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To those who haven't visited the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA), it is SO AMAZING!!! If you ever happen to be in the US/California, go spend a few
by HenryBemis 3y ago
To those who haven't visited the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA), it is SO AMAZING!!! If you ever happen to be in the US/California, go spend a few hours in there. It is a wonderful place!
- bitwize 3y agoFrickin' love the CHM. My only complaint is they have only a few live specimens. But keeping those old beasts working is a challenge in and of itself.
- timcederman 3y agoI highly recommend following Ken Shirriff on Twitter, some great threads on the work he does to keep machines running at the Computer History Museum. https://twitter.com/kenshirriff https://twitter.com/kenshirriff
- mattbee 3y agoI really enjoyed my visit with my (then) 4yo son, but I agree. It's warmingly reverential but almost everything is behind glass. They're computers, they're machines, they can do amazing things just with a screen! The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge (UK) explains as you go in that says unless there's a sign, you can play with anything you see. There's clearly an expert for each machine, so they are set up with who has games, word processors, educational software, a banking back-office (??), typewriters... so much more exciting. The star exhibit is the megaprocessor https://www.megaprocessor.com/progress.html https://www.megaprocessor.com/progress.html - which has Tetris hooked up.
- peteri 3y agoAlso https://www.rmcretro.com https://www.rmcretro.com which is very hands on.