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I adored my two visits to the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, the guided tours and showcases were run by volunteer retired industry veterans. It was obvio
by oersted 2y ago
I adored my two visits to the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, the guided tours and showcases were run by volunteer retired industry veterans. It was obvious that they loved doing it, and it was such a privilege to hear from the people icebreaking right at the beginning of all of this, back when it was all punchcards, tape and big-ol' mainframes. They were still playing around with the old tech, restoring it and doing cool new things with it, just for the joy of it.
- falcor84 2y agoJust to confirm, you mean the one in Mountain View, right? Or is there another one in Palo Alto?
- oersted 2y agoYes my bad.
- microtherion 2y agoPeter Samson staffing the PDP-1 exhibit blew my mind.
- oersted 2y agoYes! Oh man, it was Dec and, besides the usual showcase, he would feed punched paper tapes into the old music program he made in the early 60s and there was an awesome christmas carol sing-along with him with the PDP-1 backing music! :) It was cool to play Spacewar! on it as well from 1962, some of his colleagues made it on the same computer at MIT. Very likely the oldest program you will ever interact with, certainly the oldest game, and it was so damn smooth and playable.