11 Sep
2004
11 Sep
'04
8:02 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 19:17, Stan Sieler wrote:
I just got back from Boston (www.noreascon.org), where
I happened
to visit the Museum of Science. On the second floor, they've got
a history of computers display with a couple of interesting
interactive displays.
1. core memory
The Boston Museum of Unchanging Science! My parents would take me there
when I was in grade school (1965 -- 1970 or so), and they had all those
nifty "high tech" things... the tic-tac-toe relay machine, split open
jet engine, jacob's ladder, the vivisected dog...
We'd go every year or two. Being a relatively poor kid, from a small
town, I didn't know that museums were supposed to occasionally change
their contents.
It seems they haven't changed the displays in 30+ years! What a joke!
Ironically, it makes the "core memory" thing interesting -- but core
wasn't old when they built that display!
Oh what a mess the U.S. is!