated to computer systems based on
Large Scale Integration CPUs, from the earliest four-bit 4004
processors through the desktop computer revolution of the 1970s and
1980s. Thanks to a partnership with Pennsylvania-based nonprofit
organization Tristate Technology Museum Consortium, and a generous
donation from the private collection of Corey Little and C/PMuseum,
LSIM will add more than one hundred new exhibits in four thousand
square feet of newly-renovated space located in the same building as
the recently-expanded Large Scale Systems Museum.
Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New
Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel
recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or
on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also
see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
might be interested.
Thanks,
-Dave McGuire
President/Curator, LSSM
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
21 Apr
21 Apr
4:09 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Dave McGuire via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations
and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a
thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits.
<snip>
Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New
Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel
recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or
on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also
see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
might be interested.
Wow can't wait to see the new digs.
Bill
4:22 p.m.
Guess I'll have to add New Kensignton to my visit list the next time I hit
the east coast
-pete
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:09 PM, william degnan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Dave McGuire via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations
and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a
thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits.
<snip>
Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New
Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel
recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or
on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also
see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
might be interested.
Wow can't wait to see the new digs.
Bill
6:27 p.m.
Mike Lowen's got some photos here:
http://q7.neurotica.com/LSSM/
Sadly, I don't see any of what I would call "large scale" systems.
Mostly minis and small mainframes.
--Chuck
9:20 p.m.
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Mike Lowen's got some photos here:
http://q7.neurotica.com/LSSM/
Sadly, I don't see any of what I would call "large scale" systems.
Mostly minis and small mainframes.
Few of them would fit in airline checked baggage.
You could easily lose a screw, and MAYBE a screwdriver in one, but not a
scope or technician.
Some words in English, such as "large" are just too subjective.
In photography, I consider 8x10" and 5x7" to be "large". 4x5"
(9x12cm) is
barely "large". It annoys me when people refer to 2.25 x 3.25"
(6x9cm) and 3.25 x 4.25" as "large format". (and it infuriates me when
people express focal length of lenses in units of "35mm equivalent mm",
instead of the actual mm. (my 47mm super-angulon vignettes on long
distance of 4x5, but it damn sure ain't a "longer than 'normal'"
focal
length!))
Alas, the general public are going to insist that anyghing bigger than a
PC is "large scale".
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
22 Apr
22 Apr
12:27 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Some words in English, such as "large" are
just too subjective.
The one I object to, particularly in book titles is 'modern'. I have a wonderful
set of books entitled 'Modern Electrical Engineering' with no obvious date.
Wonderful in that they describe with full diagrams things like the Baudot
Quadruplex telegraph and the electromechanical FIFO buffer and decoder
used for signalling on the London Underground.
In photography, I consider 8x10" and 5x7" to
be "large". 4x5" (9x12cm) is
barely "large". It annoys me when people refer to 2.25 x 3.25" (6x9cm)
and
I tend to class '5 by 4' as 'large format' as it tends to be sheet film
(rather
than roll film) and you often have full camera movements. It is more like
the larger formats than, say, 120 roll film.
3.25 x 4.25" as "large format". (and
it infuriates me when people express
focal length of lenses in units of "35mm equivalent mm", instead of the
actual mm. (my 47mm super-angulon vignettes on long distance of 4x5, but it
damn sure ain't a "longer than 'normal'" focal length!))
Agreed. The focal length of a lens is an optical property of said
lens, it does not have anything to do with the format of the film.
This idea of '35mm equivalent focal length' came in AFAIK with
digital cameras, I never saw it before, and I've used film cameras
from Minox up to large format. Every lens on every
camera was
marked with the optical focal length.
Oh, and the next person who clams that the focal length of the
lens affects the perspective is going to regret it!
-tony
Alas, the general public are going to insist that anyghing bigger than a PC
is "large scale".
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
21 Apr
21 Apr
4:19 p.m.
Dave,
I don't even remember whatall you got from me but did any of make it into the
museum? Would be great if I could make a trip out there to see it but I never
know what is coming next.
