I think a Web site hosted on some system that was already "obsolete" when the Web became popular would be very cool.
Yes, yes, I know, I have been on the Board of non-profits: "That's a great idea. Are you volunteering to do it?" Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 8:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Large Scale Systems Museum announcement 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
