1 Jun
2004
1 Jun
'04
8:48 a.m.
Greetings all;
I'm heading off to DC tomorrow, and it occurred to me while there are all
the usual haunts for museums (NASM, Holocaust, monuments, so on, so
forth) that there quite possibly is a computing museum, or at least
"Warehouse o' Junk" somewhere in DC.
Anyone have suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
JP
1 Jun
1 Jun
9:13 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
I can no longer maintain the Retrocomputing Archive site
(http://www.retroarchive.org). Is there anyone here willing to take over
the site?
tnx.
g.
9:31 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
Gene Buckle wrote:
I can no longer maintain the Retrocomputing Archive
site
(http://www.retroarchive.org). Is there anyone here willing to take over
the site?
tnx.
g.
Gene, I believe that I can do that for you. My company will let me
colocate a server at our location. It would be an honor.
James
9:56 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
FYI - www.retroarchive.org is currently hosted at no charge on my servers.
Whoever takes over that site is welcome to keep it there, at no charge.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Rice" <jrice54(a)vzavenue.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Retroarchive....
Gene Buckle wrote:
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I can no longer maintain the Retrocomputing
Archive site
(http://www.retroarchive.org). Is there anyone here willing to take over
the site?
tnx.
g.
Gene, I believe that I can do that for you. My company will let me
colocate a server at our location. It would be an honor.
James
10:12 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
In message <029e01c4480a$24652de0$033310ac(a)kwcorp.com>
"Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
FYI - www.retroarchive.org is currently hosted at no
charge on my servers.
Whoever takes over that site is welcome to keep it there, at no charge.
Well, in
that case, I'd love to. Why move the files over to a different
server if it's already working fine where it is?
Later.
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10:24 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
Philip wrote...
Well, in that case, I'd love to. Why move the
files over to a different
server if it's already working fine where it is?
Not to mention the content of
www.retroarchive.org is quite large, and even
with my multiple 100mb connections moving it would take a while probably,
unless the receiving host has pretty large pipes too.
Jay
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12:57 p.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
Jay West wrote:
Philip wrote...
You've probably got a bigger pipe than mine. I only have pair of 100mb
connections.
James
Well, in that case, I'd love to. Why move the
files over to a different
server if it's already working fine where it is?
Not to mention the content of www.retroarchive.org is quite large, and even
with my multiple 100mb connections moving it would take a while probably,
unless the receiving host has pretty large pipes too.
Jay
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11:56 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
FYI - www.retroarchive.org is currently hosted at no
charge on my servers.
Whoever takes over that site is welcome to keep it there, at no charge.
Jay West
/me stamps "You da man!" on Jay's forehead
:)
Thanks Jay!
g.
12:55 p.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
I see no reason to move it either. I wasn't arawre of where it was
being hosted.
James
Jay West wrote:
FYI - www.retroarchive.org is currently hosted at no
charge on my servers.
Whoever takes over that site is welcome to keep it there, at no charge.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Rice" <jrice54(a)vzavenue.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Retroarchive....
Gene Buckle wrote:
---
[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]
I can no longer maintain the Retrocomputing
Archive site
(http://www.retroarchive.org). Is there anyone here willing to take over
the site?
tnx.
g.
Gene, I believe that I can do that for you. My company will let me
colocate a server at our location. It would be an honor.
James
1:01 p.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
Ok, due to the number of requests I have recieved (and like a dope,
accidently deleted the lot. *bangs head on desk*) I'd like those that are
still interested to email me again by 4pm Pacific Time. I'll then toss
your names in my recycle box and pick the lucky vic^H^H^Hwinner.
Thanks for all the replies!
g.
11:52 a.m.
New subject: Retroarchive....
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, James Rice wrote:
Gene Buckle wrote:
Thanks James. The site only really needs a maintainer. Jay West has been
kind enough to host the site for the past few years and unless there is
some difficulty with that, I don't expect that to change. (Thanks Jay!)
g.
I can no longer maintain the Retrocomputing
Archive site
(http://www.retroarchive.org). Is there anyone here willing to take over
the site?
tnx.
g.
Gene, I believe that I can do that for you. My company will let me
colocate a server at our location. It would be an honor.
James
9:26 a.m.
Basement of the Smithsonian American History Museum. AWESOME collection of
computing devices, from abacaii, mechanical tabulators, voting machines,
typewriters, through ENIAC (I belive they have the accumulator panels)
Enigma machines (They have the three AND four rotor types!) Apple I
(Original Homebrew computer club prototype, wood case) SOL, Lisa, early Sun
workstations, the first PDP/11-based fingerprint scanner for the FBI, an old
Bendix mainframe the same green color as their 60's vintage washing
machines, mockups of SAGE, HP calculators, stacks of old magazines, you name
it. It's *really* impressive. Other collections may be bigger, but they have
a lot of historically signifigant machines.
