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Last-modified: 27 Oct 2004
27 Special post
28 Dedications
2 Introduction and Table of Contents and justification
4 Comp.parallel news group history
6 parlib
8 comp.parallel group dynamics
10 Related news groups, archives and references
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18 Supercomputing and Crayisms
20 IBM and Amdahl
22 Grand challenges and HPCC
24 Suggested (required) readings
26 Dead computer architecture society
Special Call
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What's the special call?
I am thinking about it.
It's my space. It can be your's, too.
The special call is intended to be a special call for long-term,
voluntary assistance.
1) I am the publications and software reviewer for a quarterly journal.
Do you want to express your opinion in print? It's your chance
to add another print publication to your resume or C.V.
Ask me for a book or piece of scientific software, or
come up with one of your own. Ask me first. Reviews get the widest possible
latitudes to express your opinions. 2-3 printed pages.
Let's talk.
2) The Computer History Museum.
Not "a" computer museum, The Computer History Museum.
The original The Computer Museum started in Boston
by Dr. Gwen Bell (Past ACM President) largely as a off-shoot of DEC.
Right now Visible Storage exists at
1401 Shoreline
Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
The Computer History Museum has perhaps the greatest collection of
old historic artifacts, documentation, books, memoribilia.
In the past they have sponsered such activities like The Computer Bowl
(the West Coast are the reigning winners: as of 1997).
What do they have? Many things.
Examples of most of the machines designed by Seymour Cray.
The DEC Museum. A panel from the ENIAC. ENIAC on a chip.
A working German Enigma. Many minisupers. Mainframes.
Workstations. Advertising. Manuals.
Do most of these work? Alas no. They run what they can.
What don't they need?
PCs (need I say more?).
How can I help?
The Museum is always looking for old collectables.
Foreign computers are of great interest (NEC's chairman donated
one of their first machines from the late 1950s).
The Museum needs these to set the "arrogant" Americans straight.
Do you know where there is a CDC 3xxx series?
[Yes, a 3800 is soon to be on display near Dulles at the
Natl. Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.]
Here's a place to store it.
Ask them (or me).
Reference:
www.computerhistory.org
Examples of what the museum already has:
Cray-1, Cray-2, Cray-3, Cray-4 parts.
Cray's Naval gun director, 160A, 6600, 7600
Early 1957-8 NEC machine
ENIAC, ENIAC on a chip
SAGE
LINC
Stretch
IBM 360/370/91,195, etc.
DDP-116
PDP-1, ... PDP-11, DEC-20, VAX (several)
Burroughs ILLIAC IV Control Units and several Processing Units
Xerox Alto, Star, other D machines
Multiflow Trace
Cydrome Cydra 5
KSR-1
ETA-10s (LN2 and air)
Intel iPSC/1
TMC CM-1, CM-2, CM-5
E&S ES-1, PS-1, LDS
FrankenRAID
Johnniac
WISC
Hollerith Machine reproduction
# Hillis' Tic-tac-toe computer (in Boston)
DEC machines from PDP-1 through DEC-20 include an East German VAX clone
A host of the usual PCs, Lisas, Macs, Apple-1, etc.
Other Univac, Burroughs, etc. machines
The first laser printer
Many of the other usual and unusual peripherals: mice, light pens,
light guns, card readers, impact printers, etc.
An incredible library
The Museum has permanent working exchange agreements with other museums
like the Smithsonian.
Can you visit? Sure. The Boston Science Museum took what is called
the Kiddie portion of The Computer Museum.
The historic artifact portion resides in the Silicon Valley.
There are monthly seminars coordinated by Bay Area Computer History
Perspectives (co-run by Peter Nerkse at SUN, posted to ba.seminars
and cross-posted to other relevant groups).
Articles: comp.parallel
Administrative: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu.SNIP
Archive: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.parallel
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