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1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation
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#12Side note: what a stunning art deco (?) building! (There's a photo on the front page of the site.)
To anyone for whom Houston is a bit too far of a drive (plus the fact that the museum now seems closed), but Cincinnati is not: Union Terminal is another beautiful example of art deco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Union_Terminal
I spent hours photographing in there last summer. Free tours available which will take you into some of the back offices with more art deco goodness.
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#13Side note: what a stunning art deco (?) building! (There's a photo on the front page of the site.)
To anyone for whom Houston is a bit too far of a drive (plus the fact that the museum now seems closed), but Cincinnati is not: Union Terminal is another beautiful example of art deco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Union_Terminal I spent hours photographing in there last summer. Free tours available which will take you into some of the back offices with more art deco goodness.
Fellow Union Terminal aficionado here. Also highly recommend to any art deco architecture lovers.
Even if you're not into art deco architecture it's worth a visit. The Omnimax theatre is worth the trip alone, but the museums are great too.
@macintux - It's hard to get on the tour because they sell out, and they don't allow photography, but the high steel tour, which includes walking up to the top of the inside of the half dome, is great. There's some duplication with the behind the scenes tour but it's still worth it. It's probably second to the (now discontinued for liability reasons) Cincinnati subway tour in terms of seeing cool hidden stuff in the Cincinnati area.
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#14wow, this blows on so many levels.
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#15I believe that if we all collectively lowball them, they will drop the price to be lower than $20k. It is unfortunate to see any museum close. I hope their assessment from the Texas Historical Commission succeeds!
that's seriously not the issue. if you look at the those pictures of the 737 frame - this is very large system which hasn't operated for many years and is largely just a pile of components at this point. it would probably be easier to rebuild the control system from scratch than try to bring it back to life. this would probably take a team of pretty serious people many years to get functional.
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#16The rack in this image appears to house a Texas Instruments minicomputer of some model, not sure exactly which. 980 maybe? Might be fun to play with, but not for $20K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f79c0260e6... Note the 8" floppy disk drives also.
Looks like a 980B. Pic from a DC-8 sim for reference.
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#17The rack in this image appears to house a Texas Instruments minicomputer of some model, not sure exactly which. 980 maybe? Might be fun to play with, but not for $20K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f79c0260e6... Note the 8" floppy disk drives also.
Getting it working would probably be a massive challenge since it’s missing parts.
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#18The rack in this image appears to house a Texas Instruments minicomputer of some model, not sure exactly which. 980 maybe? Might be fun to play with, but not for $20K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f79c0260e6... Note the 8" floppy disk drives also.
The 980 was used as the CPU in the Evans and Sutherland Novoview graphics system, part of a flight simulator.
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#19I had no idea this closed and I've lived here for six years! I can't believe I didn't go visit. Surely there is enough money in this city of Houston between airlines that operate here and the oil companies that they spend most of your ticket money on to keep this open?
We're in a silent recession, dude. Public good's about to get sold off to monied interests for their private use, like it always is.
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#20https://www.flickr.com/photos/blairmc99/55275010559/in/photo...
I don't think I've ever seen a manual that expected me to use DeMorgan's Theorem as part of a test procedure... :)