On 04/29/2017 03:15 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Ah, a museum. That's awesome, and best of luck getting the 3290
running.
Thanks! I've located a copy of the manual that covers the 3290 setup
panels. It's a bit on the expensive side, but I'll be purchasing it
tomorrow. Maybe that'll arrive soon enough to get me over this hump. I
really want us to be able to show off the 3290 running next weekend.
I do remember it fondly. I had it for some years sometime
between 1985 and '95. I was continually re-configuring it, and I think
I liked a 3-way setup most of the time.
Nice!
I'm sure many on this list are interested in the museum, in fact, I'd
guess this is likely one of the best places to talk about it. Warning:
it doesn't take much provocation for some of us with considerable
experience to start reminiscing.
Oh, believe me, I know what you mean. ;) I actually come from the
other side of the computing world; I started out in DECland, cut my
teeth on PDP-11s (had a big one in my bedroom as a teenager in the
mid-1980s), was a DEC VMS sysadmin for many years on a bunch of VAXen,
and have been ensconced in the commercial UNIX world for most of my life
after that. The "graybeards" in that side of the world get just as
verbosely sentimental, believe me. ;) We do all love our machines.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
President/Curator, Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA
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