3 Sep
2007
3 Sep
'07
7:55 p.m.
So I can come along sit down and start knocking out some code then?
That might cause a crowd to collect. Then something dynamic.
Line printers thumping away, Paper tape reader on a long loop.
Tape punch doing a Woody Woodpecker. IBM 029 doing verify.
Two security guys dragging me out of the building.
The visitors would love that!!
Rod
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
Sent: 03 September 2007 18:14
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: British Computers.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
[BP stuff]
Well that's interesting....
How much of it will be running?
Well the aim is for as much as possible; I suspect we can manage 95% for
the machines actually set up on display, but then there'll probably be
other things on shelves or incomplete so that people can see their
internals etc.
Not 95% at once, of course - but 95% capable of running whenever the
relevant people who know how to operate and look after them are on site
:-)
4 Sep
4 Sep
12:46 p.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
So I can come along sit down and start knocking out
some code then?
That might cause a crowd to collect. Then something dynamic.
Line printers thumping away, Paper tape reader on a long loop.
Tape punch doing a Woody Woodpecker. IBM 029 doing verify.
Two security guys dragging me out of the building.
The visitors would love that!!
Rod
Well if you have Hard Drives Dancing to music from the *DISCO* panel
lights, I am sure you would have I nice padded cell waiting for you
as well.
Ben Alias Woodelf
PS.With Broadcast Band Valve Radio Blasting away the DISCO music from the
CPU,I guess the security just don't like music. :)
5:24 p.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
So I can come along sit down and start knocking out
some code then?
That might cause a crowd to collect. Then something dynamic.
Line printers thumping away, Paper tape reader on a long loop.
Tape punch doing a Woody Woodpecker. IBM 029 doing verify.
Two security guys dragging me out of the building.
The visitors would love that!!
Heh :-)
Being as hands-on as possible is still one of our primary goals - although
there's always going to be caveats on what's left running, or what level of
supervision any given system has of course, but for the majority of machines
we actively encourage people to sit down and have a play.
The best will in the world probably isn't going to keep this stuff operational
much beyond a few decades, and I'm not sure if anyone really knows what's
going to happen to the plastics a few more decades beyond that; whilst we have
a duty to store inactive systems for future generations, it also seems wise to
let people extract maximum enjoyment out of these systems now whilst they
still can...
cheers
Jules
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