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Will this be placed in some sort of public display? It would be cool to see something like this in a science museum.
by IanDrake 11y ago
Will this be placed in some sort of public display? It would be cool to see something like this in a science museum.
- x0x0 11y agoThis would be perfect for the computer history museum [1]. For a long time (perhaps they still do?) they had a working version of the babbage engine, a circa 1850s six ton mechanical calculator built to solve polynomials [2]. I can't overstate how cool it is; if you're in the neighborhood, they used to do daily demonstrations. Here's one such video [3] A small hand-built computer on breadboards you can walk into would seem to be right up their alley. [1] http://www.computerhistory.org/ http://www.computerhistory.org/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbQsKpq3Ak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbQsKpq3Ak edit: s/1950/1850/
- JamesNewman 11y agoI saw the Babbage machine when it was first built at the Science Museum. It is truly beautiful.
- barbs 11y agoCambridge has their own computer history museum :) http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/.
- JamesNewman 11y agoI'd be delighted if there was enough interest and a way for it to be on public display. But there's a way to go yet.
- twic 11y agoMount it on a unicycle, ride to a beer festival, and be the most Cambridge thing ever.
- JamesNewman 11y agoI have a unicycle ! But never mastered it. Furthest I've managed was a metre or so and most of that was falling. But if I put the processor on casters it might support me as I pushed it along on the unicycle. Got to be worth a try...