Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Fri Jun 18 21:10:58 2004

> The YMP and CM-5 are
> both running (The CM-5 has it's idle blinkin lights happily going nuts,
> while the YMP sits in a halted state due to a CPU fault).

The CM-5 may have actually been powered down, as you can have the lights
blink in random, independent of the processors. In fact, with the little
thumbswitch inside the cabinet, you can set the operation of the
blinkenlights - of the 8 combinations, 2 are semi random
impress-the-bean-counters patterns, most are more or less lamp tests, and
I think 2 actually have to do with the processor states (one for message
routing, I think).

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
 
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