I still think I gotta find a way to travel to USA and spend a month there, attending KansasFest and visiting some long time friends :)
2017-04-21 16:44 GMT-03:00 Dave McGuire via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > > 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 i...@lssmuseum.org 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 >