[HECnet] Announcement

[Dave McGuire]

  Are you kidding??  It's all I can do to get a building, get machines
running, and put together a presentable museum.  No time for web pages.
 And I'm no graphic artist.

  I have a good logo (which was done by a graphic artist) and a site,
wanna put together a page? ;)

                 -Dave

On 09/24/2015 08:09 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Do you have this information posted on a web page somewhere? Would make it easier to distribute. :)
> 
> -brian
> 
>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>
> 
>  Some of you are aware that I've been pursuing a long-term project of
> constructing a museum in the Pittsburgh area.
> 
>  I am proud to announce that we have hit a major milestone: We have
> set a date for the first public opening.  The Large Scale Systems
> Museum will open its doors to the public on Saturday, October 17th,
> just under one month from now.
> 
>  This is to be a one-day provisional opening coinciding with an event
> here in town.  We may decide to open the museum regularly on a sparse
> schedule afterward, or it may wait awhile, depending on how things go
> on the 17th.  The renovation work is ongoing, so it won't be perfect,
> but we think it'll be good.  A great deal of progress has been made
> here in the past several months.
> 
>  Many of the Really Big Computers here will be running and
> demonstrated on a rotation throughout the day.
> 
>  The event in town is a large "block party" of sorts that will
> encompass much of the downtown area.  A few highlights:
> 
>  - A fancy department store that was located on this block decades
> ago will re-open in their old store location to show off vintage
> wedding gowns, and some people who purchased their gowns there in the
> past will bring them back to show them off.
> 
>  - A local winery will set up a wine tasting.
> 
>  - A soldering workshop.
> 
>  - A makerspace pop-up.
> 
>  - A beer garden!
> 
>  - The standard fare of food vendors, live bands, etc.
> 
>  There are two other "Big Deal" tie-ins that I'd like to announce:
> 
>  Big Deal #1: Many of you will remember my fiancee Autumn, who sold
> handmade vintage-computer-themed soaps at the most recent VCF-East.
> Her company, Apothecary Soap Company, will be opening its first store,
> here in town around the corner from our main building.
> 
>  Big Deal #2: While the details aren't yet finalized, C/PMuseum in
> downtown Pittsburgh, curated by Corey Little and Chris Little, will be
> relocating many of its exhibits, including some vintage game consoles,
> to a temporary exhibit space just a few buildings down from mine.
> Since C/PMuseum's primary focus is on microcomputers and the Large
> Scale Systems Museum's primary focus is on minicomputers and
> mainframes, so together we'll have great coverage of a range of genres.
> 
>  My building is at 924 4th Avenue, New Kensington, PA 15068, right in
> the middle of the block party area.  New Kensington is about ten
> minutes' drive from the Allegheny Valley exit of the Pennsylvania
> Turnpike, Exit 48.  It's a very easy area to reach, and there are a
> number of decent hotels nearby.
> 
>  I wish to extend an invitation to all of you to attend this event.
> It's on Saturday, October 17th, from noon to 8PM.
> 
>  Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think
> might be interested.
> 
>                 Thanks,
>                 -Dave
> 
> 

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA