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The Living Computer Museum Wants YOU

posted by Woods on Tuesday June 10 2014, @05:23PM   
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.

• Control Data 6000's, 7000's, and Cybers Control Data 6000's, 7000's, and Cybers (Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday June 11 2014, @05:14AM

  by mendax (2840) on Wednesday June 11 2014, @05:14AM (#54021)

  I still have my assembly language book for Compass, the assembler for the Control Data 6000's, 7000's, and Cyber 70's and 170's. However, I'm not a hardware guy. But I still remember a bit about some of the operating system internals. But I'm no hardware guy. Too bad. Would be a fun job.

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• Re:Control Data 6000's, 7000's, and Cybers (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @04:59PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @04:59PM (#54212)

  Are you a hardware guy or what?

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