----- Original Message -----
From: "JP Hindin" <jplist(a)kiwigeek.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?
Greetings all;
I'm heading off to DC tomorrow, and it occurred to me while there are all
the usual haunts for museums (NASM, Holocaust, monuments, so on, so
forth) that there quite possibly is a computing museum, or at least
"Warehouse o' Junk" somewhere in DC.
Anyone have suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
JP
1:17 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:26:42PM -0400, Jason McBrien wrote:
Basement of the Smithsonian American History Museum.
AWESOME collection of
computing devices... the first PDP/11-based fingerprint scanner for the FBI...
If it's the large machine in the corner, off the main path (just past the
Straight-8), that should be a PDP-15. It's definitely not 16-bits.
-ethan
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5:34 p.m.
So how does one gain admission to the basement? I assume all this cool
stuff is not open to the general public?
Thanks,
Chandra
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jason McBrien
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:27 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?
Basement of the Smithsonian American History Museum. AWESOME collection
of
computing devices, from abacaii, mechanical tabulators, voting machines,
typewriters, through ENIAC (I belive they have the accumulator panels)
Enigma machines (They have the three AND four rotor types!) Apple I
(Original Homebrew computer club prototype, wood case) SOL, Lisa, early
Sun
workstations, the first PDP/11-based fingerprint scanner for the FBI, an
old
Bendix mainframe the same green color as their 60's vintage washing
machines, mockups of SAGE, HP calculators, stacks of old magazines, you
name
it. It's *really* impressive. Other collections may be bigger, but they
have
a lot of historically signifigant machines.
----- Original Message -----
From: "JP Hindin" <jplist(a)kiwigeek.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?
Greetings all;
I'm heading off to DC tomorrow, and it occurred to me while there are
all
the usual haunts for museums (NASM, Holocaust,
monuments, so on, so
forth) that there quite possibly is a computing museum, or at least
"Warehouse o' Junk" somewhere in DC.
Anyone have suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
JP
2 Jun
2 Jun
12:24 a.m.
Basement of the Smithsonian American History Museum.
AWESOME
collection of computing devices, from abacaii, mechanical
tabulators, voting machines,
"Chandra Bajpai" <cbajpai(a)comcast.net> writes:
So how does one gain admission to the basement? I
assume all this cool
stuff is not open to the general public?
Nope, it is open to the public.
The museum is built into a slope; one entrance faces the mall,
the other is one floor up and faces away from the mall,
so if you come in thru the upper entrance, you might tend to think
of the lower floor as a basement.
The Electromatic they have under glass there clinched my suspicions
about the origins of the Friden Flexowriter; it looks very much like
an SPS, although with one heck of a paint job. I confirmed the
connection with the marvellous Stan Kelly-Bootle.
12:40 a.m.
forth) that there quite possibly is a computing
museum, or at least
"Warehouse o' Junk" somewhere in DC.
Anyone have suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
Another place besides the American History museum is
the Crypto Museum near Ft Meade, http://www.nsa.gov/museum/
I think MD also has a museum of comms and microwave gear,
and I don't know if there's anything of computer-ish nature in
the Ordinance Museum near Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
Baltimore used to have some awesome scrapyards; I don't know
if they are still there.
18 Jun
18 Jun
1:35 p.m.
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
Back from DC;
Thanks to Andrew Bessen for this hint. The Cryptology Museum has a Cray
XMP and a YMP, plus a twin-rack Connection Machine 5. The YMP and CM-5 are
both running (The CM-5 has it's idle blinkin lights happily going nuts,
while the YMP sits in a halted state due to a CPU fault).
This is the first time I've ever seen a Cray in person, and after a bit of
wheedling with one of the caretakers (Who could care less who I was or
what I wanted as long as I wasn't going to bother him), I was allowed to
take panels off and take pictures of the insides.
I even have a little video with my digital camera of the CM-5's lights
happily churning away.
Alas, because of the cramped quarters it's somewhat hard to really climb
into the YMP as I'd like to, but that's ok. Highlight of my trip, I'm sad
to say.
Thanks again;
Anyone have
suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
Another place besides the
American History museum is
the Crypto Museum near Ft Meade, http://www.nsa.gov/museum/ 
5:10 p.m.
The YMP and CM-5 are
both running (The CM-5 has it's idle blinkin lights happily going nuts,
while the YMP sits in a halted state due to a CPU fault).
The CM-5 may have actually been powered down, as you can have the lights
blink in random, independent of the processors. In fact, with the little
thumbswitch inside the cabinet, you can set the operation of the
blinkenlights - of the 8 combinations, 2 are semi random
impress-the-bean-counters patterns, most are more or less lamp tests, and
I think 2 actually have to do with the processor states (one for message
routing, I think).
William Donzelli
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