Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Cynde Moya, and Jack Nutting
Topic: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
This week we are joined by Cynde Moya, collections manager, and chair of the acquisitions committee for the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle. We discuss various topics, including some of the new exhibits and acquisitions, philosophy of restorations, challenges in cataloging, availability of time sharing accounts, and lots more.
Topic notes:
- Search LCM+L’s catalog
- Get an account to log into LCM+L’s various time-sharing computer systems
- Start a discussion about using these systems
- Read LCM+L engineer’s restoration stories
- Multics, now on Raspberry Pi
- Multics simulator
- Honeywell 6180 Maintenance Panel is being driven by a Xilinx BASYS3, running this Multics emulation.
Feedback notes:
Retro Computing News:
- 1088XEL
- 1088XEL Mini-ATX board assembly video
- Floppy Days interviews Stewart Chefeit
- Reviving the Atari 1027
- Terry’s Rubber Rollers
- HP archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
- Loss of HP archive a wake-up call for computer historians (IEEE Spectrum)
- Bitsavers.org
- Ted Nelson’s junk mail collection (so far)
- Ted Nelson junk mail scanning costs spreadsheet
- The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Brian Dear, 2017)
- cyber1 PLATO simulator online
- Software Preservation Network
- Minimal Computing thought pieces (see especially Old Machines Running Old Languages)
Upcoming show notes:
Vintage Computer Commercial
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
Feedback/Discussion:
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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