The announcement I promised is included below. It was mostly
targeted at forums that were already aware of it, but since most people
here don't seem to have heard of us, I'll explain a bit.
The LSSM is a public museum that focuses on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. It has a distinct DEC bias, due to
personal experiences and affinities of some of the staff, but there's
quite a bit of IBM, HP, Cray, and other hardware as well. The goal is
for systems here to be runnable and demonstrable, and since most of us
are also both electronics guys and current/former sysadmins, many of our
systems do run.
To name just a few, we have a few IBM System/36s, several early
AS/400s, an IBM 4341 with peripherals (not yet running), a small S/390
system (running!), several Cray vector supercomputers, and more than a
dozen DEC PDP-8, PDP-10, PDP-11, and VAX systems, most running and
hands-on demonstrable. The museum is free, informal, and friendly.
We're a PA state nonprofit, with federal 501(c)(3) status applied for
and pending.
We don't have a real website yet (volunteers..) but there are lots of
photos on Facebook, search for "Large Scale Systems Museum" there to see.
Our announcement is below.
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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, over four thousand square
feet now, 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 i...@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
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Dave McGuire
President/Curator, Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA
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