I spent six weeks at MSU Bozeman this past Summer integrating a performance-boosting, wide-area network-distributed database enhancement to an augmented reality project sponsored through the Western Transportation Institute there. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the museum, which is a couple of blocks from WTI, and I was working some weekend and Summer time into my schedule to volunteer there. However, with George’s passing, that means I’ll need to step up even more, despite the 6.5-hour round trip from where I’m teaching STEM, including computing and robotics.
I started as one of the early senior docents at the Computer History Museum when it was in the uninsulated metal Butler buildings across from Hangar One at Moffett Field. Then I participated in the move to its current location in Silicon Graphics’ former international marketing building on North Shoreline Blvd, followed by the opening of the R|Evolution exhibit. I then worked on the exhibition of Babbage Difference Engine Design Number Two, Serial Number Two, which I presented, operated, and maintained. That’s real vintage computing, where the operator isn’t just the power supply, but also provides critical timing as the clock, cranking steadily despite a change in required force from a few pounds up to about 25 pounds during each cycle! All the Best, Jim On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 20:31 Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > This has not been a good few months for historical/vintage computer people > > > https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/bozeman-founder-of-american-computer-museum-dies/article_cad693eb-f70e-5f1c-94d4-78590e64b430.html > >