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The Retro-Computing Society |
The Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island, Inc. exists to further the preservation of historic computers and to increase the awareness of the history of computers and their development. One of our primary goals is to restore historical systems to operational condition. We currently function as a users' group for those with an interest in vintage computer hardware systems and software.
We published a book of black and white photographs of items from the collection.
We started a library section on the web site today, with scanned manuals from our physical library.
We hold an open house on the third Saturday of every month, from 1:00 to 8:00.
Our next open house will be June 17th. We will be working on our VAX cluster.
We ran a 1998 copy of the Satellite Tool Kit v4.0 software on a vintage Unix workstation in recognition of the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station.
We powered on the Symbolics 3630 lisp machine, and confirmed that the hardware works, and an operating system is installed. This will be a good machine to explore the lisp machine environment further in the future.