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Article #677Re: Blinking lights ...
From: ber... Michael Bergman
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 21:41
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 21:41
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In article <1990Jan2.1...@athena.mit.edu> pur...@athena.mit.edu (James R Purdon) writes: >The best set of blinkin' lights I ever saw on a computer was on an >old SAGE machine, the Q32 (or was it the Q7?) -- the console was about >15 feet long, 8 feet high and covered with switches, dials, and what-nots. Several large pieces (if not the whole thing) of one of the SAGE machines are on display in the Computer Museum at 300 Congress St. in Boston, MA. And the lights still blink -- they went to some trouble to build a discrete transistor driver for all those damn lights to blink in an apparently meaningful way (that is, they blink in a pattern similar to what would be generated if the machine was actually running. Great museum -- go see it if you're in Boston! Disclaimer: former employee of the world's only museum dedicated to computers. -- --mike bergman Massachusetts Microelectronics Center 75 North Drive, Westborough, MA 01581, USA +1 (508) 870-0312 UUCP: (...harvard)!m2c!bergman INTERNET: ber...@m2c.org
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!spdcc!xylogics!cloud9!jjmhome!m2c!bergman From: ber...@m2c.m2c.org (Michael Bergman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Blinking lights ... Message-ID: <BERGMAN.90Jan2164122@odin.m2c.m2c.org> Date: 2 Jan 90 21:41:22 GMT References: <9385@asylum.SF.CA.US> <1990Jan2.150138.3668@athena.mit.edu> Sender: ne...@m2c.ORG Distribution: alt Organization: Massachusetts Microelectronics Center, Westborough, MA Lines: 25 Posted: Tue Jan 2 22:41:22 1990 In-reply-to: purdon@athena.mit.edu's message of 2 Jan 90 15:01:38 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit