Re: Friday afternoon nostalgia? Or treasure?

Hello Sai, Ted, Graham, and others who wrote the 57 messages I received
Friday,

I was off on Friday, but checked my email when I arrived home in the
evening. A fun trip down memory lane reading 50 plus messages from
Micronet re old time computing!

And, indeed, LHS did some very innovative things starting in the early
70s. In the early 90s LHS was connected to the campus only by modem;
fiber arrived mid 90s.

Among things that should be saved in the Tech Services area at the
Lawrence Hall of Science are early recordings of building the Hall.
Graham, don't be too quick to toss stuff! As we all know, at garage
sales you can find treasures.

Cheers all!

Carol
P.S. I had a sweet Amiga, somewhat way back. Guess I'm also an Old Timer.

sai tsui wrote:
> The pdp was setup for letting people outside UC campus to connect
> their TTY model 33 on a leased line (baud 1200) to the Data General
> Eclipse
> computer running a time shared BASIC system at the Hall. I am proudly
> to say - Lawrence Hall of Science was the first Unix shop/classroom offer
> to the public inhouse and outreach.
> Hint: If Graham searches more, will find a stack of punch cards with
> the working program!
>
> Not to mention LHS was the first Apple authorized Mac repair center at
> UC campus. Way before Scholars!
> Hint for Graham: Shelves also have the first Apple color laptop, the
> first clone Apple approved Apple laptop, PET,
> IBM PC-XT, nice clicking sound IBM AT keyboard...... the list goes on
> including other great electronic parts (IC, military grade resistors,
> caps, transformers, wirewrapping tools....)!
>
>
> It took years for this collector with the futuristic and educational
> mind to collect these "great stuff"!
> The above opinion/email does not reflect or represent LHS, it is the
> sole comment by originator. -The Old Timer
>
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Graham Patterson wrote:
>
>> Ted Crum wrote:
>>> You need to clean more often.
>>
>> Hey, I only arrived here a month ago. It took years of dedicated
>> effort to assemble this collection. This is like cleaning out someone
>> else's garage!
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> --
>> Graham Patterson, System Administrator
>> Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
>>
>>
>

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Received on Sun Oct 28 2007 - 19:44:51 PDT