29 Mar
2010
29 Mar
'10
12:28 a.m.
Hi Michael,
I used to run a Boy Scout merit badge seminar, and we would have close to
500 scouts from all over Illinois and some from Indiana attend. We had
access to a school with about 20 classrooms, and had MTD buses to take
scouts to classes at the U of I and other places.
I took core stacks, paper tapes, disc platters, etc in for the the computer
merit badge, and from what I heard , the student got a lot out of the items.
Profs and grad student taught a lot of the courses, and the aviation class
even had a wind tunnel.
Paul
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Michael Black <blackmd at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello cctech community,
I am a computer science professor and an avid collector and restorer
of old computers, which I routinely use in my classes. (I am also a
long-time lurker on cctech, but haven't posted much yet, I'm afraid.)
I am interested in chatting with other professors and teachers who use
working demonstrations of vintage technology in their classes. I am
aware of many cases where professors have taught courses on computer
history, used pictures and simulations of vintage computers, or took
students on field trips to computer museums. However, I am
particularly interested in examples where professors bring actual
working vintage equipment into the classroom (like a pdp-11 or a
teletype machine) and tried to teach their students to operate it.
Has anybody on this list tried it or know of people who do it?
Thanks,
Michael Black