A Big congratulations to Dan and Connor. I'll be looking forward to visiting! -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Monday, July 08, 2024 10:07 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Dan FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [vcf-midatlantic] Launch of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie TLDR; Flickr link at bottom. After two years of work and a mountain of red tape, Connor Krukosky and I are proud to announce the official opening of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie! The Classical Computing Laboratory (sometimes shortened to POK-CCL or CCL@POK) is a historical computing center accessible to IBM employees and official site visitors, with the stated goal of our collection being available for hands-on use. IBMers can come in and use the equipment between the hours of 12 and 2 PM every Wednesday, or by special appointment. This presents a number of amazing potential opportunities, ranging from employee experience to education outreach to client/customer relations. We officially opened this past Wednesday, June 26 as part of the annual IBM MHV (Mid-Hudson Valley) Summer Activities Fair; we then continued into the next day for IBM MHV Take Our Children to Work Day. I've put together a Flickr album of photos that Connor and I took during the two events. In all but two cases, I framed the photos to keep visitors' faces obscured -- the important thing to me is seeing people having fun with these machines and using them. Here is the equipment we currently have available to use: 3193 Display Station 3278 Display Station 3279 Display Station 3290 Information Panel 5251 Display Station 5510 Computing System AT/370 (5170-599) Correcting Selectric II Memory Typewriter PC Graphics Printer (5152) PCjr (4675-007) Personal Printer Series II (2390) Portable Personal Computer (5155) PS/2 Model 25 Color (8525-004) PS/2 Model 56sx (8556) PS/2 Model 57sx (8557) PS/2 Model 80 (8580) RT/PC (6150) RS/6000 Server F50 (7025-F50) S/390 Integrated Server (3006) System/36 "Compact 36" (5362) https://www.flickr.com/gp/200991657@N06/9XH55N361M Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them or She/Her Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger