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<p>I'm going to reach out to somebody I know who works there and see
what he might know beyond the news. Given the "if" in the notice
on the web site, viz: "we will spend the months ahead reassessing
if, how, and when to reopen", things didn't immediately strike me
as being overwhelmingly hopeful.<br>
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<p>That would be a bummer if the KL and XKL machines were to go
away. In some alpha versions of my FTP server, I ran what I
thought would be regression tests on an XKL (at the time, the 2065
was running Tops-10, so this wasn't possible). It turns out that
I actually found a a situation that the KLH10 micro-engine gets
right but that some versions of the XLK microcode get wrong.</p>
<p>Briefly, on an XKL-1, you don't want to use any EXTEND based
string or numeric conversion instructions in a non-zero section as
the effective address calculations come out wrong and certain
random parts of the address space get trashed. Took me awhile to
figure that one out... I don't recall whether this was fixed, but
I would assume it would have been.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The loss of MRC's 2020's and--more
importantly--the data held on them and related tapes would be an
extremely bitter blow.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 5/27/20 11:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
That part may be closing, but the museum,may survive intact. We just
don't know. Sometimes even local news does not have all of the facts.
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Gregg C Levine <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gregg.drwho8@gmail.com">gregg.drwho8@gmail.com</a>
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:53 PM David Cooper <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davecoo@marmotking.com"><davecoo@marmotking.com></a> wrote:
It’s not coming back. From the local news, "This means we are winding down both Vulcan Arts + Entertainment and Vulcan Productions by the end of the year." The museum was part of Vulcan Arts + Entertainment. Just like the ancient Greek temples that were destroyed by farmers looking for stone to build houses and walls, the computers will be recycled for their gold. Human nature has not changed and likely never will. You’ve heard the phrase, “The Earth belongs to the living”. Apparently true then and true now.
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Subject: [HECnet] LCM+L suspending operations
As some of you may have just heard, LCM+L are suspending operations “for now” due to the effects of the current crisis. We’ll discover what’ll be happening to online access to their systems shortly. It’s a sad day but hopefully not permanently so.
Keith
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