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The Living Computer Museum Wants YOU

posted by Woods on Tuesday June 10 2014, @05:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-as-an-exhibit dept.

AnonTechie writes:

If you've got a bunch of old computer languages under your belt, the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington, wants you.

It's a job that's definitely not for the faint-hearted: as well as being able to handle old IBM, DEC, HP and Control Data Corporation languages, you'd be expected to help create and debug hardware interfaces to the vintage iron in Windows and Linux. You'd be expected to build and maintain the ancient operating systems, help out with hardware development, and because this is low-level stuff, be able to work out what's going on inside the boxes using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes. The duties include helping hunt out the arcana of the computing world, since not only does the job involve running and restoring the iron itself: the spec asks for people who can help locate the applications that used to run on the boxes.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:30PM (#53871)

    LCM is under the thumb of Paul Allen, and his whims.
    You've been warned.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:44PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:44PM (#53874) Journal

    Digital Equipment reopens for business and announces the following upgrades:
      * Retroactively refitting the LSI-11 CPU with segment registers.
      * Replacing any useful operands with requirement of using two less useful
      * Virus compatibility layer
      * DEC Ingenious Disadvantage to interrupt any important work with the almighty license turmoil
      * Any convinient signals in the expansion bus will be revoked
      * The interrupt routing scheme will be reorganized for optimal confusion and subperformance

    ;-)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:50PM (#53878)

      They re DEC -0 rated?

  • (Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:01PM

    by Sir Finkus (192) on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:01PM (#53884) Journal

    Maybe a little, but all the Windows memorabilia is in its own corner away from the real machines.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @08:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @08:18PM (#53904)

    Let's see Paul Allen's card.