Awesome! I regret I won't be able to be there, but do have a great time. -- Ian
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Dave McGuire via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 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 [email protected] 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 > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
