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I do miss the old "visible storage" Computer History Museum - where you could walk around and peek into so many great machines. The current version has been mus

by creer 2y ago

I do miss the old "visible storage" Computer History Museum - where you could walk around and peek into so many great machines. The current version has been musee-ified to death. It might safer from flocks of school kids but a real shame for the rest of us.

rbanffy 2y ago
They have very strict policies around powering up their devices. I tried to persuade them to look into the original IBM 2260 terminal font design (it is implemented as core memory with missing cores for bits and it resided in the terminal controller). Of course they said no.