Just as a matter of curiosity, The University of Scranton (my former employer
and Alma Mater) has static displays along one corridor of the Loyola Science
Center that change every semester or two. A number of the items on display
are on loan from my collection.
bill
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Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations
and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a
thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits.
On May 6th, there will be a large block party (actually, several
blocks) here in town, called "New Kensington Better Block", with
street vendors and other standard block party fare. LSSM will be
participating in that event with our post-renovation reopening; we
will be open to the public all day with docents on duty. Many of our
systems will be running and demonstrated throughout the day.
In even bigger news, LSSM is pleased to announce the opening of a
brand new wing, the Large Scale Integration Museum, or LSIM. As the
name suggests, the LSIM wing is dedicated to computer systems based on
Large Scale Integration CPUs, from the earliest four-bit 4004
processors through the desktop computer revolution of the 1970s and
1980s. Thanks to a partnership with Pennsylvania-based nonprofit
organization Tristate Technology Museum Consortium, and a generous
donation from the private collection of Corey Little and C/PMuseum,
LSIM will add more than one hundred new exhibits in four thousand
square feet of newly-renovated space located in the same building as
the recently-expanded Large Scale Systems Museum.
Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New
Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel
recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or
on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also
see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
might be interested.
Thanks,
-Dave McGuire
President/Curator, LSSM
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
9:42 p.m.
Awesome! I regret I won't be able to be there, but do have a great time.
-- Ian
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Dave McGuire via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations
and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a
thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits.
On May 6th, there will be a large block party (actually, several
blocks) here in town, called "New Kensington Better Block", with
street vendors and other standard block party fare. LSSM will be
participating in that event with our post-renovation reopening; we
will be open to the public all day with docents on duty. Many of our
systems will be running and demonstrated throughout the day.
In even bigger news, LSSM is pleased to announce the opening of a
brand new wing, the Large Scale Integration Museum, or LSIM. As the
name suggests, the LSIM wing is dedicated to computer systems based on
Large Scale Integration CPUs, from the earliest four-bit 4004
processors through the desktop computer revolution of the 1970s and
1980s. Thanks to a partnership with Pennsylvania-based nonprofit
organization Tristate Technology Museum Consortium, and a generous
donation from the private collection of Corey Little and C/PMuseum,
LSIM will add more than one hundred new exhibits in four thousand
square feet of newly-renovated space located in the same building as
the recently-expanded Large Scale Systems Museum.
Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New
Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel
recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or
on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also
see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
might be interested.
Thanks,
-Dave McGuire
President/Curator, LSSM
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
22 Apr
22 Apr
12:36 a.m.
I still think I gotta find a way to travel to USA and spend a month there,
attending KansasFest and visiting some long time friends :)
2017-04-21 16:44 GMT-03:00 Dave McGuire via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations
and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a
thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits.
On May 6th, there will be a large block party (actually, several
blocks) here in town, called "New Kensington Better Block", with
street vendors and other standard block party fare. LSSM will be
participating in that event with our post-renovation reopening; we
will be open to the public all day with docents on duty. Many of our
systems will be running and demonstrated throughout the day.
In even bigger news, LSSM is pleased to announce the opening of a
brand new wing, the Large Scale Integration Museum, or LSIM. As the
name suggests, the LSIM wing is dedicated to computer systems based on
Large Scale Integration CPUs, from the earliest four-bit 4004
processors through the desktop computer revolution of the 1970s and
1980s. Thanks to a partnership with Pennsylvania-based nonprofit
organization Tristate Technology Museum Consortium, and a generous
donation from the private collection of Corey Little and C/PMuseum,
LSIM will add more than one hundred new exhibits in four thousand
square feet of newly-renovated space located in the same building as
the recently-expanded Large Scale Systems Museum.
Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New
Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel
recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or
on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also
see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
might be interested.
Thanks,
-Dave McGuire
President/Curator, LSSM
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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