At 12:11 AM 11/28/2005, Ken Harrenstien wrote:
> > How convenient! Someone recently offered to donate a working
> > lineprocessor to the project. Would you be willing to donate the
> > DM2500? One of my pet ideas is to bring up a complete hardware
>
>Sure, that would be the best possible home for it!
>
>What's the procedure? (01)
Thanks! I'll contact Dag Spicer later today and get back to
you. Dag attends CHM Software Collection Committee meetings, so he
already has quite a bit of background on this project. (02)
>BTW I also have a set of schematics for the lineprocessor -- was going
>to bring them to CHM a couple years ago (exchanged a couple of notes
>with a fellow named Chris Garcia) but I apparently neglected to get
>back to him -- probably got snowed under.
>
>I also recall that at the time, CHM didn't have a high quality wide
>format scanner of their own, so it would have taken special
>arrangements to digitize the information. Has the situation improved? (03)
I'll check with Dag about that too. I don't remember whether they
finally got one in house or continue to outsource them. In any case,
I'll arrange to get them scanned ASAP. Your question got me thinking
about whether we should also try to preserve schematics by capturing
their "semantics" in a standard ECAD format. I'm assuming that there
is at least one "standard" ECAD format that would be suitable for
long-term preservation. Worth checking on, at least... (04)
> > system including a working Dec10/20. CHM has one (a Japanese clone),
> > but it would be fun to see if someone has one that we could dedicate
> > to this project. Any ideas on where to look?
>
>You mean a real DEC-20? Yes, the same one that SRI-NIC (and then
>Engelbart's Bootstrap Institute) used was given to Bruce Kennard
>across the bay. Checking my old email, around April 1999 I introduced
>him to Dag Spicer at CHM with the intent that this DEC-20 would become
>part of the museum's working collection. The last I heard, Bruce said
>"fine, come get it"... after that, I don't know what happened. The
>email addrs for them at the time were <kennard@insyde.com> and
><spicer@computerhistory.org>. Hopefully this is enough info that you
>can follow up... and let me know what you find out, thanks! (05)
Thanks for the reference. I just sent off a note to Bruce and
mentioned your name. (06)
>--Ken (07)
Philip Gust
Nouveau Systems, Inc. (08)
phone: +1 650 961-7992
fax: +1 520 843-7217 (09)
mailto: gust@NouveauSystems.com (010)
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