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The 2001 RCS/RI |
The Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island, Inc. hold their monthly Open House on the third Saturday of every month from 10:00am - 4:30pm at their facility in Providence, RI. See the online directions for instructions on how to get there.
On Open House days, the telephone line, (401) 861-1977, is staffed with bona- fide humans who can answer questions about the organisation and give detailed directions to their facility.
Archived calendars for 1998, 1999 and 2000 are available on-line.
In honour of the Presidential Inauguration, and the controversy over punched ballots in Florida, the topic for this month will be "equipment that generates chad" - card punch and tape punch machines. It will feature a Sperry Rand Univac 1710 verifying interpreting punch.
Also on display will be a Teletype ASR-33 with paper tape punch and reader, and optical tape- reading equipment from Data General, Packard Bell, and Digitronics.
Chad n: a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family comprising
numerous languages of northern Nigeria and Cameroons.
Source:
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1971)
This is the 30th anniversary of pdp-11 Unix.
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RCS/RI's open house in April will feature their Packard Bell 250, one of three known to be in existance. Completed on April 14, 1961, their 250 celebrates its fourtieth birthday this month!
The Interdata Model 4
The RCS/RI crew will be investigating this 16-bit minicomputer with the intent of restoring it to functional status.
See the legendary SPACEWAR in action on a PDP-12. An original Atari Pong plus early versions of Adventure and Star Trek. Also including more recent, but still vintage, game machines.
RCS will examine the Symbolics 3600 and Symbolics 3670 LISP systems in the collection and begin restoration efforts.
The Series 50 Prime 2850
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International Business Machines mid-range including the IBM System /34 and IBM System /36.
The Digital Equipment Corporation VAX supermini including the DEC VAX 6220 and DEC VAX 8550.
In December, RCS/RI will celebrate its seventh year of existance as a working group and its fourth anniversary as a non- profit corporation.