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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.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:55PM
I still have some IPL card decks that do things like print banners, play songs on nearby radios, etc. Not sure exactly why I still have them, except nostalgia.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:59PM
run em in hercules
http://www.hercules-390.eu/ [hercules-390.eu]
http://www.rogerbowler.fr/hercules.htm [rogerbowler.fr]
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:26PM
That's reason enough, amigo. Amazing things have happened along the long road of progress; nice to pay some of them the tribute they're due. I'm still attached to an old Handspring organizer from the early days (maybe '99?). It's of no use to me, but I still love it. Newer isn't necessarily better; sometimes it's just different, and often it's just different for the sake of being different.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey