Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as some information about the A-B 1750-PMC Programmable Matrix Controller.

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Shawn Tierney (Host): So for an automation museum update, we're about a and I don't talk about this a lot. I should talk about this more, but we're at about 7% of our goal, which is great because we started at zero as you might have met remember. And so I just wanna thank some of these people you may recognize from, from over on LinkedIn. Larry. I wanna thank Larry for his donation.

Ryan for his donation. Lassie and Brandon, thank you all for supporting it. I'm I'm at the bottom of the list too. I was the first because I launched it. I supported it first.

I also donated the automationmuseum.org, which takes you here and, the automationmuseum.com as well to that site. That was about $35 to get those two, set up. And, what this is with the fundraising goal, there's the tier one, the $3,000. This is just to get the, the nonprofit set up and the, website set up. So I'm not gonna build the website.

I've I spent all my time building the automation school and blog and managing that. I would like, someday, I'm gonna outsource that as well. But I I just want somebody to build a basic website we can build on, and we need that, I think it's a five zero one three c so we can accept, you know, donations, and and actually, make them nonprofit. So they are, they are tax deductible. Right?

So in any case, I wanted to share that with you. So 7% of our goal, that's great. And, you know, last time when I was talking about the automation museum, I was talking about the PLC five. So today, and thanks for, Ryan, who is, is our top donor so far, he mentioned something called the seventeen fifty PMC from Rockwell Automation. Now if you don't know, that's one of Rockwell's earliest PLCs they have ever made.

I don't know much about it. Matter of fact, you know, I didn't get into this industry until 1990. So the old stuff then were PLC twos, PLC threes, 1330 threes, 1330 fives. That was kinda like the legacy stuff. And the new stuff was the PLC five and the slick 500 just coming out at that time.

And a few years later, the MicroLogic. So, so in any case, that that's kinda when I started. So I didn't get to work on, any of the, you know, original, you know, early seventies stuff. Right? So I was, I was just a baby, just a baby in the early seventies or a toddler.

But in any case, let me bring you back to here and let's take a look. Now the first official PLC, I wrote a nice article about well, I shouldn't say I wrote a nice article. I wrote an article about this over at the automation blog. You determine if it's nice or not. But in any case, I had the opportunity in my previous role of twenty five years being a certified automation specialist for a Rockwell distributor.

I had the opportunity to scan in a bunch of those early documents. Right? So, and if anybody's thrown away all their old early documents, send them to me, throw them my way. But I will take them in a donation and and, and then hand them over to the automation school, but I'm sorry. To the automation museum, where all that old stuff will go.

I do have, I don't know, a storage unit full of stuff I wanna donate. It's like all kinds of old books and manuals and brochures. But anything prior to, you know, go goes back too far. And I know, one of my libraries and one of my former employers got tossed, and and I just didn't reach out soon enough to to ask them to donate it to the museum. But in any case, I did get the scan in some of the very first POC brochures that's in that big blue binder that some of your distributors may may remember.

And if you guys have that and you're thinking to throw it away...