Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as a look at one of the items the community has donated, a Square D SyMax PLC. For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here.

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Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Thank you for tuning back in. Shawn Tierney here from Insights, and I wanted to give you an update on the automation museum. So let me go over to the computer screen here, and you can see we’re still stuck at about 7%. We’re at about $200 of our $3,000 goal to get this unit set up, this, you know, new nonprofit set up.

And a couple of things we’re doing to drive attention to this across this video, but we’re also launching a history of automation podcast to try to drive awareness to this goal of actually setting up maybe first a virtual museum and then a physical museum. And I got a ton of stuff I wanna donate to it, and I really would look enjoy having people come in and teaching them what I know, but also learning what they know. And with that in mind, I wanna talk about some of the, samples that have been sent in over the years. And I’ve actually told people to kinda keep things in your attic or in your storage unit because I’m just out of space. And when the town comes in here, they wanna tax everything they see.

You know? It’s hard to explain to them that this is a donation or whatever or it’s personal. Right? So in any case, I wanna share with you this particular unit. Now I did send a very kind gentleman who sent this in a few years ago.

I did send him a message on LinkedIn and, to try to get some backstory and learn a little bit more about it, But, he must be very busy, because I haven’t heard back from him. But this is again, this is not a POC that I, started programming back when I got into the into this business back in the nineties. I gotta make sure I do this correctly here. But this is a really old Symax and, yeah, I’m gonna have to put the glasses on. But, check this thing out.

This is a Symax demo. Have I have no idea how old this is. I have no idea what I’m even looking at, but I think it’s super cool. You know? Square d PLC.

Right? And, if you guys know anything about this, I’d love to have any links or any literature, PDFs, or anything you have. But this is something I could see that we could restore and set up in the nonprofit automation museum and, actually teach people how what this unit used to do, how it used to work, and so on and so forth. But, it is very reminiscent to the PLC five in my opinion or PLC two and, 1771. So, just one of the very cool things that I’ve been sent here over the years that, that I would like to get into a real, physical museum.

And a Cuesta Museum would have, like, computer technology in it. It would have all the other technologies in it. But the focus here is the automation museum and that’s what we’re fundraising for. I think can I go back to the screen here? Yeah.

So, if you look here, this is, give sengo.com/automationmuseum. You can go to also go to automationmuseum.org, and it’ll transfer here. I don’t even have a bank account set up to withdraw the stuff because if, you know, if we can’t reach the goal, then I’ll just return everybody’s money. But, I’m not gonna touch any of this money. It’s gonna go directly into a 5013 c, charity fund, to set up the, to set up the the organization.

So in any case, if you have an extra $20 maybe this week and, you know, you’re you’re doing good at work and you, you know, you’re interested in industrial automation, which I think you are because you’re watching this channel, consider, helping us get to that $3,000 so we can actually, get the five zero one three c set up and we can start sending when people send us stuff, we can start sending them official, you know, tax deduction letters and whatnot. I know it differs between where you live and and what you’re working on, but, in any case, I just wanted to share that with you and give you a quick update on how things are going. And keep your eyes out for the new History of Automation podcast that I’m working with, couple of other older guys, and I’m pretty excited to bring that to you. And I think the the first episode will be an author who’s coming on and talks about the history of Wonderware and Triconics. And, then we have somebody coming on and talking about the history of Allen Bradley.

And then I want you to come on too. If you’re an older folk and you know some how to use or maybe you’re younger, but you learn how to use some older stuff, I’d like to get you on, including everybody who’s donated. You guys, put some great comments in the donations. We’d love to get you guys on as well. But with that, I’m gonna wrap up this week’s update on the Automation Museum Fun Drive.

Really look forward to having you guys, join us in this journey to preserve our, automation history. And with that, I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends. Peace.

Show Notes: Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at:

• https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum.

Until next time, Peace ✌️ 

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Shawn M Tierney
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