[HECnet] Announcement

[Brian Hechinger]

Hell, I wasn’t even thinking *that* fancy. Just that wall of text you wrote in a txt file on a web server is good enough. :)

And no. No I don’t. I *blow* at website design. It’s why I write APIs instead. :)

-brian

> On Sep 24, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>  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