16 Jun
2009
16 Jun
'09
1:40 p.m.
Opening of The Computer Graphics History Museum
Release 0.1: Visible Storage
When:
Friday, June 19th, 2009
9pm - 10:30pm
Where:
BFS Warehouse
555 South 400 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
I am pleased to announce the first public opening of the Computer
Graphics History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The
collection of artifacts has moved to a location large enough to permit
public viewing. The collection has been accumulated over the past 5
years, with a focus on graphics hardware.
Please join us for an opening reception and walk through of the
collection in visible storage. Refreshments will be served.
Some highlights of the collection:
- a wide range of SGI workstations and servers from the
Personal Iris 4D/25 through a 4 rack SGI Reality Monster
- Tektronix graphics terminals from storage scope terminals like the
4010 and 4014 to raster terminals like the 4105 and 4205.
- Evans & Sutherland products:
ESV workstations with CDRS 6.0 and Advanced Rendering System,
Freedom series graphics accelerators
Digistar II
Picture System PS/390
ESIG image generator
- Aesthedes graphic design system
- Control Data Corporation CC545 Console
- Megatek graphics terminal with the coolest keyboard you've ever seen
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2 p.m.
In article <4A37DB1F.1020002 at bluewin.ch>,
Jos Dreesen <jdr_use at bluewin.ch> writes:
Richard wrote:
They'll be there, but hardly anyone will know WTF they are :-)
Visible storage isn't too interesting unless you're an uber geek.
When things get more restored and refurbished and interactive, then it
will be fun to the average person.
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Some highlights of the collection:
(List of interesting hardware snipped.... )
But you missed the Eve's ! 
19 Jun
19 Jun
6:39 a.m.
New subject: Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible Storage
I am pleased to announce the first public opening of
the Computer
Graphics History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wow, sounds cool. Is the PS390 a raster display? One piece of
hardware I'd really enjoy seeing again is the PS300. This was a
really high-end vector display for CAD work. The best configurations
had knob boxes and keyboards with alphanumeric LED legends you could
set. The quality of the display is something I've never seen
duplicated, even on modern LCD panels.
Do any of these still exist? SLC would seem like a better than
average place to find one.
Cheers,
jp
3:35 p.m.
New subject: Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible
I am pleased to announce the first public opening
of the Computer
Graphics History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wow, sounds cool. Is the PS390 a raster display? One piece of hardware I'd really enjoy seeing again is the
PS300. This was a
really high-end vector display for CAD work. The best configurations
had knob boxes and keyboards with alphanumeric LED legends you could
The PS390 has that too. 8 characters (a pair of those 4 character HP LED
display devices) for each fucntion key and knob.
-tony
20 Jun
20 Jun
1:17 p.m.
New subject: Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible
In article <m1MHjsD-000J3sC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
ESV workstation has it as well. I have the matching one for the ESV.
You can program the labels and obtain information on the dial knob
values using the XInput extension to the X server.
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<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
hardware
I'd really enjoy seeing again is the PS300. This was a
really high-end vector display for CAD work. The best configurations
had knob boxes and keyboards with alphanumeric LED legends you could
The PS390 has that too. 8 characters (a pair of those 4 character HP LED
display devices) for each fucntion key and knob.
19 Jun
19 Jun
6:39 a.m.
New subject: Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible Storage
I am pleased to announce the first public opening of
the Computer
Graphics History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wow, sounds cool. Is the PS390 a raster display? One piece of
hardware I'd really enjoy seeing again is the PS300. This was a
really high-end vector display for CAD work. The best configurations
had knob boxes and keyboards with alphanumeric LED legends you could
set. The quality of the display is something I've never seen
duplicated, even on modern LCD panels.
Do any of these still exist? SLC would seem like a better than
average place to find one.
Cheers,
jp
20 Jun
20 Jun
1:14 p.m.
In article <200906191039.n5JAdc0O049321 at keith.ezwind.net>,
"J. Peterson" <pdp11 at saccade.com> writes:
PS/390 is a frame buffer/raster display based product, yes.
I am pleased to
announce the first public opening of the Computer
Graphics History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wow, sounds cool. Is the PS390 a raster display? One piece of
hardware I'd really enjoy seeing again is the PS300.
Me too :-). Early E&S workstations/terminals are exceedingly hard to
come by. It took quite a bit of work to find a PS/390.
This was a
really high-end vector display for CAD work. The best configurations
had knob boxes and keyboards with alphanumeric LED legends you could
set. The quality of the display is something I've never seen
duplicated, even on modern LCD panels.
I'm still hunting for the appropriate black E&S keyboard/dials/tablet
to go with the PS/390. They've shown up once in a while on ebay, but
I always get outbid.
Do any of these still exist? SLC would seem like a
better than
average place to find one.
You might think that, but you'd be wrong. Although they were
manufactured here, they tended to be purchased and used elsewhere.
E&S is just a dim shadow of what it once was, so there's not really
any hope of getting one from them.
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<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
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