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Ask HN: What hands-on exhibits would you put in a Computer Science Center?
Maybe it's time to have a Computer Science Center that is much like Science Centers with hands-on exhibits?
- ggm 2y agoA water powered binary logic gate dispay for NAND/NOR/NOT construction of an adder. Some rotary calculator examples. Napiers Bones and some worked examples. A Brunsviga or similar. Translucent plastic layers of a VLSI circuit which can be taken apart to discuss diffusion layers, boundaries A model of the shockley/bardeen transistor Something in the Babbage space. A linkage/bar computer, analogue computer (Norden bombsight?) A Mainframe of some kind A flipchip era PDP8 A pdp11 running, or a rpi5 running a pidp11 with Unix on it An 11 layer removable disk pack drive An ATC screen. A core memory explainer, giant size, or an ex computer core A Logo turtle in a constrained table with a PC to drive it
- tocs3 2y agoI have been wanting to build some mechanical computers. A mechanical Conway's Games of Life would be nice.